V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls inspired by Eve Ensler’s award winning play, The Vagina Monologues. V-Day was incorporated as a non-profit charity in 1998 with the intent of using performances of the play to raise money to benefit female victims of violence and sexualContinue Reading
What do you get when you get a 14 year old boy with a love for radio and talking music with his friends and a 2000 watt FM transmitter? You get MIX 91.9 Jayhaed Saadé has a little bit of money left to him from his grand-father and decided toContinue Reading
L I N K After 13 years of fighting in court for claims going back an awfully long time the US government has settled the largest ever Native claim for over 3 billion dollars US. “The tentative agreement, reached late Monday, would resolve a 13-year-old lawsuit over hundreds of thousandsContinue Reading
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Art comes in many forms. André Pommier of Pommier Jewellers started with this: and ended up with what you see below. Each ring was hand carved for the team. Now that’s what I call a Christmas present! Pictured with his father Georges and sister Maryse.holding the box set thatContinue Reading
Olympic Medalist Anne Jardin-Alexander To Carry Olympic Torch in Cornwall Former Olympic athlete Anne Jardin-Alexander, winner of 2 bronze medals in the Montreal 1976 Olympics , will be carrying the Olympic Torch in Cornwall on December 14th. Mrs. Jardin-Alexander, now a teacher at Frank Ryan Catholic School in Ottawa, willContinue Reading
ROGER SAUVÉ – The People of Cornwall and SD&G – A 10 week feature for the Cornwall Free News – Week 6 – Are you married or what? Relationships are important in all our lives. They start, they change, they continue or they either end by separation, divorce or death. Life happensContinue Reading
I was talking to some sources this past week, and cigarette prices have almost returned to normal here in Cornwall. Before the bridge closure wholesale prices for cases of 50 bags were about $175- $250 or $3.50-$5 per bag which the sellers would then market at $10-$15 per bag. AtContinue Reading
This is a good morning to stay home if you can. As I stare out my office window into the dark morning the snow is coming down and it’s not that Norman Rockwell user friendly picture postcard type. The wind is cutting too. The high predicted today is onlyContinue Reading
The Habs were outshot again, this time 46-27, but came away with a 4-1 win in Ottawa. Montreal goals were from Mike Cammallieri, Scott Gomez, Andrei Kostitisyn, and Marc-Andre Bergeron who is starting to look like the steal of the season. The good news is that Montreal’s Power Play seemsContinue Reading
Snow Tires on? Check – Emergency kit? Check – Food & Water? Check? Syljack Snow Removal for worry free snow removal with one fee for the season? Uh oh ! It’s not too late. Call Ryan today at 613.931.3366 and tell them you read about them on the CornwallContinue Reading
L I N K “A regional economic group estimates that dollar DVD rentals from Redbox and others has cost the entertainment industry $1 billion and that the “ripple effect” will cost hundreds of millions more.” Here in Cornwall Ontario Jonathan’s Convenience store at the corner of 4th & Marlborough has been rentingContinue Reading
AKWESASNE READIES FOR OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY A’nonwarako:wa Arena to Host Events on December 14th AKWESASNE, ONTARIO —In less than one week, the eyes of the world will turn to the A’nowarako:wa Arena as the Olympic Flame arrives in Akwesasne as part of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. On December 14th,Continue Reading
We’re looking for a few good images. If you notice we’re playing with the background for our site, and while looking at various offerings on the net we came up with the idea of putting out a call to local visual artists. Email us your image at info@cornwallfreenews.com andContinue Reading
Early meeting of City Council with the focus on spending of Taxpayer Dollars. Topics du Jour were the Water & Sewage Treatment budgets and cleaning the mess on Pitt and First for the parking lot in back of the stores on the North West corner. First the sewage. IContinue Reading
Busy slate of games in the NHL last night. Montreal was still out shot in a sleeper of a game, They won 3-1 via goals by Andrei Kostitisyn, Marc-Andre Bergeron and my new favorite Hab Mike Cammallieri, but shots were 15 -13 for Philly. Georges Laraque madeContinue Reading
The Cornwall Public Library welcomes novelist Maggie Wheeler on Wednesday December 16 at 6:30 p.m. Maggie who is a frequent guest at the library has recently launched “On a Darkling Plain”, her fourth and final novel in her Lost Villages mystery series. Registrations are required for this free program andContinue Reading
PRIDE/FIERTÉ CORNWALL’S SCHEDULE OF FUNDRAISING PARTIES FOR 2010 ANNOUNCED After much deliberation and hard work, the executive committee of Pride/Fierté Cornwall is pleased to announce their schedule of fundriasing parties for the coming year which will help fund the staging of Pride Weekend 2010, the annual festival of LGBT diversityContinue Reading