All Posts Tagged With: "Limestone Classic"
Friday Foto
TGIF! It’s been hectic week around the Limestone City thanks to Reelout and a slew of events associated with Feb Fest. Earlier on in the week I wrote about my encounter with the Stanley Cup, which is the only Feb Fest event I’ve made it to thus far. Luckily, some other folks posted a few [...]
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Lord Stanley Comes to Town
Lord Stanley’s Cup is considered to be the ultimate prize by professional players, minor and pond hockey hopefuls, as well as friends of the frozen game all around the world. There are a few superstitions associated with the Cup, while the most prevalent dictates that players should refrain from touching hockey’s holy grail until they [...]
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Friday Foto
Last Friday I marvelled at how amazing, albeit unseasonal, the weather was. What a difference a week makes. Today the city awoke to bone chilling temperatures that were estimated to reach minus 30 thanks to the wind chill. Is it too much to ask for some snow to go along with this helping of frost [...]
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Feb Fest
Feb Fest has quickly become Kingston’s premiere winter event. The event draws over 30,000 people to downtown and to the event’s primary location, the newly renovated Market Square, located behind Kingston City Hall. The 6th Annual Feb Fest will start a full day early on February 1st. The schedule of events is as follows: Monday, [...]
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What if Kingston…
Wawa is home to the largest Canada Goose, while Vulcan has the U.S.S. Enterprise, Ottawa has a spider, and Beardmore has the world’s largest snowman. And the list goes on. Save for the modest-sized misshaped hockey puck at Kingston’s International Hockey Hall of Fame, the Limestone City is noticeably missing from the list of destinations [...]
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The Limestone Classic
Despite the intermitent showers, Feb Fest 09′s Limestone Classic attracted droves of energetic spectators to Market Square yesterday. Famous cowboy referee Jim Dorey officiated games all day long featuring ex-NHL’ers including Doug Gilmour (in goal), Bob Probert, Rick Middleton, Tim Taylor, and many more who were sprinkled into the lineup of 10 corporate-sponsored teams. The [...]
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Feb Fest 2009!
Downtown Kingston! is gearing up for the fifth annual Feb Fest celebration. Festivities begin today, a day earlier than usual, and they’re going to start with a bang. None other then many-time National and International figure skating champion Kurt Browning will be on hand to help kick off the fun. Browning will joining local skaters [...]
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