Commuter News

Traffic notes:

Wellington Street is closed to traffic at Princess Street while the building at the corner of Princess and Wellington is being demolished.

Hitchcock Rd is closed at railway tracks from April 13-16.

A school bus was involved in a collision on County Road 6 north of Moscow this morning. Nobody was hurt, but the bus was running about 40 minutes late.

Teachers Aid Dismissed

It turns out a teacher aid was fired from her job at Fairfield Elementary School in Amherstview for texting grade five and six students with details of her sex life.

Brook Reid was fired in July of 2014.

Details of what took place have come from a report on Reid’s disciplinary hearing with the College of Early Childhood Educators.

An agreed statement of facts says Reid also played Truth or Dare with students, encouraged them to kiss each other and told them about her partying, drinking and falling out of the back of a moving truck.

She told the students not to tell their parents.

Coloured Styrofoam

Grocery stores and butcher shops are being told the Kingston Area Recycling Corporation will no longer be accepting coloured styrofoam containers.

The organization says there is no market for the blue and pink coloured trays because of the coast to remove the dye.

It will still accept the white styrofoam trays.

Family – Fire

A Go Fund Me page has been set up to help a family following a fire at their home on Bath Road early Saturday morning.

More than a thousand dollars has been raised for the Maxam family.

An online post says the family needs financial help with first and last months rent on a new home and to pay their expenses until they can relocate.

They had no tenants insurance on the duplex they were living in.  A 35 year old man has been charged with setting the next door unit on fire.

Double Fires

Double fire trouble on Van Order Drive.

Kingston Fire and Rescue says a fire in one of the units was caused by burning incense that had been left unattended.  A neighbour ran to the unit around 10:30 Monday morning to help and forgot she had left food cooking on the stove.  Firefighters had to put also out a fire caused by the cooking.

The woman burning the incense has been charged with disabling her smoke detector.

Gas Prices

Good news for the Canadian dollar – bad news for the price of gasoline.

The price of oil jumped by $1.81 to just over $42 U-S a barrel yesterday after Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to cut production.

The Canadian dollar was up almost a cent to 78.38 cents U-S.

The price of regular gasoline jumped to about $1.04 a litre at most gas stations in Kingston yesterday.