All Posts Tagged With: "KFL&A Public Health"
Public Input Wanted On Breakwater Park Design
Breakwater Park – the park that runs along the waterfront between Beverley and Barrie streets – will be the focus of an upcoming public meeting on how to enhance this great public space to further encourage active living. The workshop-style meeting, to be run by active transportation expert Gil Penalosa of 8-80 Cities, is set [...]
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Weekly Poll: Safe Injection Site
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided to uphold British Columbia’s right to operate the safe drug injection site in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The highly controversial Insite facility was established in 2003 to curb overdoses and disease spreading that is synonymous with illicit needle drugs. What is more contentious, while cocaine and heroin [...]
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Rick Hansen Relay Final Medal-Bearer Is Wess Garrod
Former principal and healthy-living activist Wess Garrod has been nominated and chosen as the Final Medal-bearer for the End of the Day Celebration on the Kingston stop of the Rick Hansen Relay promoting more accessible, active and sustainable communities. The Relay also marks the 25th anniversary of Hansen’s 40,000 km wheel-around-the-world Man in Motion tour [...]
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Admission Costs Reduced at Outdoor Aquatics Centre
Kingstonist has been tracking the redevelopment of the Leo Lafleur Waterpark from the initial public consultation until it’s completion and grand re-opening earlier this summer. After admission and membership prices were posted by the city last Spring, we asked our readers to weigh in on whether the costs were prohibitive or just right. While a [...]
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KFL&A Public Health Issues Level 2 Heat Advisory
With hot, humid weather forecast for the next few days in the KFL&A area, KFL&A Public Health is issuing a Heat Health Warning—the first Level 2 Heat Advisory this year for the KFL&A area. The current weather forecast calls for humidex values to reach a peak of 43 between Wednesday and Friday of this week. [...]
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Weekly Poll: Rate Local Health Care
My Grandmother ended up in the hospital this past weekend thanks to yet another nasty slip and fall. While she’s on the road to recovery, I couldn’t help but reflect on how strange the hospital experience was. Thankfully I’ve managed to stay out of Emerg, but sadly the same cannot be said for my wife. [...]
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Swim Guide: Beach Finder
Every summer, those of us without backyard swimming pools, or friends who are kind enough to share, converge on Kingston’s shorelines in search of a safe yet refreshing place to take a dip. While KFL&A Public Health “regularly” checks the water quality at local beaches, these updates are not always timely nor do they fully [...]
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Best of 2009 (Part 4 of 5)
Thus far, Kingstonist’s Best of 2009 review has celebrated our most memorable posts, while unintentionally focusing on content concerning a variety of transportation elements. From the arrival of Google Street View to a hypothetical pedestrian friendly downtown and a discussion concerning roundabouts, it’s time to look back at something a bit different in your rear [...]
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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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Has Public Health Failed Kingston?
I religiously get the flu shot. I find the local vaccination clinics and go out of my way to be one of the first people to get it. Why? Well, I’m one of those “at risk” types, due to severe asthma I’ve endured since birth. This year would be no exception to my streak. While [...]
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