July 2 2010
Last time this happened was mid-May and it didn't turn out that way.
KINGSTON IN A NUTSHELL: you mismanage maintenance at Confed, then you fail to respond to a visitor, then the visitor runs aground, then the local rag puts him on the front page, complete with photo.
Bravo!
WE HAVE A WINNER!
"Poker boats bring three to five million bucks to the city in three days."
-- Bob Ackley, muscle boat owner.
There's your stereotype, right there.
PRO-AM BASS DERBY IN TOWN through Saturday, from CKWS-TV News.
It's the Kingston Canadian Open of Fishing, also on Facebook.
COVERAGE of last Saturday's fire at Rideau Marina that destroyed their maintenance shop from The Whig, CKWS-TV News, and MetalCraft Marine.
WATERFRONT TRAIL PROPOSAL from downtown to Kingston Mills on the western shore of the Cataraqui River according to CKWS-TV News last week.
Never going to happen, at least not to the extent they imply in the news item. The Great Cataraqui Marsh is inviolable.
See for yourself the relationship between the water, the Marsh, and the CN tracks.
THE POKER RUN is on the FOCUS Kingston Steering Committee Agenda for their July 15th meeting.
It's amazing that a KEDCO report that KEDCO itself says is inaccurate and statistically insignificant is nonetheless touted, again, by City Staff apparently desperate to supinate for the BIA, greenwash the event, and give all this a positive cultural and historical spin.
Still no word on requiring Poker Runs America to purchase obnoxious-offset-credits.
Shorts:
KINGSTONIST on Token Park.
METALCRAFT MARINE just splashed a 69-foot red fireboat equipped with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defenses. It's destined for Jacksonville but you'll be seeing its sea trials here in Kingston Harbour over the next few months.
The rather windy OPTIMIST NORTH AMERICANS, which wrapped last Sunday, was swept by Americans including two brothers, Christopher and Duncan Williford, who finnished top-two in the very strong 196-boat fleet. How strong? The top Canadian was 35th.
PHOTOS from the World Robotic Sailing Championships, which went under-the-radar in Kingston this Spring.
Last time this happened was mid-May and it didn't turn out that way.
GREAT REGATTA so far at the Optimist North American Championships.
See over 3,000 photos by Geoff Webster and David Hein. Wow.
THE OPTIMIST NORTH AMERICANS get underway today. Very impressive list of 195 competitors from all over the world.
They will be racing on Course Alpha in Kingston Harbour. Here's a link to the sailing instructions.
SATURDAY FOR KIDS each Saturday morning at the Marine Museum throughout the summer.
STALE SEWAGE BYPASS LOG, three months out of date, on the Utilities Kingston website.
See also our archive of sewer bypass news items. Utilities Kingston is a disgrace when it comes to reporting and disclosure.
HIGH MUCKY-MUCKS set to unveil Token Park on Monday.
Presumably there will be much collegial back-slapping amongst those who've done a great job recently ruining Kingston's waterfront.
More details on the whole Token Park waterfront accessibility and functionality downgrade.
A FIFTH of all Lake Ontario Beaches are currently posted unsafe according to Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.
Meanwhile, here in Kingston, there is still no beach report avaiable from our lard-ass Health Unit.
RECENTLY IN THE WHIG: Plans at CORK, Laser sailor Robert Davis, and a letter calling for more public waterfront access.
SEVERAL SPOTS still available at the Kingston Yacht Club Sailing School, even the July sessions, for both kid's and adult programs. This includes some openings on their well-known racing team.
WINDFARM TURBINES on Wolfe Island are "shockingly" deadly for birds, bats from Wednesday's Globe and Mail.
SCOOP: The Brown's Bay Inn was recently sold and apparently it's going to become a yoga resort.
NEARLY A THOUSAND LIGHTHOUSES declared surplus by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Kingston-area lights at Nine-mile Point on Simcoe Island, Quebec Head on Wolfe Island, False Duck Island, Main Duck Island, Nicholson's Point, and Pigeon Island are all on the list..
The surplus lighthouses are those that Canadian Coast Guard officials determined "could be replaced with simpler structures whose operation and maintenance would be more cost-effective..."
Shorts:
TWO ENGINEERING JOBS at MetalCraft Marine
STILL no beach report from our lard-ass Health Unit.
NAVAL RE-ENACTMENT this weekend.
KINGSTON'S FIREBOAT is named the Thomas H. Patterson.
RON BROWN on Kingston: catastrophe on the Cataraqui.
In his view, Kingston is a prime example of how not to treat a shoreline.
PHOTOGRAPHER IAN CORISTINE, who has made a career photographing the Thousand Islands region from the air, was featured in the Brockville Times Recorder last week.
KINGSTON ROWERS perform well at last weekend's World Cup event in Bled, Slovenia.
Bled, Slovenia, is the site of next year's World Rowing Championships.
700 KIDS is reportedly the turnout to last weekend's Perch Derby at Pourtsmouth Olympic Harbour. Excellent!. This event is surely one of the greatest things about Kingston waterfront.
Cute photos in The Whig.
SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK because there's no beach report avaiable from our lard-ass Health Unit.
It's only 31 degrees outside today. This has been forecast for quite some time.
There's been no signal that the KFLA Health Unit will be making-up the miles they are behind Toronto in beach report timeliness and data quality.
WATER WARNING in last Saturday's Whig, about the police state that has become our local waterways.
How bad could this get? Remember this law enforcement theatre from early July 2007. That was pretty damn bad.
