February 2016 Archive

French Legion of Honour ceremony held at Legion

Local veteran Bill Cooper was made a Knight of the French National Order of the Legion of Honour on Sunday afternoon, at the Bancroft branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Wollaston joins poverty roundtable

“I don’t come very often to these meetings,” said local resident and social justice advocate Lee Maidlow to the most recent Wollaston Township council meeting on Jan 26, “but I will when a voice is needed for people, or the environment.”

Old equipment builds bridges between past and present

In an age of phones that do everything but make you breakfast, it seems amazing that a roomful of tech-savvy kids would sit enraptured around century-old equipment that requires you to learn a language of dots and dashes.

Baptiste Lake legend re-told at Bancroft library

David and Kaitlyn drum at the Bancroft Public Library on Saturday, February 13, as part of First Nations Library week. Photo by LILY VANCE By ...

Midwives: providing full-spectrum care to expectant mothers

Local midwives Tiffany Holdsworth-Taylor and Rebecca Weeks celebrate with mother Meghan Brown as six-week-old Amelia announces that she is pleased as punch with the situation. ...

Helping hands

By Tony Pearson A couple of weeks ago, I was writing up an article on the Alzheimer’s fundraising walk, when I took a second look ...

Bancroft council seeks more federal and provincial funding

By Tony Pearson Financial matters remained front and centre at last week’s meeting of Bancroft council. To their satisfaction, they learned that the province had ...

Big community development decisions at Wollaston

By Jim Eadie There has been a lot of discussion and hand wringing about community development around the council table over the past few years, ...

Bantam Jets down two games to one

The Bierworth Readi-Mix Bantam Jets continued their quarterfinals this weekend against Campbellford. Saturday, they were at home for Game 2. Late in the first, the ...

Peewee Boys’ Jets in quarterfinal

The Vito’s Pizzeria Pee Wee Jets quarterfinals started off with a Friday, Feb. 12 night game against the Baltimore Ice Dogs. As we lined up with them ...

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