🌏 Kingston Lawn Bowler Pierre Vanderhout Takes On the World Bowls Champion of Champions in Australia
🎸 FEATURED EVENT: Remembrance: Stories and Songs With Steve G | Museum of Lennox & Addington | November 10
🕊️ FEATURED EVENT: Remembrance Day Ceremonies in Loyalist Township, Including Amherst Island | November 11
🔨 FEATURED EVENT: 29th Annual Rotary Community Auction, Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston | to November 22
🗝️ FEATURED EVENT: Daring to Share Elder Care Forum: Staffing | Keller Williams Inspire Realty | November 17
It’s gotten too long to include here in the summary! Click Events Calendar to see our list for the next few days.
🖼️ The Cover
🎖️ Lest We Forget
This week we pause to remember. Here are some of the places we found that you can join in on Wednesday, November 11.
Macdonald Park: the City’s Civic Service of Remembrance at the Cross of Sacrifice, near Murney Tower (see New Events)
City Park: the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery ceremony at the RCHA Memorial, Barrie and King (see New Events)
Barriefield: the Canadian Joint Response Headquarters ceremony at the Rock Garden Park Cenotaph, 239 James St.
CFB Kingston: ceremonies at the RCEME Memorial at McNaughton Gate, 1 Princess Mary Ave., and the Vimy Gate War Memorial, 9 Byng Ave.
Navy Memorial Park, 61 Ontario St.: the HMCS Cataraqui Association ceremony
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 560, 734 Montreal St.: ceremony and lunch
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 631, 4034 Bath Rd.: ceremony
Loyalist Township: the Wilton Cenotaph (with a vintage airplane fly-by), Legion Branch 623 in Bath, and Amherst Island Public School in Stella (see New Events)
Before the day, Steve G shares Remembrance: Stories and Songs at the Museum of Lennox & Addington on Tuesday (see New Events), 23 veteran banners line Concession Street in Tamworth (see Local News), and the Knifty Knitters’ wall of 500 poppies hangs at Loyalist Golf and Country Club in Bath (see Community Champions).
Other ways to remember: keep two minutes of silence at the eleventh hour, visit the National Memorial to the Fallen in Macdonald Park or the refreshed Veterans Commemorative Crosswalks at Lower Union and Ontario streets, and pick up a poppy or wreath from the Legion. City Hall will glow red and white for the day. The list can change, so check the City of Kingston’s full list.
🔦 Local Spotlight
🫓 Six Years in the Making: Spicebros Brings Bowls, Wraps and Comfort Food to Gardiners Road
It took Devinder Singh and Harish Mahey six years to open Spicebros in Kingston. First came COVID, then a long hunt for the right space. One is an industrial mechanic who had never worked in food. The other worked at nearly every Subway in town. Today they serve bowls, wraps, burgers, tacos and poutine with Indian-inspired flavours, and the naan is pressed and baked in about two minutes, right in front of you. Despite the name, the base is mild and the heat is up to you, with a taste on the side if you're not sure. They also want to cook fresh food for local events and groups, not just hand over leftovers. We sat down with them the day before their grand opening, and found out what the owners order on a shift. Read the full story.
📰 Kingston & Area Local News
🪖 Tamworth Legion Hangs 23 Banners Honouring Local Veterans
Take a drive down Concession Street in Tamworth this month and you’ll be looking into the faces of 23 local veterans. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 458 teamed up with designer Sean Beek of Beek Designs on a set of banners, each honouring a local veteran who served in the First World War, the Second World War or Korea, the Napanee Beaver reports. Nineteen of them are from Tamworth and four are from Newburgh. The banners went up in mid-October and stay up through Remembrance Day, so there’s still time to go and say thank you.
Read the full story at: Napanee Beaver
🎬 Netflix Series Films in Springer Market Square, With a Temporary Ice Rink
Lights, camera, Kingston. Toronto-based WildBrain is filming a Netflix series project in Springer Market Square on Friday, November 13, with set-up and teardown running November 7 to 14. Yes, there’s an ice rink going in. No, you can’t skate on it: it’s part of the set, and the area will be secured. Slush Puppie Place is booked for filming November 9 to 13 too, so parking near both will be tight and transit is your friend. The Kingston Public Market carries on as usual and no road closures are expected. Questions go to the Kingston Film Office at [email protected].
Read the full story at: City of Kingston
🏡 Ryandale Unveils a Five-Year Plan to Help More People Move From Homelessness to Home
Moving from a shelter bed to a lease with your own name on it is a big step, and Ryandale Transitional Housing wants to help more people take it. Ryandale, which runs five sober transitional homes with room for 36 residents, unveiled its 2026 to 2031 plan on Friday, October 30 at Providence Village. Board chair Paul Smith told the Whig-Standard that talks with residents, alumni and partners found “Ryandale is trusted and valued.” Operations director Patti Ridlon told the Whig that 10 residents, about a third, are signing leases and moving into apartments of their own by mid-November. Ryandale’s offices are moving into Providence Village’s west wing this month too, Kingstonist reports.
Read the full story at: Kingston Whig-Standard
🍂 Leaf Collection Is Rolling Through Kingston: Paper Bags Only, Out by 8 a.m. Monday
Those leaves you raked won’t haul themselves away, but the City of Kingston will. (Tip: consider mowing over the leaves and leaving them on your lawn to feed the soil).
Leaf collection started the week of October 26 and is working its way through the city by collection week, so check yours at CityofKingston.ca/Collection. Use paper yard-waste bags or rigid containers, keep each one under 20 kg, and have them at the curb by 8 a.m. on the Monday of your collection week. Plastic bags get left behind. And keep the branches separate: brush isn’t picked up during leaf weeks, and leaves aren’t picked up during brush weeks.
Read the full story at: City of Kingston
🚸 City of Kingston Is Hiring School Crossing Guards
The City of Kingston calls it “the most rewarding retirement plan” in a recent Facebook post, and it has a point. The City is hiring school crossing guards. About 40 guards keep kids safe at 33 crossings across the city, and the City is looking for both regular and relief guards. The job is unionized with CUPE Local 109 and pays for 3.5 hours a day, plus 13 per cent in lieu of benefits, with paid holidays and PA days. There’s no closing date posted, so if it sounds like you, don’t wait.
Read the full story at: City of Kingston
🏆 Community Champions
🧶 Bath’s Knifty Knitters Make a Wall of 500 Poppies for Veterans
Walk into Loyalist Golf and Country Club in Bath this month and you’ll be greeted by a wall of more than 500 knitted and crocheted poppies. The Knifty Knitters spent their summer making it to honour veterans and those still serving, Bonnie Belanger of the group told the Napanee Beaver. Look closely and you’ll spot a few purple poppies tucked in among the red, for the animals that served with the Allies. The group started as a social get-together at the golf club and now donates and sells what it makes to raise money for local charities. Got spare wool? The Beaver says donations can go to [email protected].
Read the full story at: Napanee Beaver
🍺 After 45 Years, Ed and Sheena Retire From The Rose and Crown, and Friends Christina and Jeff Keep It Going
Last call came with a lot of love. After 45 years, Halloween was Ed and Sheena’s last day as owners of The Rose and Crown at Princess and Bayridge, 98.3 FLY FM shared in a Facebook post. The good news for regulars is that the pub didn’t go to strangers. Ed and Sheena sold it to their friends Christina and Jeff, who are keeping it going with the same staff, FLY FM says. So the faces behind the bar stay the same. Here’s to 45 years, and to the next chapter.
Read the full story at: 98.3 FLY FM on Facebook
🏒 The Napanee Kid Who Trained Gavin McKenna
Before Gavin McKenna went first overall to the Toronto Maple Leafs in this past summer’s NHL Draft, he was an eight-year-old in Whitehorse working out with a coach from Napanee. Ben McPherson, a Napanee native, is co-owner and strength and conditioning coach at Northern Strength Academy in Whitehorse, Yukon, and he started training McKenna about 10 years ago, the Napanee Beaver reports. That’s a decade of work behind hockey’s newest big name, and Napanee gets a little piece of the credit.
Read the full story at: Napanee Beaver
🎨 Stephen Sorensen Gives $200,000 to The Mess Studio and Elizabeth Fry Society of Kingston
Philanthropist Stephen Sorensen has launched an idea called Health Begins in the Community with $200,000, split evenly between The Mess Studio and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Kingston, Kingstonist reports. The Mess Studio has been bringing people together to make art since 2009, and Elizabeth Fry Kingston supports women facing poverty, housing insecurity and the justice system. Ideas on the table include a one-year pilot welcoming women supported by Elizabeth Fry into the studio, and support for Elizabeth Fry’s Fresh Start Fund. Sorensen, who said in a release reported by Kingstonist that until recently he had never heard of either group, put it simply: “Health doesn’t begin at the hospital door. It begins in the community.”
Read the full story at: Kingstonist
🌏 Kingston Lawn Bowler Pierre Vanderhout Takes On the World Bowls Champion of Champions in Australia
Only national champions get into the World Bowls Champion of Champions, and Kingston had one in the mix. Pierre Vanderhout, past president of the Kingston Lawn Bowling Club, played in Barham, Australia from October 6 to 10, Kingstonist reports. Vanderhout holds Canadian and Swiss citizenship and qualified as Switzerland’s 2025 national champion. He won four of his seven matches and just missed the playoffs. And he’s not done: he has since won Switzerland’s title again, which sends him back for the 2027 event. Not bad for someone who took up the sport in 2017.
Read the full story at: Kingstonist
🆕 New Events In and Around Kingston
🎸 FEATURED EVENT: Remembrance: Stories and Songs With Steve G | Museum of Lennox & Addington | November 10
Steve G spent 30 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, and on Tuesday, November 10 he brings the stories, and the songs, to the Museum of Lennox & Addington in Napanee. The Royal Military College grad served in Bosnia, the Middle East and Africa, then put in 15 years with Loyalist Township Emergency Services. You may know him from our spotlight on Kevin Smith: Steve answered Kevin’s Facebook post looking for help with a song, and the result was Fighting Off the Cold, produced by Glass Tiger’s Michael Hanson. Expect an hour of personal stories and original country music, with time for your questions at the end. It’s $3, free for museum members, and recommended for ages 13 and up. Details at Naturally Lennox & Addington.
🇨🇦 FEATURED EVENT: Remembrance Day Ceremonies | Macdonald Park | November 11
Kingston’s Civic Service of Remembrance is on Wednesday, November 11 at the Cross of Sacrifice in Macdonald Park, on King Street at the foot of George Street near Murney Tower. It’s bilingual, with ASL interpretation and seating for veterans and people with disabilities. Plan to be in place before the parade marches on, and listen for the cannon that marks the end of the two minutes of silence. Expect road closures along King Street and nearby streets that morning. Can’t make it? YourTV Kingston broadcasts the service later that day. Full details from the City of Kingston.
🎺 FEATURED EVENT: Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Remembrance Day Ceremony | City Park | November 11
The gunners gather at the RCHA Memorial in City Park, at the corner of Barrie and King streets, on Wednesday, November 11. Veteran Dave McKeever leads the ceremony, and the Second Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery from Petawawa stands vigil and fires one round to open and close the two minutes of silence. Royal Military College gunner officer cadets help lay the wreaths, Michael K. Myers sings the anthems, trumpeter Janet McCrae and a Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment piper play, and Sydenham School students present the commitment to remember. A reception follows at the RCHA Club, 193 Ontario St.
🕊️ FEATURED EVENT: Remembrance Day Ceremonies in Loyalist Township, Including Amherst Island | November 11
Loyalist Township marks Remembrance Day with three services on Wednesday, November 11. At the Wilton Cenotaph, the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics and the Lions Club of Odessa and District lead the ceremony, with a vintage airplane fly-by from the Kingston Ultralight Flying Club planned and everyone invited to The Palace at the Odessa Fairgrounds afterward. The road closes for the morning, so arrive early. Organizer Mike Shabinsky told the Napanee Beaver the Lions lend out saved wreaths so no one is turned away. Legion Branch 623 in Bath holds an indoor service, then visits the cenotaph, and Amherst Island Public School in Stella hosts a short service with readings and the Last Post. Details from Loyalist Township.
🔨 FEATURED EVENT: 29th Annual Rotary Community Auction, Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston | to November 22
Holiday shopping and doing good, all from the couch? The Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston’s 29th annual online Rotary Community Auction is open now, with about 270 items in categories from dining to art to “Kingston Personalities”. Over the years the auction has raised nearly $700,000, and 100 per cent of the proceeds go to local, national and international projects. Bidding closes Sunday, November 22 at 5 p.m. Browse and bid on BiddingOwl.
🌳 Change Is in the Air: Guided Walk | Little Cataraqui Creek | November 10
Late autumn is quieter, but it isn’t empty. On Tuesday, November 10, Cataraqui Conservation education staff lead a slow walk at Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area to notice what changes as the season turns. It’s geared to adults and seniors. Registration is required: $5.25 for adults, which covers the gate fee, and free for annual pass holders. Spots were still open when we checked, so sign up through Cataraqui Conservation’s events page.
🤖 Let’s Talk AI: Teen Advisory Group | KFPL Isabel Turner Branch | November 10
Teens, got opinions about AI? Bring them. On Tuesday, November 10, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library’s Teen Advisory Group opens its meeting at the Isabel Turner Branch for a relaxed chat about artificial intelligence with Queen’s science and engineering librarian Maggie Gordon: how it works, what it’s good for, where it falls short, and the ethics behind it. It’s for ages 13 to 18, and it’s drop-in, with no registration needed. Details on the KFPL event page.
🐴 Merry Little Main Street | Bath | November 12
Bath is getting into the holiday spirit early. On Thursday, November 12, visit Santa at the Fairfield-Gutzeit House, then hop on a free horse-drawn wagon ride to the Bath Museum for a holiday craft. There are festive drinks too, and Bath’s main street makes it a handy night to start on your Christmas shopping. Details from Loyalist Township.
🪘 26th Indigenous Knowledge Symposium: Community Wellbeing | Tett Centre | November 12
The 26th Indigenous Knowledge Symposium comes to the Tett Centre on Thursday, November 12, and this year’s theme is Community Wellbeing. It shines a light on work and research done in community, by community and with community, carried out with respect for Indigenous protocols. Space is limited and an RSVP is required, so save your spot through Queen’s Office of Indigenous Initiatives.
✒️ Design Your Own Temporary Tattoos With Ro Grant | Tett Centre | November 12
Ever wanted a tattoo, just not forever? On Thursday, November 12, graphic designer and tattooist Ro Grant leads a hands-on workshop at the Tett Centre where you’ll create two or three original tattoo-inspired designs and print them onto temporary tattoo paper to take home. No experience needed. It’s part of the Tett’s free Creative Connections Lab for adults 18 and up, and it’s capped at 20 people, so register with the Tett.
📅 Events Calendar
🗓️ The following is just for the next few days. The full Kingston events calendar lives here.
What’s Happening the Next Few Days
🎸 FEATURED: Remembrance: Stories and Songs With Steve G | Museum of Lennox & Addington, Napanee | November 10
🇨🇦 FEATURED: Remembrance Day Ceremonies | Macdonald Park | November 11
🎺 FEATURED: Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Remembrance Day Ceremony | City Park | November 11
🕊️ FEATURED: Remembrance Day Ceremonies in Loyalist Township | Wilton, Bath and Stella (Amherst Island) | November 11
🗝️ FEATURED: Daring to Share Elder Care Forum: Staffing | Keller Williams Inspire Realty | November 17
🔨 FEATURED: 29th Annual Rotary Community Auction | Online | to November 22
🌀 Hyprov With Colin Mochrie and Asad Mecci | Kingston Grand Theatre | November 10
🍂 Change Is in the Air: Guided Walk | Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area | November 10
🤖 Let’s Talk AI: Teen Advisory Group | KFPL Isabel Turner Branch | November 10
📕 Short Story Club: Cathedral by Raymond Carver | KFPL Central Branch | November 10
💻 Digital Marketing Essentials for Small Business | KFPL Calvin Park Branch | November 10
🎧 Matthew Good and His Band With Kevin Fox | Kingston Grand Theatre | November 12
🐴 Merry Little Main Street | Bath | November 12
🌿 26th Indigenous Knowledge Symposium | Tett Centre | November 12
☕ Chamber Business Before 9 | Costco Wholesale | November 12
✒️ Design Your Own Temporary Tattoos With Ro Grant | Tett Centre | November 12
🪷 Bageshree Vaze, Vineet Vyas and Pankaj Mishra: In the Darbar | The Isabel | November 13
🏅 Distinguished Service Awards Celebration | The Isabel | November 13
🛍️ Festive Friday Holiday Shopping Crawl | Downtown Kingston | November 13
🎁 Gift-Bag Workshop With Lucy De Sousa at Festive Friday | Martello Alley | November 13
🏒 Hockey Helps the Homeless | INVISTA Centre | November 13
🎄 Holiday Market | Downtown Kingston | November 13
😂 Jeff Leeson: Only Gonna Say This Once Comedy Tour | The Spire | November 13
🎻 Music by Ennio Morricone With Grand Piano and String Quartet | The Isabel | November 13
👗 Skandiflow Thrifts Market at Festive Friday | Skandiflow | November 13
🎪 Sophie’s Surprise 29th | Kingston Grand Theatre | November 13
💻 Coding for Kids | KFPL Isabel Turner Branch | November 14
🌍 ECO Book Club With Robert Gibson | KFPL Isabel Turner Branch | November 14
🎸 GovFest: Ontario Public Service Bands Rock for United Way | The Buckle | November 14
🪿 KFN Snow Goose Prowl | Kingston area | November 14
🧁 KSS Holiday Bazaar | Kingston Secondary School | November 14
🧺 Kingston Basketeers Drop-Off Day | INVISTA Centre | November 14
🧩 Pique Assiette Mosaic Workshop | Museum of Lennox & Addington, Napanee | November 14
🤠 The Great Canadian Roadtrip With Doc Walker, Michelle Wright and Jason McCoy | Kingston Grand Theatre | November 14
⚖️ The Jury Experience | The Spire | November 14
🦉 Winter Wonderland Vendors Market for Sandy Pines | Napanee | November 14
🏮 Wonderlight Lantern Festival | Tamworth | November 14
🍽️ Countylicious | Prince Edward County restaurants | October 22 to November 15
🚶 Theatre Kingston: Strolling Player | Homestead Baby Grand | October 29 to November 15
🛒 The Farbers Holiday Sale | Moscow | November 7 to 15
❄️ 4th Annual Winter Market | Fairfield Elementary School, Amherstview | November 15
🌲 Holiday Nature Workshops | Tett Centre | November 15
🎹 Jan Lisiecki | The Isabel | November 15
🧥 Coats for Community Drive | Drop-off bins across Kingston and L&A | October 17 to November 16 | 🔦 Read our story
📝 Advance Care Planning Talk | The Seniors Centre | November 16
🧠 Brain Health: What You Can Do to Protect Your Brain | Museum of Lennox & Addington, Napanee | November 16
🎶 Dan Mangan | The Spire | November 16
📱 November Health and Tech Talks | The Seniors Centre | November 5 to 19
📚 Later Life Learning Series B: Great Kingston Stories | The Seniors Centre | series starts October 23 | 🔦 Read our story
🧶 Escape to the Safe Zone by Leisa Rich | Tett Gallery | October 30 to November 22
🌱 Visit the Future: Youth Imagine the Future Exhibition | Queen’s Education Library | November 13 to 27
🎙️ Sunday Open Mic Nights at Time Out | Time Out Bar & Bistro | Sundays, November 8 to 29
☎️ Phone From Home: Free Seniors Centre Talks by Phone | By phone | select days in November
🎵 K-Pop Club for Teens | KFPL Isabel Turner Branch | November 9 to December 14
☕ Aging Well and Talking Café Fall Talks | KFPL branches and Kingston East Community Centre | November 4 to December 16
🪕 Uke Can Do It: Beginner Ukulele | KFPL Isabel Turner Branch | Thursdays, November 12 to December 17
🧓 Older Adults Day With KFPL and KCHC | Rideau Heights Community Centre | November 9 to December 21
🎟️ Downtown Kingston Holiday Shopping Passport | Downtown Kingston | November 13 to December 24
📸 Rideau Heights Neighbourhood Photo Contest | Across KFL&A | October 1 to January 1 | 🔦 Read our story
🫁 COPD Exercise Group | Napanee | Tuesdays from November 3
🎸 Blues at the Cove Turns 20 | The Cove Inn, Westport | from October 16
🥕 Lionhearts Fresh Food Market | The Seniors Centre and Seniors Centre East | Tuesdays and Wednesdays | 🔦 Read our story
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