Pasta Shelf New Location

Marco Venditti, owner of Past Shelf stands at the front counter at their new location at 195 Ontario Street, beside Confederation Park. Pasta Shelf is a restaurant that specializes in Italian food, making fresh pasta and sauces. Past Shelf has been in operation for the past 13 years in the west end, with their new location recently opening.

Corey Lablans For The Whig-Standard

Raccoon Downtown

A young raccoon relaxes in a tree on Princess Street outside Vandervoort General Store Tuesday afternoon before City of Kingston Animal Control officers came to take it away. The raccoon was taken down safely and was released later on that night. Lianne Ruttan, Animal Service Officer said that legally they must release the animal within one kilometer of where they caught it.
Corey Lablans For The Whig-Standard

An unhappy and curious young raccoon chews on the snare pole wire as City of Kingston Animal Control try to catch the raccoon.

Road to Learning - The Whig-Standard

Writing and photographing for the newspaper is a fun experience, as one actively experiences everything that is going on in a community. Although as a relatively new photojournalist I am still learning. Today was no exception and a perfect example of how much I still have to learn.

Around noon, I was assigned to attend a barbeque that the students of LCVI were holding for students of First Avenue Public School. The barbeque was for a conjoint effort between the schools, with the elementary school growing vegetables and the LCVI students enrolled in the Cook’s Internship program.

Heading to the barbeque I was assigned to cover the release of a new cookbook the students of the Cook’s Internship created. As a person, interested in many things and very passionate I was side tracked by everyone’s comments on how both programs built a sense of community.

Well back in the office later that day, I told my editor what I observed and what I thought was fascinating, turns out I side tracked away from the key element of working for a paper. WHAT IS NEW!!!!

Working for a newspaper, it is always paramount to angle the story to a news worthy topic. Just because you’re focusing on a new topic doesn’t mean that you can’t bring in the social issue that seemed fascinating. After getting on the phone talking to my sources once again, I found out more information. Thankfully as an intern student my editor is flexible and was able to move the story till tomorrow.

Hopefully I shall learn from this experience!!!!!!

Spring babies - water fowl

Baby Mallard Ducks follow along with their mothers as they swim in Elevator Bay June, 10th.
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Baby Canadian Geese follow along with their mothers as they swim in Elevator Bay June, 10th.
Corey Lablans For The Kingston Whig-Standard

1st Place - Spot News - 2011 Jan.

Took first place in the 2011 January Picture of the Month Contest on the News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) website. To see the other winners visit: http://npac.ca/forums/index.php?topic=4364.0

Squirrel's life

Every student and staff at Queen’s University knows about squirrels. They seem to thrive in Kingston and especially around Queen’s. A few factors might be contributing, such as the abundant free food found around dumpsters or those that feed them. Certain squirrels are seen so frequently that staff and students know what one is what. Here is a few photographs I took of one such squirrel beside Gordon Hall.

Norman Rogers Airport

On Thursday, January 13^th, 2011 as I was driving home I heard on the radio that all emergency vehicles were called to Norman Rogers Airport. The airport put out a call for all emergency vehicles after receiving notice that a plane’s landing gear was not responding. I never saw a plane land while I was at the airports. As fire trucks, ambulances and police started to leave I assumed everything went well, so when CKWS arrived I followed them up to the fire fighters and they said that everything was good and the plane landed safely.