Here’s this week’s top stories from lanarkleedstoday.ca based on your views.
- A Smiths Falls woman says being awake in the middle of the night may have saved her life after a house fire destroyed the apartment above hers and left her without a home.
Night owl says being awake saved her life as fire leaves two Smiths Falls women with nothing
2) John Fournier’s farming story came full circle when he and his wife, Colleen, attended an auction hoping to buy equipment and instead purchased his great-grandmother’s farm near Maberly.
Growing up on the Farm: How an equipment auction returned John Fournier to his family’s roots
3) Several children from Lanark-Leeds-Grenville are living outside their home communities because there are not enough local foster families available to care for them, according to Family and Children’s Services of Lanark-Leeds-Grenville.
Local children sent away as foster home shortage grows in Lanark-Leeds-Grenville
4) A local woman is transforming a tragedy that changed her life into a project that is now helping families facing infant and pregnancy loss.
Mother turns heartbreaking loss into project helping grieving families
5) Major recreation projects planned in Perth and Smiths Falls could create difficult funding decisions for the next Drummond/North Elmsley Township council, according to retiring Reeve Steve Fournier.
