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PECI Panther Sr. basketball Central Ontario Champs heading to OFSAA
The PECI Senior Boys Basketball team made school history yesterday by repeating as Central Ontario Champions. Last year, the boys made history by winning the school’s first-ever COSSA title, and they followed it up this season with another OFSAA birth by defeating Nicholson Catholic College 44 – 32 in the championship game played at Norwood […]
Word on the Street: The psychology of change
I covered a lot of territory in the last column, but now I’d like to cut into the County Brain and pull out all those ugly demons that lurk in the corners of your mind. I am not a certified behavioural psychologist, but I watch people, study people and listen to people, and have determined […]
Support bid to establish County’s wildlife areas as conservation reserves
Letter to the Editor: Dear Mayor Ferguson and Council members I wish to express my full support of the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists and SSJI representative Cheryl Anderson’s presentation to the County Council Committee of the Whole this Thursday to ask for your active participation in establishing Ostrander Point Crown Land Block and Point […]
Word on the Street: A Matter of Distraction
I know I’ve been gone a long time, but I’ve been busy. Every once in a while I run across things that make the previously empty parts of my brain start to ponder. It’s like when you start a weedeater, and realize that the gas is 10 years old, and it takes 150 pulls on […]
Decision to douse fireworks disappoints
Letter to the Editor RE: Recreation Committee stepping back from Canada Day fireworks display The reasons put forward by the Picton Recreation Committee for eliminating Canada Day fireworks border on the ludicrous. (It stated ‘Fireworks are beautiful and most of us enjoy them, but aside from the tremendous cost —last year’s 15-minute display was $6500– […]
Senior Boys basketball on a mission for championship
The PECI SR Boys Basketball team made a statement to the rest of the league this week that players are on a mission for the Bay of Quinte Championship. The boys matched up with rival NCC Crusaders Thursday evening in front of a packed gym at PECI. The boys were coming off a big 64 […]
Criminal to fail to act on climate emergency
Letter to the Editor: Under Canada’s civil law, the ‘Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ is designed to protect individuals from unconstitutional acts by the government. Under criminal law, the International Criminal Court prosecutes Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. There, the legal test for criminal liability is whether one knew or should have known that […]
PECI students help make Christmas angel campaign merry
Under the leadership of the ‘Entrepreneurship Elves’, PECI students presented gifts for 56 angels with the County’s Christmas Angel Campaign. This year’s effort was spear-headed by teacher Rob Garden’s class and included sponsorship of angels by many grades at the high school. The campaign, headed by chief angel, Susan Rose, is nearing its end for […]
Stand up for time-honoured Christmas traditions
Letter to the Editor: Scrooge is alive and well. He has proclaimed time honoured traditions like familiar seasonal decorations, colours, or greetings be discontinued in specific locations. Scrooge arrogantly puffs his chest out and smugly says to all and sundry “I am politically correct.” This paraphernalia is offensive to the minority. The majority has to […]
Cenotaph tree honours veterans at Christmas time
Letter to the Editor: The importance of having a Christmas tree at the Picton Cenotaph is manifold, but there are two very significant reasons that need to be highlighted. First, the Cenotaph Christmas tree is symbolic of the recognition of Christmas during wartime. The most poignant example is the Christmas Truce of 1914 when a […]
