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*Paid Business Feature* For more than four years, Handy Fairies has been taking the chore out of cleaning for individuals and families in the Kingston area. In October 2017, Phuong MacNeil began cleaning the houses of her neighbours after being laid off from her role as a software engineer. Having
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A venture that began from the mudroom-sized home refillery during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, Harlowe Green has grown organically due to local communities supporting the venture, and small businesses promoting it and partnering with it. It is a sustainable living venture along with a small shop supporting
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To promote continued support of local businesses the Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce is launching a shop local campaign this fall and winter. “Our local business owners are our friends and neighbours,” said Karen Cross, CEO of the Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce. “When we support them, it means local
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Two young entrepreneurs have returned to Kingston to grow their digital marketing business, Imperium Social, and support businesses in a range of industries through web design, logo design, and search engine optimization. Wes Mann and Chris Mackey, both alumni of Queen’s University, chose Kingston as their home base – a
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Novari Health, a Kingston entity since 2003, started out as a project inside Kingston General Hospital (KGH) aimed at creating an organizational system to support their list of patients waiting for surgery and provide eBooking for procedures. The surgical waitlist software was originally designed as a colour-coded list that shows
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Update (Tuesday, Jul. 27, 2021)Kingston Police have now confirmed that the incident involving a female stealing merchandise from a downtown store took place at a local retail store that was hit with a theft just days before. Amanda’s House of Elegance, located at 70 Princess Street, was the subject of
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After nearly a year and a half of business owners opening and closing their doors, and adjusting businesses strategies to adapt to all the curveballs the pandemic threw at them, the last thing a small town business owner needs is to close its doors for repairs. However, that’s just what
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It’s no secret that local, independent businesses have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some local businesses, it seems, have been hit hard in more ways than one. Amanda Stewart, owner of Amanda’s House of Elegance on lower Princess Street in the downtown core, recently took to social
Read moreWhat do 300 computer chairs, 500 bags of non-perishable food items, and a brand new Canada Goose jacket have in common? You might be shocked to learn they are all things thrown out last week by students departing Kingston for the summer. “The last couple of weeks it’s been crazy,”
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Steve and Lisa Goddard opened Hard Way Cider in 2016 after friends were constantly asking them for more of their home brew. After finding great success with their brews, the pair have opened a new location in Kingston’s west end. According to the Lisa, Steve had the initial idea of
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Every month, Awesome Kingston gives away a $1,000 micro-grant to a local project pitched by its creator(s). These days, the pitch party is happening virtually, but the outcome is still the same: No-strings-attached money is given to the winner to help them develop the projects that Awesome Kingston thinks will
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Local entrepreneur Ken Foster has garnered attention since Dr. Kieran Moore wore one of his Love Over COVID t-shirts to his COVID-19 vaccination appointment yesterday. Foster, who said the tag line ‘Love is More Contagious than COVID’ came to him in the middle of the night about six months into
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