# Kingston Spotlight

> Kingston arera fun and neat things to do, spotlights on local businesses and people and community causes, a bit of news.

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## Posts
- [⛳ Norm's Golf & Social 🌽 Readers' Corn Results 🩺 A 30-Second Cancer Find 🏃 Island Terry Fox Run 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 14, 2026](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/2026-09-14-norms-golf-social-kingston-khsc-throat-cancer-pinnacle-award-terry-fox): 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
- [⛳ Good Times, Year Round: Norm's Golf & Social in Kingston](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/norms-golf-social-kingston-indoor-golf): 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.
- [🍺 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](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/2026-09-10-kingston-wasps-cataraqui-centre-bee-hives-40-under-40-volunteer-firefighters): 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
- [📖 Danni Maxwell's Book Lift Me Up 🗳️ Meet Candidates 💙 52 Years of Nursing 🎸 RoadTrip Weekend 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 7, 2026](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/2026-09-07-danni-maxwell-book-lift-me-up-kingston-all-candidates-roadtrip-festival): 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
- [📖 Everyone Deserves to See Themselves in a Book. So Danni Maxwell Keeps Writing Them](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/danni-maxwell-lift-me-up-kingston-author): Lift Me Up, out September 17, is the first book Danni Maxwell has published entirely on her own terms.
- [🌮 Adelitaz Mexican Food: A Taste of Home 🚑 Offload Times Cut 44% 🎨 Stevie's Colouring Books 🏆 Two IEDC Awards 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 3, 2026](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/2026-09-03-adelitaz-mexican-food-kingston-ambulance-offload-times-iedc-awards): 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
- [🌽 Homesick for Mexico, she cooked her way back: Aidee Rebollo and Adelitaz Mexican Food](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/adelitaz-mexican-food-kingston): 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.
- [🎸 960 Days, Then Bryan Adams 🎪 Horror Circus at the Mall 🏠 22% More Apartments ⚾ Colts at the World Series 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 31, 2026](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/2026-08-31-sunflowers-bryan-adams-khsc-paranormal-cirque-kingston-apartments): 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
- [🌽 Whose Sweet Corn Is Best? 🏛️ Opa on Johnson Street 🎓 Queen's Move-In Weekend 🎡 Second Out of Sixty 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 27, 2026](https://kingstonspotlight.ca/p/2026-08-27-kingston-sweet-corn-guide-greek-fest-queens-move-in): Our 2026 Sweet Corn Guide is live and the ballot is open | Local News: Greek Fest filled the food bank • the Gord Downie Pier closes nightly through Queen's move-in weekend • have your say on housing | Community Champions: a new executive director at The Food Sharing Project • a $14,500 grant grew Bloom's garden program • Jared Hunter of Inverary finished second out of 60 at the Ex | Events: PA Day programming • Limestone City Car Classic • United Way kick-off • Boodle Theatre's Cymbeline