All Posts Tagged With: "partners in mission food bank"
Kingstonist’s Challenge # 9: The Season of Giving
Welcome to Kingstonist’s weekly challenge, dare, resolution or whatever you prefer to call it. Each week we establish a new and ambitious community goal, encouraging our readers, followers, friends and families to step out of their comfort zones and do something great, and hopefully a little out of the ordinary. Consider this your official and [...]
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Greater Kingston Nighttime Santa Parade
Santa Claus is coming to town! The parade will begin at Novelis at Princess and Bath and will end at Ontario Street with Santa himself bringing up the rear. The parade will consist of over 50 beautifully decorated floats and 5 marching bands. Head down to Market Square after the parade for carol singing and [...]
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Guide to Homegrown Live
The Homegrown Live Music Festival will celebrate its third birthday this Saturday with Kingston musicians, music production companies and local bars and restaurants all coming together for a full day of live music throughout downtown Kingston. For the past three years this festival has taken place to raise awareness and funds for The Joe Chitalen [...]
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Homegrown Live Music Festival
Homegrown Live is a music festival celebrating live music in Kingston. Head out to Kingston’s top live music venues, and help raise money for the Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library (Joe’s M.I.L.L.) and collect food donations for the Partners in Mission Foodbank. 10$ wrist bands valid for all Homegrown venues or 5$ plus [...]
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Fill the Gap
Do you think you could live for a week with a limited amount of food, not necessarily of your choosing, and without going out to eat at all? In celebration of National Nutrition Month, Kingston Community Health Centres (KCHC) challenged 7 staff members to a week-long food challenge: Fill the Gap, to raise awareness for [...]
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Friday Foto
Too soon? After this week’s debate about Christmas lights I wasn’t sure if this was the right picture for this week but then I realized that tomorrow is the Downtown Santa Claus Parade and I just added a bunch of Christmas craft sales to our calendar…so I’ve given in. Given in to the lights and [...]
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Santa Claus Parade and Food Collection
For eighteen consecutive years, volunteers from Trinity Presbyterian Church walk the parade route in their Santa hats and bright green vests collecting your donations but they can’t do it alone! Please help get the word out to everyone attending the parade this year in order to ensure that everyone in Kingston has food to feed [...]
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Front’s Grin and Bear it
December is all about giving, and there’s certainly is no shortage of ways to help ensure that those less fortunate have the basic essentials, and a little something special this holiday season. Kingstonians can show their generosity by donating non-perishables to the local food bank, buy a snowsuit for a child in need, throw some [...]
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Friday Foto
Tomorrow night, some time between the Fat Goose Craft Fair and Kyra and Tully’s CD Release Party, swarms of children, young and old, will converge on lower Princess Street in hopes of catching a glimpse of jolly old Saint Nic. As a part of the Santa Claus Parade, floats, lights, candy, and other trappings of [...]
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Santa Claus Parade Food Bank Float
Six thousand people a year in the Kingston community depend on the help of the Partners in Mission Food Bank and this number is growing. Please help fill their shelves this holiday season by bringing a cash or food donation to the Downtown Kingston Nighttime Santa Claus Parade. For seventeen consecutive years, volunteers from Trinity [...]
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