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Not all families can give gifts to their children in the way they would like. For those families who are on Ontario Works, disability, or receiving childcare subsidies, the city’s Adopt a Child program can help.

The rituals have scarcely changed over the years. Families bundled up in scarves and mittens make their way downtown to watch a parade in which the most distinguished participant brings up the rear, serenaded by the strains of festive music.

When I visited St. James Anglican Church in Fenelon Falls on a warm Sunday morning, hoping to talk Father Alvardo Adderley, I was told it would be best to wait until after the session.

A recent increase in the number of opioid overdoses in the area is prompting the local Health Unit to sound the alarm.

Trillium Lakelands District School Board’s director of education, Wes Hahn, spent considerable time updating trustees on COVID in the community and schools and the potential impact that rising numbers of illness might have on the board’s back to school plans in January.

When my mother was 96 she watched Al Gore’s second climate documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel. “Ginny,” she said, “I didn’t know things were so bad. What can I do?”

Crayola Canada presented a cheque for $40,000 to United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes this week.