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PRESCOTT Students at South Grenville District High School celebrated a job well done last Friday.
The success of this year's Spirit of Giving campaign was noted at a special assembly at the school. The assembly marked the end of the campaign and the end of school for the year 2000.
A total of 237 Christmas baskets were distributed earlier this month to families in South Grenville. The baskets included Christmas dinner ingredients as well as other food items and toys.
The Kinsmen Club of Prescott pitched in once again when it came time to collecting the donated items and distributing them. The assembly included the presentation of what campaign co-chair Dan Beattie said was the largest single donation, a cheque for $300 from the Spencerville Stars Octagon Club.
Students were treated to a variety of musical acts, including bands, singers, and a show-stopping performance by teachers featuring Roger Johnston as Tina Turner. A synchronized swimming team send-up set to one of Turner's songs also drew a good response from the crowd gathered in the main gymnasium.
The focus shifted to the Leo Boivin Community Centre in the afternoon as the students and teachers faced off in a hockey game.
Spirit of Giving shirts were distributed to most of the 50 or so students who took an active role in the annual holiday campaign. Students went door-to-door throughout much of South Grenville. Other schools in the area, as well as businesses and other groups, also got involved by seeking donations and being sites for collection bins.
Dave Travis of the Kinsmen Club noted in a recent interview that the volunteers and community deserve credit for coming together and doing something to help those less fortunate at this time of the year.
BROCKVILLE The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville will assume responsibility for local land ambulance services Jan. 1.
The move comes as a direct result of provincial downloading.
Ambulance service will continue to be available 24 hours a day by calling 911. All available paramedics now serving Leeds and Grenville will be employed by the newly-formed Emergency Medical Services (EMS) department of the united counties, according to an EMS news release issued Thursday.
"The community will not experience any interruption or see differences in the service," stated Mark Pergunas, chair of the Leeds and Grenville Land Ambulance Sub-committee. "Availability, coverage and access is enhanced by five 24-hour staffed ambulances."
The Prescott ambulance station will continue to serve the town as well as Edwardsburgh/Cardinal and Augusta. Other stations are located in Brockville, Kemptville, Elgin and Gananoque.
Counties Warden Bill Thake stated in the release that the new system will provide residents of Leeds and Grenville with equal access to emergency medical services.
SOUTH GRENVILLE The Fort Wellington Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion in Prescott will host a New Year's Eve dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Free taxi service will be provided, and a midnight sandwich buffet will be served.
The Prescott branch will also be hosting a New Year's Day Levee Monday beginning at noon and running until about 3:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served; the levee is open to the public.
Legion Branch 105 in Cardinal will be the site of a New Year's Eve Gala. The band Midnight Country will perform; a free shuttle bus will run in the Iroquois, Shanly and Johnstown areas.
A New Year's Eve dance sponsored by RERA will be held at the Roebuck Community Centre from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. There will be a DJ; food will be served after midnight.
The Prescott Golf Club will host a party from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. The music of the Fabulous BelAirs will be featured from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.; midnight lunch will be served.
The band Posse will perform New Year's Eve at Boomers Sports Bar and Restaurant in Prescott. A buffet lunch will be served.
Some restaurants will be hosting special dinners Sunday evening. The Coach House in Cardinal is offering a holiday buffet; two seatings will be at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The Wok House in Prescott will serve a Chinese buffet from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m.
SOUTH GRENVILLE Police services in the area will be maintaining their Festive RIDE campaigns through the holiday season, including New Year's Eve.
The Grenville County detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police and the Prescott Police Service have been conducting RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) checks on a regular basis since the holiday blitz began at the end of November.
Acting Sergeant Gary Sluytman of the Prescott Police Service said RIDE checks will continue until after the new year. Additional officers will be on patrol as part of the Festive RIDE campaign, he added.
The number of impaired driving-related charges laid by town police early in this year's campaign is low. "And that's exactly what we like to see," Sluytman said. "It seems the people are responding and not drinking and driving."
Although the number of charges and licence suspensions may be low, police have conducted a number of roadside tests to determine the sobriety of drivers. The results of those tests are mostly negative, according to Sluytman.
"I think that the campaigns are working, and working well," he said.
The OPP have laid several charges as a direct result of RIDE checks conducted by officers based in Prescott and Kemptville.
BROCKVILLE The Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) and its secondary schools teachers have ratified a collective agreement for the period Sept. 1, 2000 to Aug. 31, 2001.
The new agreement will provide a salary increase implemented in three stages. At the conclusion of the contract, a beginning teacher who possesses a master's degree, in addition to basic teacher qualifications, will earn an annual salary of $38,300. A similarly qualified teacher with 12 or more years experience will earn an annual salary of $68,402. Details of the salary increase were not available at press time.
Speaking on behalf of the UCDSB, Chairwoman Joan Hodge stated in a press release that the board and the union can "accomplish much by all working together to shape and build the future" for the board's students.
District union President Greg McGillis of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation stated in the joint release that he believes the collective agreement is a "win-win situation" for everyone involved.
PRESCOTT A house at 357 West St. sustained major damage in a fire early Tuesday afternoon.
No one was injured in the blaze which the Prescott Fire Department responded to at about 12:30 p.m. None of the five occupants of the house, including three children, was home at the time. Early indications were that the fire was accidental, according to Fire Chief Bill Lawrence.
More details will be published next week.
BROCKVILLE - Liz and Andrew McLean, of Maitland, are the proud parents of the first baby born in this area in the new millennium. Kallie McLean was born at 11:51 p.m on Jan. 1 at Brockville General Hospital. She weighed in at seven pounds, six ounces and was 20.5 inches long. Her proud big sister is Brieanna.
PRESCOTT - Vic Allen and Peter White couldn't stop smiling after hearing that $1.8-million in provincial funding was earmarked for Upper Canada Network, a telecommunications network the two men had been working for five years to establish.
PRESCOTT - Employees at the Paderno pot store in Prescott were surprised to learn that the store would close in two days, throwing all three staff members out of work. They were even more surprised the next morning when a company truck pulled up and began removing all the inventory.
Paderno general manager John Medcof cited company expansion plans and the economic climate in Eastern Ontario as reasons the shop would close.
LEEDS-GRENVILLE - The total number of rabid raccoons confirmed in this area rose to eight after the discovery of three more cases during the past few weeks. Rabid animals were discovered across the area from Oxford Station to North Augusta.
PRESCOTT -Dave Travis was named Citizen of the Year at the Prescott and District Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting and awards night for his untiring work in the community. Sarah Spencer was named Youth of the Year and Gus Birnie of Riverside Pontiac Buick accepted the Business Achievement Award.
PRESCOTT - Two new furnaces were installed at town hall following another breakdown in the old building's boiler heating system, forcing the relocation of provincial court to Brockville. The new furnaces were installed in the library and in the municipal offices where there were air conditioning ducts but the rest of the building remained cold.
PRESCOTT - A group of citizens is considering launching a class-action lawsuit following a meeting about the blasting for the Canadian Coast Guard base wharf reconstruction project. About 25 people who live near or operate a business near the base attending the meeting to express their concern and ask questions about the blasting they say has caused damage to their buildings.
PRESCOTT - Council hopes to have a new town hall by November. Councillors have been reviewing 12 proposals from architects for a new town hall following the breakdown in heating in the current structure. Presently, only the municipal office area on the second floor and the library in the west wing of the first floor have working furnaces.
PRESCOTT - An action centre to help workers laid off from the Newell Window Furnishing plant acquire the knowledge and skills to move on with their lives officially opened. The centre, located in an upstairs office at the Hyde Street plant will offer a variety of adjustment services as deemed necessary through interviews with the laid-off workers.
EDWARDSBURGH-CARDINAL - After a year-long courtship between Cardinal and Edwardsburgh Township, the provincial government has given its blessing to a marriage between the two municipalities. Cardinal Reeve Larry Dishaw and township Reeve Dave Dobbie said they expected the transition process over the next year to be a smooth one.
PRESCOTT - History was made in the Fort Town when one of the largest humanitarian aid shipments for Belarus ever to leave Canada was celebrated before its departure March 2. The $1.3-million aid shipment was being loaded into 10 40-foot trailers and contained everything from personal hygiene items, medicine and vitamins to wallpaper, food and hospital beds.
PRESCOTT - A group of local business leaders is working to raise $16,000 to fund a student on the feasibility of a hotel in Prescott. The effort for the marketing analysis and financial feasibility study could lead to a workable plan for a hotel in Prescott, according to key players Bob Lucey, Wilf Peters and Ken Durand.
PRESCOTT - The South Grenville District High School senior band's music is ringing through Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida this week.
The 35-member band is part of the Disney festival Magic Days, which has been running for the past 15 months.
The band was select last November to perform in the festival after sending a videotape of a performance.
VENTNOR - After hosting children from Chernobyl in their home for the past six summers, a Ventnor couple will travel there to deliver food to families affected by nuclear disaster.
Karen and Steve Henderson, who operate a dairy farm near Ventnor, will spend 10 days in Belarus, hand-delivering food parcels to homes in the Chausy area.
PRESCOTT - Town council has hired an architect to build a new town hall but it has not yet chosen the location.
Council decided to reconsider its decision to build a new town hall at the present Dibble Street location after a presentation by former mayor Tom Doyle. He urged council to consider other locations for a new municipal facility.
PRESCOTT - Leeds-Grenville MP Joe Jordan met with residents claiming blasting at the Coast Guard base has damaged their homes, advising them to call their insurance company and file a claim.
Jordan met with 15 residents who claim blasting from wharf reconstruction at the base has caused cracks in walls and other damage.
MAYNARD - Accusing Prescott council of hijacking the South Grenville Economic development Commission for its own interests, Augusta has withdrawn from the commission and called for its dismantling. Augusta councillors reacted strongly to a request from Prescott council that each of the partners redirect all of their extra 1999 funding into the new marketing plan instead of a portion of that funding as previously planned.
SPENCERVILLE - Edwardsburgh Township council has decided to withdraw from the South Grenville Economic Development Commission by the end of the year. At an in-camera session attended by commission vice chairman Bob Lucey, council passed a resolution to end the municipality's municipality's membership at the end of 2000 when it will officially amalgamate with Cardinal.
PRESCOTT - Chris and Christine Slater have bought the MacDonald Chapel of Grant Brown Funeral Home on Dibble Street. They will move their current business, Chris Slater Funeral Home into the Dibble Street building from its current location on Edward Street, and operate both businesses out of the same building in an effort to keep costs down.
The Slaters' flower shop was to continue to operate out of their building at the corner of Dibble and Edward Street.
MAYNARD - More than 40 Augusta Township residents squeezed into council chambers to ask for repairs to their roads and ditches.
Reeve Adrian VanSchie assured them their concerns would be considered in budget 2000 discussions.
TORONTO - The Prescott Journal has received the first-place award for Best Broadsheet Front Page (Black and White) of all community newspapers in Ontario. The award was presented to Journal publisher John Morris at the Ontario Community Newspapers Association awards ceremony in Toronto.
MAYNARD - This community is mourning the loss of a child after 11-year-old Ryan Reynolds was struck by a car in front of his home on County Road 26. Ryan, who was riding a bike with a friend at the time of the accident, died instantly.
PRESCOTT - Building a new town hall would cost between $90,000 and $1.7-million, architect Ralph Vandenberg revealed during a public meeting.
More than 30 people turned out to a public meeting with town council to express concerns and ask questions about plans for the town hall.
PRESCOTT - The Prescott Journal has won a regional award from the OPP for its coverage of the rescue of a 16-year-old boy from an ice floe off Maitland last February.
The Journal won the OPP Media Award of Merit in the Spot News category for the East Region.
PRESCOTT - Town council is asking architect Ralph Vandenberg to prepare a plan for a new town hall to be constructed in the municipal building lot by the clock tower downtown.
Councillors voted four to one in favour of the parking lot/clock tower site for the town hall.
SPENCERVILLE - A bylaw halting large-scale livestock operations in Edwardsburgh Township was killed. Council did not give the interim control bylaw its third reading, effectively ending the bylaw's route into law.
The bylaw would have stopped building or expanding any livestock facilities to 250 units. It would have applied for up to one year while a study investigating the impacts of large livestock operations was being conducted.
PRESCOTT - Many downtown business owners are questioning council's decision to build the new town hall in the municipal parking lot at the corner of King and Centre Streets.
Store owners wonder where shoppers will park if the lot is used for construction of a new town hall.
MAYNARD - Augusta township residents will see their tax bills jump 7.05 per cent this year.
At its regular monthly meeting council approved a $1.8-million budget, up from $1.7-million in 1999, despite decreased provincial grants and a loss in revenue caused by pipeline land reassessment.
Council decided to take $500,000 from its reserve funds to allow for the reconstruction and partial paving of the final 3.2-kilometre unpaved portion of Lords Mills Road as well as the closing of the dump.
Reeve Adrian VanSchie said he felt council was being frivolous in its spending and that the tax increase was higher than it needed to be.
Councillor Jane Fullarton, however, defending the budget, saying some of the money in reserves had been slated for those two projects.
PRESCOTT - Town council is gong ahead with its plan to build a new town hall at the municipal parking lot by the Rotary Clock Tower despite opposition from many local businessmen.
Town Council voted 5-1 against a motion from Coun. Frank Whiten to reverse their decision and build the town hall on the Dibble Street site instead.
Business owners voiced their anger with council's decision during a heated meeting with Mayor Doug Hayes and Coun. John McAuley.
The chamber of commerce had considered seeking a court injunction to stop council's plans to building on the downtown parking lot but later backed off on its threat.
PRESCOTT - The battle lines are being drawn between teachers and the provincial government over its latest bill, Bill 74. Teachers and their supporters held several rallies to protest the legislation which would increase the number of classes taught by teachers to an average of 6.67 per year, up from the six per year presently taught by full-time teachers. It would also make extra-curricular work mandatory for teachers and give the ministry increased powers to override school board decisions.
PRESCOTT - The ambulance services in Prescott and the entire Leeds-Grenville area need to be upgraded, according to the team designing the Leeds and Grenville Emergency Medical Service.
It is recommended that all five ambulance stations remain in their current location but that one of them be staffed 24 hours a day at each site.
MAYNARD - After 12 years on Augusta Township council, Reeve Andrian VanSchie is stepping down.
VanSchie, 50, announced he will not seek re-election in the November election and would leave municipal politics after nine years as reeve and three as deputy-reeve. He cited wanting to spend more time with family and on working with non-political community groups as why he will step down.
TORONTO - Prescott is ranked third on the short list of four municipalities being considered for a charity casino.
The provincial government announced that one charity casino will be established in Eastern Ontario, as recommended by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
Other communities under consideration are Front of Leeds and Lansdowne, Gananoque and Brockville.
PRESCOTT - More than 1,500 turned out on the field at Fort Wellington for the community's first Highland Band Tattoo.
The event included a parade and performance of six pipe bands with a massed finale to the end the show.
Emcee was Peter Bevan-Baker who brought Col. Red George Macdonell back to life. Macdonell commanded 35 men of the Lancaster Highlanders at the Fort in the 19th century. In 1813, he crossed the frozen waters of the St. Lawrence River with 500 troops to burn down the American fort at Ogdensburg.
SPENCERVILLE - Edwardsburgh homeowners can expect a 1.9 per cent increase in their taxes for the year 2000.
On a property of $100,000, for example, the increase would be $22.70 for a total residential tax of $1,231.11.
The budget includes more than $900,000 in capital projects.
PRESCOTT - An overwhelming majority of people favour renovating the present town hall instead of building a new structure, according to the results of surveys handed in at a town meeting.
About 600 people attending the meeting organized by the Prescott and District Chamber of Commerce to gather public input on the issue. Of the 502 people that completed a survey, 361 said the town should renovate its current municipal building instead of constructing a new one.
PRESCOTT - If at first you don't succeed, then commission another study. That is what the Prescott Hotel Development Committee did early this winter when it hired Horwath Consultants of Toronto to determine if a destination resort hotel complex could succeed in Prescott.
Previous studies had come up negative but the Horwath study, which took into consideration the added benefit of north-south traffic from Ottawa on the new Highway 416 as well as the Highway 401 traffic, came up positive.
PRESCOTT - Prescott councillors appear ready to roll the dice and put the casino question to the public.
Council heard public concerns at a recent meeting and will now vote on whether or not to put a referendum on the Nov. 13 election ballot.
PRESCOTT - A June survey carried out by the property and business owners and managers in Prescott's Downtown Business Improvement Area (BIA) shows that council's decision to build a new town hall in the municipal parking lot is vastly unpopular, and that the majority of those surveyed think the issue should be left for the next council to deal with in 2001.
Only six of the 86 businesses surveyed preferred the parking lot location with 44 against the idea, preferring instead the former Daniels Hotel lot, a waterfront location or other downtown sites.
PRESCOTT - Fort Town councillors gave themselves a pay raise as they passed their budget last week.
Council approved a 2.5-per-cent increase in their honourariums which they say will give them only $60 extra in pay.
PRESCOTT - Fort town taxpayers can expect to see a 5.2-per-cent increase in the municpal portion of their tax bills this year, according to figures presented to council.
Under the budget all municipal services, programs and service levels would be maintained despite a $171,000 loss in provincial funding.
PRESCOTT - Five people are dead and several more seriously injured after a gruesome motor vehicle crash on Highway 401 between Prescott and Maitland. Three people were taken to hospitals in Kingston and Ottawa.
The crash occurred when a 15-passenger van travelling eastbound entered the median and rolled several times, coming to rest perpendicular in the passing lane of westbound Highway 401. Several people were ejected from the vehicle when it rolled.
NORTH AUGUSTA - Grenville County farmers are feeling the pinch in their pocketbooks as they contend with a higher-than-average rainfall this growing season.
Adrian Wynands, Prescott of the Grenville Federation of Agricultrure, said farmers are facing a lower income this year due to the rain.
PRESCOTT - A ring of fibre-optic cable that will be installed around Prescott this fall is expected to have a positive effect on the local economy.
Companies, small businesses, schools and government departments will pay to connect to the loop that would be connected to a larger network. The connection, which would increase the speed at which data can move, is expected to draw businesses and residents to the area.
BROCKVILLE - The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Health Unit is asking the public to help with the surveillance of the West Nile Virus.
The virus, which is transmitted by mosquitos from infected birds, was discovered in a dead crow across the St. Lawrence River in New York State in July.
PRESCOTT - After six years in the mayor's seat in Prescott, Doug Hayes is stepping down.
Hayes announced during a council meeting that he will not seek re-election on council this November because he feels it is time for a change. He also wants to spend more time with his family.
SPENCERVILLE - Work has begun on the Township of Edwardsburgh's new fire hall located just south of Spencerville on County Road 44.
A ground-breaking ceremony was held as work continued on preparation of the 14-acre property purchased by the township last year.
PRESCOTT - Although members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association recently voted 84 per cent in favour of a strike, teachers are in their classrooms and schools are open.
An association spokesman said the work action will take the form of teachers not attending or participating in meetings, committees and extra-curricular activities.
SPENCERVILLE - A combination of good weather and crowds added up to a successful 145th Spencerville Fair.
With record amounts of rainfall this summer, odds were that rain could dampen more than just the fair grounds but it was a rare four days without any rain for the event.
PRESCOTT - Town council narrowly passed a bylaw to merge the Prescott Public Utilities with other utilities.
Councillors voted three to two in favour of the agreement that will see the Prescott utility merge with those in Cardinal, Westport and South Dundas along with Canadian Niagara Power to create Rideau St. Lawrence Utilities.
PRESCOTT - The 20th anniversary of the Terry Fox Run proved to be very successful in Prescott and across the province.
More than $8,725 was raised Sunday in the local run, an increase of $2,500 over last year's total. There were also significant increases in the number of participants and volunteers who took part.
PRESCOTT - The first phase of the Prescott Waterfront Pathway project is expected to begin this fall.
Construction of a pathway extending from the marina to the eastern edge of town at New Wexford will soon go to tender. The groundwork is expected to be completed before the snow flies later this fall.
PRESCOTT - Renovations to the town hall would cost approximately $1.1 million, according to a feasibility study commissioned by Prescott council.
The study provides for an expanded library, new municipal offices and unfinished office space at the Dibble Street West facility, a three-story building constructed in 1930. The library was added in 1974.
PRESCOTT - Town council has rejected a request from the Prescott and District Chamber of Commerce board of directors that council delay making a final decision on the municipal building issue until the new council takes office in December.
Five of the six council members voted to file the request which came in the form of a letter written by chamber President Robert Lawn.
PRESCOTT - The CCGS Griffon is expected back in service by early November after the vessel was rammed by a freighter on Lake Erie.
The Griffon was struck in the early morning while anchored off Pelee Island when a freighter strayed from the shipping channel.
The crew of 25 was asleep when the collision took place. No one was injured.
MAYNARD - The waste pile at the Maynard landfill site cannot be allowed to get much bigger, residents of Augusta Township were told.
A draft plan was discussed at the regular council meeting which would result in much of the townships household waste being shipped to a transfer station in Brockville.
JOHNSTOWN - The Township of Edwardsburgh now has ownership of the Port of Prescott.
The transfer of the ports facilities and property to the township from the federal government includes the grain elevator, wharves, marina, cottage and residential sties.
The agreement includes $2.7 million from Canada Ports Corporation in working capital and a yearly $350,000 grant in lieu as long as the municipality owns the property.
PRESCOTT - A public meeting will be held to present information on the future of policing in Prescott.
Town officials have received estimates for services from the Ontario Provincial Police and wants to pass that information along to the public. The other option is to retain the existing municipal police service.
PRESCOTT - Three residents have thrown their name into the ring for election to the position of mayor in the November municipal election. Running are Craig Worden, Robert Lawn and Kelly Benish-Lennox.
Five candidates Jo-Anne Beckstead, Garry Dewar, Jim French, Terry McConnell and Nancy McFarland were acclaimed to five of the six council seats available, but the sixth seat will be won by either Seeley Pillar or Ron Wilson.
PRESCOTT - Top honours at the South Grenville District High School commencement ceremonies were received by Stepehen Kibbee who was awarded the governor Generals Academic Medal for achieving the highest academic standing in his final year.
Mark Chapeskie received the Principal's Award as well as several other awards and scholarships.
PRESCOTT - The voters of Prescott made clear choices when they casts their ballots in the 2000 municipal election.
Retired high school principal Robert Lawn scored a decisive victory over his opponents Craig Worden and Kelly Benish-Lennox. Lawn won all 14 polls and garnered a total of 1,291 votes. Worden placed second with 421 votes and Benish-Lennox received 99 votes.
Seeley Pillar defeated Ron Wilson to take the remaining councillor position.
PRESCOTT - The people of Prescott have voted overwhelmingly in favour of having a charity casino located in town. Voters in the other three municipalities on the list of sites in this region have also indicated their support for having a casino in their communities.
Seventy-two percent of Prescott voters who cast ballots voted yes on the casino question.
MAYNARD - In a close race in Augusta Township, George Vail squeaked to the finish as the new reeve, just 18 votes ahead of John McCrea.
It was not evident who would be the winner until the last poll - Number 12 at the Maitland Community Reform Church - had called in its results. A recount confirmed Vail's victory.
SPENCERVILLE - An elderly convicted murderer who escaped custody in Kingston was recaptured just west of Spencerville.
James Lawrence Hutchison, 73, had been serving a life sentence after being convicted in 1974 of murdering two Moncton police officers in New Brunswick.
He escaped custody during a supervised community work placement at the Kingston Humane Society. Hutchison and a 34-year-old woman were arrested without incident at a Beverly Street home.
PRESCOTT - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and his wife Aline visited South Grenville District High School less than a week before the federal election.
The Chrétiens were accompanied on a tour of the school and a visit to a computer classroom that uses information technology applications and is supported in part by federal government funding by Leeds- Grenville MP Joe Jordan.
BROCKVILLE - Seventy-two votes is all that decided first in the riding of Leeds-Grenville in the federal election.
Incumbent Liberal MP Joe Jordan edged out Alliance part candidate Gord Brown by unofficially receiving 18,601 votes to Browns 18,529.
BROCKVILLE - A judicial recount has confirmed that Joe Jordan was re-elected in the riding of Leeds-Grenville.
The recount gave the incumbent Liberal MP a 55-vote victory over Canadian Alliance candidate Gord Brown.
PRESCOTT - The first major winter storm of the season has pounded South Grenville and much of the Great Lakes region.
An estimated 25 to 35 centimetres of snow accompanied by high winds made local driving conditions difficult. Freezing rain and sleet also fell in some sections of the seaway valley before temperatures nosedived.
PRESCOTT - Town council will take a closer look at renovating the existing municipal building.
The new council had only been sworn in for a week when members had a full and fairly frank discussion about an issue that created quite a stir at the end of the previous council's term.
Acclaimed Prescott Councillor Terry McConnell commenting on the possibility that the upcoming council will scrap plans to build a new town hall - Oct. 25, 2000 issue.
There is a lovely young woman named Michelle who is a customer service rep. for O.N. Telcom, a phone company that provides local service in the portion of Iroquois Falls in which I used to live. I enjoy talking to her, but in this case I'd rather not have to make the call.
It seems the company missed a long distance call I had made in August two weeks before I had the line disconnected. The bill I received recently came to about $42; unfortunately, most of that was the previous month's balance from a bill which I had paid after this most recent bill was mailed. It should be noted that the company was two to three weeks late in sending the first bill, a fact the company acknowledged in writing and apologized for. However, the bottom line is that I owe 39 cents the 35-cent call plus taxes.
The annoying thing about this debt is that it will cost me more to pay it off than the actual debt itself. For example, the cost of postage exceeds the amount owed. Paying the bill at a financial institution would result in a service charge of at least three times the phone bill. Mind you, I could pay the bill in person that is, if I found myself in Toronto or North Bay sometime soon.
My problem would be solved if I were to get nailed for a few late payment charges because I failed to cough up the 39 cents prior to the end of the billing period at least then I could justify cutting a cheque and sending it in. Yah, that's what I'll do. So what if my credit rating racks up yet another red mark?
Even the taxman (person) has come to realize the folly and expense of asking for or issuing paltry payments of two dollars or less. I am confident that the folks at O.N. Telcom will understand the situation and wipe this nominal sum from its accounts receivable ledger.
Speaking of folly, the company did make an unrelated but nice gesture the week after I received that bill. O.N. Telcom sent me (via Xpresspost) a new phone book, even though I had cancelled my service and left town three months earlier. The front cover features a somewhat dramatic drawing of a large bird of prey plucking a fish from some body of water, something Bell customers in the south may find somewhat disconcerting. Page three depicts a winter scene in a typical Timmins neighbourhood. The calendar on page four shows that Simcoe Day falls on Aug. 6 next year. (By the way, Simcoe Day refers to the civic holiday on the first Monday in August.)
O.N. Telcom took over local phone service in part of Iroquois Falls earlier this year; the service had been provided for decades by the company that owned the mill in town. A single residential line costs less than $14 per month (taxes included), almost half as much as on the other side of town where a Bell subsidiary provides the service. Mind you, when I arrived in Iroquois Falls two Junes ago I had to go to the front gate at the mill and ask a security guard for a telephone application form. Touchtone cost an extra $2 per month, an option I failed to check off on the application.
Why would folks in the Prescott area care about my experiences with O.N. Telcom? The phone company is part of a provincial crown corporation owned by all Ontarians a crown corporation based in the riding of Premier Mike Harris. I enjoyed getting my $200 taxpayer dividend, but I could have done without the phone book... Especially when the cost of sending it to me would have paid my 39-cent phone bill several times over.
John A.H. Morris
Although Prescott does not have a Victoria Cross winner of its own, it can claim one through marriage. His name was Eddie Holland. He was the son of a prominent Ottawa family. And he was married to Dora Knapp, daughter of Frederick Augustus Knapp of Prescott and his wife, the former Eleanor Lydia Blackie.
Frederick Augustus will be remembered in history as "Roller Boat" Knapp, who lived with his family in The Manor, the stately, red brick home on the north side of Hwy. 2, immediately west of Prescott.
Edward James Gibson Holland was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery on the battlefield Nov. 7, 1900, near Leliefontain in South Africa during the Boer War.
His father was part-owner of the Ottawa Citizen (a newspaper that started out as The Packet in Prescott in 1847, then relocated to Ottawa where it became the Citizen). Holland was born in Ottawa in 1878 and at the age of 22 joined the Royal Canadian Dragoons and was posted to South Africa.
He returned to Ottawa as a decorated war hero and a few years later married Dora Knapp of Prescott before joining the army as the commander of a motorized machine-gun battery and serving in France for two years during WWI.
Following the war Major Holland settled in Cobalt, Ont. Where he served as postmaster. He died there in 1948 at the age of 70. Holland Ave. In Ottawa's west end is named after his father, and the Ottawa Armoury on Walkley Road is named in honour of Maj. Edward James Gibson Holland.
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The year 2000 marked another Prescott centennial anniversary. The Prescott Water and Light Commission, made up of a Light Committee from the council was formed in 1899 and took control of Prescott's fledgling water and electrical supply in 1900. This commission was the forerunner of the Prescott Public Utilities Commission which served the town until the latter part of 2000 when it became part of a new, expanded company, the Rideau-St. Lawrence Utilities Inc., which includes Prescott, Cardinal, Iroquois, Morrisburg and Westport.
The town's first pump house and power generating plant at the foot of Sophia St. Was purchased from J.P. Wiser for $1500 in 1899. This is the site of today's pump house and water filtration plant.
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Behind every dark cloud there is a silver lining, so we took this into consideration while preparing your favourite Journal's 2001 budget. To compensate for two hefty newspaper price increases last fall, and for one more in January 2001, we have found it necessary to raise the cost of The Journal to $1.00 per copy, starting with next week's paper.
Now this is where the silver lining comes in and our inimitable meanness is revealed. For all those former members of council who had to put up with our meanness this year, and for their families who have been praying for our conversion to niceness and who have stated they are going to punish us by not buying The Journal, our new-found niceness is now saving them $1.00 a week instead of 75 cents a week they had been saving until January 1.
Now, how's that for turning the other cheeks?
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Last week we thanked the 1998-2000 council for one of the better decisions it had made (keeping the PUC) and this week we deliver a sort of back-handed complement to them in their failure to start construction on the new, downtown, town hall.
For the entire month of December there have been an average of 40 cars per day during shopping hours in the downtown municipal parking lot, and the parking spaces on both sides of King St., between George and East streets, have been full on a busy rotation basis.
This adds up to the fact that most downtown merchants are experiencing a very good season.
Now, think of what the mood of these merchants and our shoppers would have been if the municipal parking lot had been closed for the fall and Christmas shopping seasons as backhoes and bulldozers dug and blasted a new town hall foundation, and a parade of mud and blacktop-laden dump trucks carted their messy loads down King St. to some remote dump site.
This could have been the Christmas scenario in Prescott's downtown core this fall, one that council called us "mean" for fighting against. Instead they should be thanking us for fighting against their statue of arrogance, a folly that would have dogged them the rest of their lives.
CARDINAL - Reeve Larry Dishaw predicts the year 2000 will be a time to prepare for a number of changes in the village, most notably for the amalgamation of Cardinal with the Township of Edwardsburgh.
CARDINAL - The municipality entered the new millennium without so much as a blip. The village scheduled crews to be on call at the municipal office, the fire hall and the water and sewage plants for a 48-hour period before and after the rollover to the year 2000, to handle any Y2K problems that might have occurred.
CARDINAL - Outgoing warden Howard French has given up his fight against the return of four municipalities to the county council table, saying it would be too time consuming and costly to continue. French had said previously he would take legal action to keep the four municipalities - Athens, Cardinal, Westport and Front of Escott - from regaining the representation they had given up voluntarily two years earlier to avoid amalgamation.
CARDINAL - Cardinal's two water plants are a step closure to being fibre-optically linked after one system went on-line just before the turn of the century. Staff is in the process of switching operations at both the water and wastewater treatment plants over to a system that will enable them to monitor and even fix most problems at either plant from one location.
CARDINAL - Casco's Cardinal plant has received a second certificate from the Ontario Ministry of Energy and the Environment recognizing its efforts in pollution reduction. The certificate acknowledge's Casco's elimination of the use of all nuclear sources at its Cardinal plant over the past five years. Casco had used nuclear devices to measure product density and to control evaporation equipment.
EDWARDSBURGH - Cardinal area contractor Allan Finlayson ws presented with an R-2000 Excellence Award by the Ontario Home Builders' Association. He was recognized for building the "tightest" home which came in 32 per cent under the fuel consumption target and boasted above grade walls built with the Blue Max wall system. Finlayson and his wife Marg live in the home located on Cty. Road 2 west of Cardinal.
EDWARDSBURGH - Bess Lamson was right in her glory, spending her birthday watching her beloved Toronto Maple Leafs play on their home ice at the Air Canada Centre. Miss Lamson, who turns 101 on Feb. 8, became a bit of a celebrity on her birthday last year when she was invited to attend one of the Leafs' final games at Maple Leaf Gardens where she had operated a concession stand when it first opened.
CARDINAL - The Cardinal Public Library has qualified for funding to install two more internet stations at the library. It currently has one site that is becoming increasingly popular, especially with students doing research.
CARDINAL - Two deadlines have come and gone but Cardinal council says it will not pay what the province says is due on unpaid policing bills. The province says the village has to pay $800,000 plus interest or it will withdraw provincial grants until the bill is paid. The only other option is court.
The municipality's lawyer advised the village going to court over the issue would be the best alternative because of Cardinal's long history of policing woes with the province.
CARDINAL - It was just one more example of village taxpayers' concerns being totally ignored by their local member of provincial government.
That's what council is calling their failure to set up a meeting with Leeds-Grenville MPP Bob Runciman or a representative from the Solicitor General's office at the recent Good Roads conference in Toronto even though they had been trying to do so since December.
SPENCERVILLE - Councils and clerks from Edwardsburgh and Cardinal rolled up their sleeves and got down to business last week to begin implementing the amalgamation order recently approved by the provincial government.
The transition process will enable the two councils to determine how they will merge their operations by Jan. 1, 2001 with the ultimate goal being to cut costs.
CARDINAL - An Alexandria-based hockey team made up of players from Cornwall to Brockville and most points in between came one goal short of winning a medal in the Ontario Senior game tournament held in Collingwood.
The district eight team was made up of many area men who play for the Dundas Flyers Oldtimers such as well-known Prescott goalie Les McAllister, North Augusta's Ron Hindman and Cardinal residents Ron Gilmer and Doug Casselman.
CARDINAL - A 14-year-old girl who is a student at Benson Public School has been charged with public mischief and uttering threats following the discovery of two notes at the Cardinal school in March. Students in the Grade 8 class turned two notes they had found over to their teacher. The notes made death threats against seven Grade 8 students.
CARDINAL - The location of the town hall for the new municipality of Edwardsburgh-Cardinal was the source of some heated debate at the second meeting of the transition board.
But it was quickly laid to rest after a short in-camera session and a recorded vote by the board, which consists of the two councils and the clerk-treasurers.
Seven boards members voted to stick with the original verbal agreement that the main municipal office should be located in Spencerville while three were opposed.
EDWARDSBURGH - An elderly farmer said he probably won't rebuild after losing livestock, equipment and hay in a fire that destroyed his barn.
Graham Riddell, 75, said a neighbour called him in the evening to report his barn was on fire. Lost in the blaze were 11 head of cattle, hay and farming equipment.
MORRISBURG - Upper Canada Village Heritage Park has been named one of 41 winners in a provincial competition and is now going on to compete nationally.
CARDINAL - Village councillors say they will meet with representatives of the Ontario Hydro Services Company but wonder why it waited so long to make a presentation.
The village is well into discussions with six other utilities across the area on the feasibility of merging their operations.
CARDINAL - Staffing and structure of the new municipality of Edwardsburgh-Cardinal will be the most difficult hurdle to clear.
That's the opinion of Cardinal Reeve Larry Dishaw days after the Transition Board met for its third monthly meeting.
It was to met this week in a closed session with department heads to discuss those two issues.
MORRISBURG - Upper Canada Village Heritage Park received its second award this spring.
After winning a provincial award in March it went on to compete, and come out in top spot, nationally as the number one attraction in Canada.
CARDINAL - CASCO celebrated a major accomplishment - one million man hours worked without a lost time accident.
The achievement translates to 838 days or two and a half years of work without any injuries for its 220 employees.
CARDINAL - The tall ship Fair Jeanne pulled out of the local marina leaving bad memories behind for some residents.
Some parents are fighting mad because their children, members of the local Sea Cadet Corp., were offered a voyage on the ship in exchange for help renovating the vessel. When it came time to sail the youngsters were not given a spot on the ship.
Ship owners say it was all a misunderstanding.
CARDINAL - The Environmental Services transition committee involved in planning the Edwardsburgh and Cardinal amalgamation has recommended the township cancel its contract with another town for water and wastewater operations.
The rationale behind the recommendation was that Cardinal already has two employees qualified to operate the system the township is now paying Merrickville to run on their behalf.
CARDINAL - Hydro One, the new name for the Ontario Hydro Services Company, has made a pitch to Cardinal council members to purchase its electrical distribution assets.
Municipalities must decide this year whether they will retain, sell, lease or partner their existing services.
Cardinal is well into discussions with five other utilities in the area on the feasibility of merging their operations.
CARDINAL - Cardinal residents and business owners can look forward to the same programs and services in 2000 as in 1999, thanks to a village budget with no local increases.
Councillors passed what they called a historic and unique budget with the only increase coming from the county level.
The taxes on a home assessed at $100,000 will be $1,494.13 this year, compared with $1,480.63 in 1999. The difference is $13.50 is due to an increase in the county tax rate.
CARDINAL - A group of village residents are determined to have a local swim team this season and are prepared to go to great lengths to achieve the goal.
About 20 parents and their children filled the council chambers after they had heard the popular swim team program, known as the Sea sharks, had been cancelled this year because of a staffing shortage at the pool.
CARDINAL - A local athlete with a passion for water skiing has overcome all the odds to once again participate in his favourite sport.
Jim Pakeman was involved in a serious water skiing accident two years ago that could have sank his plans to compete at the national level if he hadn't been determined to get back on his skis competively.
CARDINAL - Peggy Taylor is one person who is fighting to make sure cancer can be beaten.
The Cardinal-area resident is in the midst of organizing the village's second annual Great Ride and Stride to beat cancer, to take place in conjunction with the village's Labourfest celebrations.
Taylor was motivated in her quest by living through the illnesses and experiencing the May 1999 deaths of both her father, Jack Gladstone and her father-in-law Charlie Taylor.
CARDINAL - The heartbeat of Cardinal's summertime spruce-up program - the Bloom Committee - has members who all share a common desire to make their village the best place to live and the most beautiful in the country.
The six-member team - Debbie Johnston, Debbie Adams, Lori Panel, Mary Campfire, Scott Capers and Dick Willis - have organized, planted, weeded and watered since the spring in one mammoth effort to showcase Cardinal to the country in a national bloom contest.
CARDINAL - Cardinal's volunteer firefighters may have no choice but to become First Responders at an accident scene before training ambulance personnel arrive.
Municipal councillors discussed a report on emergency medical services from the United Counties of Leeds Grenville that states the enhanced system will cost $38 million with the province kicking in $11- million.
CARDINAL - Cardinal's weekend Labourfest celebration proved a success despite rainy and cool weather.
The festival included a parade, family entertainment, a barbecue, a soap box derby and a run for cancer.
CARDINAL - A Cardinal woman's passion and excitement to help needy and desperate children around the globe has grown into a community project that has hundreds of area people wanting to help.
Donna Patrick's infectious enthusiasm for Operation Christmas Child will allow underprivileged children in suffering countries to enjoy what may be the only gift they ever receive in their lives.
CARDINAL - The Cardinal facility of a major international company, Sithe Energies, demonstrates its pride in being part of the community by sponsoring and promoting the village's annual beautification program.
The Communities in Bloom project involves dozens of volunteers and nearly 100 property owners who love their village and try to showcase Cardinal as an attractive and inviting place.
CARDINAL - The village fire department has a plan to build a first rate training facility in Cardinal.
The department has the opportunity to purchase a 70 foot long mobile home for $3,000 that could be used for such exercises as smoke training with self-contained breathing apparatus, search and rescue, fire cause and determination, confined space rescue, ventilation techniques, hose line advancement and scene management.
CARDINAL - The Philadelphia Pentecostal Tabernacle has started a major project to build a new church.
The church is planning to relocate the Dundas Street house of worship started three years ago with the purchase of a 42-acre site on County Road 2 just west of the village.
The site includes an apple orchard that's proceeds go directly into the church building fund.
CARDINAL - Rideau St. Lawrence Utilities has become a reality but local reatepayers will notice very few changes initially.
A village spokesman said ratepayers can expect the same levels and quality of service as in the past under their own locally operated utility.
Rideau St. Lawrence is the product of a utility merger between Cardinal, Prescott, Westport and South Dundas as well as Canadian Niagara Power of Fort Erie.
CARDINAL - Council agreed to give the local volunteer fire department $5,435.55 for start-up costs for a training facility on property adjacent to the municipal dump.
CARDINAL - Voters in the soon-to-be amalgamated municipality of Edwardsburgh-Cardinal elected a council comprised of both newcomers and seasoned politicians when they went to the polls in the municipal election.
Dave Dobbie, current reeve of Edwardsburgh retained his seat at the head of the council table.
Cardinal Councillor Jim Pakeman for the position. Newcomers Dan McDonald and Peggy Taylor will join returning politicians Peter Martin and Bill Sloan around the council table.
CARDINAL Even though the subway on Shanly Road north of the village is narrower than a normal road, the cost of upgrades is expected to be prohibitive, says the director of public works for the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.
Traffic volumes of about 2,600 vehicles per day are also low, making reconstruction of the 20-foot subway a low priority.
PRESCOTT - The South Grenville District High School senior boys basketball team took the silver medal in their two-day tournament.
Co-captain Shane McCloskey and the Giants Alex Last were named tournament All-Stars.
SOUTH GRENVILLE - The Edwardsburgh Lions Club Atom B Rangers are unbeaten in league action over the past couple of weeks because of superb goaltending by Corie Toye and Kevin Beach. Recent wins included a 4-1 decision for the Rangers in a game against the N.G.S. Braves, a 5-2 win against Morrisburg, a 2-1 victory over the North Dundas Demons in Chesterville and a 7-0 win against the Royals in Cornwall.
PRESCOTT - The team of slip Candy Alexander, third Jennifer Pane, second Barb Sayeau and leader Julie Dufour are the Ladies Business League mid-season champions at the Prescott Curling Club. There are four teams playing in the league.
PRESCOTT - National-level senior men's skater Jeff Langdon visited Prescott to conduct a skater development clinic at the Prescott Figure Skating Club. He also offered tips to the younger skaters and signed autographs at the arena following the sessions.
PRESCOTT - A Prescott girls curling team will take the next step to competing at the provincial level after recently winning a bantam girls championship.
The team of Skip Laura Payne, Vice Leanne Gibson, Second Jennifer Payne and Lead Lindsay Ryan went on to compete in the zone II championships in March. The team is coached by Kevin Payne.
CORNWALL - The SG Nights of Columbus Rangers came out on top after participating in the 37th annual Bantam B tournament. Valuable player accolades went to Rangers Adam Lawrence, Andrew Fortier and Peter Veltkamp. The goaltending of Joel Stone was outstanding with three shutouts in five games.
PRESCOTT - Team Number 8 won the the Fort Wellington Branch 97 Annual Ladies Dart Challenge. Team members Susie Visser, Alice McCarroll, Bobbe Kirkby and Dorothy Campbell took first place with 13 wins of 14 games played.
SMITHS FALLS - The Prescott team of Skip Ed Henry, Vice Neil Coulter, Second Bob Garand and Lead Hugh Evely won the Smiths Falls bonspiel, competing against teams from Ottawa, Perth and Carleton.
KANATA - The South Grenville Bantam B Rangers won another tournament on the weekend, this time a Major A event in Kanata that pitted them against the best A teams in Ottawa.
Joel Stone was outstanding in the net for the Rangers and most valuable player recognitions went to Jordan Pietrus, Peter Veltkamp and Devin Payne.
PRESCOTT - They came by the hundreds to watch the annual Prescott Figure Skating Club show, this year titled Happiness Is.
Club members from the "anklebiters" up to the senior line took part in the show that by all accounts was a great success.
SPENCERVILLE - The Grenville Pharmacy Novice Level II Rangers hosted the annual Novice C. tournament and came out on top as the winners.
Eight teams participated from Brockville, Morrisburg, North Dundas, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Eganville and Kanata.
HAMILTON - South Grenville District High School students Nicole Jenkins, Mandy Wallace and Kristen Jenkins placed in the top ten in their events at the Ontario High School Indoor Track and Field Championships. Nicole took first in high jump, Mandy broke South Grenville's old high school recorder in the 1,500 metres and finished third and Kristen finished seventh in the 600 metres.
The competition was attended by 1,000 athletes from more than 100 schools across the province.
PRESCOTT - The Kitchener Greenshirts took the title in sudden death overtime in the 28th annual 'AA'/'AAA' midget tournament held at the Leo Boivin Community Centre. Sixteen teams went head-to-head in the three day tournament that drew some of the most talented midget players from the eastern United States and Ontario.
Bantam players of similar calibre competed at the Cardinal community centre in the second annual Bantam AA tournament.
The Buffalo Stars edged out the Cornwall team to take home the Cardinal Lions Club trophy. A total of 10 teams competed.
PRESCOTT - What looked like an early start to the golf season two weeks ago, puttered out recently because of wet weather and a spring snow storm.
The Prescott Golf Club had its flags in March 25, the club s earliest opening in 13 years but the change in weather was expected to shut operations back down until April 20.
PRESCOTT - More than 70 boys and girls turned out on the South Grenville District High School soccer fields to try out for a spot on one of the four teams the local association is fielding in the Ottawa-Carleton Soccer League this season.
Soccer continues to increase in popularity with children 13 years of age and under, with players up again this year, from 480 to 520. Membership has been growing by about 30 players each year for the past five years.
BROCKVILLE - The South Grenville District High School track and field team made a strong showing at the Kinsmen-TISS meet, finishing 11th out of more than 50 schools in the combined ranking.
The South Grenville team ended the two-day meet with 82 points, as athletes like runner Mandy Wallace, high jumper Nicole Jenkins, hurdler Curtis Vanhyning and shot putter Amanda Krone helped in the school's strong results.
BROCKVILLE - Coach Doug Lawrence of the South Grenville Bantam Rangers has been nominated in the men 's category for this year's Sports Hall of Fame.
Lawrence joins his team, the Bantam Rangers, which has been nominated in the Team of the Year category, in the nominees list.
PRESCOTT - A South Grenville District High School student has been picked up in an Ontario League Draft.
SGDHS Grade 10 student Adam Gibson, 16, was selected by the North Bay Centennials to play defense.
BROCKVILLE - It was a tie for top junior athlete at the Leeds-Grenville Elementary School Athletics Association Championship.
Geoff Millard, a Mayard Public School student, tied with Lance Kerr of South Crosby for the trophy.
PRESCOTT - A change in coaching and management in the South Grenville Jr. B Ranger organization is part of an overall goal of trying to raise the team's profile in the area and bring together the community to support their local team.
Tom Hare steps into the role of general manager for the 2000/2001 season while George Willard takes over as coach.
PRESCOTT - Despite the cool and rainy weather, the staff at Prescott's Centennial pool is getting ready for what is expected to be another refreshing summer splashing around down by the waterfront.
Staff for the season are Jenna Merritt, Lesley Hubbard, Eric Humes, Jarrod Whelan, Becky Hubbard and Jaylene Merritt.
PRESCOTT - The Windmill Web Spiders is in first place in the Under-8 division of the Prescott and District Soccer Association.
Their 4-3 win over D.B.L. Computing gave the Spiders the two points necessary to stay a point ahead of Playit Star, currently sitting in second place with 15 points, and finishing the week with two wins and no losses.
PRESCOTT - For Graham Cudlipp, president of the Prescott Tennis Club, crossing the threshold of the clubhouse was like being transported back to circa 1988, when the club thrived, with membership topping 80.
Today, with membership down to just 10, and the clubhouse and courts in need of repair, Cudlipp says it is time to rebuild.
JOHNSTOWN - Cary Sigg, 14, made three wishes to Starlight Children s Foundation of Canada which grants wishes to seriously ill children as well as providing other entertainment-related activities for them.
Meeting Tiger Woods was Cary's unflinching answer when asked what he wished for.
His wish came true when Cary and his family flew to New Orleans to meet Woods at the Bayou Oaks Golf Course.
PRESCOTT - In Under 6 playoff action, Lanes Smoke Shop, which claimed first-place in the division standings, beat seventh-place Hometown Heating 2-0.
Emily Colwell and Jesse Boyd each scored one goal.
PRESCOTT - The South Grenville District High School soccer field was all action as the Prescott and District Soccer Association held its playoff tournament.
More than 530 players battled for the playoff championship trophies during the day-long tournament which was also host to a Prescott Gunners rep fun day tournament.
PRESCOTT - It's been several years but the Prescott Expos have done it again.
They won the Upper Canada Big League championship by beating Morrisburg. Prescott secured the title with two out of three wins.
During the playoffs, Winchester, Osnabruck and South Mountain were all eliminated.
NORTH AUGUSTA - The North Augusta Team One had the perfect season in the Augusta Minor Softball league.
Not only was the team unbeatable during the season but also in the year-end tournament.
The team finished league play with a perfect 28 points for a 14-0-0 record. The second play team, Maitland, was a full 10 points behind, with a record of 9-3-0.
MAITLAND - Two area schools had a strong showing at the Grenville Christian College school invitation cross country meet.
Centennial 67-North Edwardsburgh public schools tied for third place overall with Prince of Wales public school. Oxford on Rideau finished first while Lyn-Tincap public school took second.
Two Central Public school athletes - Heidi Reinstra and Kristen Craig - ran to first place finishes in individual categories.
BROCKVILLE - More than 1500 athletes descended upon Memorial Park to compete in the LGESSA cross-country meet.
Grenville elementary school athletes had a strong showing at the meet, capturing several titles at the championship.
Maynard Public School took the overall title, finishing ahead of Lyn-Tincap and Centennial 67 which rounded out the top three schools.
SPENCERVILLE - The Centennial 67 Public School's boys intermediate A soccer team won silver at the Dundas County soccer tournament.
Centennial lost to Nationview in the finals 1-0.
The Domville Aces played their way to the OASA championship by winning four consecutive games, defeating Springbrook, Wyebridge, Smithsville and Elmira before facing Sydenham in the final. Sydenham took home the gold with a 2-1 victory.
PRESCOTT The South Grenville Peewee 'C' Rangers beat the Smiths Falls Bears in the 'A' final championship game 6-2.
The Rangers hosted a six-team tournament Nov. 28 at the Leo Boivin Community Centre in Prescott.
PRESCOTT - Defenceman Adam Gibson, who is in his first year with the OHL North Bay Centennials, is part of the Under-17 Team Ontario, which is competing in the World Hockey Challenge in Turo and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, from Dec. 29 to Jan.4.