Snowfall

School buses were operating in Kingston today.  Tri-board Student Transportation did report some cancellations in the Belleville area…but the rest of the buses were running.

 

East of Kingston it was a Snow Day.

Student Transportation of Eastern Ontario cancelled buses for the Upper Canada Board and the Catholic Board of Eastern Ontario.

 

Kingston got a total of about 14cm of snow at the Norman Rogers Airport weather station.

 

Soldier – Jail Term

A soldier from CFB Kingston is being released by the military and has been sentenced to a year in jail in a child pornography case.  41 year old Patrick Lachance pleaded guilty in December to Internet luring and inviting a person under 18 to engage in sexual touching.  He was arrested last March after police investigated a complaint about his contact with a 13 year old girl in Quebec.

Betesh – Matchmaker

A man who has spent 40 years behind bars for killing of a Toronto shoeshine boy says he’s joined a matchmaking website for prisoners called Canadian Inmates Connect.  66 year old Saul Betesh was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1977 sex slaying of 12-year-old Emanuel Jacques.  Robert Kribs was also convicted and Josef Woods was convicted of second degree murder.

It was a brutal and sadistic crime.

Betesh had been a resident of Kingston Penitentiary.  He is currently at Pacific Institution in Abbotsford, B.C. and had already joined a similar U-S website.

Transit Money

Kingston is getting just over $6.8 million from the federal government to fund half the cost of a major expansion to Kingston Transit service.

25 buses will be purchased.  Eighteen will replace older buses and the seven others will help expand Express Service.

There will also be upgrades to bus stops, new transit shelters and security cameras will be installed on buses.

Loyalist Township is getting just under 84 thousand dollars to replace a bus and add five new bus shelters in Amherstview.

Military Exercise Wrapping Up

A group of about 30 students from the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics at CFB Kingston are taking part in a Military exercise at CFB Valcartier.  The officers have commanded a troop of 50 to 75 soldiers during Exercise Final Glory.

A total of 300 soldiers have been taking part in the signals training for the past week.

Exercise Final Glory wraps up tomorrow.

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