Les C. Cseh

Been living in and loving Kingston and area (including Westport) for 30? years. Avid hiker, foodie, music lover with a heart for the disadvantaged, especially those caught in or escaping human trafficking. Owner of Results Pathfinder which helps the smallest business owners with their marketing, and the Best Eats Ontario East blog and newsletter.

Newsletter

Oct 15, 2026

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11 min read

🔦 October 15, 2026 👋 "Wave to Everybody, Joyce": Joyce MacLeod-Kane's Road to the Ballot 🏒 Centre 70 Reopens 🍲 15,000 Meals on the Street 🗓️ Events & More

Local Spotlight: Joyce MacLeod-Kane, a reeve's daughter who found her way to the ballot | Local News: Const. Jeff Smith on the mend • Flu and COVID shots for all October 26 • Centre 70 reopens • Creekside Valley Park opens | Community Champions: Lunch by George's 15,000 meals • Mason Golf's $25,000 • Don Amos honoured • $13,330 for hospice | Events: Square Foot Show • Zombie Walk • Alien Invaders • Hollow's Eve • Women Entrepreneurs' Expo • Lemoine birding • Nature sing-along • Harvest Social

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Community Champions

Oct 14, 2026

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8 min read

👋 "Wave to Everybody, Joyce": How a Reeve's Daughter Found Her Way to the Ballot

From a Glengarry dairy farm to the wheel of a Kingston Access Bus, meet the LDSB trustee candidate for Countryside, Kingscourt-Rideau & Williamsville

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Spotlight Feature

Oct 14, 2026

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6 min read

🔦 Tracey Graves: Volunteer, Fundraiser, Force of Nature | Feature Spotlight

The volunteer who turns every passion into purpose, and every setback into service.

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Newsletter

Oct 12, 2026

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10 min read

🔦 October 12, 2026 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving 🦁 Lionhearts $70K Match 🗳️ Online Voting Opens 🎖️ Kingston's New Army Role 🗓️ Events & More

Happy Thanksgiving, and thanks to all who feed neighbours | Local News: Kingston's new Army Support Division • Online voting opens October 14 • Ticks are still out • Three October heritage months | Community Champions: Casey Kidson races for Canada • Lionhearts $70K match • Accessibility Awards extended • Queen's student volunteers | Events: Social prescribing talk • Tett Tuesday collage • Newfoundland Songbook • Winter crows • Pathways of Hope suicide prevention day • Bridges Out of Poverty

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Newsletter

Oct 8, 2026

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11 min read

🔦 October 8, 2026 🍂 Fall Trails at Frontenac Park ⛴️ Horne's Ferry Could Return 🏥 HART Hub Opens 📸 Rideau Heights Photo Contest 🗓️ Events & More

Fall colours on the trails at Frontenac Provincial Park | Local News: Fire Prevention Week battery tips • Horne's Ferry could return • Idling limit reminder • HART Hub opens | Community Champions: 4 Paws needs puppy raisers • Kidney Walk tops $32K • Robinson Farm volunteers • Liam Desré's EU science prize | Events: Rideau Heights photo contest • 80+ licence session • Forest therapy walk • Night sky tour • Practical Magic • Bird Day • Free veggie market • Monster trucks • Craft Lab Sundays

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Newsletter

Oct 5, 2026

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11 min read

🔦 October 5, 2026 🎓 Brandon Tozzo Came for School, Stayed for Kingston 📚 A $25M Gift for Queen's Students 🤿 Divers Haul 29 Tires From the Lake 🗓️ Events & More

Local Spotlight: Brandon Tozzo, Kingscourt-Rideau councillor, came for school and stayed | Local News: A $25M Queen’s tuition award • New breast MRI • Limestone EQAO gains • “Consonance” public art | Community Champions: Divers haul 1,020 lb • Tipi Moza honoured • The Blessings Cart • Rallying for the Whaleys | Events: Rideau Heights photos • The Art of Visiting • Fall walk • Murder at the Golden Gala • Pumpkin bouquets • Her Wealth, Her Way • Lionhearts market • Loud for Libraries • Fort Fright

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Community Champions

Oct 1, 2026

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8 min read

🎓 Brandon Tozzo Came for School, Stayed for Kingston and the City Got a Councillor

He did his PhD at Queen's, set down roots in Kingscourt-Rideau, and has knocked on doors there almost nonstop since 2022.

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Newsletter

Oct 1, 2026

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13 min read

🔦 October 1, 2026 🏠 Kevin Smith, From a Tent to the Housing Committee 🧺 A Market for the Prison for Women 🏃 Howe Island Runs for Terry Fox 🗓️ Events & More

Glenburnie Grocery’s mums and pumpkins | Local Spotlight: Kevin Smith, from a tent to the City’s housing committee | Local News: A market for the old Prison for Women • Visitors spent $538.9M • Check your voter registration • Free caregiver groups | Community Champions: Howe Island raises $51,628 for Terry Fox • Sustainable Kingston Awards • Peter Katz • Kirk Muller | Events: Evening with the Harp • Willem Sagriff’s 100 km • Silent films • Studio Tour • Cha Cha Tea at 20 • A packed Saturday

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Community Champions

Sep 28, 2026

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9 min read

🏠 From a Tent in November to Kingston's Housing Committee and a Council Run: Kevin Smith

He co-wrote a song about homelessness, joined the City's housing committee, and is now on the ballot in Kingscourt-Rideau.

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Newsletter

Sep 28, 2026

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10 min read

🔦 September 28, 2026 🪶 LodgePole Arts Alliance Dreams Big at Lemoine 📚 WritersFest Week 🧡 Truth and Reconciliation Day 🌙 Islamic History Month 🗓️ Events & More

Local Spotlight: who LodgePole Arts Alliance is, and its Indigenous-led vision for Lemoine Point Farm | Local News: Standing together after the Belleville synagogue attack • Islamic History Month turns 20 • KFPL survey closes Wednesday | Community Champions: Terry Fox runs raise big • Paddleboarders raise nearly $17,000 for Maltby • Kahwá:tsire moves into Providence Village | Events: Truth and Reconciliation Day • Kingston WritersFest, day by day • Forman Farms pumpkin smash

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Community Champions

Sep 26, 2026

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9 min read

🪶 Who Is LodgePole Arts Alliance? The Indigenous Arts Charity Dreaming Big at Lemoine Point

A national, Indigenous-led charity based in Kingston hopes to buy Lemoine Point Farm from the City and turn it into a land-based arts centre. Meet the people behind the plan, and see what they're already doing.

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Newsletter

Sep 24, 2026

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8 min read

🔧 Michael Judd: Kingston's Ultra Advocate 🏥 $103K MRI Upgrade 🍂 Brush Pickup Map Changed 🧸 Dolls Built to Include 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 24, 2026

Local Spotlight: Michael Judd, half a million in quiet aid and a rescued boat | Local News: $103K AI upgrade for KHSC's MRI • 2026 voter sticker • Brush and leaf pickup map changed | Community Champions: Vow renewal funds Kingston4Paws • Inclusive dolls funded by Awesome Kingston • Providence Care's kind heart | Events: Art After Dark • Royal Society Symposium • Amherst Island Drum Circle • Wheels on the Runway • My Dear Theo • Cataraqui Hike Challenge

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Community Champions

Sep 22, 2026

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16 min read

🔧 Plenty of People Know Michael Judd. Few Know How Much He Has Done for Kingston.

He helped change Ontario's loyalty points law, got a petition read into the Legislature, brought tonnes of donated food to Kingston and earned a Coronation Medal along the way.

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Newsletter

Sep 21, 2026

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13 min read

🦷 This Hygienist Makes House Calls 🦋 811 Species in a Day 🎣 Worms & Kindness 📚 WritersFest Is Almost Here 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 21, 2026

Local Spotlight: DoorStep Dental brings the hygienist to your door | Local News: The Compassion Clinic's sliding-scale care • The Isabel's 12th season • 811 species at the KFN BioBlitz | Community Champions: Kingston Food Help, a free food directory • $100K from Hyundai Hope on Wheels for kids' cancer research • Worms and kindness at Kingston Mills | Events: Kingston WritersFest is almost here • Fitness Frenzy • Pay Attention! at the Tett • Hannibal Buress • Chili Fest • The Grey Fox • and more

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Local Business

🦷 When Getting There Is the Hard Part: Mobile Dental Hygiene Across Kingston with DoorStep Dental

Sep 18, 2026

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8 min read

🦷 When Getting There Is the Hard Part: Mobile Dental Hygiene Across Kingston with DoorStep Dental

Registered Dental Hygienists Ainy Kamil and Adam Beganyi pack a full hygiene appointment into a couple of cases and set it up wherever you are.

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Newsletter

Sep 17, 2026

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11 min read

📣 Chris Logstrup: Building Power for Students 💧 Queen's Goes Blue ✈️ Snowbirds' Farewell ♿ Rate Your Transit 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 17, 2026

Local Spotlight: Chris Logstrup knocked on doors with his grandfather, now he's running for LDSB trustee | Local News: Rate Kingston Transit's accessibility • Accessibility Awards nominations • Snowbirds' farewell flyover | Community Champions: Queen's goes Blue • Doors of Compassion sheltered 108 • Erin Clow's election pages for kids | Events: Kingston Fall Fair • Home Energy Savings • Women in Business • L&A Museum Vintage Market • KCHC Scarecrow Fest • Breast Cancer Walk • Intercultural Fest

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Spotlight

Sep 16, 2026

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8 min read

🚪 Chris Logstrup Learned to Knock on Doors With His Grandfather. Now He's Running for School Board Trustee.

He knocked on his first doors as a kid in Brockville, beside his grandfather. Now he is asking Kingston to put a student's view on the school board.

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Newsletter

⛳ Norm's Golf & Social 🌽 Readers' Corn Results 🩺 A 30-Second Cancer Find 🏃 Island Terry Fox Run 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 14, 2026

Sep 14, 2026

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13 min read

⛳ Norm's Golf & Social 🌽 Readers' Corn Results 🩺 A 30-Second Cancer Find 🏃 Island Terry Fox Run 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 14, 2026

Local Spotlight: Norm's Golf & Social, named for Rich Wall's grandfather | Corn Poll: readers picked their favorite local sweet corn growers | Local News: KHSC finds early throat cancer in 30 seconds • 315 Queen Mary Road opens as shared care • a children's gallery at the health museum | Community Champions: Eva Acs's quiet legacy • 20 women up for the Pinnacle Award • Habitat keys on Wilson St | Events: Norm's charity golf • Terry Fox on Howe Island • Hike for Hospice • KFPL improv and gardening • cave diver Jill Heinerth • dark matter • Food Sustains Us

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Spotlight Feature

⛳ Good Times, Year Round: Norm's Golf & Social in Kingston

Sep 12, 2026

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7 min read

⛳ Good Times, Year Round: Norm's Golf & Social in Kingston

Four simulator bays, cornhole on an indoor lawn, and a room full of people who came for the company. Leagues, live music, parties and a growing list of local fundraisers. Rich Wall named it for his grandfather.

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Newsletter

Sep 10, 2026

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9 min read

🍺 Why the Wasps Are Everywhere 🐝 Bee Hives at the Cataraqui Centre 🏆 Kingston’s 2026 40 Under 40 🚒 Volunteer Firefighters Wanted 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 10, 2026

Out of a job and out of sugar, which is why the yellowjackets are on your patio table | Local News: Fire & Rescue wants volunteer firefighters, bee hives at the Cataraqui Centre, fifty Septembers of Vista free to read | Community Champions: the 2026 40 Under 40 is out, five KHSC volunteers honoured, a Rona fundraiser backs Almost Home and the Food Bank | Events: Norm’s charity golf, a free studio tour weekend, Party on the Pier, John Burge at the Isabel, Robert Cumming signs Epic & Kimura

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Newsletter

Sep 7, 2026

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9 min read

📖 Danni Maxwell's Book Lift Me Up 🗳️ Meet Candidates 💙 52 Years of Nursing 🎸 RoadTrip Weekend 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 7, 2026

Local Spotlight: Kingston author Danni Maxwell's Lift Me Up, out September 17 | Local News: An all-candidates meeting in every district before October 26 • Cataraqui lakes start their fall drawdown • 3.2 million minutes of summer reading | Community Champions: Linda Galarneau retires after 52 years of nursing • Stephen Lee Naish publishes three books in a year | Events: Norm's charity golf • Jumpstart playground block party • RoadTrip's free street party and ticketed main stage • Mayoral meeting

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Spotlight

📖 Everyone Deserves to See Themselves in a Book. So Danni Maxwell Keeps Writing Them

Sep 5, 2026

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7 min read

📖 Everyone Deserves to See Themselves in a Book. So Danni Maxwell Keeps Writing Them

Lift Me Up, out September 17, is the first book Danni Maxwell has published entirely on her own terms.

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Newsletter

Sep 3, 2026

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10 min read

🌮 Adelitaz Mexican Food: A Taste of Home 🚑 Offload Times Cut 44% 🎨 Stevie's Colouring Books 🏆 Two IEDC Awards 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 3, 2026

Local Spotlight: Aidee Rebollo cooks her Zacatecas family's recipes in Kingston | Local News: Ambulance offload times down 44% • A donor gift brings laser prostate surgery to KHSC • The Whig-Standard relaunches with a 1990s masthead | Community Champions: The Stevie Wonderful colouring books • Kingston Economic Development takes IEDC gold • Eva Acs's quiet legacy | Events: Norm's first charity golf tournament • Big Paws in the Basin • I Hate Hamlet dress rehearsal • Later Life Learning begins

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Spotlight

🌽 Homesick for Mexico, she cooked her way back: Aidee Rebollo and Adelitaz Mexican Food

Sep 1, 2026

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8 min read

🌽 Homesick for Mexico, she cooked her way back: Aidee Rebollo and Adelitaz Mexican Food

Aidee Rebollo missed the food she grew up with in Zacatecas, so she started cooking it here. Now she runs Adelitaz Mexican Food full time.

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Newsletter

🎸 960 Days, Then Bryan Adams 🎪 Horror Circus at the Mall 🏠 22% More Apartments ⚾ Colts at the World Series 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 31, 2026

Aug 31, 2026

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9 min read

🎸 960 Days, Then Bryan Adams 🎪 Horror Circus at the Mall 🏠 22% More Apartments ⚾ Colts at the World Series 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 31, 2026

Sunflower heads bowed and heavy with seed, at Forman Farms | Local News: 22% more apartments available than a year ago • $3M for Napanee's hospital • 18 more acres saved at Lost Bay | Community Champions: A first ever concert, 960 days into critical care • Kingston Colts back at the World Series • Power of Hope reaches $945,000 | Events: Paranormal Cirque • Nostalgic Sound Big Band • Business Basics with Kingston Economic Development • An ethicist on MAID • Symphony Book Fair

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🔦 October 15, 2026 👋 "Wave to Everybody, Joyce": Joyce MacLeod-Kane's Road to the Ballot 🏒 Centre 70 Reopens 🍲 15,000 Meals on the Street 🗓️ Events & More

👋 "Wave to Everybody, Joyce": How a Reeve's Daughter Found Her Way to the Ballot

🔦 Tracey Graves: Volunteer, Fundraiser, Force of Nature | Feature Spotlight

🔦 October 12, 2026 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving 🦁 Lionhearts $70K Match 🗳️ Online Voting Opens 🎖️ Kingston's New Army Role 🗓️ Events & More

🔦 October 8, 2026 🍂 Fall Trails at Frontenac Park ⛴️ Horne's Ferry Could Return 🏥 HART Hub Opens 📸 Rideau Heights Photo Contest 🗓️ Events & More

🔦 October 5, 2026 🎓 Brandon Tozzo Came for School, Stayed for Kingston 📚 A $25M Gift for Queen's Students 🤿 Divers Haul 29 Tires From the Lake 🗓️ Events & More

🎓 Brandon Tozzo Came for School, Stayed for Kingston and the City Got a Councillor

🔦 October 1, 2026 🏠 Kevin Smith, From a Tent to the Housing Committee 🧺 A Market for the Prison for Women 🏃 Howe Island Runs for Terry Fox 🗓️ Events & More

🏠 From a Tent in November to Kingston's Housing Committee and a Council Run: Kevin Smith

🔦 September 28, 2026 🪶 LodgePole Arts Alliance Dreams Big at Lemoine 📚 WritersFest Week 🧡 Truth and Reconciliation Day 🌙 Islamic History Month 🗓️ Events & More

🪶 Who Is LodgePole Arts Alliance? The Indigenous Arts Charity Dreaming Big at Lemoine Point

🔧 Michael Judd: Kingston's Ultra Advocate 🏥 $103K MRI Upgrade 🍂 Brush Pickup Map Changed 🧸 Dolls Built to Include 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 24, 2026

🔧 Plenty of People Know Michael Judd. Few Know How Much He Has Done for Kingston.

🦷 This Hygienist Makes House Calls 🦋 811 Species in a Day 🎣 Worms & Kindness 📚 WritersFest Is Almost Here 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 21, 2026

🦷 When Getting There Is the Hard Part: Mobile Dental Hygiene Across Kingston with DoorStep Dental

📣 Chris Logstrup: Building Power for Students 💧 Queen's Goes Blue ✈️ Snowbirds' Farewell ♿ Rate Your Transit 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 17, 2026

🚪 Chris Logstrup Learned to Knock on Doors With His Grandfather. Now He's Running for School Board Trustee.

⛳ Norm's Golf & Social 🌽 Readers' Corn Results 🩺 A 30-Second Cancer Find 🏃 Island Terry Fox Run 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 14, 2026

⛳ Good Times, Year Round: Norm's Golf & Social in Kingston

🍺 Why the Wasps Are Everywhere 🐝 Bee Hives at the Cataraqui Centre 🏆 Kingston’s 2026 40 Under 40 🚒 Volunteer Firefighters Wanted 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 10, 2026

📖 Danni Maxwell's Book Lift Me Up 🗳️ Meet Candidates 💙 52 Years of Nursing 🎸 RoadTrip Weekend 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 7, 2026

📖 Everyone Deserves to See Themselves in a Book. So Danni Maxwell Keeps Writing Them

🌮 Adelitaz Mexican Food: A Taste of Home 🚑 Offload Times Cut 44% 🎨 Stevie's Colouring Books 🏆 Two IEDC Awards 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 3, 2026

🌽 Homesick for Mexico, she cooked her way back: Aidee Rebollo and Adelitaz Mexican Food

🎸 960 Days, Then Bryan Adams 🎪 Horror Circus at the Mall 🏠 22% More Apartments ⚾ Colts at the World Series 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 31, 2026

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