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• Funny Side Up: An idiot's guide to sharper memory - The Intelligencer

  01-06-2023 17:06
  
  Funny Side Up: An idiot's guide to sharper memory  The Intelligencer
  
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• Belleville's McInroy-Maines donates $60K to Trenton, Belleville hospitals

  19-12-2025 21:26 via intelligencer.ca
    The Trenton Memorial and Belleville General Hospitals will each receive half. The company in the last 10 years has donated more than $500,000 to area hospitals. “Giving back has always been an important part of who we are as a company,” said Peter McInroy, owner of McInroy-Maines. “We began this tradition during our 50th anniversary, and we are proud to continue supporting our local hospitals as we mark 60 years in business.” “We are incredibly thankful to Mc
  
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• BGH Foundation director Steve Cook leaving; no successor yet

  19-12-2025 20:46 via intelligencer.ca
  Belleville General Hospital Foundation executive director Steve Cook is leaving to take a job elsewhere. A Quinte Health news release issued Friday states Cook is taking a leadership position with a foundation in the Greater Toronto Area. “It has been a privilege to work alongside such a generous and passionate community,” Cook says in the release. “Everything we have accomplished together has been driven from generosity, and I will always be proud of what this community contin
  
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• Tweed and Company Theatre gets 14 award nominations, needs votes

  19-12-2025 17:28 via intelligencer.ca
  Tweed and Company Theatre performers and crew are urging fans to vote for them after 14 nominations for the BroadwayWorld Ottawa Awards. The nominations for regional awards are for productions staged between October 2024 and September 2025. Tweed and Company is nominated for: Best musical: Jersey Boys; best new play or musical: A Night at the Grand Ghoul Opry; best ensemble: A Night at the Grand Ghoul Opry, Jersey Boys; best performer in a musical: Danielle Leger (A Christmas Carol), Griffin Hew
  
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• Ontario building roundabout at Prince Edward County Road 1 and Highway 62

  19-12-2025 16:58 via intelligencer.ca
  Prince Edward County is getting a new, provincially-funded roundabout at the busy intersection of Highway 62 and County Road 1. The project, announced Dec. 17, is expected to improve road safety and create jobs, an Ontario media release stated. “Our government is investing $30 billion to build the highway infrastructure we need to keep our province moving forward,” said Hastings-Lennox and Addington MPP Ric Bresee, parliamentary assistant to the minister of transportation. “The
  
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• Quinte Conservation downgrades low-water condition to Level 1

  19-12-2025 16:53 via intelligencer.ca
  Quinte Conservation and the Low Water Response Team have reduced the region’s low water condition to Level 1. The condition means there is still the potential for water-supply issues. Private wells are at greatest risk; some may experience minor issues in supply. Officials continue to recommend reducing water use by 10 per cent. Watershed conditions stabilized in November and December, the agency reported Thursday. Near-normal rainfall and snowfall offset the lack of precipitation since Au
  
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• Holiday service changes

  19-12-2025 15:46 via intelligencer.ca
  The City of Belleville announces the following changes to city services over the holidays: • City Hall – Open from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Dec. 24 and 31. Closed on Dec. 25, 26 and Jan. 1. • Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre – Closed at noon Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25 and Dec. 26, closed at noon Dec. 31 (Ice, Family Dental Centre Track, Pool and Programs close at 11:15 a.m. The building will remain open for the New Year’s Eve Belleville Senators game). Closed Jan. 1 (open f
  
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• Snider stepping away from Volunteer and Information HPE after 20 years at helm

  19-12-2025 15:31 via intelligencer.ca
  Volunteer and Information Hastings Prince Edward is announcing the retirement of long-time Executive Director Brenda Snider, who will be stepping down after 20 years of dedicated leadership and service to the community. Snider’s impact on Hastings and Prince Edward Counties has been profound. Under her leadership, VIHPE has strengthened partnerships and expanded support for over 280 agencies. She has championed volunteerism across the region and has built a legacy for VIHPE. Her steady pre
  
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• Rain, quick freeze on Friday; storm system arriving around Christmas Day

  18-12-2025 19:30 via intelligencer.ca
  This story has been updated to reflect the forecast as of Thursday evening. It will be updated again on Friday morning. Environment Canada is predicting several incoming weather systems, including a potential storm on or just after Christmas Day, could affect holiday travel in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties. There should still be at least a little snow on the ground on Dec. 25, meteorologist Steven Flisfeder said Thursday in a telephone interview. In the meantime, there is a special weather
  
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• Power outages, icy conditions possible today; stormy Christmas possible

  18-12-2025 19:30 via intelligencer.ca
  This is an updated version of a story first posted Thursday. It contains the forecast as of Friday morning.Power outages, icy conditions, and difficult travel are possible today amid rainfall and high winds, one of three weather turbulent weather systems expected through Dec. 27. As lights in some parts of the Quinte region flickered on Friday morning, Environment Canada’s Belleville forecast predicted a total rainfall of 10 to 20 mm and westerly wind gusts of 60 km/h to 80 km/h. “A
  
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• Multiple storm systems may affect holiday travel; quick freeze Friday

  18-12-2025 19:30 via intelligencer.ca
  Environment Canada is predicting several incoming weather systems, including a potential storm on or just after Christmas Day, could affect holiday travel in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties. There should still be at least a little snow on the ground on Dec. 25, the forecasts indicate. Early forecasts show the two counties will see several different systems passing through the region leading up to and just after Christmas Day, meteorologist Steven Flisfeder said Thursday in an Intelligencer t
  
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• Late-week storm could affect holiday travel: Environment Canada

  18-12-2025 19:30 via intelligencer.ca
  Environment Canada forecasts Hastings and Prince Edward Counties can expect frequent changes in the weather throughout next week, with a white Christmas uncertain. After heavy rainfall Thursday and Friday, said another low-pressure system blows into the region Saturday through Sunday, Environment Canada meteorologist Steven Flisfeder said. Flurries are possible on both days, with northern areas having the greatest chance of accumulation. Saturday’s daytime high temperature is to reach 2 C;
  
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• United Way column: Creating community

  18-12-2025 16:58 via intelligencer.ca
  As Christmas draws closer and the year begins to wind down, our routines tend to soften. In that quieter space, many of us begin to reflect, not only on the year behind us, but on the people around us. This season has a way of reminding us that community and care are not abstract. They are deeply personal. Community looks like the child who sits next to your own at school and needs a little extra help. It may look like the recently-widowed neighbour facing his first holiday alone, or the single
  
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• Cultivating Creativity: Realism with a twist

  18-12-2025 16:49 via intelligencer.ca
  SCOTT WILLIAMS QUINTE ARTS COUNCIL Susan Moshynski’s creative career has spanned many roles: artist, designer, illustrator, and even an ongoing, if occasional, gig as a political cartoonist—long before “side hustle” became part of everyday vocabulary. But it is in her role as a fine artist, a painter, that she has found her passion and her greatest success. Moshynski says she “came by it all honestly,” learning to paint from her father, a full-time sign painte
  
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• Belleville’s Own: The wonder of working with art glass

  18-12-2025 16:37 via intelligencer.ca
  VIC SCHUKOV Kathy Moores is owner of Cracked Glass Design, one of the first lifestyle tenants in the venerable Memorial Market Place. Born in Thompson, Manitoba, she came to the Quinte area in 1985 with the military (from 1982 to 2007). For the past 25 years, on the artistic side, her passion has been in working with glass: “I like its versatility. I love its recyclability. We don’t waste any glass at all, and work with all forms of it. The colours, the textures. I love how it melts.
  
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• Police briefs: intimate-partner violence, impaired driving charges

  18-12-2025 15:51 via intelligencer.ca
  A Belleville man faces three charges in connection with a report of intimate-partner violence Thursday evening in the city. Police stated they received the report at 6:52 p.m. Witnesses in the west end reported hearing a disturbance and saw a man striking a woman as they left a home. Police then located, arrested and charged a 29-year-old with assault, releasing him on condition that he not communicate with the woman or go to her home. Then, at 12:45 a.m. the next day, officers received a report
  
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• Belleville Sea Cadets youth program hosts holiday bottle-drive fundraiser

  18-12-2025 13:36 via intelligencer.ca
  Don’t deep six those empties sitting in your garage. They are valuable for organizations such as the Navy League of Canada -Belleville Branch which is hosting a holiday bottle drive fundraiser in support of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Program, a free youth program for ages 12 to 18. The Sea Cadet Program focuses on leadership, citizenship, physical fitness, and maritime skills, helping young people develop confidence, teamwork, and valuable life skills at no cost to families. Community me
  
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• New carbon monoxide alarm requirements come into effect January 1

  18-12-2025 13:25 via intelligencer.ca
  Prince Edward County Fire & Rescue is advising residents to prepare for changes in carbon monoxide alarm requirements coming into effect on January 1. The new regulations under the Ontario Fire Code are designed to strengthen public safety and minimize the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. “As the silent killer, carbon monoxide poses a deadly threat that you can’t detect without a proper alarm,” says Tim Kraemer, interim Fire Chief. “These changes in the re
  
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• County FM radio to deliver holiday cheer to homes on Christmas Eve

  18-12-2025 13:16 via intelligencer.ca
  Now known as Celebrate Christmas, an annual 99.3 County FM broadcast has become a Christmas tradition bringing holiday cheer to homes in Prince Edward County and beyond. Celebrate Christmas is a curated combination of scripture, carols, and Christmas greetings on behalf of participating church congregations in the county. Participating individuals and organizations have changed over the years, but many have been with the program from the outset. This Christmas will feature contributions from 14
  
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• Belleville Transit fare changes and route adjustments coming in new year

  18-12-2025 13:10 via intelligencer.ca
  Be prepared to dig a little deeper in your pocket if you ride Belleville Transit in the new year. The City of Belleville is reminding riders bus fares will increase January 1 ahead of route timing updates to be rolled out January 5. As part of fare hikes in the new year, adult monthly passes will increase from $80 to $90 and all January paper passes will be sold at the new rate and will be valid January 1-31. The BTAP monthly passes purchased electronically or loaded onto a reloadable card will
  
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• Christmas Sharing seeking top-up donations to round out 2025 campaign

  18-12-2025 13:02 via intelligencer.ca
  Christmas Sharing program is seeking top-up donations before December 31 for its 2025 campaign, say organizers. Hazel Lloyst, program coordinator, said the non-profit charity is asking the community for last-minute donations as it wraps up another successful year of helping families in need at Christmas. So far, donations have helped Christmas sharing support 1,000 registered families with Freshco grocery food cards, 335 food hampers as well as 800 more families through the Belleville Profession
  
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• Belleville's homelessness task force hears red tape, lack of money hurting response

  17-12-2025 22:48 via intelligencer.ca
  Organizations in Belleville and Hastings County report they have too little money and face too much red tape, hobbling their response to address homelessness and other social issues. That was the consensus as delegates from area agencies took part in the Dec. 17 meeting of Belleville’s Understanding Homelessness Task Force. It was created and is chaired by Mayor Neil Ellis. The group’s goal is to enhance the local response to mental health, addictions, and homelessness in the area by
  
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• From Gord Downie to giving: Trenton's "Pint-Sized Gord" decade of charity

  17-12-2025 21:33 via intelligencer.ca
  As young fundraisers go, Quinte West’s Bentley Davidson is ahead by a century. Since a viral photo him dressed as Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie went viral nine years ago, Bentley, also known as “Pint Sized Gord,” has kept raising money for charity. Joined by his parents, Shannon White and Adam Davidson, he has raised almost $72,000 for a total of 10 causes, both local and otherwise. Not bad for someone who this month will celebrate his 12th birthday. It all began in 2016 as
  
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• From Gord Downie to giving: Trenton's "Pint-Sized Gord" and a decade of charity

  17-12-2025 21:33 via intelligencer.ca
  As young fundraisers go, Quinte West’s Bentley Davidson is ahead by a century. Since a viral photo him dressed as Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie went viral nine years ago, Bentley, also known as “Pint Sized Gord,” has kept raising money for charity. Joined by his parents, Shannon White and Adam Davidson, he has raised almost $72,000 for a total of 10 causes, both local and otherwise. Not bad for someone who this month will celebrate his 12th birthday. It all began in 2016 as
  
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• Special Investigations Unit ends probe of teen's arrest outside Belleville hospital

  17-12-2025 19:24 via intelligencer.ca
  The deputy director of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has discontinued the unit’s investigation of the October arrest of a teenager in a Belleville General Hospital parking lot. The unit investigates cases involving peace officers and which may have led to death, sexual assault, or firearms being fired at a person. Deputy director Stacey O’Brien found the unit had no jurisdiction to investigate further because the arrested person did not appear to have suffered a serious
  
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• United Way campaign: Why two Belleville business owners are invested

  17-12-2025 16:22 via intelligencer.ca
  Hilary Murphy and Ian Wilson see a better way. That may not sound so surprising: they’re engineers, and co-owners of Belleville’s TaskForce Engineering Inc. Yet this time they’re not talking about construction. They’re eager to talk about building a stronger community. In their concept, more decisions about local matters would be made by the people living here, not in Toronto or Ottawa. There would be less red tape, easier and faster access to funding for local causes, an
  
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• Community Services of Belleville and District announces new executive director

  17-12-2025 03:14 via intelligencer.ca
  Community Services of Belleville and District has announced the hiring of a new executive director. The agency on Dec. 16 announced Adrianna Vanderneut succeeds Nicole Chevalier, who is retiring. The change in leadership occurred Dec. 1. A news release from the agency stated Vanderneut worked most recently for Blue Door, a York Region organization focused on housing, employment, and health programs designed to address root causes of homelessness. She served as its director of quality, compliance
  
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• The Bridge hub: donations of underwear, winter clothing needed

  16-12-2025 23:55 via intelligencer.ca
  The holiday season is, for many, a time of wish lists – but on the street, the most basic of needs can be hard to find. At The Bridge Integrated Care Hub in Belleville, director Ashley Vader said one item is always in short supply, yet donated only rarely. “Underwear is the number-one donation that any service that provides supports to the homeless community will need. “We do not get enough of it,” Vader said. Only new undergarments are accepted. At this time of year, the
  
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• Salvation Army Belleville makes urgent appeal for Christmas Kettle donations

  16-12-2025 21:25 via intelligencer.ca
  Uncertain economic times, higher costs of living and a shortage of volunteers are exacting a big toll on this year’s Christmas Kettle Campaign hosted by the Salvation Army Belleville. Richard Smith, Kettle campaign coordinator, said on Tuesday in an interview that with only a small number of days left until the 11 fundraising kettles are taken down across the city, it’s appearing unlikely the Sally Ann will reach its $365,000 goal this year. Smith is praying for a last-minute swell o
  
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• Heritage Belleville seeks revitalization award nominations

  16-12-2025 18:28 via intelligencer.ca
  Heritage Belleville is now seeking nominations for its Heritage Revitalization Awards.The annual awards celebrate those who have demonstrated a commitment to either restoring or revitalizing a historical building or landmark in Belleville.Previous award winners include: Paul Dinkel, Maury Flunder, Jamie Troke, Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf, We Thrive, Janna Munkittrick-Colton, Meyers Creek Brewing Company, YourTV Quinte, Zubin Gillespie and Kim Fedor, among others.Awards are evaluated th
  
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