On Saturday, April 10th , the King’s Town Trekkers Volkssport Club, held their 10km walk in Kingston East. The Volksmarch (people walk) is a family recreational event that has no time limits. The program is offered in 40 countries and has over eighteen million participants

Two days after retiring from the military, Rick Regan took a bicycle repair course. It was a natural step into “retirement” for him, because he loves to tinker with things. That was almost a year ago.

Here’s how I imagine the conversation:
“Well, son, time to do your homework.”
“Aw Dad, I really have better things to do.”
“No more computer time until you finish that book report for school.”
“Dad, you’re unreasonable!”

The experts who rate moving among the most stressful experiences in life, are wrong. If they ever tried to register a change of address with Utilities Kingston (PUC) or watched my husband agonize over parting with socks that are older than me, they would give moving the gold medal it deserves.

Nineteen years ago, Doug Bodie moved to Kingston East and became a volunteer fire fighter. He was a perfect candidate for the job. He lived close to the fire station, he was a shift worker and he had a medical background.

3,000 children die every day from Malaria. But that number can be drastically reduced, even eliminated. Buy-A-Net is a leading organization in the fight against Malaria. They’ve teamed up with local businesses to outfit villages in Uganda with special mosquito nets that kill Malaria infected mosquitoes and protect families while they sleep.

With the introduction of the provincial Green Energy Act, the city will be taking advantage of the increased prices offered to generators of electricity, under a 20 year contract, by installing solar panels on some existing municipal buildings. It will also look at incorporating energy generation into the construction of new municipal buildings. Some of the first buildings on the list for solar panels are fire stations and the Utilities Kingston (UK) building at 1211 John Counter Boulevard, so keep an eye out for the installations.

Barriefield residents may have found a suitable alternative to building affordable housing on the corner of Highway 15 and Highway 2. The new location is fully serviced land and offers twice the capacity of the proposed Barriefield project.

Since 1964, City Council has been pondering a third crossing, but not everyone believes we need one. According to Ken Linseman, the former Kingston Commissioner Of Traffic, building a third crossing may not ease the congestion over the Causeway, it may simply divert the traffic off the 401.