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Rotary Club gathering donations to support people of Ukraine
Angry Birds Restaurant owner Michael Hymus, and business partner Debora Jeanes this week are giving 100 per cent of all Angry Bird sales to the Picton Rotary Club to disperse the funds to help support Ukrainian refugees. The club is also collecting e-transfer donations to support the people facing the invasion by Russia. Rotary past […]
Local and global focus on violence awareness and random act of kindness week
The region’s 26th annual Violence Awareness and Random Acts of Kindness Week March 7– 13 seeks to promote positive energy to counteract the negative effects of senseless violence in society during a week of self-guided acts. “Over the past two years our program has had some definite challenges which have changed our format somewhat, but […]
Seniors cheer OPP for delivering Meals on Wheels
CHEERS! from the Prince Edward County Community Care for Seniors to Prince Edward OPP members for delivering Meals on Wheels on a rainy Tuesday. The Community Care for Seniors program delivers hot meals anywhere in the County up to five days a week. People interested in receiving, or delivering meals, should call Community Care for […]
Food Hub welcomes Stay PEC donation
CHEERS! from the County Food Hub, for a $1,000 donation from Stay PEC, a Prince Edward County Accommodation Association. Executive director Edward Schubert presented the cheque at to general manager Melissa Tran and president and chair of the board, Anne Marie Varner. Tran notes the funds will go a long way to assisting the County […]
Love is in the ‘AER’
A local service club showed its love for the County hospital this Valentine’s Day by pledging to fund an essential piece of equipment. It’s another act of love for the hospital from the Rotary Club of Wellington as members enter into a second pledge commitment with the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation (PECMHF) to […]
HPE business women club supports Reaching for Rainbows
The Hastings and Prince Edward Business and Professional Women Club (BPW HPE) donated $500 to support the Reaching for Rainbows program at St. Andrew’s Church in Picton. “BPW clubs across Canada and around the world work toward creating better lives for girls and women, and in this small way we are helping to empower girls […]
New County family presents $50,000 to Back the Build of County’s new hospital
A desire to inspire others and help to ensure access to health care close motivated a $50,000 gift from the DiBattista family of Picton to help build and equip the new hospital in Prince Edward County. Jeff and Traci DiBattista were both born and raised in Ontario. They lived in Edmonton for 27 years […]
PEC Library’s ‘A Place for YOUth’ project earns funding nod
The Prince Edward Public Library project, “A Place for YOUth” is one of 21 projects to receive funding from a community initiative from local insurer The Commonwell. Seeing many important local causes needing funding over the pandemic, The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group stepped in with a philanthropy initiative L.E.A.F. (Learning and Engagement Accelerator Fund) to […]
PEC Women’s Institute support of accessible transportation reaches $140,000
The Prince Edward District Women’s Institute presented another $5,000 toward the operation of accessible transportation in the County – a contribution tallying $140,000 since 2008. The service, contracted through Quinte Access, provides seniors and people with mobility issues with door-to-door transportation, allowing them to get to and from medical appointments, work and school, social events, […]
Spirit of Christmas shines through photographs and donations
The spirit of Christmas was captured in photographs and donations to back the build of the County’s new hospital. As part of their annual ‘Ode to Joy’ Art show and sale, Tara Wilkinson and Andrew Csafordi, artist-owners of Andara Gallery in Bloomfield, festively decorated their century-old barn with a 16-foot Christmas tree from Denmar Farms […]
