80 Years Ago
Nov. 14 1939
Quite a large number of citizens of the town and county attended a Remembrance Day ceremony held Sunday afternoon at the Napanee Town Hall and the service at the cenotaph where the wreaths were placed.
Mayor A.S. Hughson presided as chairman at the town hall service, at which the address was given.
-Thousands upon thousands of recruits to the Canadian Red Cross army of volunteer workers marched out in full strength to rally their fellow Canadians to the support of the national war drive.
30 Years Ago
Nov. 14 1989
A Downsview OPP officer, charged with failure to remain in a 1985 accident, had his sentence remanded until January 1990 in connection with the death of a Napanee woman.
A Napanee woman was walking along Kennedy Road South with a friend when Sgt. Athur Goslin struck them 1.3 km north of the intersection of Diary and Kennedy.
The officer then drove to the Olympic Flame Restaurant where he called police to inform them a pedestrian had been struck, but he didn’t identify himself as the driver. He then called again 37 minutes later and identified himself as the driver.
-Efforts by Amherstview islanders to amend an original committee proposal for the investigation of the ongoing ferry issue ended in a 7-6 no vote by trustees at a board meeting in Cloyne.
Island parents were refusing to send their Grade 7-8 students to Bath Public School two mornings a week until the students are shipped on the Amherst Island ferry in a bus or a safe alternative.
-A battle between a former Napanee Police Chief and the Town of Napanee was settled with the former chief getting a $25,000 settlement.
The town reached the settlement on the advice of its solicitors following the dismissal of the former police chief.
-Guards at Millhaven maximum security prisons were turned away from their jobs as members of the Public Service Alliance shut the institution down.
More than 100 members formed a human chain across the entrance to the Bath and Millhaven institutions, denying anyone access to and from the facility.
The move was done in hopes to drawing attention to the 16 day strike by members of the PSA.
-Napanee and Richmond Townships were one step closer to a proposed study to examine the feasibility of adjusting boundaries between the two municipalities.
A consulting firm still needed to be selected, with a meeting scheduled for Nov. 21, 1989 to select a tender from consulting groups to conduct the study.