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August 4, 2021 By Chris Drost On the afternoon of Aug. 26, at a special meeting of Wollaston council, a document was brought forward by clerk Bernice Crocker based on the results of an investigation by a committee struck in 2019 to look at the ongoing situation with Nellie Lunn Park. This document recommended the sale of the property with the plan to use funds raised in the sale towards a new fire hall for Wollaston. Nellie Lunn is a 100-acre property that was gifted by Boleslaw Klincewicz to the Township of Wollaston in 1981 to be used as a park for recreational...

July 23, 2021 By Chris Drost The 5th edition of the Harvest Hastings magazine, Eat Buy Live Local in Hastings County is now available at various shops and other locations in and around North Hastings. “A total of 3,000 copies were printed and are now in the process of being distributed,” says Karen Stille, the new coordinator at Harvest Hastings. A condensed version is also available on their website www.harvesthastings.ca. The magazine includes 64 individual member listings from across Hastings County. They include everything from farms that grow food, to sy...

June 29, 2021 By Chris Drost Sandra Barnes of the Alzheimer Society, Hastings Prince Edward, recently presented CEO and head librarian of the North Hastings Public Library, Kim McMunn, was with a Certificate of Participation for the Dementia Friendly Communities and Finding Your Way Training. Event coordinator at NHPL, Natalie Phillips, also completed the pilot project. According to online resources at  https://alzheimer.ca/hpe/en/home, by the end of this decade it is anticipated that there will be almost one million people in Canada living with dementia. This i...

May 11, 2021 By Chris Drost Used batteries. They can often be found in the kitchen junk drawer, thrown in there when they no longer work. But now, the good news is that North Hastings Public Library, in partnership with Raw Materials Company, a registered battery hauler and process with Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority, will be collecting used household batteries at the library. “Not only is this good for the environment, but it will help generate some income from being a battery collection site,” says library CEO/head librarian Kim McMunn. Recycl...

April 20, 2021 By Chris Drost An organization that calls itself BeShore Haliburton has emerged in Haliburton out of a bylaw aimed at protecting shorelines that has been under review for the past three years. This group has embarked on an educational campaign to get the word out, with what they call “an unbiased format” to increase awareness off the importance protecting shorelines has on preserving the health of our lakes. The Bancroft Times caught up with Mike Thomas, president of the Paudash Lake Conservation Association, to learn more about this effort. Pa...