Belleville news

• Quinte region heat warning: tips for staying safe and cool

  29-06-2026 23:18 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Environment Canada has issued an alert due to extreme heat in the Quinte region.The agency on Monday declared an orange alert about this week’s heat wave. Temperatures may reach as high as 33 C, with the heat wave lasting until Friday or Saturday, Environment Canada reported. An orange alert means weather may cause significant health effects, disruption, or damage and may last for several days.The forecast added humidity may make it feel closer to 40 C.Southeast Public Health on Monday is
  
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• National Air Force Museum offering guided tours inside aircraft

  29-06-2026 23:00 via intelligencer.ca
  
  CFB TRENTON – Staff and volunteers of the National Air Force Museum of Canada are opening the doors to history – and to some of their aircraft.The museum’s popular Flight Deck Fridays return July 3 through Aug. 28. First offered last year, the series gives visitors a chance to step inside as many as seven of the aircraft in the outdoor air park.They include the Labrador, Chinook, and Sea King transport helicopters and the Hercules and Second World War-era Dakota transport plan
  
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• Chip In For Change raises more than $8,000 for Habitat for Humanity PEH

  29-06-2026 19:45 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Habitat for Humanity Prince Edward-Hastings is teeing up a big thank you to the community after enjoying a third successful Chip In For Change fundraiser.Held over Father’s Day weekend, Chip In For Change invited golfers at local courses to donate in support of Habitat PEH’s efforts to build more affordable homeownership opportunities, for local families.From Friday to Sunday, Habitat volunteers were stationed at Black Bear Ridge, Bay of Quinte Golf, Timber Ridge Golf Course, NINE G
  
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• County Transit moving riders to venues throughout the summer

  29-06-2026 19:39 via intelligencer.ca
  
  As summer gets under way, County Transit is working to help keep riders travelling to and from destinations throughout Prince Edward County.County Transit’s summer Weekend Connector buses will return for 2026 with expanded service, running Fridays through Sundays from July 3 to October 18.The enhanced route will connect Wellington (including Wellington on the Lake), Bloomfield, Picton (including the Heights/Base31) and Belleville, with many stops between.Two buses run on two routes with c
  
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• Inaugural Beautiful View Festival lined up for late summer in downtown

  29-06-2026 19:31 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Downtown Belleville is set to welcome Quinte’s first indie music festival, with artists scattered throughout the heart of the city in late summer.Musical acts will take the stage at locations like Capers, UpFront Cafe, The Belleville Club, and Quinte Arts Council for a weekend-long, multi-venue music festival coming to Downtown Belleville this Sept. 18 and 19.Downtown Belleville Improvement Association organizers said the weekend fest will provide an opportunity for visitors to “tak
  
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• Belleville’s Kinsmen Outdoor Pool reopens for the summer 

  29-06-2026 19:25 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Break out your swimwear.The Kinsmen Community Outdoor Pool has reopened “for another summer of fun, fitness and outdoor recreation,” according to Belleville’s Community Services Department.Serving the city for more than 80 years since first constructed by the Belleville’s Kinsmen Club as a community project in the late 1940s, the pool’s ownership was assumed in 2010 by the municipality, according to Intelligencer files.In its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, the pool
  
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• Belleville Mayor Ellis presented with new federal Housing Design Catalogue

  29-06-2026 19:18 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Belleville has endorsed a new federal Housing Design Catalogue that is part of a broader set of measures by the federal government said to double the rate of housing construction, restore affordability, and reduce homelessness.The catalogue supports standardization in the housing sector through a library of over 50 pre-approved low-rise housing plans to accelerate “gentle density” nationwide that’s free to use for all Canadians.The designs take into consideration the different
  
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• Stirring concert by North Lakeshore Chorus

  29-06-2026 18:05 via intelligencer.ca
  
  What a beautiful and stirring concert the North Lakeshore Chorus presented in Bridge Street Church Saturday afternoon! Title of the program was For King and Country, commemorating the 110th anniversary of the First World War battle of Beaumot Hamel, in which the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was almost wiped out. The heartbreaking loss, especially in the St. John’s area, led to Newfoundland proclaiming July 1 as the official Remembrance Day for the regiment, well before it became part of Ca
  
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