Jul 25 2012
BY HAMISH MCKILLOP Equity Reporter Campbell’s Bay-based-TransporAction Pontiac received its first fully-owned, brand-new $115,000 mini bus Monday, after nine years of providing quality rural transportation accommodations to Pontiac residents. The non-profit organization received a $100,000 grant from the Ministry of Transportation, through MRC Pontiac, to cover the operational cost of the rural transportation needs for …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.theequity.ca/?p=1948
Jul 25 2012
BY JULIELEE STITT Equity Reporter Seated in a chair on the third floor of the St. Joseph’s Convent, Lorna Roel recalled how in 1956 she would walk the short distance from her home in Chapeau to St. Mary’s Teachers’ College. The soft-spoken woman who now splits her time between volunteering, painting and visiting her children, …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.theequity.ca/?p=1944
Jul 25 2012
BY ANDREA CRANFIELD Equity Editor Fourteen hockey greats from Shawville were forever immortalized on Saturday at the first annual Shawville Wall of Fame Induction Ceremony. About 300 people showed up at the Shawville Arena to watch history in the making as Shawville’s Hockey Wall of Fame was unveiled. Grant McCagg spearheaded the project and relayed …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.theequity.ca/?p=1941
Jul 18 2012
BY JULIELEE STITT Equity Reporter Martin and Ruth Roth have been farming in Pontiac since 1999, after moving to the area from Switzerland. On Monday morning, sitting at their kitchen table, next to a window overlooking a field of corn, the pair called this the driest summer they have experienced since arriving in Canada. The …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.theequity.ca/?p=1884
Jul 18 2012
BY HAMISH MCKILLOP Equity Reporter “It’s needed, and I want to do it, so that’s a good combination,” was the response given by Shawville/Clarendon Fire Chief Lee Laframboise, who took on full-time hours at the fire department this week. A press conference was held Monday at the fire hall in Shawville announcing that day as …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.theequity.ca/?p=1887
Jul 18 2012
BY ANDREA CRANFIELD Equity Editor A couple weeks ago, Sheenboro resident Betty Morris was sleeping in her home when she woke up at 1:30 a.m. to a noise at her bedroom window. Figuring it was a squirrel or a bat, she reached her hand out to close the window and was unable shut it. Clutching …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.theequity.ca/?p=1881
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