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Saw this on FB.  Hubby has sent an email.  Could be fun for anyone in the Kingston area.  Note the deadline: Info needed by 5:00 pm today. The TV show “Titans” (DC comics) is looking for 50 men ages 18-70 to work background on the series next week in Kingston at the Kingston Penitentiary to...

Article Link CFNIS arrested Leading Seaman Maxime Mercier, 27, a weapons engineering technician on HMCS Montreal, without incident. The FSOC says its officers seized a package of pills. The following morning at 9:30 a.m., CFNIS arrested a second Canadian Armed Forces member, Leading Seaman...

Donald Malarkey passed away 30 Sept 2021 at the age of 96 of "age-related causes".  We should all be so lucky. RIP  :salute: Donald Malarkey, war hero portrayed in Band of Brothers, dies aged 96

Skirt, doeskin jacket, "Canex" blouse, tuxedo shirt and cummerbund.  If you're 5'5"  and 140 lbs or less, it can be tailored to fit you. Best offer.

Article Link The veteran actor, best known for a variety of films from Dracula to The Wicker Man through to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, passed away on Sunday morning at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, according to sources. The decision to release the news days after was based...

Article Link The Defence Department says the remains of a Second World War airman found in a German lake in 2008 have been identified as those of Flight Sgt. John Joseph Carey of Ottawa. Carey was 22 years old and the front air gunner in a Royal Air Force Halifax bomber when it took off for a...

Five inured after training blast Two police officers and three paramedics have been injured in a training exercise involving small explosives near Ottawa. Two officers from the Ottawa Police Service and three paramedics were injured Wednesday morning after an explosion at a training site near...

Article Link William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, one of the World War Two veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died. He was 90 His son, William Guarnere Jr., confirmed Sunday that his father died at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia...

Not sure how many know of this program.  I just heard about it last year when my sister showed us picture's of my brother-in-law's stone.  We are getting one done this year for my Dad. Introduced in January 1996, the Ad Astra Stone Program has attracted an exceptional level of interest. The...

Article Link Before he could get his hands on the modern day equipment, the Army presented him with a 1903 A4 replica sniper – the same he used in the war and had not seen since 1944. Despite a 66-year gap without using the gun, he had no ease picking off a target at 300 yards, with all three...

Pot-smoking Mountie can't smoke in uniform, RCMP says A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a medical marijuana prescription thinks he should be able to smoke the drug while in uniform, but the RCMP says he can't smoke marijuana while in red serge or while wearing his regular working...

Article Link LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire with an assault rifle in a terminal of Los Angeles International airport on Friday, killing a Transportation Security Agent and wounding at least six other people before he was shot and captured, authorities said. The incident prompted...

Holiday in an East German bunker Reuters photographer Ina Fassbender spends a day at a museum which is a former East German bunker, built in the 1970s to shelter the district's command unit in an emergency. The 3,600-square-meter bunker now offers visitors the chance to stay there overnight as...

Article Link Like a note in a bottle washed ashore after years at sea, a package of letters arrived at a Kingston high school last week, responses to students’ letters sent to troops in Afghanistan over a year ago. For the past few years, history and social sciences teacher Nicole Kasserra...

Article Link A former staff sergeant at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., tried to get out of her physical training test by recruiting someone to stab her in the stomach. A military judge last month sentenced Alison Mona, 61st Communications Squadron, to 90 days in jail and busted her three...

...but this letter (supposedly) circulating in Kingston, ON (and being investigated by the police), is just wrong, plain and simple.....

WEEKS, Timothy Passed away in Ottawa on Monday, July 15th, 2013, in his 47th year. Beloved husband of Kerri Lynn. Loving father of Hunter and Ocean. Son of Melbourne and Barbara Weeks. Brother of Tony (Pamela), Tracey (Ross) and Todd (Lenora). Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Tim...

Obituary Link George Llewellyn “Llyn” Whenham passed away July 8 in Dawson Creek at age 79. Youngest son of James and Laura Whenham, Llyn was born in Carmangay, Alberta. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a young man, and spent many years in the oil patch before joining Immigration...

Link to Article at Life magazine The ruins left behind after warfare speak a language of their own. And, even more strikingly, no matter where the conflict has taken place — whether it’s in northern Europe or the South Pacific, the Middle East or Central Africa — the vernacular of destruction...

Article Link Ashley Jessica did not expect to be groped between the legs when she opted for a pat-down at an American airport last week. The only other option available to her and her mother was going through a body scanner at a San Diego airport last week. In a YouTube video, Jessica — a...