Are you flushing precious resources down the drain? I had to examine this question after reading Mr. Komorowski’s article on the water meter question a while back. Mr. Komorowski suggested that local government consider a program to subsidize low flow toilets before looking at purchasing and installing water meters toContinue Reading
ROGER SAUVÉ – The People of Cornwall and SD&G – A 10 week feature for the Cornwall Free News – Week 9 – This is what we do for a living There are basically two ways to classify what we do for a living. At the SD&G level, the 2006 CensusContinue Reading
ROGER SAUVÉ – The People of Cornwall and SD&G – A 10 week feature for the Cornwall Free News – Week 8 – HOME – The places where we live There are over 44,000 private dwellings in SD&G, providing a place to live to over 110,000 residents. On average, there areContinue Reading
What begins with ‘P’ and ends in ‘C’ and is being found in such places as cows stomachs and can often be found trying to camouflage itself in our precious trees? It is the ‘P’ word. PLASTIC. It is everywhere. Just pay close attention while you are out this ChristmasContinue Reading
ROGER SAUVÉ – The People of Cornwall and SD&G – A 10 week feature for the Cornwall Free News – Week 7 – How long has your family been in the area? The longer your family heritage in the region, the larger may be your Holiday dinners. Many of our families haveContinue 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
Munich Takes the Initiative Canada, and North America as a whole, have always lagged behind the Europeans regarding energy efficiency. Perhaps it’s because we’ve had it too cheap for too long. As we’ve never had to pay European prices for oil, gas and electricity, we don’t appreciate the true valueContinue Reading
Boy did we have fun Sunday at Schnitzels. Shooting any show can have its challenges and we had ours including our camerman coming down with H1N1 and needing a last minute replacement, but everyone came together and our Star Red Seal Chef Shawn Kretz created some amazing dishes. We’re busyContinue Reading
Cornwall Council Ignores Green Option – Will Continue to Plunder Taxpayers Progress continues on Mayor Kaneb Drive, the new road between Second Street East and Marlowe. This week, the street lights were installed. Last month, I suggested in this column that the city install LED streetlights on this new road,Continue Reading
by Jacqueline Milner: Each new day brings new beginnings and opportunity. Opportunity to be a better friend to the Earth whose health and wellness is necessary to sustain us and every living thing which resides with us. This Earth requires our love and respect so that the Circle can remainContinue Reading
Here is the latest column from Joe Gunn of Royal LePage Performance Realty: Real Estate as an Investment In these days of financial uncertainty, no one can afford to make any investment decision on an impulse. Companies such as Nortel and Enron were once considered absolutely sure investments that couldn’tContinue Reading
Compact Fluorescent Lights – Are they Worth the Investment? Compact Fluorescent Lights, or CFLs, are becoming more and more popular as they become cheaper to buy and more reliable. Most people are familiar with them now – they are the ones which look like a spiral. Compared to the old styleContinue Reading
Here’s the latest from our Columnist Richard Komorowski. If you wish to contact Richard email us at info@cornwallfreenews.com Meters and Retired People: In last week’s column, I discussed the impact of Smart Meters on small business, using a convenience store as a model. However, as a reader kindly pointed out,Continue Reading
Congrats to Chef Shawn and his new bride! Being a Chef has its perks and in today’s column Shawn discusses catering a wedding on a budget and uses his own as an example. To reach Chef Shawn email us at info@cornwallfreenews.com And if you’re getting married he might just beContinue Reading
Smart Meters – Will they kill Small Business? As we have discussed, the idea of Smart Meters is to encourage less daytime, i.e. peak, electricity consumption, in order to balance the electrical supply and demand throughout the province. This way, there will be less of a need to build new,Continue Reading
Our very own Chef Shawn Kretz will have a series of video cooking shows here on The Cornwall Free News! It’s Harvest time and he’s busy working on the recipes for season 1 while we focus on finding yummy foods within 100 miles of Cornwall for him to prepare forContinue Reading
Here is the latest from our Columnist Richard Komorowski. Today’s installment is titled: Hydro One’s Revenue Grab So far we’ve talked about Smart Meters and electricity prices, and how they can impact your household budget. Hydro One is introducing Smart Meters in an effort to balance the grid load –Continue Reading
Here is the latest from our Columnist Richard Komorowski: In the last column, we discussed how smart meters, which Hydro One is expected to start using in 2010 or 2011, are going to have a major impact on your electric bill. At the moment, Hydro One customers pay a fixedContinue Reading