CFN – The Seaway Roller Derby Girls League is Official. The members of the Newest Roller Derby league in Canada have recently received their approval from the Canadian Women’s Roller Derby Association. To celebrate, there will be a 70’s themed Roller Disco Fundraiser held at Agora Catholic Centre (previously knownContinue Reading
CFN – Here is your Police Blotter for the Cornwall Ontario area for Monday January 9, 2012. DRUG SEARCH WARRANT EXECUTED Cornwall, ON- Members of the Cornwall Community Police Service Street Crime Unit executed a drug search warrant shortly prior to 6:00 p.m. on the 5th of January, 2012 atContinue Reading
CFN – I hastily kicked my feet out of my ridiculously sparkly heels as everyone scrambled for a chair. I found one, pulled it over to my friend, who was already perched atop her own, and quickly hopped up onto it. It was loud. All around everyone was screaming andContinue Reading
CFN – The Canadian Curling Association today announced that the 2013 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship will take place March 24-31 at the RA Centre in Ottawa. The RA Centre is honoured to be chosen to host this very prestigious event for the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship, said Rick Baker, Host Committee Co-Chair and theContinue Reading
CFN – Thanks to local Environmentalist, Artist, and our own Columnist for our Column; Earth Matters, Jacqueline Milner for sending us the poster for the Living Locally Fair which is happening Saturday January 21, 2012 in Russell Ontario. With 30% tree coverage needed to support bio diversity there’s always roomContinue Reading
CFN – THE TIMMINS POLICE SERVICE HAS REQUESTED AN ?AMBER ALERT? FOR 2 ABDUCTED CHILDREN IN THE TIMMINS AREA. Victim?s name: AIDEN JOHNSON Male Date of Birth: 14 April 2008 Age: 3 years Victim?s name: KARA JOHNSON Female Date of Birth: 21 October 2010 Age: 1 year Believed to be inContinue Reading
CFN – Smart City Toastermasters Club-Cornwall, decided to do a potluck Christmas dinner this year, held at Claudette Pilon and partner Gilles Routhier’s home. . It made the celebration more personal. A special thank you to Gilles & Claudette from all of us toastmasters who attended that evening’s festiveContinue Reading
CFN – Eighteen year old Kelsie Granger didn’t get to celebrate New Years. The first year student at St. Lawrence College was working behind the cash at Jonathan’s Convienence Store at 6th and Bedford streets in Cornwall Ontario when a masked intruder entered the store and threatened her with aContinue Reading
CFN – We made it! If you’re reading this we’ve all jumped over the line and are blinking and breathing in 2012. Now I know some of you are fretting and getting all Mayan, but I have a hunch 2012 is going to be a heck of aContinue Reading
CFN – As I sit here in the very early hours of the last day of 2011 I’m looking back at what was an interesting ride. 2011 probably won’t go down as my favorite year. A lot of personal changes in life; becoming single again at my advanced age;Continue Reading
CFN – Shortly before 10:30 this evening, just about the time the ice rain started to blanket the area, city workers began digging at the intercection of Dover Road and Osborne Avenue in the older section of Riverdale. The area is closed to all but local traffic for a two block radius. Continue Reading
CFN – As the Christmas season is upon us, I have been privilidged to have the opportunity to taste all the traditional Danish Christmas dishes.Leading up to Christmas, it is very common to have some Christmas “snacks”, which are called “Æbleskiver” and “pebernødder”. Æbleskivers are very similar to Timbit’s. Although,Continue Reading
CFN – For whatever reason, many of us have become interested in who our ancestors were. I became interested a few years ago so I purchased a copy of the “Family Tree Maker” and began filling in the blanks. I also registered with Ancestry.ca and started a notebook with informationContinue Reading
CFN – I’m reading today about China sticking an online dissident, Chen Xi, to ten years in Jail. Another, Chen Wei was recently given a 9 year sentence. I know; we’re not China…yet. You have the mayor of Toronto cutting off the largest paper in his city because they wouldn’tContinue Reading
CFN– Much Tease, on Cornwall’s downtown Pitt Street, is one of relatively few area small businesses that are set for expansion in the New Year. Owner Greg Mooney, who has run the store for the last twenty-two years, is confident about the future despite the slow economic climate that isContinue Reading
CFN – There’s a trend in BIG CORPORATE media that is seeing a lot of talented people being replaced by young and less experienced voices. Cost reduction or just reactions to divergence in media? Some would see a decentralization and less focus on local is the culprit. Create oneContinue Reading
CFN – Our Cornwall Free News Photo of the Day is from Gerald D Wood of Cornwall Ontario. He took this shot while out walking his beautiful dog Mika near the Power Dam. If you wish to submit your photo or video of the day email us at info@cornwallfreenews.comContinue Reading
CFN – Not too many businesses survive 70 years. Especially not here in Cornwall. While the old girl is limping; the Port Theatre, originally known as The Roxy is still surviving! The Roxy had four staff on the floor on opening night; Doris Lalonde Usherette; Mrs. YvonneContinue Reading