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		<title>Big summer events that are worth the short trip to the Bay of Quinte</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Foley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[artisan market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bay of Quinte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bay of Quinte Marketing Board (BOQMB)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belleville Caribbean Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centennial Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downtown @ Dusk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Endless Summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Endless Summer Long Drive Championship at Trillium Wood Golf Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festival on the Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finger Eleven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golf Courses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[live music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long drive championship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parks and trails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pow Wow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quinte West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quinte West Summer Pop-Ups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sponsored]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street performers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trenton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyendinaga Traditional Pow Wow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waterfront patios]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Time to plan a short road trip and take in festivals, outdoor adventures, and relaxing waterfront patios in the Bay of Quinte region, under an hour down the road from Kingston.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Napanee eyes provincial infrastructure funding despite concerns over tight deadline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Dorey Forestell, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Napanee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada-Ontario Partnership to Build]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council meeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council of the Town of Greater Napanee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development Charge Reduction Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development charges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government of Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greater Napanee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Nobes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napanee council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[premium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Province of Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[provincial funding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[short deadline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[special session]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greater Napanee is preparing to pursue a share of new provincial infrastructure funding that could help pay for major housing-related projects, but Council heard Tuesday that the opportunity comes with financial risks and an unusually tight application deadline.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gananoque students visit healing lodge as part of Indigenous education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wright]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceremony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elder Thomas Louttit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gananoque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gananoque Secondary School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing lodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miitig Healing Lodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Indigenous History Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Allaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweat lodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB)]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of June 2026, students at Gananoque Secondary School visited the Miitig Healing Lodge in Maxville.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Napanee council moves to continue sale of cemetery interment rights</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Napanee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bereavement Authority of Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buying and selling interment plots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cemetery plots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Angela Hicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Michael Schenk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exchanging burial plots and niches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interment rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napanee council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repurchasing of cemetery plots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside Cemetery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonia McLuckie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Town of Greater Napanee]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The resale of interment rights, from plots to niches, was brought before Greater Napanee Council on Tuesday, Jun. 9, 2026. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Loyalist Township resident charged following sexual assault investigation in Amherstview</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tori Stafford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aggravated sexual assault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amherstview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amherstview Golf Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golf course parking lot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lennox and Addington County]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[released from custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serious injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual assault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual assault causing bodily harm]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A victim was sent to hospital for treatment of serious injuries following an alleged sexual assault that occurred in the parking lot of a local golf course.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Holy Cross varsity baseball team wins KASSAA Championship</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wright]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frontenac Secondary School (FSS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junior and senior high school students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingston Area Secondary School Athletic Association (KASSAA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megaffin Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFSAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[premium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[varsity baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth culture]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The varsity baseball team at Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School won the Kingston Area Secondary Schools Athletic Association (KASSAA) Championships yesterday, marking the school's sixth KASSAA win for varsity baseball.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Napanee family’s gift establishes new fund through Community Foundation for Lennox &amp; Addington</title>
		<link>https://www.kingstonist.com/news/napanee-familys-gift-establishes-new-fund-through-community-foundation-for-lennox-addington/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Foley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lennox & Addington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napanee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Foundation for Lennox and Addington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EZPass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flaxseed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Highway 407]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[highway toll technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lennox and Addington County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napanee and District Secondary School students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napanee family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross and Helen Oliver Student Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Oliver Family Fund]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Community Foundation for Lennox &#038; Addington has announced the establishment of a new fund, The Oliver Family Fund, thanks to a generous initial gift from a family with deep roots in Napanee.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Read books, win prizes: Join KFPL’s Summer Reading Challenges</title>
		<link>https://www.kingstonist.com/news/read-books-win-prizes-join-kfpls-summer-reading-challenges/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Foley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beanstack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earn tickets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free gelato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[log reading minutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[read books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer Reading Challenge]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With summer just around the corner, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) is inviting readers of all ages to join its annual summer reading challenges.]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘This is not an abstract concern’: Residents say Napanee plant approval could delay noise controls until 2038</title>
		<link>https://www.kingstonist.com/news/this-is-not-an-abstract-concern-residents-say-napanee-plant-approval-could-delay-noise-controls-until-2038/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Dorey Forestell, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napanee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acoustic testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atura Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy corridor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Bill of Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eva Tolkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Walden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lennox and Addington County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lennox Generating Station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loyalist Parkway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of the Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napanee Generating Station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noise control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noise pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Edward County]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two Ontario residents have asked the provincial government to review Atura Power's environmental approval for the Napanee Generating Station expansion, arguing that the approval could allow key noise control measures to be delayed until 2038 while the expanded facility continues operating.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Taxi takeover: Kingston proposes municipal bylaw to take control of taxi commission’s regulation, safety standards and oversight</title>
		<link>https://www.kingstonist.com/news/taxi-takeover-kingston-proposes-municipal-bylaw-to-take-control-of-taxi-commissions-regulation-safety-standards-and-oversight/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Hutchins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Administrative Policies Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City of Kingston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commissioner of Growth and Development Paige Agnew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Greg Ridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kingston Area Taxi Commission (KATC)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingston City Council]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[municipal oversight]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Passenger Transportation Services By-Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ridesharing apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxi licensing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxi regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transparency]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The City of Kingston is laying the legal groundwork in advance of taking over the operation of the debt-plagued Kingston Area Taxi Commission (KATC).]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kingston to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day with community celebration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Foley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[City of Kingston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confederation Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drumming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[giveaways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Zone]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[National Indigenous Peoples Day falls on a Sunday this year, and the City of Kingston is inviting the public to commemorate the day.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Over 40 firefighters fight barn blaze on South Shore Road</title>
		<link>https://www.kingstonist.com/news/over-40-firefighters-fight-barn-blaze-on-south-shore-road/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Foley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[40 firefighters on scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barn fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greater Napanee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greater Napanee Fire Department]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mutual aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one barn completely consumed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saved a second barn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Shore Road]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A fire on South Shore Road in Greater Napanee yesterday consumed a barn structure, with an estimated $5 million in damages, according to the Town of Greater Napanee.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Citizens’ group questions Kingston’s ‘secretive’ process of exploring municipal service corporations to oversee water, wastewater</title>
		<link>https://www.kingstonist.com/news/citizens-group-questions-kingstons-secretive-process-of-exploring-municipal-service-corporations-to-oversee-water-wastewater/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Hutchins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Hutchins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Paterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Sypnowich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City of Kingston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closed session]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition of Kingston Communities (CKC)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Fell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extra borrowing capacity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Bryan Paterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Municipal Service Corporations (MSC)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-core municipal services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[potential profiteering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private emails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduce public oversight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduced public disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secrecy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utilities Kingston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water and wastewater services]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A citizens’ watchdog group is raising questions about the “secretive” decision-making process surrounding potential ownership changes to water and wastewater services in the City of Kingston.]]></description>
		
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		<title>SLC esthetician student wins gold at Skills Canada national competition</title>
		<link>https://www.kingstonist.com/news/slc-esthetician-student-wins-gold-at-skills-canada-national-competition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Foley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Aba Mortley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emma Amalfi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Esthetician program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gold medal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skilled trades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skills Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Lawrence College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team Ontario]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[St. Lawrence College (SLC) has announced that Emma Amalfi, a student in its Esthetician Program, has won a gold medal at the Skills Canada competition held at the end of May.]]></description>
		
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