The Lasalle Causeway will be shut down at times tonight.
Starting at 7:00 p.m., the bridge will be reduced to one lane and will also be closed for a number of 10-minute periods to allow for materials to be removed.
Both lanes of the Causeway will be re-opened by 6:00 a.m. tomorrow.
Search and Rescue stations will open for the season today in Kingston Cobourg, Port Weller, Port Dover and Amherstburg, in an effort to reduce the risk of injuries and fatalities on area waterways.
The Coast Guard warns that despite the warm weather, water temperatures are still cold enough to cause hypothermia, within a short period of time.
The Canadian Coast Guard is responsible for providing maritime resources in support of Search and Rescue in areas of federal responsibility. On the Great Lakes, Canadian Coast Guard stations are seasonal, operating during the traditional recreational boating season from April through to December.
Kingston will be assisting Smiths Falls as it hosts evacuees dealing with rising flood waters in Northern Ontario.
Extensive flooding in the James Bay region of northern Ontario has prompted Emergency Management Ontario to request Smiths Falls to act as a host municipality to prepare for the evacuation of northern residents whose communities are threatened by flooding.
The operation is being coordinated by Emergency Management Ontario and the Ministry of Natural Resources, in collaboration with federal, provincial, municipal and First Nations officials.
Kingston’s lead emergency management official is already in Smiths Falls, where evacuees will begin arriving later today.
The mayor says other resources could be shared, including equipment, supplies and childare and recreational staff is necessary.
The robotics team at KCVI is getting some world-class attention for engineering excellence.
From today until Saturday, the K-Botics team is competing at the Waterloo Regional event ahead of the FIRST Robotics World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri on April 25th.
It’s the second straight year the high school has made it into the competition, that’s designed at helping high school students discover the interests and rewards of engineering and science.
“We need to show kids that it’s more fun to design and create a video game than it is to play one.” Dean Kamen. Inventor, Founder of FIRST.
The team’s progress can be followed at www.kbotics.ca/blog
It seems we are on our way to breaking yet another weather record in Kingston today.
Today’s projected high is 24 degrees which is double the record high of 12.8 degrees, set back in 1979.
The average high for this time of year is plus 5.
The Napanee Fire Department has issued a burn ban due to the unseasonable warm and dry weather throughout the region.
Since Monday, the Greater Napanee Fire Service has responded to two substantial grass fires along with a number of grass and brush fires in nearby municipalities.
The open air burning ban will be in effect until there is an increase in precipitation and the Greater Napanee Fire Service determines the increase in threat of grass fires is decreased.
Anyone with questions or concerns regarding the burning ban can contact the Greater Napanee Fire Service Station 1, at 613-354-3415.
The Special Investigations Unit has cleared two Quinte West OPP officers following a December incident that left a suspect with a broken cheek bone.
The SIU says 32-year-old Glen Horne struggled with police and struck teh barred cruiser window with his head while being arrested for violating his curfew.
SIU acting director, Joseph Martino, says there’s no evidence the officers used excessive force, and that Horne’s injury may have been self-inflicted inside the cruiser.
A collaboration between Queen’s and Bombardier Transportation’s System Division in Kingston will mean a unique learning opportunity for civil engineering students at the university.
The large-scale project will involve building and evaluating a section of new mono-rail test track to add to the existing rail test tracks in Kingston.
Dr. Fam, Mark Green (Department of Civil Engineering) and graduate student Nik Wootton are implementing cutting edge structural engineering technologies as they work with other project members to build two of the support beams for the 1.5 kilometre long test track. They are using glass-fiber-reinforced polymer bars to reinforce one concrete beam. The beam is 11 metres long and weighs 30 tons.
“The scale of the project and size of the polymer bars used (up to 25 millimetres in diameter) makes this application unique,” says Dr. Fam. “Significant research has been done by Queen’s researchers in the area of structural applications of fiber-reinforced polymers for over 17 years. This project represents one of the largest applications ever in transportation infrastructure using this technology.”
Other companies and organizations involved in the project include: Anchor Concrete, McCormick Rankin, a member of MMM Group Limited, Trancels Pultrall and St. Lawrence College.
A group of Queen’s researchers have received the prestigious Henry Cowles Award.
The biologists, were recognized for their paper revealing new evidence of the destructive impact of global climate change on North America’s largest Arctic delta.
“All of us are really excited that we were recognized with this award, “says graduate student Joshua Thienpont, who is also the team’s co-leader. “There have been many excellent papers recognized by the Cowles Award.”
Other members of the team include biology professor John P. Smol, who is also the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, undergraduate student Holly Nesbitt, Michael Pisaric (Carleton University), Trevor Lantz (University of Victoria), Steven Kokelj (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada), and Steven Solomon (Geological Survey of Canada).
The group focused on an area in the Northwest Territories hit by a widespread and ecologically destructive storm surge in 1999.
A local unicyclist is going for a world record in the city today, with a goal of doing 100 miles in less than 6 hours and 44 minutes.
Phil Schleihauf is a student at Queen’s University, and recently received a $1,000.00 grant from the Awesome Kingston Foundation, and will be at the Memorial Centre starting at 11:00 a.m.
There will also be learn to unicycle workshops along with the world’s largest fair-trade chocolate fondu on-site.
Phil is also an advocate for sustainable farming and fair trade, and is also taking part in the event to raise awareness about the new outdoor market pilot project at the Memorial Centre that was recently approved by City Council.
Live updates will be available online at www.u100.ca
International Women’s Day will be celebrated at a luncheon in Kingston today.
The Entrepreneurship Centre at KEDCO and The Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce have gathered experts to share their strategies for work and life balance and maximizing new technology.
Today’s event will be held from 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the Kingston Banquet and Conference Centre.
International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future.
First celebrated in 1911, every year since, organizations around the world have recognized the accomplishments and successes of women and their contributions to society.
Registration is available through The Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce website at www.kingstonchamber.on.ca
Kingston Fire & Rescue is advising residents that a planned burn-off of propane is scheduled to take place in the west-end today.
The burn will take place at the Canadian Tire store at the corner of Gardiners Road and Princess Street throughout this week, ending at 6:00 p.m. each night.
Officials say the flare from the burn could measure between 4 and 5 metres to empty a propane storage container to facilitate repairs, however it will not affect operations at the store or gas station.
