CFN –  Join our former MPP Jim Brownell at the Ontario Power Generation Visitor Centre as they host a cultural talk on Christmas Past in the Lost Villages. Date: Saturday, December 10, 2011        Time:  2:00 pm to 4:00 pm    Location: St. Lawrence Power Development Visitor Centre                   2500B Second Street West,Continue Reading

CFN – Ring Ring.   I get a call telling me that there’s a secret meeting of council being held at city hall and to get myself and camera down.  Sure enough the chamber fills with all councilors in attendance as well as Mayor Kilger and the city clerk. I was joinedContinue Reading

CFN –   It’s showtime!  After working, prepping, and primping the Cornwall Downtown Business Improvement Association’s Christmas Home for the Holidays Christmas home tour sponsored by Remax and Scotiabank  kicks off!   If you haven’t picked up your tix yet visit Chris at Life’s Little Pleasures on Pitt Street acrossContinue Reading

CFN – Cornwall and area’s 1st Annual Health, Holistic & Lifestyle Expo is being held at Trinity Anglican Church in Cornwall, Saturday December 3rd from 10.00am till 5.00pm. Some 40 local practitioners and creators of wellness and lifestyle products will share information about their services and products. Organizer Nancy GalwayContinue Reading

CFN – National Home Services has invaded Cornwall Ontario and we caught one of their representatives knocking on doors on this rainy afternoon.   It can seem innocent enough.   A knock on the door and an offer to replace a water tank with a waterless version, but some ofContinue Reading

CFN  –   Cornwall Ontario’s downtown core is blessed with a lot of eating options for lunch.  I counted fifteen eateries on a walk between 3rd Street and the floundering Redcliff owned Cornwall Square.   The downtown core’s biggest activities at lunch centre around the  courthouse and a few otherContinue Reading

CFN –  We’re going to be profiling the members  of Seaway Roller Derby Girls and are starting with Amy McCormick Brown who is also in charge of gaining new members.   The league is only a few months old, but has gone from four people with an idea in aContinue Reading

My next interview was with Chris Cotnam of Clarkburn Vegetables. I first met Chris when he was participating in the 2010 edition of the Summer Company program and had a booth at the Cornwall Famer’s Market (the good years). During the growing season Clarkburn Vegetables have fresh vegetables for saleContinue Reading

CFN – Politics make strange bedfellows.   It also creates unique and strange dilemmas.   Sometimes you have to vote for things you don’t personally believe in or sit in silence as you watch an injustice.    However when you look at a larger sampling of decisions certain tendencies show.Continue Reading

CFN – Before he takes up his new post as Archbishop of Gatineau, a cross-representation of the local community, friends, family and colleagues gathered Wednesday evening at the Best Western Plus Parkway Inn to express affection and thanks for the almost ten years of ministry of Alexandria-Cornwall diocesan bishop Paul-Andre Durocher.  SomeContinue Reading

CFN – Local artist Liam Sinclair Dempster sent in some of his stunning images for our Photo of the day feature.   I find his usage of different mediums of communication in his work most interesting; especially from such a young an aspiring artist. CLICK TO ENLARGE ANY IMAGE BloodyContinue Reading