Dealing with diabetes

April 28, 2016

According to a study by the Public Health Agency of Canada, about two and a half million Canadians live with diabetes. If you’re a senior, a smoker, overweight and/or physically inactive, your risk increases.

Hartsmere home to new meditation centre

Whatever we do we should always be thinking of compassion and how we can use that knowledge and wisdom for the betterment of the world.

Wollaston council gets good marks from their auditor

Wollaston Township council received some good news from their auditor at their April 12 regular meeting. “You again have a clean audit, in our opinion,” said Joanna Park of Collins Barrow Kawarthas LLP. “The township maintains systems of internal accounting and administrative controls of high quality, consistent with reasonable cost.”

Earth Day celebrated at Riverside Park

Jane Kali, left, and York River Public School students work on potting local heritage seeds. The seeds are part of a seed library, used in ...

Artist draws inspiration from Canadian Arctic

“The one Inuit artist said to me that the snow and ice I had seen a few years earlier had been there for as long as his people could remember until it all melted over the last five years,” Lang said.

Bancroft council deals with grants controversies

Bancroft council dealt last week and this week with a number of controversial applications for town support, from organizations like the Chamber of Commerce, North Hastings Children’s Services, and TROUT public transit.

Bancroft fire department responds quickly, saves house

The usual outcome of a house fire in a rural area is the loss of the building and everything in it. However, that was not the case last week, when the North Hastings Fire Service responded to a call on Upper Turiff Road. According to fire chief Pat Hoover, the department was on scene about ten minutes after the call came in.

Area broomball team wins national championship

A team that originated in Quadeville and Palmer Rapids has taken a national title in the sport of broomball. The Misleads, who have twice been Ontario champions, defeated the reigning champs from Quebec (Broom-Shak Becancour from Trois Rivieres) to capture the coed/mixed crown.

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.

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