All Posts Tagged With: "Homecoming"
Out With the Old
Late last December, Kingstonist presented you with our top 5 posts from 2008. With your help, we intend on ringing in the New Year by celebrating our best stories and topics of conversation from 2009. Did KFL&A Public Health’s management of the swine flu vaccination clinic get your attention? Will Fauxcoming, the over budget Queen’s [...]
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Friday Foto
Sorry for the slow news week, but I’ve been somewhat incapacitated and locked in quarantine under suspicion of the dreaded H1. Rest assured I am quickly on the mend, and chomping at the bit to get back on the saddle. This weekend is as busy as any other in the Limestone City, with a full [...]
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Kingston’s Other Homecoming
When you hear the words Kingston and Homecoming used in the same sentence, it’s hard not to associate Queen’s University students, chaos on Aberdeen Street, and the Kingston City Police. Now that our first successful Fauxcoming is behind us, it’s time to focus on Kingston’s other Homecoming celebration, commonly referred to as Reunion Weekend. For [...]
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Homegoing
After years of debauchery and wreckage, Queen’s has finally stepped up to do something about the giant Aberdeen party that has occurred every Homecoming weekend since 2005. In case you’re new or you’ve just been out of the country (yes, this made national headlines) for the last four years, Queen’s students and their friends from [...]
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You’ll Have a Gael, Old Time
Let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the positive aspects of Queen’s Homecoming. The men and women in law enforcement, as well as University and community volunteers did a fine job ensuring that the illegal Aberdeen street party was as safe as humanly possible. There were no burning cars, a significantly reduced amount [...]
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Your Kid’s Not That Cute
I am soooo tired of hearing about homecoming at Queen’s. I’m not even in Kingston right now and yet it’s still a topic of conversation everywhere I go. The Globe and Mail had a story on Queen’s Homecoming just two days ago (complete with a map showing out-of-towners where exactly to go to find the [...]
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Citizens on Patrol
After a long, hard day on Wednesday, I turned on CKWS to catch the evening news. Usually I pass out and leave the television on, only to wake up hours later to some infomercial or rerun of Roseanne. But Wednesday was different, as my attention was fixed on the anchorwoman who spoke of a new [...]
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A Little Homesick
Every summer I move away from Kingston to live on a farm in Caledonia , ON (home of the infamous Native dispute). I’ve been coming here for nine summers now. I play violin on a boat that travels up and down the Grand River and I love it. It’s a great job and I play [...]
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What’s In a Name?
As a graduate of Queen’s University, I am getting excited to celebrate my 5-year Homecoming this Fall. The University has undergone some significant changes since I left, most noticeably the multi-million dollar construction projects including the new Queen’s Centre , the Tindall Field Underground Parking Facility , and the University Revitalization Project . Queen’s has [...]
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Does Kingston Need a Batman?
On Sunday evening, I made my way to the theatre to take in one of the most anticipated summer blockbuster films in recent history. The Dark Knight is the follow up to Batman Begins (2005), a Christopher Nolan film which portrayed a much darker version of Batman and Gotham City than we’ve ever seen before. [...]
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