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🌟 Everyone Belongs at Community Living 🏠 $15,000 for Repairs 🚤 Sea-Doo Rescue 🍺 Beer Ships East 🗓️ Events 🔦 July 30, 2026

Jul 30, 2026

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🌟 Everyone Belongs at Community Living 🏠 $15,000 for Repairs 🚤 Sea-Doo Rescue 🍺 Beer Ships East 🗓️ Events 🔦 July 30, 2026

Community Living Kingston and District, and the 600 who belong there since 1953 | Local News: Up to $15,000 for urgent home repairs • $302,000 to help businesses beat tariffs • MacKinnon Brothers can ship beer across Canada | Community Champions: Wolfe Island finishes a memorial promised in 1946 • a Sea-Doo rescue near Gananoque • $15,000 for the Great Lakes Museum | Events: the Cataraqui Chamber Music Festival • Emancipation Day • a rooftop startup social • the Monarch Blitz • free Molière

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

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🌟 A Kingston Where Everyone Belongs: Community Living Kingston and District

Jul 28, 2026

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🌟 A Kingston Where Everyone Belongs: Community Living Kingston and District

It started in 1953 with parents and a single classroom. Today it supports about 600 people with intellectual disabilities and their families across the Kingston area.

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

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🌼 Those Roadside Lilies 🛝 A Playground for All 🥕 Free Summer Veggies 🏊 More Room to Swim 🗓️ Events | 🔦 July 27, 2026

Jul 27, 2026

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🌼 Those Roadside Lilies 🛝 A Playground for All 🥕 Free Summer Veggies 🏊 More Room to Swim 🗓️ Events | 🔦 July 27, 2026

Those wild orange day lilies all over our roadsides | Local News: Bayridge Drive's new all-ages cycling route • the crowds pushing Kingston for more places to swim | Community Champions: Shannon Park's new Jumpstart inclusive playground • Mutual Aid Gardens' free veggie markets • a rural seniors strength program 300 strong | Events: a Venezuela benefit • Health Adventures camp • the United Way MEGABike • South Frontenac's do-over fireworks • Bad Influence comedy

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

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🗡️ Ironwood Fantasy Escape 🚑 Camp Saved His Life 🥁 Alex Young Joins NYO 🔬 Cancer Tests, Safer Food 🗓️ Events | 🔦 July 23, 2026

Jul 23, 2026

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🗡️ Ironwood Fantasy Escape 🚑 Camp Saved His Life 🥁 Alex Young Joins NYO 🔬 Cancer Tests, Safer Food 🗓️ Events | 🔦 July 23, 2026

Local Spotlight: A sword school booked a castle and gave Kingston a fantasy fair with a ball you vote in | Local News: Federal cash for biotechs mDetect and Spectra Plasmonics • Three new SLC nursing certificates | Community Champions: A teen survived anaphylaxis at Camp Iawah • Thousand Islands Association at 92 • Alex Young joins the NYO | Events: Free hep C testing • OFF SEASON dance fest • Police at 185 • Hobo Steve’s for Almost Home • One Ground One Sound last call

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

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🗡️ The Fantasy You Never Outgrew: The Ironwood Fantasy Fair and Dan Niznik

Jul 21, 2026

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🗡️ The Fantasy You Never Outgrew: The Ironwood Fantasy Fair and Dan Niznik

A sword school, a castle-like venue, a dragon, and an adults-only ball with a plot. Kingston has not had a day like this.

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

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🎵 Benefit Concert for Venezuela 🏘️ $1 Land, 20 Homes 🔬 Lab for Rent 🏃 Run the Pen 📅 Events | 🔦 July 20, 2026

Jul 20, 2026

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🎵 Benefit Concert for Venezuela 🏘️ $1 Land, 20 Homes 🔬 Lab for Rent 🏃 Run the Pen 📅 Events | 🔦 July 20, 2026

Two earthquakes took the coast Gia Nahmens grew up on, so she asked Kingston's musicians to play | Local News: 367 Gore Road sells for $1, bringing 20 affordable homes • the Helix Wet Lab opens, a bench startups can rent | Community Champions: a neuro-inclusive game club wins Awesome Kingston's $1,000 • Sandy Riley resails his 1976 Olympic races | Events: One Ground One Sound • Run the Pen 10K • a scuba diver in Gananoque • downtown summer series • Historic Places Days • Sydenham Commons

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

Community Champions

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🔦 The Streets She Grew Up On Are Gone: Gia Nahmens Is Bringing Kingston Together for Venezuela

Jul 17, 2026

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🔦 The Streets She Grew Up On Are Gone: Gia Nahmens Is Bringing Kingston Together for Venezuela

Two earthquakes took the coast Gia Nahmens grew up on. So she asked Kingston's musicians to play a benefit for Venezuela, and a remarkable lineup said yes. One Ground One Sound is at The Spire on July 27.

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

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💜 Why 100 Feet? 🏊 $50,000 Swim ☎️ Rotary Phones Reborn 🌻 Sunflower Fest 📅 Events | 🔦 July 16, 2026

Jul 16, 2026

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💜 Why 100 Feet? 🏊 $50,000 Swim ☎️ Rotary Phones Reborn 🌻 Sunflower Fest 📅 Events | 🔦 July 16, 2026

Eight people, a rope, 37,000 pounds, hauled 100 feet for the 1 in 100 living with epilepsy | Local News: Kingston beats its housing target, banks $3.2M • 33 transitional units at 315 Queen Mary • Jamie Emerton puts Bluetooth in a rotary phone | Community Champions: 130 swimmers raised $50,000 at the first Swim the Lake • Volunteers replaced tents after the Belle Park tornado | Events: Fire truck pull • Venezuela benefit • Peace Pole • Rural grants • Sprinkles of Hope • Wynn Farms sunflowers

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

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💜 Would You Know What To Do? Epilepsy South Eastern Ontario and Vivienne Le

Jul 14, 2026

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💜 Would You Know What To Do? Epilepsy South Eastern Ontario and Vivienne Le

About 1 in 100 of us lives with epilepsy, and the training that would make you helpful when someone is having a seizure is free. Meet Epilepsy South Eastern Ontario, and the fire truck they want you to pull.

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh

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🔦 🏠 Second Chances 🎵 Kingston Plays for Venezuela 🦅 Bald Eagles Are Back 🎸 Guitars Hit Downtown 🏃 100km for the NICU 📅 Events | July 13, 2026

Jul 13, 2026

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🔦 🏠 Second Chances 🎵 Kingston Plays for Venezuela 🦅 Bald Eagles Are Back 🎸 Guitars Hit Downtown 🏃 100km for the NICU 📅 Events | July 13, 2026

Ryandale opens first home for women, Patti Ridlon's 8-year promise kept • Featured: Venezuela benefit concert | Local News: Take-what-you-need food pantries at 3 sites • Steve Manders tracks Kingston's bald eagle comeback • 10 guitar sculptures downtown | Community Champions: Willem Sagriff runs 100km for KGH NICU • Cruise for a Cause raises $8,000 for survivors | Events: Beats & Bites • Skylla Festival, Wolfe Island • KFPL Summer Reading Party • Kids Take Over Murney Tower • Neighbourhood Parks

Les C. Cseh
Les C. Cseh
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