Check in on Your Mental Health
This May 7-13 is the 67th Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) week. Since 1951, CMHA Mental Health Week has been raising awareness to end stigma associated with mental illness by making this a “mental illness awareness week.” It provides an opportunity to take a closer look at ways to maintain and improve mental health…
Fraudsters Continue to Scam our Area
The Peterborough Police Service warns residents that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) scam continues to circulate in our area and becoming more sophisticated. On Monday April 23, 2018 an officer at our ARU (Alternative Response Unit) desk received approximately 36 calls from residents reporting they had been contacted by income tax fraudsters. Most recently…
Fundraising Concert Features Award-Winning Country Music Artist
On June 2nd, Jade Eagleson will be on stage again at the Golden Wheel restaurant in Springville in support of a mission by the youth group from Centreville Presbyterian Church. Next February, a group of twelve young people will head to the Dominican Republic to join members of the Samaritan Foundation to help build…
Stiff Competition at North Cavan Spelling Bee
Seventeen students in grades four through six lined up in the North Cavan Public School gymnasium last week to show off their spelling skills to all of the staff and students at the school. These students had prepared for the challenge, working on word lists with a teacher the previous week. Despite autofill technology…
Plant a Forest, Help Clean the Air
Eleanor Reed is planting a forest on a private property south of Millbrook. A licensed Forest Consultant and registered professional Forester, she helps property owners do their part in reducing their carbon footprint by transforming open, fallow fields into true forests, converting these spaces into carbon sponges for many years to come. It’s not…