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KINGSTON —The schedule for some KFL&A Public Health programs and services will be modified over the next couple of weeks owing to the holiday season. 
Main office – Kingston
Our Kingston office will be closed:
Monday, December 24, 2018
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Monday, December 31, 2018
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Branch offices –Napanee, Sharbot Lake, and Cloyne
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Kingston - KFL&A Public Health has released the 2018 Cost of Eating Healthy Report. Based on the local results of the Nutritious Food Basket annual survey, the cost to eat healthy in 2018 for a family of four (two adults, two children), is approximately $874 per month. Although a decrease of $14 from the 2017 report, the results strongly demonstrate how vulnerable populations with a fixed or low income have difficulty affording healthy food after accounting for rent and...
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KINGSTON —The Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington Board of Health’s November meeting will be taking place as follows:
Date :                     Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Time :                     2:00 p.m.
Location :            ...
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Bringing experts together to share their knowledge about cannabis with the community
With the recent legalization of cannabis in our communities and across the nation, many people have questions about cannabis. KFL&A Public Health is offering a free community information session where they will bring experts together to share their knowledge about cannabis with the community. Presentations will include laws and enforcement related to cannabis, cannabis addiction, cannabis...
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Kingston, ON - KFL&A Public Health is working in partnership with the provincial organization Leave the Pack Behind who is offering young adults in Ontario between the ages of 18 and 29 a chance to win one of two grand prizes of $2500 cash to quit smoking through the WouldURather… contest.
Young adults have the highest prevalence of smoking than any other age group in our province. WouldURather… is a 6-week contest with the goal to reduce high rates of...
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