Updates

Happy Place & Friends Photo of the Week

February 12, 2024

SWAN LAKE – It’s exciting to see huge beautiful trumpeter swans. This pair went sailing serenely by me on the Mississippi River that runs out of Dalhousie Lake.

In Praise of the McDonalds Corners Re-Use Centre

February 12, 2024

February 12, 2024 Written By Rosemary Tayler Published in Lanark Era Other Articles & Updates

Blais: Ontario shouldn’t be giving the gravel industry a free pass

January 15, 2024

January 15, 2024 The entire article by John Blais appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on January 15, 2024. For years, the aggregate industry in Ontario has operated with total impunity, while simultaneously complaining about too much “red tape.” Gravel extracted from pits and quarries is essential for new building and infrastructure needs, yet this non-renewable…

Highland Line by Long Sault Trio

January 15, 2024

January 15, 2024 Written By Rosemary Tayler Please take a moment to listen to this beautiful song by Long Sault Trio. Video footage of Long Sault Creek by Dean Spence. Music written and performed by Long Sault Trio in protest of 2 proposed gravel pits, applying for below the water table putting Barbers Lake, Long…

The Story of Stuff…

January 3, 2024

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.

2024 Long Sault Creek calendar

December 20, 2023

Wanting to share the existing beauty of this pristine ecosystem, we have made a 2024 Long Sault Creek calendar.
When it comes back from press in early January, it will be distributed free of charge at the McDonald’s Corners Reuse Centre.

Everything You Wanted To Know About Blanding’s Turtles and other Species At Risk living near Proposed Gravel Pit

November 21, 2023

Join us on Sunday, November, 26, 2023 from 1pm to 3pm as Dr. Dennis Murray talks about Blanding’s Turtle.

169th McDonalds Corners Annual Fall Fair

October 10, 2023

Here is the short note by Gena Gibson, editor of the Lanark Era and the photo she took at the 169th McDonalds Corners Annual Fall Fair on Saturday, September 16, 2023.

Maple farmer worries proposed gravel pit will decimate family business

October 4, 2023

Vernon Wheeler has owned and run Wheelers Maple Products with his family since the late 1970s. A proposed gravel pit would sit next to his sugar bush.

Aerial Views of Barbers Lake

September 26, 2023

Here are some aerial views of Barbers Lake and showing where the proposed pit will go as well as where Arnott Brothers pit currently is.