St. Marys Curling Club is hosting its 2nd annual fun Harvest Mixer bonspiel on the Nov. 20-21 weekend. It begins on the Friday night with one game, and two games will be played on the Saturday. There will be two draws, each consisting of three, six-end games.
This Friday, Nov. 6, St. Marys Lincolns will wear special jerseys to mark Remembrance Day and recognize our troops currently overseas. Providing the opposition at the Pyramid Centre will be the first-place London Nationals (16-1-1).
Rick Fifield, of St. Marys, has an arm-length list of accomplishments in his golfing career. And that list grew by one when Fifield recorded an ‘albatross’ at the famous St. Andrews’ Old Course in Scotland during a recent golfing trip.
The third annual Ceremony of the Flags will begin at 9 a.m. at St. Marys Cemetery this Saturday, Nov. 7. Families with loved ones buried at the cemetery are invited to place a small Canadian flag at their graves; those with family members buried elsewhere can lay the flags at the Stone of Remembrance.
The fundraising team for Little Falls Public School is hoping to strike it rich. The group has entered an online contest, sponsored by Aviva Insurance, to win $135,000 to build a fully accessible playground for the new elementary school.
Perth County has been prudent in getting vaccinated against the H1N1 flu — but, as evidenced in other municipalities, getting the vaccine may become more difficult due to shortages.
As I was watching the roofers putting on a new roof on my neighbour’s townhouse, I couldn’t help compare the job with everything else we do. It took just under two hours for them to prepare for the job they had to do before they even had started the task of shingling.
A hardworking committee of the Harrington Community Club are thinking ahead to what might become of the Harrington Mill, which was originally opened in 1846 on a small tributary of Trout Creek.
Conservative MPP Bill Murdoch laid out the facts about the ruling Liberals’ Green Energy Act last week, while soliciting support in the Ontario Legislature for his Private Member’s moratorium on wind farm development.