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The Carbons are rolling through town in their new ride, a travelling venue that is bringing <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/live-music/">live music</a> back into our lives, safely.
&#8220;We had this idea back in April. Initially, I did not want to tell anybody because of how crazy it is and I decided to start telling as many people as I could because I wanted to stay accountable and I wanted the project to actually go forward,&#8221; said Tomy Thisdale, The Carbons.
Now the idea has become a reality — the band has invested in the bus and has big plans.
&#8220;We are taking it across the country,&#8221; said Thisdale. &#8220;Our goal is for us to do 100 houses or 100 shows in 30 days across Canada.&#8221;
		
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				Bloom Sunflower Festival to shine in Armstrong, B.C.			</a>
		
	
The band has even named their travelling stage.
&#8220;When I was explaining it to one of my friends&#8230;she said, &#8216;oh my gosh, you should name the bus Carol because you’re going around carolling&#8217; and I was like, &#8216;that is genius,'&#8221; said Thisdale.
Now, they roll up, open the doors and surprise neighbours and anyone passing by with a little rock-n-roll.
		
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				Artists come together to help the planet in Kelowna art exhibiton			</a>
		
	
&#8220;People are just blank, staring, curious,&#8221; said Paul Minor, The Carbons.
&#8220;Then we come up with our sign and the ramp and then they see a drum kit and then all the sudden Tomy‘s got his microphone and his guitar set up and all of the sudden people are watching and smiling.&#8221;
They are now <a href="https://www.thecarbons.ca/">fundraising for a big cross Canada tour</a> and anyone who hosts a show can write their name on the bus, as they rock-n-roll through province after province.

“Our goal is for us to do 100 houses or 100 shows in 30 days across Canada.”

Kelowna’s ‘The Carbons’ band takes show on the road with stage-on-wheels

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With in-person classes expected to resume at <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/queens-university/" target="_blank">Queen&#8217;s University</a> this fall, many downtown businesses are excited to welcome back the student population.
&#8220;Students definitely are part of the success of downtown because we need them for hospitality, food and beverage, retail and some other sectors also. So, when they&#8217;re gone, they&#8217;re missed. And it&#8217;s been a long year and a half,&#8221; says Marijo Cuerrier of Downtown Kingston.
		
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				Kingston&#8217;s first electric buses now in service			</a>
		
	
One business that has especially missed Queen&#8217;s students is YGK Thrift.
The thrift store is owned and run by <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/" target="_blank">Almost Home</a>, a charity organization that provides housing for families whose children are receiving medical treatment in Kingston-area hospitals.
&#8220;Queen&#8217;s students were a big part of this store starting. It was kickstarted really by the Vogue Charity Fashion Show last year, through a donation that they made and support that they made,&#8221; says Sam MacLeod of Almost Home. &#8220;They helped us decorate the store, choose the colours, decide on the layout and we still have a lot of people from the charity fashion show working with us.&#8221;
MacLeod says he is eager to have students back in the downtown core.
&#8220;The point of the store is really to invite students in, to get students donating their clothes, but also buying clothes. And so we&#8217;re really looking forward to when they come back,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Because they&#8217;re one of our primary targets as far as who we&#8217;re hoping to sell to.&#8221;
			
				
						
												
						
						
		
			
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Jade Courchesne is a Queen&#8217;s University student and volunteers at YGK Thrift. She says her friends and classmates will be returning to Kingston in the fall.
&#8220;I know a lot of my friends are coming back and they&#8217;re excited to be back on campus, and they&#8217;re excited to go downtown and to eat out. And usually, when you&#8217;re downtown you don&#8217;t just go to a restaurant, you go to all the stores, right? So you go to Agent99, or YGK Thrift,&#8221; says Courchesne.
		
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				Belleville BIA organizes &#8216;Al Fresco&#8217; event to draw visitors to downtown			</a>
		
	
She says that she thinks it will start to feel more like it did pre-pandemic.
&#8220;I&#8217;m excited. I feel like it&#8217;s going to become the hub downtown again, like how we saw it a couple of years ago, or two years ago. So, it&#8217;s going to be good I think,&#8221; Courchesne says.
For some businesses, returning students not only mean an economic boost, but also a pool of potential employees as they continue to ramp up operations post lockdown.
In the case of YGK Thrift, students back in Kingston means more opportunity for donations, volunteers and purchases for the good of their charity.

Downtown businesses are gearing up for the return of students this fall. Not only will they bring an economic boost, but also a pool of potential employees. Watch video →

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Housing is becoming increasingly scarce in Prince Edward County as more properties are turned into short-term rentals.
&#8220;We already have our own family, but to move to that next step in the next five years, it just doesn&#8217;t seem possible,&#8221; says 32-year-old Caleb Hutton.
		
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				Wolfe Island ferry construction leaves islanders waiting			</a>
		
	
Hutton lives with his wife and three children in the basement of his parents&#8217; home here in Picton.
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Caleb Hutton father of three and a PEC local, says he and his wife have been forced to rent out his mom’s basement, because owning property in the county has become nearly impossible. <a href="https://t.co/d1fHsleTcX" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/d1fHsleTcX</a>
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The father of three owns a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/backfortypro/" target="_blank">home recording studio</a> and says business was booming. But once the pandemic hit, his goal of owning property became out of reach.
&#8220;With all of the pricing going up to 75 per cent higher, it got to a point where we weren&#8217;t available to purchase anything,&#8221; says Hutton.
Not only is it difficult to own affordable property, Hutton says renting a space with enough bedrooms for all of his children is near impossible.
He says that property management companies have been buying out spaces to turn them into Airbnbs for tourists, causing bidding wars for properties where he can&#8217;t compete.
&#8220;It&#8217;s getting to a point that there should be no more short-term rentals allowed in Prince Edward County for &#8216;x&#8217; amount of years, until we get enough housing for everybody,&#8221; Hutton states.
Chuck Dowdall, executive director of the Prince Edward County Affordable Housing Corporation, says the county is in a crisis situation that is affecting every aspect of the region&#8217;s economy.
&#8220;You&#8217;re looking at average house prices now in the county, $900,000 for the average price of a home,&#8221; says Dowdall.
		
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				Here&#8217;s how home prices compare to incomes across Canada			</a>
		
	
As bad as that sounds, Dowdall says that the bigger pressure point is on affordable rental units.
The average market rent for a one-bedroom going in the region renting is at about $1,400 per month and a three-bedroom, which people like Hutton are looking for, is priced anywhere from $2,500 to $3,200 per month.
&#8220;[Housing pricing] is so negatively impacting our employment centre, retail, hospitality,&#8221; says Dowdall. &#8220;For example, hospital staff: if they&#8217;re making $20 an hour, which by county standards is a good wage, they can&#8217;t afford to live in the county.&#8221;
Dowdall says his organization is working to inject immediate affordable housing in the area, and while the municipality works to resolve the issue, residents eagerly await relief.

A Picton, Ont., local shares his struggle to find permanent, affordable housing as the housing crisis in Prince Edward County rages on.

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From painted chairs and pianos to giant swings, Belleville&#8217;s downtown core is sporting a decidedly different look.
It&#8217;s all part of an initiative called &#8216;Al Fresco&#8217; by Belleville Downtown District BIA.
		
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				Fifty years and still going strong: The Amherstview Golf and Country Club			</a>
		
	
&#8220;We had to find a way of being able to encourage people to come down and be able to do something that was fun, entertaining and still safely,&#8221; says Kathryn Brown of the BIA.
The painted pianos occupy an open space at the corner of Bridge Street and Front Street, and for some, the need to tickle the ivories is too much to resist.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s nice, I think it&#8217;s a good idea,&#8221; says Belleville resident Gloria Hatter. &#8220;I read it and I thought, that&#8217;s really good. Anybody can play, just sit down and do it.&#8221;
And that marriage between business and art seems to be a happy one.
Not only can Erin McDonald play the piano, she painted one to have a 1920s flapper feel to it.
&#8220;My family went out to B.C. and we saw a bunch (of pianos) that were painted down there,&#8221; says McDonald. &#8220;I had been looking around for a piano to paint, to be donated, and I didn&#8217;t get the opportunity until this year from Downtown Belleville.&#8221;
		
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				Napanee, Ont. sunflower field gains lots of social attention			</a>
		
	
Portions of Front Street are blocked off, allowing businesses to have patio space that Brown says is complemented with music on Fridays, creating an enhanced dining experience.
&#8220;So we&#8217;ve put our musicians not inside but right out on the street because it&#8217;s all about Al Fresco,&#8221; says Brown. &#8220;It&#8217;s all about dining and taking part and being outdoors.&#8221;
Belleville&#8217;s BIA seems to have struck the right note with its Al Fresco initiative and is set to continue until August 31.

Family-friendly dining and music are just some of the attractions in the summer-long ‘Al Fresco’ initiative in Belleville, Ont., to attract tourism to the region.

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It&#8217;s been 40 years since Lady Diana Spencer — later known as the beloved <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/princess-diana" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Princess Diana</a> — and <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/prince-charles" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Prince Charles</a> wed at St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral in London, England, on July 29, 1981.
Arguably, the pomp, the pageantry and the outright luxuriousness of it all hasn&#8217;t been matched since, even as the pair&#8217;s sons, <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/prince-william" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Princes William</a> and <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/prince-harry" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Harry</a>, went on to get married with typical royal fanfare. People from around the world lined the streets and watched the ceremonies of the latter two, there&#8217;s no arguing that, but nothing has ever reached Diana and Charles&#8217; level of extravagance: A truly staggering 750 million people across 74 countries tuned in to watch the pair get married.
		
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				Prince Harry expected to release &#8216;heartfelt&#8217; memoir in 2022			</a>
		
	
Now, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the grand event, streaming service BritBox has created a documentary called Wedding of the Century, which closely examines everything to do with Charles and Diana&#8217;s nuptials. It features beautifully restored high-definition footage and exclusive interviews with those who worked behind the scenes, and then a digitally remastered 4K version of the wedding in its entirety is shown.
With the resurgence of interest in the royal couple — thanks, in part, to Netflix series The Crown, which spent its last season dissecting the tumult of the pair&#8217;s romance, or lack thereof — the documentary is sure to further stoke the fire. (Interestingly, the series never features its own recreation of the wedding, only a rehearsal.)
While much of the information revealed in the documentary is relatively &#8220;known&#8221; at this point, it&#8217;s definitely a different experience watching the real footage as opposed to watching actors. Of course, knowing what we know now, the restored footage is even more poignant.
Here are several standout details from Wedding of the Century.
<h2>Diana&#8217;s discomfort is even more plainly visible</h2>
Diana, and even Charles, too, appear incredibly uncomfortable. Both are red-faced for the public engagement announcement, though Diana&#8217;s face is almost the colour of a tomato. Her gaze is always down, throughout, and Charles seems distant and unattached. They look (and were) generations apart, and awkward while walking with one another. Armed with the knowledge of their courting difficulties, it&#8217;s not surprising but still uncomfortable all the same. Charles&#8217; jealousy of Diana&#8217;s easy fame is clearly on display.
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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<h2>It&#8217;s like witnessing the birth of the paparazzi</h2>
For decades, the paparazzi and the royals have gone hand in hand. It hasn&#8217;t always been that way. The moment Lady Diana Spencer became part of the royal circle, cameras began pursuing her, and in Wedding of the Century, we see the very beginnings of the toxic relationship. Diana&#8217;s first-ever public outing as Charles&#8217; fiancée is to an event at Goldsmiths&#8217; Hall; there is a literal camera frenzy, and her status is elevated almost immediately.
		
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<h2>It was a different sort of royal wedding</h2>
In the past, most royal weddings were a way of stoking patriotism and fuelling love of the monarchy, like Elizabeth and Philip&#8217;s post-war wedding. (There&#8217;s great footage of those nuptials in the documentary too.) While this wedding did indeed refuel interest in the monarchy, most people who lined the streets and watched on TV were most interested in seeing Diana. It&#8217;s a trip to see people falling all over each other just for a brief glimpse.
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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<h2>The amount of detail is staggering</h2>
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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OK, so it&#8217;s not such a surprise that a royal wedding had all the bells and whistles, but the sheer magnitude of opulence and specificity is enough to make your head spin. Wedding cake detail, choir detail, flower detail — it took a veritable army of people behind the scenes to put it together.
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Despite their union eventually crumbling, Prince Charles and Diana&#8217;s wedding remains one of the most-watched and most-discussed events in modern history. Wedding of the Century takes us back there, to relive it once again or to experience it for the first time.
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&#8216;The Wedding of the Century&#8217; launches on BritBox across Canada on July 29, the 40th anniversary of the wedding.

On July 29, 1981, a record 750 million people in 74 countries tuned in to see Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles exchange vows at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

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While the Wolfe Island ferry service is a part of daily life for many living and working on the island, commuters are facing delays due to construction.
The tourist season means even more people are crossing to and from the island, and a midday break in service is making wait times even longer.
		
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				Dredging for larger Wolfe Island ferry begins along Kingston waterfront			</a>
		
	
Jason Pyke, a farmer who lives and works on Wolfe Island, says the delays are impacting his business.
&#8220;Businesses that we deal with that are coming to the island to do business and to pick up our grains, or to bring us inputs for our farm. And we find they get held up in that traffic jam as well with a lot of tourism traffic this time of year, a lot of cottages, that sort of thing,&#8221; says Pyke.
Some island residents are calling for the ferry schedule to be altered, reducing the service break in the middle of the day that sees no active ferry from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Pyke suggests that perhaps the long break may be reduced to twice a week, rather than every day.
He goes on to acknowledge the difficulties that dock construction alongside a busy tourism season is causing.
&#8220;If there was some way that residents could have a separate lane, it&#8217;s very complicated especially now with new docks being built and the new ferry hopefully will be here next spring sort of thing,&#8221; says Pyke. &#8220;And the MTO has told us that they will run two ferries during peak periods, so we&#8217;re looking forward to that.&#8221;
		
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The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is urging ferry users to leave the terminal if lanes are full, as to not block traffic that spills on to Queen Street.
In a statement to Global News, MTO says, &#8220;the ministry is also encouraging and communicating to staff, construction workers and ferry users to walk-on the ferry when possible and utilize the shuttle that operates between the Dawson Point dock and Marysville.&#8221;
This solution still has limits, though, as there is restrictions on how many pedestrians are allowed on the ferry.

A number of factors are leading to traffic tie-ups at the Wolfe Island Ferry. The delays are leading to long wait times for residents and tourists.

Wolfe Island ferry construction leaves islanders waiting

Sunny days are ahead for Armstrong, B.C., now that the Bloom Sunflower Festival will be put on by the Szareks, the couple famous for the Abbotsford Tulip Festival in the Lower Mainland.
The Bloom Sunflower Festival is almost ready for ticket holders to enjoy, on a four-acre plot of land.
&#8220;We have planted three-acres of the Solano variety which is about a five- to six-foot [tall] variety with a nice yellow head and that is the majority of the field,&#8221; said Marc Szarek, Bloom Flower Festivals operations manager.
		
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Of the 80,000 seeds, they have planted to create the spectacle they will also have red sunflower varieties.
Since 2016, the Szareks hosted the Abbotsford Tulip Festival on their 10 acres of land, an event that will be moved to Armstrong next year. However in August of this year, they will be adding a sunflower festival to their annual lineup.
		
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&#8220;Once these guys [sunflowers] grow a little taller, then we are going to mow a fun pathway throughout the field so that people can walk through and then we have a bunch of really fun photo props where people can get their perfect selfies or great group shot,&#8221; said Alexis Szarek, Bloom Flower Festivals owner.
Now all there is to do is wait for the sunflowers to sprout up in time to host thousands of people at the two-week-long festival.
&#8220;Some of them are shorter some of them are taller we do have some American Giants that are supposed to grow between 18 and 15 feet tall,&#8221; said Marc.
The Bloom Sunflower Festival will take place from Aug. 18 to Aug. 31 in Armstrong. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/ target="_blank">www.bloom.myzonetickets.com</a>
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A Kelowna, B.C., photographer inspired by nature has found a unique way to help raise funds for his muse.
Steve Austin challenged five artists, four from the Okanagan and one from Alberta, to recreate four of his photographs to create a unique art installation.
&#8220;This program is called The Bigger Picture and The Bigger Picture is kind of a play on words to open up people&#8217;s ideas about nature,&#8221; said Austin.
The Bigger Picture is helping raise funds for the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the David Suzuki Foundation to inspire visitors to donate to the cause.
		
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&#8220;We need to really focus on conserving and preparing ourselves for the future, for our generation and beyond,&#8221; said Austin.
The artists included in the exhibit are Bobby VandenHoorn, Joelene Mackie, Alex Fong, Cynthia Gunsinger and Keith Thompson.
&#8220;I really think that working collaboratively as a group,&#8221; said Mackie.
&#8220;Not only can we push each other as artists but we can maybe have a bigger voice about things that matter to us like nature.&#8221;
Mackie put a surrealism spin on Austin&#8217;s photos.
		
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&#8220;I’ve been an oil painter for the last 15 years and I’ve always been inspired by the world around me,&#8221; said Mackie.
&#8220;The last couple of years I’ve had a little robot character that has shown up in my work and he has sort of made my work band into a more surrealistic place and he’s almost been my muse.&#8221;
The Bigger Picture will be on display at the Steve Austin Fine Art Gallery on Ellis Street starting July 29.
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The painted fence posts that have been popping up around Kelowna&#8217;s Pandosy Village neighbourhood are part of an advertising campaign for a new artist and crafter festival.
&#8220;Imagine Pandosy Art Festival is created to bring our community together,&#8221; said Paul Clark, organizer.
&#8220;To have people create pieces of art that they can bring to the festival to be donated eventually and be put up at Pandosy Waterfront Park.&#8221;
In the weeks leading up to the event, organizers are handing out fence painting kits, to get the community involved in the marketing campaign for the festival.
		
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&#8220;The theme [of the festival] is colourful people so the first fence and the family that I’ve created is full of colour and then we have given out over 50 boards to the community to paint,&#8221; said Mary Meenagh, artist.
To request a board, e-mail <a href="mailto:art@klona.ca" target="_blank">art@klona.ca</a>. The festival is also still accepting applications for artists and crafters — for more information about how to apply, visit <a href="https://www.imaginepandosy.org/imagine-pandosy-art-festival" target="_blank">www.imaginepandosy.org </a>
		
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The Imagine Pandosy Art Festival will take place on August 15 at Sopa Square in Pandosy Village and on Grouse Street.

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If you&#8217;ve got some books on your wishlist, as of tomorrow you can head to your local library and pick them up while you browse the shelves.
Andrew McCulloch is the Acting Manager of Branch Services for the Public Library and he says, among other things, printing services will be operational tomorrow.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got our in person browsing again. So people can come in, sort through our shelves, take a book, a CD or DVD. You can come up the reference desk or the circulation desk and ask us questions or say hello. You can come in and pick up your holds again and our computers are back up and running with slightly reduced numbers because of social distancing.&#8221;
		
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McCulloch says in January 2021, the Library stopped enforcing fees for wear and tear and late fees because people weren&#8217;t allowed to come into the Library and that policy is now permanent.
While literacy play centres aren&#8217;t running just yet, he says they&#8217;re working on finding the best way to open up the library for in-store reading.

The Winnipeg Public Library is slowly getting back to normal and as of Monday customers can browse shelves, pick up holds and even get some printing done with a computer.

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