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The Ontario government announced the payment of its third installment of COVID-19 Social Service Relief Funding on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Kingston has received approximately $4.6 million through this program since April 2020, part of a $510-million relief package distributed to municipalities and Indigenous community partners province-wide. Ruth Noordegraaf, Director
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At their meeting held Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2020, Kingston City Council received a report for information that outlined the cleaning costs associated with the former Fairfield Manor sites. The two sites – formerly Fairfield Manor West on Ridley Court, and Fairfield Manor East on McLean Court – are currently being
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The two former Fairfield Manor sites in Kingston have been listed for sale, eight months after the retirement residences were shut down for failing inspections. The former Fairfield Manor East and Fairfield Manor West are currently listed as investment properties for sale by Rogers & Trainor Commercial Realty Inc.,
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Kingston Fire & Rescue has received approval from the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office to issue an ‘Order to Close’ to the private owner of Fairfield Manor’s east and west locations. The City of Kingston issued a press release on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, announcing the Order to Close. The owner
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Kingston Fire and Rescue is continuing to monitor the saf3ty of residents at the Fairfield Manor East location. The retirement residence is privately owned by Q & Sons Management Inc., who are not speaking to the media at this time. The same company owns Fairfield Manor West, which was ordered
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The following is a press release from the City of Kingston: At noon on Monday, Kingston Fire and Rescue posted a ‘notice to vacate’ at Fairfield Manor West and is now working with the South East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) to monitor Fairfield’s east facility. “We continue to coordinate
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A retirement residence in Kingston’s east end is falling under further scrutiny as friends of residents allege the facility is no longer consistently providing and serving meals. Fairfield Manor East was under fire watch by Kingston Fire and Rescue on Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, the same day Fairfield Manor West
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