Patrick Kennedy
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KENNEDY: Legendary Chuvalo was a champ inside, outside boxing ring (opens the original)
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The setting for the first time and also the last time yours truly met the late George Chuvalo was, curiously, a school. As you may have heard, Chuvalo passed away last week in a Toronto assisted-living care centre where he’d spent the past several years. He died on Sept. 12, his 89th birthday. What I remember best about those two meetings is that the messages to students at two Kingston schools, delivered some 35 years apart, were vastly contrasting. In retrospect that’s not surprising, consider
KENNEDY: Dilapidated Stone Gables mansion once bustled with life (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago I interviewed local naturalist/bird watcher Hilbert Buist for a column on Belle Island. I recognized his unusual surname from a piece I’d written long ago. So I asked Hilbert, “Did you ever live in the ‘hanging tower?” He chuckled and readily confirmed the suspected link. “Yes,“ he replied. “But it was actually a water tower, even though a lot of people referred to it as the hanging tower.” The place in question is the former penitentiary water tower on Sir John A. Macdonald Boul
No yellow brick road: Belle Park, Belle Island have seen better days (opens the original)
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Among my favourite bike trails in Kingston is the short stretch along a converted railway line that winds past familiar haunts in my childhood neighbourhood and through Belle Park to neighbouring Belle Island, the latter being a place of significance for Indigenous people. Recently I and my trusty metal steed, Trigger, visited Belle Park and Belle Island. I’m sorry to report, this, but Trigger and I won’t be returning to either anytime soon. Both clearly have seen better days. The ride, especial
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