Kingston News, January 15, 2018

Walden Gate Fire

Fire in the garage of a home on Walden Gate in Kingston has caused an estimated $40,000 damage.

Kingston Fire and Rescue was called to the home around three this morning after the homeowners were alerted by a smoke detector in their bedroom.

The occupants of the house left and firefighters were able to quickly knock down the garage fire. Nobody was injured.  It turns out the fire was started by a space heater in the garage. You can go right here to set up a new garage at your affordable prices.

Death – Tichborne

The Special Investigations Unit and the OPP’s Criminal Investigation Branch are investigating the death of a 49 year old woman at her home in Tichborne…near Sharbot Lake.

The woman had been taken to her home by the OPP after being found outside a vehicle around 1 a.m. on Saturday. A news release says the driver of the vehicle had fled on foot.

About four hours after taking the woman to her home…the OPP says it was called by paramedics about her sudden death.

The OPP then notified the Special Investigations Unit and it is now look into the circumstance surrounding the woman’s death.

Stores – Cataraqui Centre – Target/Sears

Six stores will occupy the space left vacant at the Cataraqui Centre when Target closed almost two years ago.

The mall has announced Indigo, Starbucks, Marshalls, Urban Planet, Dollarama and SoftMoc will be moving into the newly renovated space this spring.

Now the Cataraqui Centre is facing another daunting task – what to do with the massive two story space that had been occupied by the Sears store.  It has closed and all of the chain’s remaining locations were shuttered for the final time yesterday.

Intensification

It’s called intensification and the topic of how to increase the density of population in downtown Kingston will be up for discussion at a special public meeting of Kingston City Council this week.  Brent Toderian is considered to be an expert on urban design.  Toderian is a former chief planner for the City of Vancouver who runs his own consulting company.  He’ll speak at the special Council meeting on Wednesday at 6pm in Memorial Hall.

He’ll also speak on Friday at the Kingston Climate Change Symposium at the Grand Theatre.

Kingston Company – Sold

Another high tech Kingston company has been bought by a company in the United States

Laser Depth Dynamics of Kingston has been purchased by IPG Photonics Corporation of Oxford, Massachusetts.

The Kingston company was developed in 2012 by Paul Webster while he was a Ph.D. candidate in engineering physics at Queen’s.  It has 16 employees and its operation in Kingston will become IPG’s new center of product development for weld monitoring solutions.

Kingston software company PrintFleet was recently bought by a company in Fort Worth, Texas.

History File

From Tony’s Today in History file…

On this day, January 15th, 1892…James Naismith first published his rules of basketball in the YMCA’s “Triangle” magazine in Springfield, Mass. The native of Almonte, Ontario devised the game the previous year while teaching at the Springfield “Y.”

Marijuana – Jobs

Need a job?

With marijuana legalization due later this year, Canadian businesses in the sector are on a hiring spree.

There’s actually a staffing agency called…Cannabis At Work.  It was accepting applications at an exhibition in Vancouver on the weekend.  It say companies are looking for experience and don’t care if that comes from working in a commercial greenhouse or in the black market. It says people in general growing positions could make about $50, 000 dollars a year.

Blue Monday

It is Blue Monday…supposedly the most depressing day of the year.

It’s supposed to be caused by things like weather, debt, the time since Christmas, broken New Year’s resolutions and motivation at this time of year.

But…It actually has no base in science and it turns out Blue Monday was made up in 2005 by a British travel company.