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Senior-led cooking class comes to Kingston this week

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

In partnership with Metro, Seniors Kingston will be hosting a free cooking class this week led by one of the association’s volunteers. The “Feed the Joy” cooking classes are taking place in Toronto, Ottawa and Kingston this week, sponsored by the Metro grocery brand and led by seniors and community organizations. The classes are open to people of all age groups, but are targeted towards millennials and younger generations who may be beginning to host Christmas celebrations of their own for the first time.In a release Metro says that research shows basic cooking know-how is the worst among younger generations, with the classes acting as an opportunity for a local senior to pass along cooking knowledge they’ve accrued themselves.In Kingston that will be 70 year old Helga Bellmore, who has been leading cooking classes with Seniors Kingston since 2022, initially signing up to just be a student herself before the class suddenly needed an instructor. She often tail...

Neighbors react to apartment shooting that left 1 dead, 1 hospitalized

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

EDGEWATER Colo., (KDVR) -- Police in Edgewater are investigating a shooting that left a 29-year-old man dead and another hospitalized. Officers were dispatched to a disturbance around 5:18 a.m. in the 2700 block of Ingall Street at an apartment complex.Officers were on the scene for at least nine hours Sunday investigating.“Yeah I was actually scared, I was really scared, when you hear the sirens coming you don’t know what's going to happen, that’s when you see the yellow tape wrapping around," said Griselda Romero, a neighbor at the complex. Suspect arrested, victim ID’d in deadly Gaylord Street shooting Police say their preliminary investigation indicates there was an altercation inside the apartment between people who knew each other, which led to the shooting. “I heard screaming and then after the screaming, I heard a gunshot," Romero said. "Like a very silent gunshot.”When officers arrived on scene they were directed to a second-story apartment unit where they found a 29-year...

High winds reach up to 90 mph in High Country

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) -- High winds affected several areas along the Front Range on Sunday with parts of Boulder and Grand County reporting wind speeds of up to 90 mph.Flying debris in construction zones left cones turned over and drivers made their way to safe spots to take a break. Avalanche danger in Colorado expected to rise with high winds Kyle told FOX31 he decided to pull over in Idaho Springs. He started his trip in Louisiana and didn’t expect the winds along Interstate 70 to be as strong.“Going on a cross-country trip, this is pretty bad, I went up to Mt. Hood,” he said as his hat blew across the pavement.After a windy end to the weekend with wind gusts reaching over 80 mph in some spots on Sunday, much calmer weather is on the way. Another driver told FOX31 that traffic was slow in the Eisenhower tunnel’s eastbound lanes.“They had the lights on at the tunnel, they have everyone going slow,” he said.CDOT reminds drivers to check road conditions for wind speed in add...

BOXR Gym in downtown Miami, Trina’s Kids team up for holiday toy drive

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

It was toy time for a boxing gym in downtown Miami that wants to spread cheer this holiday season.BOXR and the nonprofit Trina’s Kids joined forces to host a free toy drive at the gym, located along the 1300 block of Northeast First Avenue, Sunday afternoon.Children and families could come take as many toys as they needed for this holiday season.The founder of BOXR, Mateo Attalla, said he brought what he learned growing up abroad to the Magic City.“You know, I come from a background where my family’s always given back in Australia, and one of those things that was told to me, which I’m actually fulfilling right now, is giving back to the community,” he said.Santiago was among the young recipients of a wide assortment of toys.“I feel like they’re super cool,” he said.This was BOXR’s first time holding a toy drive, and they plan on doing it again next year.

Encouraging the spread of innovation for blood cancer in Europe

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

Poland bids bye-bye to PiS and hello to Donald Tusk

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

WARSAW — After eight years in power, the Law and Justice (PiS) party is facing its last day in control on Monday; by evening, Donald Tusk is expected to be in charge of a new government that’s promising a revolution in both domestic politics and in Poland’s relationship with the outside world.“We must be able to convince ourselves, Poles and the world around us, that we are restoring the rule of law, that this is not another iteration of some civil war between squabbling political forces,” Tusk told a Friday news conference in the Polish parliament after meeting with members of his future Cabinet. But there are still a few steps that have to happen before Tusk takes power.The day begins at 10 a.m. when Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who has headed the PiS government since 2017, makes a speech to parliament laying out the priorities of his Cabinet. At 3 p.m. the lower house of parliament will hold a vote of confidence that Morawiecki is certain to lose, as...

It’s time for Sweden’s navy to grow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

Elisabeth Braw is a senior associate fellow at the European Leadership Network, an adviser at Gallos Technologies and a regular columnist for POLITICO.The Baltic Sea may soon become what devotees of the North Atlantic Alliance label a “NATO lake.” But this small ocean is far from peaceful.Indeed, as the harm recently caused to its undersea infrastructure demonstrates, Baltic waters are growing more dangerous by the week, yet no NATO member country has a major navy there. That means Sweden’s famed navy, which has a proud five-century history, needs to expand in order to better protect Swedish interests and those of the alliance.The Swedish Navy has a long tradition of skillfully defending its country in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. But while it still has skilled sailors and submariners, today the Swedish Navy is hopelessly undersized in waters where it’s likely to encounter infrastructure saboteurs and hostile operators harassing merchant shipping. Indeed, t...

Israeli TV sketch show brandishes satire as weapon in Hamas war

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

TEL AVIV — The show must go on. Even when you are an Israeli TV comedy skit team grappling with the horror of Hamas’ October 7 assault, which killed some 1,200 people in the worst pogrom since the Holocaust. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the team behind Eretz Nehederet, Israel’s irreverent prime-time television satirical show, often likened to America’s Saturday Night Live, was as distraught and disoriented as all other Israelis. Would there be space for satire ever again? October 7 “changed everything,” said Itai Reicher, who’s been writing for the weekly variety show for 17 out of its 21 years on air. “One of the producers texted me saying, ‘Nothing will ever be funny again,’” he added. The comedians, writers and producers had Zoom sessions to try to figure out whether they still had a role and what that might be. Another staffer on the show described the get-togethers as like group therapy and support sessions.Ultimately, their role has proved, if anything, wide...

Behind the scenes: A billionaire at COP28

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It’s the first Sunday of the COP28 climate conference. The temperature is 30C. Under the Dubai sun, a billionaire is in a hurry. “Let’s run you guys,” Andrew Forrest tells his entourage. A little out of breath, he climbs into a six-seater golf buggy, a common sight around Expo City, which is hosting the U.N. summit. Built for the 2021 world’s fair, it is vast, covering nearly two square miles. The buggies ferry global leaders, CEOs, and the otherwise rich or powerful across the site. “Can you squeeze in?” Forrest asks, as it becomes clear not everyone is going to fit in the buggy. “No? OK. Let’s go. Zach loves walking.” Zachary August, one of Forrest’s aides, accepts his fate gracefully. Then the boss is gone in an electric whirr of wheels. The climate DavosThere aren’t many things that could make Forrest run. The bombastic mining tycoon is Australia’s second-richest person. He is used to having the ear of the world’s most powerful p...

Explosions heard in Kyiv in possible air attack; no word on damage or casualties

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:34 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A series of loud explosions rang out in Ukraine’s capital early Monday followed by air raid sirens.There was no immediate word on the origin of the explosions, but they sounded like air defense units firing into the sky.Kyiv is routinely targeted by Russian drone and missile attacks.Just over two weeks ago, Kyiv came under what Ukrainian officials said was the most intense drone attack since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones against the capital, of which 74 were destroyed by air defenses.The explosions Monday occurred just after 4 a.m. as the city was under its nightly curfew. There was no immediate information on any damage or casualties.The Associated Press