Community Integration opens new office

June 2, 2016

The North Hastings Community Integration Association has a clear mandate: to inspire people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families, to live as fully participating citizens. This they do through their own programming, and through community partnerships with health and social agencies, schools, and businesses. The end they seek is all citizens participating fully, equally, and safely in their community.

Refugee committee makes a commitment

Last February, a group meeting at St. Paul’s United Church began looking into the process of refugee sponsorship. Last week, they started the official process of applying to bring a family to Canada. But already, they know the five-member family they will sponsor. Amir Jarad, 32 years old, and his wife Mariam, 25, have three children: daughter Sara, 6, son Nawar, 4, and new-born daughter Farah.

Structure fire on Peterson Road

On May 29 at approximately 8:25 a.m., Bancroft Ontario Provincial Police officers responded to a report of a structure fire at a residential property on Peterson Road, Hastings Highlands. North Hastings Fire Department attended the scene and extinguished the fire. No injuries resulted.

Lions sponsor first aid training at NHHS

By Tony Pearson North Hastings High School principal Ken Dostaler thanks Bancroft Lions President Bryan Adams for the club’s donation to the ACT training program. ...

Manor residents enjoy art exhibition

By William Kilpatrick On Tuesday, Sept.r 23 the residents of Centennial Manor were treated to a special art show put on by local artist Arne ...

Four Lands a metaphor of inclusion at South of 60

The experience of a land can be as much social and cultural as it is geographical. This theme, as it is woven through time and memory, is the focus of a new installation on the second level of the South of 60 Art Gallery at the railway station in Barry’s Bay.

Elementary students take to the woods

Forestry Day brought close to 200 local elementary students to Joy Bible Camp last week to learn about a wide variety to ways to cultivate forests and work with the resulting wood. The students came from York River, Whitney, and Madawaka public schools, and even from the Sagonaska Demonstration School in Belleville. They learned about tree variety and tree planting, and visited with talented local artisans who produce everything from canoes and paddles to violins to pepper mills. They even watched John Foreman shape a tree trunk with a broadaxe.

NERDs catch and stock fish

The past two weeks in NERDs have been very busy! First, we had to get everything prepared for the upcoming NERDs golf tournament. Then we started SLIN netting (Spring Littoral Index netting) for Lake Trout, on Cashel Lake near Gunter. We did this for five days. Each day a different group of NERDs put out six sets of nets in three mesh sizes: 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 inches. Each 300 foot gang of nets would be set out twice for 90 minutes. We caught a lot of perch as well as a few other different species. On Thursday the group caught a huge 22 pound lake trout, the only lake trout we caught over the five days. That catch was better than all the perch other groups would catch. By the way, do perch ever make a mess of our nets!

Pollinators take centre stage at the Bancroft Horticultural Society

One of the main causes is the disappearance of habitats that support bees.

Dutch memorial tulips bloom in Bancroft

A lot of people have visited the annual Tulip Festival in Ottawa. Now the festival has developed a Bancroft extension – and with the same source: a donation from Holland as a token of thanks for Canada’s contribution to the liberation of the Netherlands in the Second World War.

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