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September 5th, 2024 · North Shore News

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  Welcome to North Shore News and Interviews on Amherst Island Radio.
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  Each week we keep you updated on newsworthy events, happenings, and conversations that
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  we've had with people in the local community and beyond.
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  Loyalist Township and Kingston Transit have announced new adjustments to Route 10 that
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  are now in effect.
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  Loyalist Township under contract to Kingston Transit provides a bus service from Amherst
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  View to Kingston via Route 10.
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  This route runs to the Caterockway Center via Collins Bay and the Bay Ridge Center.
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  Riders can connect with Express Routes 501 and 502 at both the Caterockway and Bay Ridge
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  Centers.
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  Children 14 and under can ride free of charge when they're with an adult paying the fare.
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  Riders 14 and under that are riding alone can obtain a pass on the Kingston Transit
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  website.
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  For more information visit loilist.ca.
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  For Amherst Island Radio and the Local Journalism Initiative, I'm Ted Evans.
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  This is North Shore News.
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  Loyalist Township is implementing community safety zones on Township roads to improve
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  safety around schools in the area.
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  The new community safety zones include Front Road on Amherst Island, Church Street in Bath,
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  Kildare Avenue, Park Crescent, Upper Park Road, Amherst Drive, Briscoe Street and Fairfield
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  Boulevard in Amherst View as well as Durham Street, North Street and Main Street in Odessa.
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  For more information visit loilist.ca.
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  For Amherst Island Radio and the Local Journalism Initiative, I'm Ted Evans.
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  This is North Shore News.
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  The Great Lakes Islands Alliance announced its new strategic plan spanning to 2034.
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  The plan looks to address the challenges and opportunities facing Great Lakes Islands.
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  The plan was developed over the last year by the Alliance's leadership team.
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  The four primary goals in the Alliance's foundational charter helped shape the creation of the plan.
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  The four goals are facilitating connection between island communities, improving information
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  access, encouraging multi-island collaboration and amplifying island voices.
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  With the new plan, the Alliance also looks to improve its environmental and socioeconomic
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  program areas, central operations and capacity and long-term sustainability.
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  While mainly focusing on island communities, the Alliance also recognizes the importance
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  of raising awareness of island life among mainland audiences including governments and
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  the general public.
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  The Great Lakes Islands Alliance is set to host its fifth summit this year from September
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  22 to 25, near the Lae-Chanau Islands of Northern Lake Huron.
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  The summit provides an opportunity for islanders from around the Great Lakes to come together
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  to learn about each other's communities and share solutions to the various economic, social
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  and environmental challenges facing islands.
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  This year's event will feature more than 20 speakers, panel discussions and guided tours.
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  The event will cover a range of topics including tourism, island schools, youth engagement,
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  media, biodiversity and emergency preparedness.
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  Member of the Amherst Island Community Alliance David Pickering notes one of the more important
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  issues the island has taken on since becoming a member of the Great Lakes Islands Alliance.
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  One of the things that we've discussed in detail at the Community Alliance was a report
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  from one of the islander islands that actually did an emergency exercise for one of their
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  islands and found that it failed miserably because of poor communications, lack of interoperability
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  and a variety of other things that meant that they couldn't achieve the exercise objectives
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  and it sort of came as a big call to wake up and start over again and come up with a better
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  emergency plan because this didn't work.
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  And certainly that in itself is encouraging the Community Alliance to discuss with the
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  new fire chief as well as the township the state of emergency planning for Amherst Island.
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  Pickering explains how Amherst Island's representative at the Great Lakes Islands Alliance, Paul Juniper,
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  brought back the idea of a winter carnival.
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  Probably the most significant was the entire winter carnival.
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  Paul arrived at one of the meetings for the Community Alliance and said, here is the schedule
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  for the winter carnival.
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  They are now doing their 56th annual one.
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  Maybe we could put something together and the Community Alliance hit the various service
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  organizations like Ames and the Museum and the Women's Institute and so on.
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  And everybody said, well, we can sponsor, support this particular event and they turned
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  around and they made it into a program and they invited people.
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  And apparently it was quite successful.
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  For Amherst Island Radio and the Local Journalism Initiative, I'm Ted Evans.
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  This is North Shore News.
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  The L&A Studio Tour takes place this year, September 7th and 8th from 10am to 5pm each
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  day.
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  This will be the first time studios are hosting live music along with the event.
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  The L&A Studio Tour gives participants the chance to meet artists in their studios and
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  homes, learn about their artistic process and purchase new artwork from the artists.
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  The event features over 32 artists located in 17 studios throughout the county.
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  The L&A Studio Tour is a self-guided tour leading through rural areas with historic
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  towns, villages and hamlets.
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  Amanda Lloyd, one of the owners of the Hive Artist Collective in Bath, notes the four
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  members they'll be featuring in their studio.
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  The L&A Studio Tour is really cool, so they have over 30 artists a part of that program.
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  And so only four of the Hive members will be showing in our gallery.
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  So you'll really get a chance to see a little bit more from myself, Amanda Lloyd, David
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  Slack, Lisa Leskin and Shannon Dickey.
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  Lloyd describes the rest of the weekend and where to find other artists in the county.
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  The rest of the tour, you'll be able to see other Hive artists in their actual studios
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  and other artists, local artists in their studios from NapaNee and from Amherstview,
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  Bath.
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  It's a really, really cool, fun weekend to kind of take a local adventure.
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  Lloyd notes some of the fun activities happening in the studios throughout the tour.
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  You get to meet the artists and all of them have different cool things running in their
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  studios like little raffles and giveaways.
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  And a lot of the studios have music.
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  We have music all day, which is really cool for both days, Saturday and Sunday.
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  Lloyd describes the welcoming nature of artists in their studios.
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  All the artists just love chatting about their art.
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  So it's always fun to have people come in and, you know, we get a chance to talk to
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  the community and get to know us.
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  And yeah, we just want to be, we just want to share.
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  That's all we want to do.
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  For Amherst Island Radio and the Local Journalism Initiative, I'm Ted Evans.
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  This is North Shore News.
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  The first ever Bath Art Fest is taking place Saturday, September 14th, hosted by the Hive
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  Artist Collective in Centennial Park. Over 30 artists will be featured from 10 a.m. to
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  4 p.m. alongside live music.
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  One of the owners of the hive, Amanda Lloyd, explains how the day will be set up.
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  We're setting it up a little differently than other art festivals.
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  We're calling it kind of like a home village vibe.
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  So all of the tents are going to be on the perimeter of the park and facing the center
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  and then in the center is going to be the music.
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  We're going to have this painting for kids.
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  We have a big raffle.
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  Most of the hive artists have donated a piece to be raffled off.
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  Lloyd describes some of the other types of vendors that will be at the event.
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  We have jewelers.
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  We have ceramists.
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  We have potters.
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  We have some fabric artists too who are going to be there.
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  So you can chop your heart's content there and then maybe wander down into the village
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  for some coffee and some food and some more shopping experience.
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  Lloyd explains the experience they hope to create and notes some of the local businesses
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  involved.
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  It's a village day.
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  That's what we just want everyone to come out and hang out at the village.
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  Have a hang out by the water, you know, to bring the kids down.
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  We really want people to come in, check out local artists, but then take a stroll down
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  to the village because we wouldn't be able to run this without the businesses who kind
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  of have sponsored us.
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  So we're hoping people will go down to the commons, books on mean, the lodge for coffee.
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  Lloyd also noted they hope to make it an annual event.
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  Bath Art Fest will take place rain or shine.
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  For Amherst Island Radio and the Local Journalism Initiative, I'm Ted Evans.
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  This is North Shore News.
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  September 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bath Sunday Market, Loyalist Township will
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  be celebrating culture days.
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  The event will have family-friendly activities, including a sing-along with the musical group
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  Panache A as well as workshops for illustration and dreamcatcher making.
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  The Lenox Community Theater will also be there hosting creative activities.
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  This is a free event taking place at Centennial Park North in Bath.
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  For more information, visit loylist.ca.
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  For Amherst Island Radio and the Local Journalism Initiative, I'm Ted Evans.
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  This is North Shore News.
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  Ontario Culinary along with the Culinary Tourism Alliance are hosting a Feast On event featuring
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  six chefs from the area happening this fall at McKinnon Brothers Brewing Company.
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  Feast On the Farm, a taste of southeastern Ontario, takes place Saturday, September 28 from 5
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  to 8 p.m.
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  Feast On is a certification program for restaurants and purveyors in Ontario.
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  Ontario Culinary says the program recognizes businesses committed to sourcing Ontario-grown
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  food and drink.
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  The other part of their aim is to make it easier for food lovers to find local food.
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  Each chef will be showcasing their creations using seasonal produce and ingredients from
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  the region.
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  The array of different dishes will also be paired with local craft beverages.
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  Marketing manager for the Culinary Tourism Alliance, Gabrielle Mueller, explains the goals
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  behind their Feast On events.
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  The goal really is to celebrate the unique taste of place of southeastern Ontario.
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  All the chefs that are featured at the Feast On the Farm event are Feast On certified.
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  So really we're celebrating chefs that are going the extra mile to source seasonal and
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  Ontario-based produce, meats, and other ingredients.
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  And really we just want to take this time to celebrate that.
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  It's harvest season.
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  It's all you can eat.
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  So inviting folks to come on out and eat and taste how much better things taste when they're
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  in season.
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  Mueller notes the range of local beverages that will be on hand as well.
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  I do want to shout out our local drink producers.
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  Of course McKinnon Brothers Brewing, they're hosting us.
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  So we will be serving up their craft beverages, as well as craft wine from Carlow Estates Winery
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  in Prince Edward County, Hardway Cider, and Mohawk Soda.
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  So it should be a real all around great time.
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  For Amherst Island Radio and the Local Journalism Initiative, I'm Tad Evans.
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  This is North Shore News.
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  I'm Sarah Burch with Kingsness News and here are the top headlines that you need to know.
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  News with Kingson Police were undoubtedly relieved to find no evidence of a threat or
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  a firearm following reports of a drive-by shooting on Labor Day.
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  Kingson Police received reports of a possible shooting on Sydenham Road near Highway 401.
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  The reporting officer indicated that it is likely that a rock or construction debris
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  from a passing vehicle caused the damages to the vehicle in question.
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  The Frontenac County Detachment of the OPP have reported a fatality on Nolton Lake and
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  South Frontenac Township on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 4th, 2024.
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  The investigation remains ongoing in the area and residents are asked to avoid the area
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  if possible.
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  Residents of Kingson's historic Sydenham District are crying foul ball over a new $1 million
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  baseball field in City Park.
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  They were told the outfield chain link fence that encloses the facility would be removed
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  following a recent National Youth Baseball Tournament and this never happened.
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  A man charged with murder after an assault at Millhaven Institution that took the life
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  of another inmate testified in his own defense on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024 before Justice
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  Adriana Doyle from Ottawa.
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  The Special Investigations Unit has concluded its investigation into an incident that took
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  place at a home in Tindanega, Mohawk, Territory in May 2024.
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  The SIU has determined that while the 24-year-old male involved in the case was significantly
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  injured, there were no reasonable grounds to believe an OPP officer committed a criminal
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  offense.
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  With school back in session this week, the City of Kingson is reminding drivers that
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  its Automated Speed Enforcement Pilot Project begins this week.
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  These will be used in community safety zones to reduce vehicle speed and improve safety.
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