Archive for March, 2012
Ones that got away: Lars and the Real Girl
Well it’s March Break and I toyed with the idea of a Top 10 column about vacations, with the word March in them or about school being out but I couldn’t get past three in any category so it was time to move on. I’ve reviewed everything I’m interested in seeing and refuse to watch […]
PECI builds on leadership at student camp
Just before March Break, PECI class representatives participated in a leadership camp at Wesley Acres. When we get there we get acquainted with everyone and we play some get-to-know-each-other games. We talk about what is going on at the school and how students feel. The class reps also get their say in planning for the […]
Strange Sounds Coming From the Skies
There are woodcocks making weird noises in the fields behind our house that I walk every morning with the dog. I don’t see them as it is still quite dark with only a hint of daybreak on the horizon. They seem only an arm’s length away as they produce their diagnostic twittering and fluttering in […]
Awards honour smoke-free efforts
Dr. Richard Schabas, medical officer of health for the Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit presented seven Smoke-Free Initiative Awards for 2011 to recipients from across the region. The awards were in four categories: healthy environment, school, workplace, and community. The Healthy Environment Award is for employers who go beyond the Smoke-Free Ontario Act […]
Council should follow lead on turbine guidelines
On March 6, I emailed a letter to Mayor Mertens and council. I have received only one response and that was from the councillor for North Marysburgh, Robert Quaiff. This is especially irritating since I voted for Peter Mertens based on what I presumed to be his position against the development of industrial turbines in […]
Bloomfield library land bequeath states ‘only for a library’
Sandra Dowds, on behalf of the Bloomfield Business Association, will tell Prince Edward County councillors they may not be able to consider making the Bloomfield Library surplus as according to the last will and testament of Ann Emily Fraleigh, the deed for the land for the Bloomfield library remains only as long as the land […]
Cost cutting discussions on 19 suggestions begin Wednesday morning
Fewer fire halls, libraries and town halls are among proposals highlighted in a report from Prince Edward County’s Chief Administrative Officer and Commissioners. Councillors will discuss the report Wednesday, March 14 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Council has indicated its desire to achieve financial sustainability with the goal of better value for taxpayers, well delivered services […]
Burn Ban in effect as of today
As of Monday March 12,2012 a Burn Ban is in place – No Barrel and No Open Burning until conditions improve in Prince Edward County. Click here for burn permit information or an application to become a Prince Edward County volunteer firefighter.
House defeats second motion for wind moratorium
Prince Edward-Hastings MPP Todd Smith has spent the last three weeks in the legislature reading petitions supporting a moratorium on wind development in Ontario. In the end, a Private Members motion put to the House by Lisa Thompson, MPP for Huron-Bruce, called for a moratorium on further wind development until independent studies on the social […]
Take the trivia challenge with family and friends – revised!
Eighteen teams of four matched wits in competition for fun and bragging rights as winners of the Hospice Prince Edward Trivia Challenge 2012. The Mission and Service Committee of Picton United Church hosted the community Trivia Challenge last week, raising $2,278 in support of Hospice Prince Edward. The 120 players and volunteers participated in answering […]
