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🔦 In This Issue of Kingston Spotlight
🩺 8,500 Kingston-Area Residents Could Soon Have a Family Doctor
📞 Kingston's 911 Network Just Got a Major Digital Upgrade
🚗 Kingston's Keith and Dev Are Road-Tripping Canada for Home Hardware
🏆 Kingston Has a New Business Person of the Year (and He Works in AI)
New Events In and Around Kingston
🌻🇺🇦 Support Ukraine at the Lviv, Ukraine Folklore Festival | Regiopolis Notre Dame | June 13-14
🐢 5th Annual Turtle Awareness Day | Lake Ontario Park | May 30
🏃 Kilometres for Kids Run Walk Roll | Kingston Secondary School | May 30
⛳ Bayridge Teachers' Charity Golf Tournament | Amherstview Golf Club | May 30
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📰 Kingston & Area Local News
🩺 8,500 Kingston-Area Residents Could Soon Have a Family Doctor
Over 8,500 Kingston-area residents still don't have a family doctor. The province just committed $3.62 million to the FLA Ontario Health Team to change that, with a target of matching everyone by summer 2027. If you're on the Health Care Connect waitlist, the full story has details worth reading.
Read the full story at: Kingston Daily
📞 Kingston's 911 Network Just Got a Major Digital Upgrade
Kingston's 911 system got a significant upgrade on May 6. Nothing changes when you call, but what happens on the other end has been overhauled, and there are more capabilities coming. The full story has the details.
Read the full story at: Kingston Daily
🏆 Community Champions
🚗 Kingston's Keith and Dev Are Road-Tripping Canada for Home Hardware
Kingston part-time teachers and world travel creators Keith and Dev were chosen from hundreds of national applicants for a pretty great summer assignment. They leave Friday. Five weeks, coast to coast, Victoria to St. John's, spotlighting communities and locally owned Home Hardware stores along the way. Follow the trip at the Home Hardware road trip page, and the full story at kingstondaily.ca.
🏆 Kingston Has a New Business Person of the Year (and He Works in AI)
Patrick Egbunonu, President and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Infomanos Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce’s 2026 Kingston Business Awards ceremony. Photo from kingstondaily.ca
The Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce held its 2026 Business Awards at the Isabel Bader Centre on Thursday, and the top honour went to Patrick Egbunonu, President of Infomanos Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Egbunonu admitted the win came as a surprise. We'd say it sounds well earned.
Other winners from the night: Lionhearts (Non-Profit), Kebab 44 (Hospitality), The Keep Refillery Kingston (Social Impact), DoorStep Dental Inc and Loyalist Concierge Co. (co-winners, New Business of the Year), André Dénommée of ADARE Property Management (Entrepreneur), Metal Craft Marine (Skilled Trades), The Boat Warehouse (Customer Experience), Cantabile Choirs of Kingston (Arts and Culture), and Cityflats (Employer of the Year). Kingston's business community showed up.
Read the full story at: Kingston Daily
🆕 New Events In and Around Kingston
🌻🇺🇦 Support Ukraine at the Lviv, Ukraine Folklore Festival | Regiopolis Notre Dame | June 13-14
The 57th annual Lviv, Ukraine Folklore Festival comes to Kingston on June 13 and 14 at Regiopolis Notre Dame High School. For $5, a passport that gets you in as many times as you like across both days, you will find two days of Ukrainian dance, music, food, and culture organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Club of Kingston. It is a genuine celebration, and it is also something more.
Every dollar raised goes directly to Ukraine, sent to trusted contacts within 48 hours of the festival's close. Over the years, the organizers have provided humanitarian aid, supported children who lost parents fighting on the front lines, delivered generators to communities without power, and helped families displaced by the catastrophic destruction of a Ukrainian dam. Kingston showing up matters. We will be featuring the story behind this festival in an upcoming Local Spotlight. Passports are on sale now at Quattrocchi's Specialty Foods (662 Montreal Street), T-Shirt Explosion at Cataraqui Town Centre, the Ukrainian Canadian Club of Kingston, and Maky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble.
🐢 5th Annual Turtle Awareness Day | Lake Ontario Park | May 30
Turtles Kingston's fifth annual Turtle Awareness Day is Saturday, May 30 at Lake Ontario Park, free and family-friendly, right in the middle of nesting season. Come to learn what you can actually do to help. Details at the link.
🏃 Kilometres for Kids Run Walk Roll | Kingston Secondary School | May 30
KidsInclusive's Kilometres for Kids run/walk/roll is back on Saturday, May 30 at Kingston Secondary School. Over $400,000 raised for local kids with special needs since 2004. Pick your distance and click here to register.
⛳ Bayridge Teachers' Charity Golf Tournament | Amherstview Golf Club | May 30
Bayridge Secondary School staff are golfing for a cause on Saturday, May 30, and the cause is making sure their students don't go hungry. Tournament at Amherstview Golf Club, open to all skill levels, $125 for 18 holes, cart, and dinner. There's a grand prize involved too. More details at Kingston Daily.
📅 Events Calendar
🎨The Clearing: Art | Rideau Heights Community Centre, 85 Maccauley St | May 20–31
🎭Finnegans Wake: A Dream Play | Kingston Grand Baby Grand | May 21–June 7
🎵Kate Voegele & Tyler Hilton: One Tree Hill Tour | The Spire, 82 Sydenham St | May 25
🏆Kiwanis Amateur Sports Awards | Memorial Hall, City Hall | May 28
🎸Spring Reverb Music Festival | Various Kingston venues | May 28–31
🌸Almost Home Charity Gala | Our Lady of Fatima Parish Hall | May 29
💙Kingston Defeat Depression Walk | Kingston Memorial Centre, 303 York St | May 30
⛳Bayridge SS Teachers Golf Tournament | Amherstview Golf Club | May 30 (noon)
🐢Turtle Awareness Day | Lake Ontario Park, 920 King St W | May 30
🏃Kilometres for Kids Run/Walk/Roll | Kingston Secondary School | May 30
🎤Open Voices Carnival of Song | Cooke's Portsmouth United Church | May 30
❤️Red Shirt Day Walk for Inclusion | James R. Henderson School | May 31 (10 am)
🛍️Ten Thousand Villages Fair Trade Sale | The Spire, Lower Hall, 82 Sydenham St | May 31
📚Isabel Turner Branch Grand Re-Opening | Isabel Turner Branch | June 6
🌻Lviv, Ukraine Folklore Festival | Regiopolis Notre Dame High School | June 13–14
🎬Movies in the Square (Season 19) (8 films, Thursdays at dusk) | Springer Market Square | June 25–Aug 27
🐾Puppies + Jazz | The Caesar Company | June 28
🎨Women's Art Festival | City Park, Kingston | August 8, 2026
🤘Forever Hip Night 1: Choir! Choir! Choir! + Miss Emily, The Abrams | Springer Market Square | Aug 20
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