Bancroft this Week

It was fish week in nerds

This week the NERDS really focused on fish! We started with a visit to White Lake Provincial Fish Culture Station, went as usual to our ...

Jets among best in Ontario

A year ago this month, 15 young women from the Minden, Haliburton and Bancroft areas came together to form the Leveque Brother/Rock Breaker Bancroft Peewee ...

Losses

By Tony Pearson “Don’t it always seem to go/ That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” So sang Joni Mitchell in “Big ...

Fundraiser planned for fire victims

A week after the fire that devastated their lives, the victims are experiencing different moods. Jeanaann Barnaby remembers the shock when her partner came running into their house as she slept, calling to waken her. She remembers looking out her bedroom window to see the garage between her neighbour’s house and hers on fire. She can recall the mad scramble to save their animals – dogs, cats and pigs; not only to get them out of the house, but away from the propane tank, in case it exploded (thankfully, it didn’t).

Maynooth Public School hosts literacy event

With 44 sounds and only 26 letters, the pathway towards English language literacy can be challenging for new readers. Area teachers are working to level the playing field by making reading strategies more accessible for children and their parents.

Skating club ends season with British rock extravaganza

Some of us remembered the lace collar and frock coat worn by the young lad checking tickets at the door of the North Hastings arena on Saturday. We had seen them on Mick Jagger and Peter Noone when they first came to North America in the 1960s (and a special prize goes to those who remember who Peter Noone was, and can still remember who they are). Along with other “mod” costumes, it set the tone for the Bancroft Skating Club’s 2016 ice show – its 44th – entitled “British Invasion.”

If you have a big heart, you can do this

Tammy Woodcox says all you need to be a volunteer at Hospice North Hastings is a big heart. Photo by BARBARA SHAW Tammy Woodcox has ...

Volunteering: don’t wait to give back

We hear it every day that there are cutbacks here and cutbacks there. The reality of today is that agencies are relying more and more on the goodwill of volunteers. With our busy lives, it can be hard to find time to volunteer. However, the benefits of volunteering are enormous to you, your family and our North Hastings community. According to Statistics Canada, 47 per cent of the Canadian population volunteered in 2010. Each volunteer contributed an average of 156 hours!