🔦 In This Issue of Kingston Spotlight
🌮 A Taste of Home: Aidee Rebollo and Adelitaz Mexican Food
🌽 Turns out Kingston shucks
🌽 How do you cook your corn?
🚑 Ambulance Offload Times at KHSC Are Down 44%
🔬 A Donor's Gift Brings Laser Prostate Surgery to Kingston
📰 The Whig-Standard Has a New Website, and a 1990s Masthead
🎨 Stevie's Colouring Books, Made by Her Family, for Kids Like Her
🏆 Kingston Economic Development Came Home With IEDC Gold and Silver
⛳ FEATURED EVENT: Norm's Annual Charity Golf Tournament | Amherstview Golf Course | September 18
💀 Domino Theatre's I Hate Hamlet, One Night Before Opening | The Seniors Centre | September 9
🦋 Five Fridays of Natural Wonders, Starting in the Frontenac Arch | The Seniors Centre | September 11
🐾 Big Paws in the Basin: Pledge Walk & Vendor Market | Confederation Basin | September 12
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🔦 Local Spotlight
🌮 A Taste of Home: Aidee Rebollo and Adelitaz Mexican Food
Aidee Rebollo, the owner of Adelitaz Mexican Food, serving under the papel picado at an outdoor event. Photo supplied by Adelitaz Mexican Food.
That is Aidee Rebollo, smiling under the paper banners at an outdoor event, and the food she cooks started as homesickness. She came to Kingston from Zacatecas for a college program, found the grocery stores full of food but missing the smell of her family's kitchen, and started cooking her way back to it. Adelitaz Mexican Food is what came out of that: tacos, sopes and huaraches, tortillas made in-house rather than bought in, and a food truck at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. What we did not expect was how much of it comes back to corn, including one dish she will not put on the menu (yet) and a small detail hiding in her logo. Read the full story.
🗳️ Reader Poll
🌽 Turns out Kingston shucks
We asked whether the husk stays on when you cook your corn. Husk off won, and it was not close. Husk on came second, and the rest of you said it depends on how you are cooking it.
You also told us how you do it, and no two of you agree on how long a microwave needs. Here are five, in your own words. Pick one and argue with the rest.
m*******@***********t (Husk on)
“Peel back husk until just a layer over the corn than set in microwave & cook for 4 minutes”
s*******@********m (Depends how I’m cooking it)
“Microwave husk on,3 minutes an ear. Boil or BBQ = no husk.”
l*****@**********a (Husk on)
“3 minutes in the microwave per side then cut off the end and squeeze it out no silk”
h***********@*******a (Husk off)
“Add a little bit of sugar to the boiling water it adds obviously sweetness to the corn.”
m*****@********m (Depends how I’m cooking it)
“If on the BBQ (Best way in my opinion) you soak them in water with the husk on for about 20 minutes. Put them on the BBQ and keep rolling them until the husk is burned all around. They are ready !!!”
🌽 How do you cook your corn?
Monday we asked whether the husk stays on. Now the bigger question.
Everyone has a way and everyone is certain theirs is the right one. Pick yours.
How do you cook your corn?
One week left to vote in the Sweet Corn Guide. Seventeen local growers, where to buy from each one, and what to do with the husks when you get home.
📰 Kingston & Area Local News
🚑 Ambulance Offload Times at KHSC Are Down 44%
Two Frontenac Paramedics ambulances at the hospital bay. Offload times fell about 44 per cent this spring after KHSC and Frontenac Paramedics redesigned the handover. Photo via KHSC.
Waiting in the back of an ambulance outside an emergency department helps nobody. Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Frontenac Paramedics rebuilt that handover together, and offload times dropped about 44 per cent this spring compared with the same stretch last year. Two changes did it: a dedicated offload nurse whose whole job is receiving arriving patients, and a fit-to-sit registration process that moves stable people off a stretcher and through to registration. The number that makes it impressive is the one underneath, though. The hospital was running near full capacity the whole time.
Read the full story at: Kingstonist
🔬 A Donor's Gift Brings Laser Prostate Surgery to Kingston
The laser enucleation equipment now in use at Kingston Health Sciences Centre, funded by a gift from John Jenah through the Paul B. Helliwell Foundation. Photo from uhkf.ca.
A gift from donor John Jenah, made through the Paul B. Helliwell Foundation, has brought laser enucleation to Kingston Health Sciences Centre. It is a minimally invasive way of treating an enlarged prostate, and until now it was performed at only two hospitals in Ontario. Kingston takes that to five. Dr. Michael Leveridge, quoted by University Hospitals Kingston Foundation, credits it with better outcomes for the men who have it. No dollar figure has been made public.
Read the full story at: University Hospitals Kingston Foundation
📰 The Whig-Standard Has a New Website, and a 1990s Masthead
Fireworks over Kingston City Hall, from the Whig-Standard's own files. Canada's oldest continuously published daily relaunched thewhig.com on Aug. 29, reviving a masthead style last used in the 1990s. Photo: The Kingston Whig-Standard.
Canada's oldest continuously published daily has rebuilt its home online. The Kingston Whig-Standard relaunched thewhig.com on August 29 with a refreshed look and its coverage reorganized, and it revived a masthead style it last used in the 1990s. That last part is our favourite bit: in a whole redesign, the one element chosen deliberately to look older than the thing it replaced.
One more thing, while we are here. We link to the Whig often, and that is not an accident. Real local reporting takes people, time and money, and plenty of towns this size have nobody left doing it at all. Kingston still does, the work is good, and we are glad of it. Go and have a wander round the new site, then tell us whether the nineties suit it.
Read the full story at: The Kingston Whig-Standard
🏆 Community Champions
🎨 Stevie's Colouring Books, Made by Her Family, for Kids Like Her
Wes, Zoe, Jason and Stevie Granville-Woods. After three-year-old Stevie's diagnosis this spring, the family created the Stevie Wonderful colouring book series, with proceeds to Kids Inclusive and the Canadian Cancer Society. Photo: Scott Granville.
Stevie Granville-Woods is three, and she was diagnosed with cancer this spring. Her family's answer was to make something for other kids: the Stevie Wonderful colouring book series, which gets small people thinking about eating well and moving about, aimed squarely at prevention. Wes, Zoe and Jason Granville-Woods built it around her. Proceeds go to Kids Inclusive and the Canadian Cancer Society, and you can pick the books up at Belleville City Market, at Kids Inclusive events, or through the One Thousand Trees bookstore.
Read the full story at: Kingstonist
🏆 Kingston Economic Development Came Home With IEDC Gold and Silver
Two awards, one organization, one very good week. Kingston Economic Development took gold and silver at the International Economic Development Council's 2026 Excellence in Economic Development Awards. The gold is for Succession Ontario, its business retention and expansion work; the silver for the Kingston Company Spotlight social media campaign, in digital media. Both were judged in the class for communities under 200,000 people, which is a lot of communities to come first in. Nathan Ohle, the IEDC's president and chief executive, is quoted in a release from Kingston Economic Development.
Read the full story at: Kingston Economic Development
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Social media has its own ideas about what you should see, and it gets it wrong a lot. Kingston Spotlight goes out twice a week, free, straight to your inbox, all Kingston and area. A few things that went by:
Eight people in purple tutus dragged a 37,000-pound fire truck 100 feet
One foot for each of the 1 in 100 people living with epilepsy. Epilepsy South Eastern Ontario has been teaching Kingston workplaces and schools what to do during a seizure since 1985, free of charge.
The Kingston shop putting Bluetooth in rotary phones
Jamie Emerton rebuilds jukeboxes, barber chairs and antique telephones so they run on modern networks. One customer's late mother's blender came back working so he could cook her recipes again.
The Island Queen sailed with an all-female crew for the first time in 50 years
Captain Gillian Morin at the helm, Rebecca Jane-Wilson as first mate, Emily Coulas on deck. In half a century, the company has had four women in navigation roles.
A golf tournament built out of grief has raised $66,000 for the food bank
Tracey Graves started the Mason Golf Classic after her husband Chris died. He spent nine years on the Partners in Mission board and lived by one rule: no one should ever go hungry.
🆕 New Events In and Around Kingston
⛳ FEATURED EVENT: Norm's Annual Charity Golf Tournament | Amherstview Golf Course | September 18
Norm's Golf & Social's poster for its charity golf tournament September 18, with the actual holes at Amherstview Golf Course. Poster supplied by Norm's Golf & Social.
Norm's Golf & Social is putting on a charity golf tournament, and the first thing to know is that the golf is not at Norm's. The holes are at Amherstview Golf Course. $150 per person covers 18 of them with a cart, transport there and back from Norm's on Gardiners Road, Tony's all-you-can-eat buffet, a SIM after-party and a $25 contribution receipt. It is Norm's first outdoor tournament, which is a decent milestone for a place built around indoor simulators, and they are branding it annual from the off. Registration is on Norm's own event page.
💀 Domino Theatre's I Hate Hamlet, One Night Before Opening | The Seniors Centre | September 9
Domino Theatre's I Hate Hamlet opens its dress rehearsal to the Seniors Centre on September 9. Poster from Domino Theatre.
Andrew Rally has a hit television career, a charming girlfriend and the chance to play Hamlet in New York's Shakespeare in the Park. He also hates Shakespeare. Then a seance summons the ghost of John Barrymore, and Paul Rudnick's comedy is off and running. Domino Theatre is opening its dress rehearsal, directed by Craig Norton, to the Seniors Association Kingston Region on September 9, the night before the run proper begins. Register with the Seniors Association or call 613.548.7810.
🦋 Five Fridays of Natural Wonders, Starting in the Frontenac Arch | The Seniors Centre | September 11
Later Life Learning opens its autumn series on September 11 with five Friday lectures on the natural history of this region. Stephen Lougheed starts in the Frontenac Arch, on biodiversity and ecological connectivity. Then Paul Martin on the burying beetles of the Kingston region, John Smol on Ontario lakes in a rapidly changing world, Gaye Beckwith of the Kingston Field Naturalists on the birds of the region through the seasons, and Herb Helmstaedt on the area's geology to close on October 9. Four of the five are Queen's academics. Each talk runs an hour, with coffee and questions after, and James Reid Funeral Home sponsors the series. Register with the Seniors Association Kingston Region or call 613.548.7810.
🐾 Big Paws in the Basin: Pledge Walk & Vendor Market | Confederation Basin | September 12
Big Paws in the Basin returns to Confederation Basin on September 12. Image from the Kingston Humane Society.
The Kingston Humane Society's annual pledge walk is back on September 12, down at Confederation Basin. Bring the dog, do the walk, then work your way round the vendor market that runs alongside it. Full details are on the event page.
📅 Events Calendar
What’s happening in and around Kingston over the next few days
⛳ FEATURED: Norm's Annual Charity Golf Tournament | Amherstview Golf Course | September 18
🚒 Kingston Fire and Rescue Volunteer Recruitment Info Sessions | Joyceville Fire Station | August 31 and September 3
💼 Business Basics, with Kingston Economic Development | KFPL Central Branch | September 3 | 🔦 Read our story
💬 Aging Well and Talking Cafe: MAID | Kingston East Community Centre | September 4 | 🔦 Read our story
🎤 Kickin' It Country with Neil Carter | Springer Market Square | September 4
🚗 12th Annual Limestone City Car Classic | Kingston Memorial Centre Fairgrounds | September 5 | 🔦 Read our story
🎪 Paranormal Cirque Nightmare | Cataraqui Centre parking lot | August 28 to September 6 | 🔦 Read our story
💀 Domino Theatre Dress Rehearsal: I Hate Hamlet | The Seniors Centre | September 9
🥞 United Way KFL&A Campaign Kick-Off Breakfast | DoubleTree by Hilton Kingston | September 10 | 🔦 Read our story
🎭 Boodle Theatre Company presents Cymbeline | St. Mark’s Lutheran Church | September 10 to 12 | 🔦 Read our story
🎓 University District Safety Initiative | University District | August 28 to September 13
📚 Kingston Symphony Volunteers' Book Fair | Symphony Warehouse | September 10 to 20 | 🔦 Read our story
🏊 Artillery Park Aquatic Centre Closed for Annual Maintenance | Artillery Park | September 8 to 20
💀 Domino Theatre: I Hate Hamlet | Domino Theatre, 52 Church St | September 10 to 26
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