• Advocates call for equity for Deafblind people

    Advocates call for equity for Deafblind people
    Advocates for Canadians who are Deafblind are calling for equity and understanding about an often-misunderstood community.June was National Deafblind Awareness Month. Belleville’s Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre was one of several Ontario sites chosen by CNIB Deafblind Community Services to promote awareness of the disability and the needs of Deafblind people.About 466,000 Canadians older than age 15 have some amount of dual sensory loss, the agency reports, and many lack access to serv
  • Storm causes house fire in Queensborough, power outages across Hastings-Prince Edward

    Storm causes house fire in Queensborough, power outages across Hastings-Prince Edward
    Residents of a Queensborough home escaped injury Wednesday after an apparent lightning strike ignited a fire there and high winds felled trees and power lines across Hastings County.Tuesday’s tornado warnings were followed a day later by another storm system that battered much of Ontario. Thousands of people in Hastings County remained without power – and therefore fans and air-conditioning – on a very hot Thursday morning. There were also smaller outages in Prince Edward Coun
  • Belleville’s Own: The computer doctor is in

    Belleville’s Own: The computer doctor is in
    VIC SCHUKOVBorn in the historic town of Kemptville, just south of Ottawa, Jim Sanders came to Belleville in 1976, as a 10-year-old military brat. Here, he acquired accreditation in network engineering at Ontario Business College. For 10 years he worked in the technical whole sales end of computer electronics.A self-taught computer programming virtuoso, he pioneered in the early days of DOS 3.1 — crafting batch files line by line — to mastering Windows NT4, early networking infrastru

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