Community Digest   
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Digest Mar 11/10 Send digest notices with time, date, place and relevant information to news@kingstonthisweek.com at least two weeks prior to the event. Winter indoor walking Volunteer lead walks, 9-10 a. [more]

Falcons compete at OFSAA Championships    
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Frontenac Falcons' guard Spencer Lanthier rushes past Rohan Mead of St. Theresa Catholic School from Belleville, in the OFSAA championships on Tuesday, March 9 at St. Lawrence College. [more]

News briefs   
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Commercial seal hunt demonstration Kingston's third annual demonstration against the commercial seal hunt takes place Saturday, March 13, 12:30-2:30 p.m., at Confederation Park. The protest is part of a Canada-wide demonstration. [more]

Kingston Kimco Voyageurs hockey    
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Young Voyageurs fans watch as Vee's forward Justin Levac checks a Trenton player during the first game of the second round of playoffs, March 7 at the INIVISTA Centre. Kingston won the game 6-3. [more]

KCVI boys curlers third in province    
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The KCVI curling team skipped by David Staples have had a very busy season. The team includes Nick Schroeder, vice, Peter Andersen, second, and Zach Hawley, lead. They are coached by Mike Hull. [more]

Public school students play in basketball championships    
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Sean Bradley, a student at Henderson Public School, dribbles alongside defender Liam Fenton of Vanier last Thursday during the basketball championships. Though it was a hard fought game, the Henderson team lost to Vanier, 26-31. [more]

All that blooms    
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Volunteer and master gardener Carol Hegadorn tends to some flowers in one of the gardens that greeted guests at the Kingston Gardening Expo at the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour over the weekend. The metal heron was made by Randal Doner. [more]

March heralds arrival of one of spring’s sweetest traditions    
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One of the first signs that spring is right around the corner in the eastern woodlands is the arrival of sap running in the sugar bush. The days are beginning to warm up and the nights are cold – perfect conditions for a Canadian tradition: maple syrup. [more]

In the Arts    
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Theatre 5 opens season Theatre 5 opens its first season at the Baiden Street Theatre with Dear Liar, a dramatized reading of the letters which passed between the great playwright George Bernard Shaw and the beautiful enchantress, Mrs. [more]

A new take on an old interpretation in Vagabond’s Merchant of Venice   
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Throughout its debut season, Vagabond Theatre has wowed audiences with innovative and exciting interpretations of Shakespeare's plays, such as a Mafioso version of Richard III, and Romeo and Juliet featuring two women in the title roles. [more]

What's On    
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Apple Crisp Festival Apple Crisp Arts presents the second annual free/all ages music festival, featuring up-and-coming Kingston performing artists plus prominent musicians March 12-25. See Charles Spearin with The Gertrudes Saturday March 13, 7:30 p. [more]

Things that go bump in the night    
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Things that go bump in the night have the power to truly scare us, and producer Brian Dennis wants to hear what scares you. Dennis, an award-winning producer of film, television movies and series, is searching for ghostly happenings for his show Ghostly Encounters. [more]

Empowerment, change on the agenda for Interval House    
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The time is fast approaching for the completion of a three-storey 19-apartment transitional housing building, providing a stepping stone to community life for women and children living with domestic violence. [more]

Kingston Home Builders Association recognized for outstanding development of school-work programs    
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Kingston Home Builders' Association (KHBA) received a 2010 Passport to Prosperity Employer Champion Award in recognition of its outstanding commitment to providing meaningful experiential learning programs for high school students in the community. [more]

Easter Seals telethon runs Sunday   
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March is Easter Seals awareness month, and although the annual telethon is the biggest event, there's a whole lot more lined up for this month. The campaign raises both awareness and funds for local children and youth living with physical disabilities. [more]

Every penny counts    
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Worthington Park resident Goldie Young and Easter Seals Ambassador Chad Lees count some of the $182 in pennies collected by Worthington Park for the Easter Seals Penny Power Campaign that benefits kids with physical disabilities. [more]

Kiwanis Music Festival winners    
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The 37th annual Kiwanis Music Festival concluded Thursday, March 4. Results were as follows: Regiopolis-Notre Dame Junior Band came first in the Secondary School Junior band class and Holy Cross Junior band came second. [more]

Kingstonians enjoy the Red Carpet Gala at the Grand Theatre    
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The Red Carpet Gala, held Sunday March 7 at the Grand Theatre, drew a big crowd to a live screening of the Academy Awards show. Guests enjoyed music, hors d'oeuvres and champagne. [more]

Police efficiency and road safety enhanced in new accident    
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The hassle involved in a non-serious motor vehicle collision often goes a lot further than a mere scrape or dent on the surface of the car. [more]

KGH opens new medicine-oncology unit    
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Together We Can is the motto of University Hospitals Kingston Foundation and it is working. Kingston General Hospital celebrated the opening of Kidd 9 for medicine and oncology patients Friday, March 6. [more]

CONVERSATIONS - The good china   
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Before we start with the rites of spring, the cleaning and painting (all offers of help accepted), before we do the nice and tidy thing, we have to move some stuff. Or get rid of it. And therein lies the problem: I'm attached to too much stuff. [more]

Throne speech launches Open Ontario plan   
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John Gerretsen, MPP for Kingston and The Islands, says his government's new, five-year Open Ontario Plan will create jobs to build a stronger economy. "Our plan, Open Ontario, is all about new opportunities, jobs and growth," says Gerretsen. [more]