All Posts Tagged With: "Springer Market Square"

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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 [...]

5Feb2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 2 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

2Feb2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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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 [...]

29Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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The Rise of the Locavore

Like many people, each and every year I make a pledge to better myself, and give back to the local community.  This year, I purposely kept my New Year’s resolution to myself. It’s not as though I was ashamed of my master plan for 2010, rather, I feared that if I put it [...]

20Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 18 comments | Continued
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From Market to Park-it

Take a drive by Market Square at night, or anytime for that matter, when skaters are buzzing around the artificial rink and you’ll see that Market Square has somehow become Park-it Square.

11Jan2010 | Jordan Press | 7 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

23Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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Tree-Gate

While listening to CBC Radio on my walk to work this morning, our local corresponded, JC Kenny, mentioned an interesting story, which has received little attention from Kingston-based media outlets.  When I arrived at work, I mentioned the story on Twitter and humorously dubbed the affair, Tree-Gate.  Within minutes, I received numerous queries from followers, [...]

10Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 7 comments | Continued
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The Torch Cometh

On December 14th, less than one week away, the Olympic Torch Relay will make it’s way through the Limestone City, with a brief celebration that will be held at Springer Market Square.  The City is pulling out all the stops to ensure that the torch is met with a proper amount of fanfare, and they’re [...]

8Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

Last Friday I put out a call for snow.  It’s not as though I miss spending hours on end shovelling the stuff, or dealing with people who forget how to drive after the first dusting, rather I need a bit of the white stuff in order to to complete my picture perfect image of [...]

4Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 2 comments | Continued
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The Accessible City

Back in 2006, the City of Kingston released the 2007 (4 Year) Accessibility Plan, which was geared towards identifying and improving programs, facilities and infrastructure that were not fully accessible to those with disabilities.  Since then, new projects, specifically the K-Rock Centre, Invista Centre, Market Square pavilion and Kingston Police Station, have all been completed [...]

30Nov2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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