Bancroft this Week

Bancroft Lions to collect used eyeglasses on Canada Day

In just about any dresser drawer, you can generally find an old pair of eyeglasses that are no longer being used. Yet, that pair of eyeglasses can change another person’s life for the better. So can an old pair of sunglasses, or magnifiers, or even lenses and frames separately.

Maynooth Scotiabank to close

Scotiabank’s branches in Wilberforce and Maynooth will be closing as of January with operations consolidating in the Bancroft branch.

Maynooth parents launch campaign to save their school

The parent council at Maynooth Public School isn’t in favour of closing their local school. They’ve raiseed new points against a school consolidation in North Hastings.

Sir John Eh! coming to Bancroft

History buffs will have the rare opportunity to interact with the first prime minister of Canada tomorrow at the Village Playhouse.

The story of the corn husk doll

Dried pale yellow corn husks lay soaking and pliable in the bottom of Kate’s large green basin. Short pieces of string had also been cut and prepared for the children and adults attending Napanee’s Multicultural/Riverfront Festival. At this interactive Indigenous booth, festival-goers could create their own corn husk doll through this free cultural exchange.

Social justice without borders fundraising kick off

On Thursday, June 30, Social Justice Without Borders kicks off its fundraising efforts for sponsoring a Syrian refugee family and providing much needed funds to North Hastings Community Trust with the showing of This Changes Everything.

Daring to be the Church

To the Editor, Pierre Burton published a book 50 years ago entitled, The Comfortable Pew. It was a critique of Western Christianity’s seeming comfort in a society that, for all intents and purposes, was being blown apart by hate, prejudice, marginalization of the weak, war, and fear.