All Entries in the "Letters and Opinion" Category
Disgraceful demolition a reminder of ongoing battle to protect County heritage
Letters and Opinion: In September 2010, this community watched in horror as an 1875 former Methodist Church was demolished on Picton’s Main Street. The destruction of the building was rated as one of the top 10 heritage losses of that year by the National Heritage Trust of Canada. Today, the site remains a weedy, vacant […]
COVID-19 wave 3 update from QHC CEO
To the community, from Stacey Daub, President and CEO, Quinte Health Care: As we come out of what we hope is the third and final wave of COVID-19, there is a sentiment of relief within our hospitals. April and May were tough. We experienced more COVID within our hospitals than any other months or waves […]
Great-niece pleads with province to spare homes; Hyatts and MacDonalds intertwined in business and in love, for generations
To the Editor (and Greg Walsh, Ontario Park’s Greg Walsh, Parks Operations Manager Southeast Zone, Jeff Yurek, Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks and Bay of Quinte MP Todd Smith). I recently became aware of the efforts of Heritage Conservation Architect Philip Evans, to safeguard two iconic, heritage homes in Prince Edward County: the Hyatt […]
Homeowners seek support to protect their water source
To the Editor: A small group of concerned homeowners strongly opposed to the creation of a pit on Ridge Road, just outside Picton, to excavate aggregate, sand and gravel, seeks help from the community via Go Fund Me to present to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, (LPAT). A recent land buyer purchased a family-run asparagus […]
We’re #1 in Ontario, or maybe it’s #34
To the Editor: As of Jan 30 (latest data available), the seven-day COVID-19 case rate for Hastings-Prince Edward was 0.6 per 100K population, the lowest of all 34 public health regions in Ontario. Less than one case per week. The other regions had rates varying from 3.1 (Timiskaming) to 146.3 (Peel). In its Feb. 4 […]
Distressing that seniors not a priority for COVID-19 vaccine
UPDATE: General Hillier, chair of Ontario’s Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, provided new information during the premier’s news conference on Jan. 13. He said that phase two would begin by early April and that seniors would be offered vaccination early in this phase, starting with those 80 and over, then 75 to 79, then 60 […]
Survey says more people willing to be vaccinated for COVID-19 virus
To the Editor: Willingness to get vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus is increasing in Prince Edward County. On Nov. 22, I polled the members of the Facebook group Prince Edward County Unmanageables regarding their interest in getting vaccinated. I repeated the poll on Dec. 21 to see how attitudes have changed. There were 163 responses […]
Macdonald statue should reconcile art and history
Opinion to the Editor by Henri Garand The controversy over Holding Court, Picton’s statue of John A. Macdonald, must be examined in historical, aesthetic, and economic as well as political contexts: 1. The statue is linked to a specific time in Picton’s history and Macdonald’s life unrelated to his later political career. 2. The statue […]
Disappointed to find tombstones over embankment
Letter to the Editor: I was out for a drive yesterday (Oct. 18th) and stopped for the first time at the South Bay pioneer cemetery. Wandered about reading the stones and took some photos. So many young children are buried there. One child was six months old. Another stone was for a young lad who […]
Canada’s first prime minister to go on trial in Picton
OPINION – By David Warrick As the ‘cancel culture’ gains momemtum, Canadians are finding truth not in fact, but in protest. Is it time to remove statues of Tommy Douglas leader of the NDP who also held racist views? Tommy Douglas was voted the “greatest Canadian of all time” as part of a 2004 CBC […]
