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2 weeks ago | 
thewhig.com | Patrick Kennedy
Advertisement 1 • • Article contentAlthough Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doesn’t know it, the Kennedy clan of Kingston, Canada, and the Guerrero clan from Don Gregorio, Dominican Republic, are entwined by three memorable moments. That these ‘moments’ are memorable for only one family — mine — is irrelevant. A bond is a bond.
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1 month ago | 
thewhig.com | Patrick Kennedy
Advertisement 1 • • Article content“When they operated on my arm, I asked them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did, but it turned out to be Mrs. Koufax.”Advertisement 2Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.
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1 month ago | 
kingstonthisweek.com | Patrick Kennedy
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tommy John, left, chats with Dr. Kerlan Jobe, who invented the surgery known as ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction, now better known as Tommy John surgery, as both are honored before a game against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium Saturday, July 14, 2012. In the procedure, which saved the career of John after he underwent it in 1974, a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body.
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1 month ago | 
thewhig.com | Patrick Kennedy
Advertisement 1 • • Article contentA quarter-century after he captured the 2000 Olympic triathlon in Australia, Kingston native Simon Whitfield, speaking on the phone from his home on Vancouver Island, recounts a special poignant moment — no, not his thrilling, come-from-behind victory over runner-up Stephan Vuckovic, but rather the very spot in the run where he passed the German en route to five-ring glory.
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2 months ago | 
thewhig.com | Patrick Kennedy
Advertisement 1 • • Article contentIt was around this time last year that Seattle Mariners pitcher Matt Brash got some devastating news. The Kingston native listened in disbelief as a team doctor told him the results of an MRI exam on Brash’s injured right arm – his “money arm.”Advertisement 2Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.
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2 months ago | 
thewhig.com | Patrick Kennedy
Advertisement 1Violet was born in 1919, while Robert Borden was Canada's prime minister, Charlie Chaplin was the biggest star on the silver screen and Jack Dempsey was the heavyweight boxing champ • Article content“Happy birthday,” a visitor from the fourth estate greets Violet Storck, who has just returned from chowing down on a birthday lunch of liver and onions and sticky toffee pudding at a West Kingston eatery. Longtime friend Linda Crook — they go back 40 years — treated “Vi” to lunch.
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2 months ago | 
thewhig.com | Patrick Kennedy
• Article contentIn March 1963, Rod Bassett arrived in Kingston to begin work at Robert J. Reid & Sons funeral home. The 20-year-old Carleton Place resident had learned some of the ins-and-outs of the business while working part-time at his undertaker uncle’s funeral parlour back home. He wasn’t sure he’d made the right decision to leave his hometown and start life anew in the Limestone City, yet he vowed to stick it out for a year.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
thewhig.com | Patrick Kennedy
Advertisement 1 • • Article contentSt. Patrick’s Day, as we know it today, is a byproduct of savvy American advertising and promotion. It’s billed the world over as a day to celebrate Irish culture and heritage with parades, parties and varying quantities of beer, some of it green. Brilliant. Advertisement 2Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
thewhig.com | Patrick Kennedy
Advertisement 1 • Article contentIn the late spring of 1971, Richard Cherry bumped into his friend Richard Dodds. “Richard”? Only their mothers used that front name, as did Richard Cherry’s famous hockey-commentator brother Don; to others they were simply “Dick.” The two old pals reminisced briefly on their time as student teachers at Queen’s University and the summer they worked together at Kingston Parks and Recreation. They also updated one another on their current standing.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
kingstonthisweek.com | Patrick Kennedy
Dick Cherry remembered as 'true gentleman and an inspiration'Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Mark Howard, left, and Const. Todd Sparkes, right, salute as Don Cherry and his brother Dick step back after placing a wreath on the gravestone of their late grandfather, John T. Cherry, who was one of the original 300 members of the Northwest Mounted Police. A ceremony Wed., Nov. 16, 2011 at St. Mary's Cemetery in Kingston, Ont. dedicated a regimental stone in his name.
