Amherst Island Ferry

Amherst Island is getting a new ferry and it could be in service by the spring of 2019.

Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca made the announcement yesterday on the Frontenac II.

The province is expected to award the $20 million contract for building the ferry in the spring of next year.  Designing and building the ferry will take approximately two years.

Once the new ferry is in service the Frontenac II will become the backup ferry for both Amherst and Wolfe Islands.

South Frontenac – Boy Injured

A 6 year old boy is recovering in hospital after being struck by his family’s vehicle on Shibley Road in Central Frontenac.

Sharbot Lake OPP says the boy was getting out of his parents vehicle at around 7:30 yesterday morning when it began to roll downhill from his home and ran him over.   The boy sustained serious injuries. He was transported by ambulance to Perth Hospital and airlifted to CHEO in Ottawa.

Bleach Scare

Police say they don’t know if it was someone’s misguided attempt at cleaning the playground equipment or an act of someone who wanted to harm children.

Daycare workers who took a group of 15 kids to Old Colony Park yesterday found a puddle of bleach on a slide and bleach on the ground.

Nobody who came in contact with the bleach was seriously hurt.

Anyone who knows how it got there is being asked to contact Kingston Police.

High Rise Condo – Planning Committee

The application for a zoning bylaw amendment for a high rise condo on the former Empire Theatre property in downtown Kingston goes to the city’s planning committee today.

IN8 Developments has scaled down the project from 20 storeys to 17 storeys.

The development is opposed by a group called Vision for Kingston. Another group called Future Kingston is in favour of the development.

Public Tours – Kingston Pen

The first public tours of Kingston Penitentiary as a tourist attraction will take place today.

The St. Lawrence Parks Commission has hired 30 students to act as tour guides and they’re been assisted by retired Correctional Staff who had worked at Kingston Pen.

The tours are almost completely sold out – but a new batch of tickets will go on sale June 30th.

Cops and Cowboys

Kington Police will be the ones taking orders today in their annual Cops and Cowboys fundraising event. Police will be taking orders at Lone Star Texas Grill from 11:30 – 2 and from 5-9, raising funds for Special Olympics Ontario.

St. Lawrence Graduation

Over 2,000 students will be graduating from St. Lawrence College today and tomorrow.

The first of the convocation ceremonies takes place tonight…another will be held tomorrow morning with the final one tomorrow afternoon at the Rogers K-Rock Centre

O Canada

A bill to change the lyrics of O Canada to make the national anthem gender neutral has passed third and final reading in the House of Commons.

Only one line in the lyrics would actually change.

Instead of saying…in all thy sons command…the line would say….in all of us command.

The bill still has to go to the Senate for debate this fall.

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