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Open Farm Days goes from one weekend to six weeks in 2023

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

Open Farm Days has transformed from a one weekend event to a six week series this year, stretching from Sept. 1 to Oct. 15, across Frontenac County and Kingston.Open Farm Days is a series of events where community members can learn more about local farming and food by visiting local farms, farmers markets, and various other locations across the region. The event aims to increase agri-tourism in the region, make connections between local producers and consumers, and teach people about local production. Experiences available to visitors this year include tours of fields, beekeeping, introduction to growing of fruits and vegetables, demonstration on coffee roasting, learning about animals, and culinary tours and tastings.For the past five years that the event has been running, it has been a one weekend only event in early fall. This year, however, the event has been extended to take place over six weeks to provide more opportunities for local agri-business owners to open their space to...

Argentina’s Chimba Restaurant brings Latin fusion goodness to its new Miami location

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

The long weekend is the perfect time for a little getaway. A vacation might be nice, but you don’t have to leave SoFlo to send your taste buds on a journey. Deco’s Alex Miranda, who’s always looking like a snack, is here with more.More like always looking for a snack. You don’t wanna see me when I’m hangry. Thankfully, that’s not a problem any of us will have at the new SoFlo restaurant Chimba, because this place is serving up a fusion of many flavors.Variety is the spice of life at Chimba in Miami.Kevin Acosta: “We’re gonna share with you food from Peru, from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, of course, from Mexico, so it’s gonna be a very, very, very, nice combination.”Chimba comes to SoFlo all the way from Argentina, and it’s the first in the U.S.But before we dig in, we’ve gotta play the name game.Kevin Acosta: “In South America, ‘chimba’ is slang that we can use to refer to something exception...

Goodtime Hotel’s Pool at Strawberry Moon launches Soleil Saturdays ‘day club experience’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

There’s always a good time to be had at The Goodtime Hotel on South Beach … but now it may have gotten even gooder.The hotel’s Pool at Strawberry Moon is launching a new Saturday series called Soleil Saturdays, and it will have you partying from sun up to sun down.Robert Garcia: “Soleil Saturdays is our new Saturday party which is launching this weekend, Labor Day weekend, and we are going to be showcasing some of our biggest DJs that we work with. It’s a day club experience, so you can expect dancing, you can expect entertainment. It’s really the epitome of what Miami delivers, what we deliver in Miami during the daytime. with a pool and wonderful cocktails.”The event will feature different celebrity guest DJs all month long, like DJ Pauly D and Sommer Ray.This Saturday, you will hear sounds from DJing duo Two Friends.For more information on tickets, click here.

WATCH: Ware police help rescue deer from backyard pool

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

A wild save recently played out in Ware as police helped get a young deer out of a backyard pool. Police shared body camera video of the rescue on Friday, showing officers arriving to find the deer in the pool and struggling to get out. Circling the water, officers at one point tried to lure the frightened deer over. The deer, though, kept getting caught in the pool covering. Deer are known to be strong swimmers. But since this animal was still young, it may not have been able to stay afloat as well as an adult.In the end, working against the clock, officers were able to help boost the deer out of the pool with a pool skimmer as the deer tried to pull itself up. 

School resource officer buys bikes for family that recently moved to Swampscott from Ukraine

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

A family from Ukraine recently received a generous gift in Swampscott in the form of new bikes after a school resource officer came across their story.When the family’s children started school, they had no means of transportation. So, they walked. The family’s eldest daughter, though, has leg problems that left her in pain by the time she got to school. The child’s school principal at Swampscott Middle School noticed the situation and sent out a message to staff to see if anyone had a used bike they could donate. Swampscott officer Brian Wilson saw the email and said he didn’t hesitate to help out this family. With funds from an account for his comfort dog, Wilson bought the family three new bikes and a scooter.“I just didn’t hesitate,” Wilson said. “Especially when new to the country, knowing the struggles they were probably going through, it just felt right.” “Sometimes you just know something’s right and that’s what this felt like and I just wanted to do ...

Jasson Domínguez homers in first at-bat as youthful Yankees beat Astros

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

HOUSTON — Hours before Austin Wells and Jasson Domínguez made their major league debuts for the Yankees, the former said the latter wouldn’t be intimated by Justin Verlander, the Astros’ starter on Friday night.“From the first time I played with him, he is unfazed by really anything,” Wells said of Domínguez. “So I mean, for him, facing Verlander, he probably doesn’t even care. It’s just another arm on the mound.”Lo and behold, Domínguez homered off Verlander with the very first swing of his very first at-bat, taking the right-hander into the Crawford Boxes at Minute Maid Park. The 20-year-old’s first-inning, two-run blast off the 40-year-old, future Hall of Famer gave the Yankees a three-run lead after DJ LeMahieu led the game off with a solo homer.The explosive first inning paved the way for a 6-2, series-opening win for the Yankees.Domínguez’s home run also showed why he has received endless ...

Royals pound James Paxton, rout reeling Red Sox 13-2

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

The Kansas City Royals came into Friday losers of six straight, 13 of their last 15 and having gone 9-19 for the month of August. They’d already lost 94 games and are on pace to finish 49-113, which would rank among the worst records in MLB history.You’d think a team like that would be a welcome sight after the week the Red Sox just had, but at this point even the Royals are capable of making Boston’s life miserable.The Royals laid a beating on James Paxton and the Red Sox Friday night, chasing the struggling left-hander after only four outs in what wound up being a 13-2 rout. Paxton allowed six runs over 1.1 innings, including back-to-back solo home runs in the bottom of the first before completely melting down in the second. Salvador Perez led the Royals by going 3 for 5 with two home runs and four RBI, and all told the Royals combined for 17 hits and four homers on the night.It marked the latest in a string of short outings by Boston’s starting pitchers, w...

Typhoon Saola makes landfall in southern China after nearly 900,000 people moved to safety

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Typhoon Saola made landfall in southern China before dawn Saturday after nearly 900,000 people were moved to safety and most of Hong Kong and other parts of coastal southern China suspended business, transport and classes. Guangdong province’s meteorological bureau said the powerful storm churned into an outlying district of the city of Zhuhai, just south of Hong Kong at 3:30 a.m. It was forecast to move in a southwesterly direction along the Guangdong coast at a speed of around 17 kph (10 mph), gradually weakening before heading out to sea. On Friday, 780,000 people in Guangdong were moved away from areas at risk as did 100,000 others in neighboring Fujian province. More than 80,000 fishing vessels returned to port. Workers stayed at home and students in various cities saw the start of their school year postponed to next week. Trading on Hong Kong’s stock market was suspended Friday and hundreds of people were stranded at the airport after about 460 flights wer...

Arrest warrant issued for man not complying with conditions of psychiatric hospital

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man who police say failed to abide by conditions imposed on him by a psychiatric hospital. Shawn Claydon, 35, was last seen May 3 in the area of Warden Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East. He is known to frequent Scarborough and the downtown, according to police. Claydon is described as being five-foot-10, 150 pounds with a thin build, short black hair and black facial hair. Claydon was accused of aggravated assault in November 2020 for a violent robbery in Scarborough that left a 61-year-old man with a severe head injury and a broken shoulder. However, he was found not criminally responsible in the attack. The arrest warrant was issued by the Ontario Review Board (ORB) in order to bring the individual in question back to a provincial psychiatric hospital.The ORB is an independent tribunal whose responsibility is to review the status of all individuals found unfit to stand trial or not criminally responsible and determine whether the individual co...

Police search for 14-year-old girl missing from home in Lyons

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:55 GMT

LYONS, Ill. — A search is underway for a missing 14-year-old girl who was last seen leaving a school bus near her home in Lyons on Wednesday, according to police.Police in Lyons say Jemyah Ross, who has been missing since 5 p.m. on Aug. 30, was last seen near her home on Joliet Road and Fishermans Terrace. Joliet man charged in connection with teen’s fatal overdose Ross stands 5'5" tall and weighs around 150 Lbs. She has black hair and brown eyes. Police say she also has mental health concerns.According to police, employees with the bus company overheard Ross say that she was going to get something to eat and then go to the West Side with a relative, but her parent said they are unaware of any relative who could be involved or any potential destinations in Chicago. ‘Beyond frightful’: 2 men injured in suburban Metra stairway collapse Police say Ross has not contacted friends or family since her disappearance.Anyone with information on the whereabouts of 14-year-old Jemyah Ross i...