Carp Fair: ‘Glad it’s back’
CARP – For the first time in two years, the Carp Fair gates opened to fairgoers yesterday (Sept. 24) morning and visitors, volunteers and exhibitors all agreed, it was great to be back.
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Community News
Volunteers honoured in Legion Week kick-off
CONSTANCE BAY – It was a beautiful day, so last Sunday’s (Sept. 19) West Carleton Royal Canadian Legion’s Awards and Honours banquet was lightly attended.
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Gauthier’s COVID meal program growing
CONSTANCE BAY – The Constance Bay ball diamonds were full of the sound of bats cracking Saturday (Sept. 18) as the NorthWind Wireless Fibre Centre fields hosted a softball tournament.
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WC snowmobile club AGM Oct. 13, seeking board members
WEST CARLETON – While the snow won’t be here yet, it’s never too early to start thinking about sled season.
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Corkery’s Mulligan re-learning to walk
CORKERY – Becoming a double-amputee at 57-years-old, is as traumatic an experience as one can have after middle age. But Corkery’s Linda Mulligan, with some help from community angels, is learning to walk all over again at 59 after mastering the skill 57 years earlier.
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WC firefighters appreciated on Sept. 11
CONSTANCE BAY – It has been challenging for the brother and sisterhood that is West Carleton’s volunteer firefighters to get together, away from work in the age of COVID-19, but the 20th anniversary of the collapse of New York’s World Trade Center is as good a marker as it gets to appreciate all emergency responders.
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Kyle Gorman, 6, hits 4,000 kms pedalled
KINBURN – At only six-years-old, West Carleton native Kyle Gorman pedalled his way to his first 4,000-kilometre season – with plenty of room to spare.
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Labour Day weekend features KSC’s Monohull Regatta
DUNROBIN SHORES – It was a beautiful, sunny day with light wind on the Ottawa River for one of the Kanata Sailing Club’s (KSC) final events of the season.
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COVID-19 can’t stop Gambit music
CARP – It’s no secret COVID-19 and the resulting and repeated lockdowns have wreaked devastation upon the economy and the local business community.
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WC 4-H club focuses on charity crop
CARP – Just like full-time farmers, the West Carleton Foodgrains 4-H Club worked into the dark last Wednesday (Aug. 18) tending to their crop, preparing for harvest and estimating yields.
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