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

Jul 9, 2026

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8 min read

🌞 Kingston's Quietest Patios 🩺 18-Minute Stroke Care 🎩 Gord Downie's Hat 🛶 Women Join Yakathon 📅 Events 🔦 July 9, 2026

Patio season is here, with our guide to the area’s quietest ones | Local News: Kingston’s 18-minute stroke care leads Ontario • Performance Plants’ climate-proof canola • $350K city fund for community safety | Community Champions: Awesome Kingston backs the Compton Park music fest • First women paddle the 200km Yakathon • Gord Downie’s hat up for auction | Events: Nicci Rea at Confederation Park • S’more Stories in Sydenham • Loyalist’s new aquatic centre opens • Delta Fair turns 196

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Newsletter

Jul 6, 2026

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9 min read

💜 Purple Clematis in Bloom 🩺 Doctor Waitlist Cleared 🏥 $392,776 Gift 🍺 $7,100 Beer Tent | 🔦 July 6, 2026

Cover: purple Jackmanii clematis, in bloom across Kingston | Local News: primary-care waitlist cleared, thousands get a doctor • NeeDoh squishy craze at The Rocking Horse • a Cape Vincent marina rebuild | Champions: Rotary beer tent raised $7,100 at the FIFA party • KGH Auxiliary gives KHSC $392,776 for NICU ventilators • Micaela Schmidt wins the Kevin Dunbar scholarship | Events: Injury Prevention Day • Napanee Block Party • Rock for Ryandale • a U16 schnitzel dinner • Mending Ways at the Tett

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Newsletter

Jul 2, 2026

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8 min read

🔦 How Leah Riddell's SignAble Vi5ion Is Making Kingston More Inclusive, Plus a Tragically Hip Ice Cream & Three New Order of Canada Members | July 2, 2026

Leah Riddell builds a more inclusive Kingston through sign language | Local News: Coun. McLaren builds the city its own app • Tsi Thonwatihsnye's Elder Care Home opens in Tyendinaga • the Tragically Chip, a Hip ice cream | Community Champions: Three Kingstonians join the Order of Canada • nine Limestone grads land scholarships • a town saves a Selby student's grad | Events: Wilburys at The Spire • Teddy Bear Hospital at KFPL • Miss Emily's In the Key of Blue • Aquaculture at Great Lakes Museum

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Local Business

🤟 Inclusion That Actually Works: How Leah Riddell Built SignAble Vi5ion from the Inside Out

Jul 1, 2026

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13 min read

🤟 Inclusion That Actually Works: How Leah Riddell Built SignAble Vi5ion from the Inside Out

A Kingston business that's moving organizations from checkbox inclusion to communication that actually holds up when it counts, built and run by someone who has lived every barrier she teaches others to remove.

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Newsletter

Jun 29, 2026

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9 min read

🔦 Maple Leaf On: Canada Day Takes Over Kingston, Plus 35,000 Pounds of Pasta and a Heart-Surgery First | June 29, 2026

Maple leaf on, Kingston, Canada Day is this week | Local News: a heart-surgery first at KHSC • Highway 401 speeds up to 110 | Community Champions: 35,000 lbs of Barilla pasta for the food bank • Lionhearts named Non-Profit of the Year • 7 Civic Award volunteers • Seniors Association turns 50 | Events: Canada Day across the region • Exploration Days • Macpherson House turns 200 • Eh! Game Expo • Buskers Rendezvous

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Newsletter

Jun 25, 2026

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6 min read

🔦 Local Strawberries! Kingston Eyes Two NHL-Sized Rinks, Alto's High-Speed Rail Hub, and Parking Fines Feed 110 Families | June 25, 2026

Kingston's 2026 strawberry season has finally arrived 🍓 Local News: Memorial Centre could get two NHL-sized rinks • Alto eyes Kingston as a high-speed rail hub | Community Champions: KSS grad earns a full Alabama scholarship • parking fines fund 110 families with fresh lettuce | Events: Startup Open Mic • Zoo Crew at KFPL • Lavender Crown Workshop • Summerfest Regatta • Summer Evening in the Islands

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Newsletter

Jun 22, 2026

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6 min read

🔦 Kingston's Music Story Gets Its Own Home at City Hall, Plus Youth Innovators, a Speed Record, and More | June 22, 2026

Kingston boating season is in full swing | Local News: A free year-long music exhibit opens at City Hall • NEO Clinic expands to a bigger home on Innovation Drive | Community Champions: Kingston youth pitch big at the Jr. Mayor's Innovation Challenge • Chantelle Lasher ships out with the Coast Guard • Wyatt Lee breaks a 31-year sprint record at the 42nd Amateur Sports Awards | Events: Neurodivergent Adults Group (today!) • Teen Art Night • Remembering by the River • Exploring Entrepreneurship • Puppies & Jazz

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Newsletter

Jun 18, 2026

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7 min read

🔦 Happy Father's Day, Kingston. Plus: KHSC Makes History + Events Supporting Families Fighting Brain Tumours | June 18, 2026

Happy Father's Day to Kingston's dads | Local News: KHSC sees tumour cells in real time, a Canadian first • Astronomer Attilla Danko's telescope finds a home at L&A Dark Sky | Community Champions: Two Kingston athletes sweep gold in Spain • BGC launches TruePhonics | Events: Dadapalooza • Giveaway Day • Daddy & Me Golf Tourney • Come Play by the Lake • Brain Tumour Walk • Dale Sands Memorial Game

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Newsletter

Jun 17, 2026

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3 min read

🔦 This week, Kingston rallies around one kid and one cause | June 17, 2026

A 12-year-old brain tumour survivor, the football club that made him captain, and three ways for Kingston to show up this week, June 18 to 21.

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Spotlight Feature

Way More Than a Sports Team: Inside the Kingston Grenadiers

Jun 16, 2026

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8 min read

Way More Than a Sports Team: Inside the Kingston Grenadiers

A Kingston youth football club that counts success in scholarships, second families, volunteer hours, and a stand against brain tumours.

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Spotlight Feature

Jackson Did the Hard Part. Now Kingston Gets to Show Up.

Jun 16, 2026

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6 min read

Jackson Did the Hard Part. Now Kingston Gets to Show Up.

A 12-year-old survivor, a SuperKid touchdown, and a city invited, June 21.

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Newsletter

Jun 15, 2026

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8 min read

🔦 Pride, Pints, and a Picture-Perfect Day From Fort Henry. Plus a 15-Year-Old Sailing Champion and a Mayor for a Day | June 15, 2026

A perfect summer day from Fort Henry at the YGK Craft Beerfest on Pride day | Local News: Free sport gear in 30 Kingston parks • One Grade 5 student can be Mayor for a Day | Community Champions: Will Keilty, 15, first Canadian to win an Optimist sailing title • Great Lakes Museum named Ontario's top small museum • Police Community Volunteers mark 30 years | Events: Walter Fenlon's celebration of life • National Indigenous Peoples Day • Movies in the Square • Artfest • Epilepsy fire-truck pull

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Newsletter

Jun 11, 2026

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8 min read

🔦 LCBO's Ben Walmsley Turns Every Tasting Into a Story. Also: $1.25M for Kingston's ER and Soccer Gold | June 11, 2026

LCBO's Ben Walmsley turns every tasting into a story, and he sat down with us | Stephen Sorensen donates $1.25M to Kingston's ER, plus a Climate Summit tour through two remarkable gardens | Liam Desre wins Canada's top science prize for his dark energy theory, 120 nurses mark 130 years of KGH Nurses' Alumnae, and Holy Cross takes KASSAA gold | YGK Craft Beer Fest at Fort Henry June 13, Brain Tumour Walk with SuperKid Jackson Giddy June 21, plus Ironwood Fantasy Fair at The Spire in August

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Local Business

🍸 History in a Glass: Kingston LCBO’s Ben Walmsley Turns Every Tasting Into a Story You Won't Forget

Jun 10, 2026

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9 min read

🍸 History in a Glass: Kingston LCBO’s Ben Walmsley Turns Every Tasting Into a Story You Won't Forget

Every Friday and Saturday, the Midland Avenue LCBO pours free premium wine and spirits tastings. Ben Walmsley is a Kingston-born history nerd who can turn every sip into a story worth hearing.

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Newsletter

Jun 8, 2026

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8 min read

🔦 Free AC for Kingston Seniors. Plus the Sisters of Providence Give Away History, Exercise Beats Cancer + Events | June 8, 2026

Free A/C units for low-income Kingston seniors, apply by June 10, and we just took Canada's #1 small-city startup crown for the 7th year straight | The Sisters of Providence gift historic Providence Manor for housing, a Queen's and KHSC study shows exercise fights colon cancer and cuts costs, and Lunch by George moves to St. Lawrence College | Market season is here, plus the Diversity Dinner, the first Mabuhay Festival, the Sandra Davison golf classic, free Rideau lockage, and Makers at the Mill

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Newsletter

Jun 4, 2026

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7 min read

🔦 The Blackout Was Worth It for the Stars. Plus Smile Cookies, School Food Heroes, and 19 Years of Play It Again Sports | June 4, 2026

Kingston went dark on May 16 and the stars came out — here's the photo to prove it | Linda and Warren Cavalier are retiring after 19 years at Play It Again Sports, and Kingston wants your vote on the city's best new spaces | A documentary about school food got a standing ovation, KHSC named its Exceptional Healers, and Smile Cookies raised a Kingston-record $232,286 for an inclusive playground | Day of Caring Friday, Red Canoefest and Italia Day Saturday and Sunday, Kingston Pride June 13, Skeleton Park June 19–21, and Princess Street Promenade June 20

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Newsletter

Jun 1, 2026

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7 min read

🔦 Why So Many Lilacs in Kingston? Plus Canada's First Robot-Built Neighbourhood and More | June 1, 2026

Why Kingston has so many lilacs, and they inspired Lucy DeSousa to paint them | Canada built its first robotic neighbourhood in Gananoque, and Kingston moves to protect a historic Pen-era house | Threads of Hope has quietly served 1,000 Kingstonians for five years, City Hall got hearing loops, and Ryandale wins the Awesome Kingston microgrant | Library reopening, butterfly release, Cantabile at the Isabel, Very Heaven, carwash for Martha's Table, waterfront giveaway closing June 3

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Spotlight Feature

May 31, 2026

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5 min read

🌸💜 Why So Many Lilacs in the Kingston Area? (And the Best Spots)

Those massive lilac groves you see (and smell) all over the Kingston area didn't grow wild. Here's the surprisingly good story behind them, what early settlers used them for, and the best spots to find them.

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Newsletter

May 28, 2026

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6 min read

🔦 He Pulled Off a Miracle in Year One. Line Spike Year Two Is Here | Plus 2 News, 3 Community Wins, 5 Events | May 28, 2026

Line Spike Frontenac is back for Year Two: 18 all-Canadian acts, a natural amphitheatre in Harrowsmith, and a story worth reading | Kingston's $9M automotive tech hub just launched, and council backs an indoor sports dome | Limestone students swept Skills Ontario medals, a Kingston musician opened a pay-less grocery store, and OLS built an off-grid radio network for unhoused residents | Keewatin, Napanee Pride, Ten Thousand Villages, Sydenham Street Commons, and Katarokwi all open this weekend

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Local Business

May 27, 2026

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8 min read

🎸 Line Spike Frontenac 2026: The Kingston-Area Music Festival That Refuses to Be Stopped

18 Canadian acts, a hay field turned concert grounds in Harrowsmith, and a promoter who bet everything on the power of positivity. June 27-28 2026: the early chapters of what just might become Canada's most beloved music festival.

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Newsletter

May 25, 2026

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5 min read

🔦 Turtles Are Nesting. 8,500 Kingstonians Could Be Getting a Family Doctor + More | May 25, 2026

A wild turkey showed up with full plumage and zero chill | 8,500 Kingstonians could soon have a family doctor, and Kingston's 911 just went fully digital | Keith and Dev are road-tripping Canada for Home Hardware, and Kingston's new Business Person of the Year works in AI | Every dollar from the Lviv Ukraine Folklore Festival goes directly to Ukraine. Kingston showing up matters more than you think. Plus Turtle Awareness Day, Kilometres for Kids, and a teachers' charity golf tournament

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Newsletter

May 21, 2026

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7 min read

🔦 The Frogs Are Back. So Is More Worth Knowing About Kingston. | May 21, 2026

Spring peepers are singing across the Kingston area | Ontario's biggest battery just went live in Napanee, accountability questions and all, and asparagus season is officially on | Walter Fenlon remembered at 93, and CFKA's spring grants put $438K into 31 local organizations | Spring Reverb opens this week with Bedouin Soundclash, The Dirty Nil, and Thanya Iyer, plus a shipping container full of art in Rideau Heights.

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Newsletter

May 18, 2026

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7 min read

🔦 RMC's 150th, Forever Hip, and a Kingston Business That Made a Mom Cry (The Good Kind) | May 18, 2026

The trilliums are now in their glorious peak.Two Kingston businesses that made a Napanee mom cry (the good kind), the first RMC class to march through the arch in its 150th year, a Tragically Hip 10th anniversary celebration just announced, a cop who just finished 1,000km for autism, $500K to train the people who look after us, and a BPD coach who helps the families nobody remembers to help.Plus: one last week under Cirque Mondial's big top, the Kingston Business Awards on Thursday, Art After Dark at 25+ venues on Friday, a free wellness walk Saturday, Summer Kickoff in South Frontenac, and the Almost Home Charity Gala on May 29.

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Newsletter

May 14, 2026

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5 min read

🔦 He Won His 9th Title. Plus Baby Lambs, a Mystery Donor & More Kingston Goodies | May 14, 2026

A Kingston bill to honour organ donors by name, our town crier just won his ninth provincial title, and an anonymous gift that proves cancer treatment can bring out the best in people.Plus: a library coming back to life, baby lambs to snuggle on Amherst Island, free pet nail trims, native plants for your garden, and an immersive bee exhibition that's buzzing all summer.Cover photo from Kingstonist, 2018

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May 11, 2026

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5 min read

🔦 The Midges Are Doing Their Thing Again: Meanwhile, Kingston's Got Pickleball Champions, a Hidden Fort, Local Heroes and a Summer to Look Forward To | May 11, 2026

The midges are back and they brought company. Plus: a pickleball club built from scratch, Kingston's hidden fort finally revealed, community heroes honoured, a HART Hub update, and your say on the city's mobility plan. And for your calendar: Danish folk in a living room, summer events galore, young athletes celebrated, and a carnival of song.

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🌞 Kingston's Quietest Patios 🩺 18-Minute Stroke Care 🎩 Gord Downie's Hat 🛶 Women Join Yakathon 📅 Events 🔦 July 9, 2026

💜 Purple Clematis in Bloom 🩺 Doctor Waitlist Cleared 🏥 $392,776 Gift 🍺 $7,100 Beer Tent | 🔦 July 6, 2026

🔦 How Leah Riddell's SignAble Vi5ion Is Making Kingston More Inclusive, Plus a Tragically Hip Ice Cream & Three New Order of Canada Members | July 2, 2026

🤟 Inclusion That Actually Works: How Leah Riddell Built SignAble Vi5ion from the Inside Out

🔦 Maple Leaf On: Canada Day Takes Over Kingston, Plus 35,000 Pounds of Pasta and a Heart-Surgery First | June 29, 2026

🔦 Local Strawberries! Kingston Eyes Two NHL-Sized Rinks, Alto's High-Speed Rail Hub, and Parking Fines Feed 110 Families | June 25, 2026

🔦 Kingston's Music Story Gets Its Own Home at City Hall, Plus Youth Innovators, a Speed Record, and More | June 22, 2026

🔦 Happy Father's Day, Kingston. Plus: KHSC Makes History + Events Supporting Families Fighting Brain Tumours | June 18, 2026

🔦 This week, Kingston rallies around one kid and one cause | June 17, 2026

Way More Than a Sports Team: Inside the Kingston Grenadiers

Jackson Did the Hard Part. Now Kingston Gets to Show Up.

🔦 Pride, Pints, and a Picture-Perfect Day From Fort Henry. Plus a 15-Year-Old Sailing Champion and a Mayor for a Day | June 15, 2026

🔦 LCBO's Ben Walmsley Turns Every Tasting Into a Story. Also: $1.25M for Kingston's ER and Soccer Gold | June 11, 2026

🍸 History in a Glass: Kingston LCBO’s Ben Walmsley Turns Every Tasting Into a Story You Won't Forget

🔦 Free AC for Kingston Seniors. Plus the Sisters of Providence Give Away History, Exercise Beats Cancer + Events | June 8, 2026

🔦 The Blackout Was Worth It for the Stars. Plus Smile Cookies, School Food Heroes, and 19 Years of Play It Again Sports | June 4, 2026

🔦 Why So Many Lilacs in Kingston? Plus Canada's First Robot-Built Neighbourhood and More | June 1, 2026

🌸💜 Why So Many Lilacs in the Kingston Area? (And the Best Spots)

🔦 He Pulled Off a Miracle in Year One. Line Spike Year Two Is Here | Plus 2 News, 3 Community Wins, 5 Events | May 28, 2026

🎸 Line Spike Frontenac 2026: The Kingston-Area Music Festival That Refuses to Be Stopped

🔦 Turtles Are Nesting. 8,500 Kingstonians Could Be Getting a Family Doctor + More | May 25, 2026

🔦 The Frogs Are Back. So Is More Worth Knowing About Kingston. | May 21, 2026

🔦 RMC's 150th, Forever Hip, and a Kingston Business That Made a Mom Cry (The Good Kind) | May 18, 2026

🔦 He Won His 9th Title. Plus Baby Lambs, a Mystery Donor & More Kingston Goodies | May 14, 2026

🔦 The Midges Are Doing Their Thing Again: Meanwhile, Kingston's Got Pickleball Champions, a Hidden Fort, Local Heroes and a Summer to Look Forward To | May 11, 2026

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