Cavan’s Dan McHattie Takes the Win at Peterborough Speedway
This experienced father of two is well known in car racing circles, with multiple championships wins under his belt. He was at it again as Peterborough Speedway kicked off the unofficial second half of its 50th anniversary season with the Mid-Summer Bash presented by Country 105 on Saturday July 22nd. A five-division show, featuring…
Flying Fortress Week Touched Centennial Place Residents
Flying Fortress Week touched Centennial Place residents as they visited the airport last month for a tour of the World War II B-17G Flying Fortress bomber named Sentimental Journey. Among the visitors was Wilf Smith, who flew 39 operational bombing missions over Germany as a wireless air-gunner in a Lancaster bomber with Bomber Command,…
Rose Mae Lynn Smith
Proud parents Jessica and Brennan Smith welcomed their daughter on July 27th. Seems like a good excuse to skip his column this month!
Common Ground – Summer’s Lease…
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date…” Shakespeare Sonnet 18 The summer of 2017 has certainly been a season of rampant growth in the garden. To get to my tomatoes to stake them recently, I had to clear away several groupings of annual poppies. These had grown to the size of small shrubs.…
OLG Makes First-Quarter Payment to Cavan Monaghan
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) issued a first-quarter (April to June, 2017) non-tax gaming revenue payment of $806,572 to the Township of Cavan Monaghan on July 21st for hosting Shorelines Slots at Kawartha Downs. Since November 1999, Cavan Monaghan has received more than $56.1 million in non-tax gaming revenue. These payments are…
Comment – Our Paper Strives to Serve Our Community
It’s not a big survey sample, but the comments I receive are pretty consistent in their message: people are glad to have a local newspaper. New residents often express surprise that a community of this size can support its own paper, but the reason for this is clear – we have advertisers who…