Community News

ARNPRIOR – It was part book signing, part Peer and Trauma Support Systems team reunion for Fitzroy Harbour’s Syd Gravel last week, an author who focuses on the mental health of emergency responders.

WEST CARLETON – A man who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D Day as a boy, returned to West Carleton as a hero, and from there, amongst a long list of accolades, grew up to become a groundbreaking veterinarian and the mayor of the township, Dr. Roland ‘Roly’ Armitage passed away Wednesday, June 19 at the age of 99.

CARP – The Carp Fair Truck and Tractor Pull is a popular event, when organizers are able to host it. And this year, organizers pulled it off without a hitch.

CARP – For Corkery’s Andrea Conahan-Cruz, 17, applying for a pageant was just a new experience to try.

WEST CARLETON – One thing Paula Farmer didn’t know 15 years ago was her love of knitting was about to take on a life of its own.

CARP – With staff, dignitaries, the media and several guests squeezed in to the narrow hall outside the Bank of Canada vault within the Diefenbunker, those in attendance got a feel of what life might be like in the military bunker if it was ever needed during the decades long Cold War.

ARNPRIOR – To celebrate a 70th wedding anniversary you have to do two things – marry young and live right.

DUNROBIN – A lifelong Dunrobin farmer and community leader who later in life would become a symbol of Dunrobin’s resiliency, Leo Joseph Muldoon passed away overnight May 30, “waiting for his new John Deere tractor to be delivered.”

CARP – It took nearly 30 years, but yesterday (May 29) the Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum greeted their one millionth visitor.

CARP – Thoughts both for and against the Village of Carp hooking up to the City of Ottawa’s main water system flowed through last week’s (May 21) water meeting which was the plan for an event designed to get the conversation started.