Sundridge News

This inscription in Edith Macfie's autograph book, dated June 28, 1936, reflects the mood of the Great Depression.

I would like to thank you for all the great information sent over the last year about the happenings in our community.

Brooke Frances Marie Smith, daughter of John and Pat Smith of Sundridge, Ontario, and Jay Michael Pelletier, son of Michael and Shelley Pelletier of Jericho, were united in marriage July 18.

Lowea s, the U.S. based home improvement chain, announced Monday it will open three stores in Calgary next year.

Both seasonal and H1N1 flu shots are now available to the general public at area vaccine clinics.

Muskoka communities cash in on G8 Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, walks with local MP Tony Clement before making the G8 announcement in Huntsville, Ont., in June 2008.

A panel set up by the Ontario government to review health care services in rural and northern communities is "nonsense" because it won't stop hospitals from cutting services or closing altogether, complain activists, local politicians and doctors.

The winner's curse looms large in lottery lore. There's Buddy Post, a former circus cook who won $16.2 million in a 1988 Pennsylvania lottery.

After 80 years of its likeness hanging in the National Gallery of Canada, St. George the Martyr Anglican Church in Magnetawan is going to be recognized as a heritage site - partially.

It's become such a common sight that some residents and cottagers are calling him "Uncle Tony." A better name, though, might be "the king of pork-barrel politics." Since February, Clement has doled out nearly $40 million in his riding and $10 million more is coming in the next several weeks.

A family has been reunited with their lost pooch thanks to the help of the Midland branch of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals .

Almaguin area political leaders turned out to a meeting of the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit in Parry Sound last Wednesday to complain about a proposed scaling back of operations at the Burk's Falls office.

The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for FedNor, will be in Sundridge, Ontario, on Sunday, June 21 to make an important announcement in support of economic development in the community.