countylive.ca year-in-review photos – July 2016
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July 2016
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- Almost every seat was filled, and more spilled onto the grounds, to hear The King croon under the tent at the Waupoos Winery Annual Elvis Festival.
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- The County, in a pilot project with Sandbanks Provincial Park, has erected two electronic message board signs to flash warnings when the park has reached capacity. The signs have been installed at County Road 12 (West Lake Road) near the County Road 32 intersection and on County Road 10, south of Picton.
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- Despite extreme heat, organizers of the County’s first rodeo event are pleased, estimating about 2,000 people went through the gates for the weekend’s activities. The Rawhide Rodeo professional team presented bareback riding, barrel racing, bull riding, steer wrestling, and roping to fans in the grandstand at Picton’s Fairgrounds.
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- Supporters of the County’s hospital scored mostly happy faces on their tastings of some of the nation’s award-winning wines during the second annual ‘Wine Passport to Canada’ tasting event hosted by the Rotary Club of Picton and the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation.
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- Prince Edward County has sent the first Canadian team ever to row at the 2016 Skiffie Worlds championship in Strangford Lough, Ireland July 24- 30. The County’s Ayle of Quinte six-member team of Sandy Pratt, Elyse Graff, Jane Dean, Marilyn Kennedy, Tony Dean and Bob McKittrick will be competing in the 50+ mixed, men and women, as well as 60+ mixed men and women events. They’re shown here at the send-off with Mayor Robert Quaiff and South Marysburgh councillor Steve Ferguson.
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- At the close of the 23rd Annual Art in the County Juried Exhibition & Sale, the winner of the coveted “People’s Choice Award” was presented to J. Douglas Thompson, of Bloomfield.
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- Students of Music at Port Milford performed outside the Picton and Wellington libraries. Music at Port Milford celebrated its 30th season of bringing chamber music to Prince Edward County.
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- Hastings Prince Edward Public Health issued another heat warning. The County has opened two cooling stations at the Picton and Wellington arenas.
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- The historic Century 21 building in Picton was saved from extensive damage this morning thanks to quick action by Prince Edward County firefighters.
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- The raspy Brooklyn voice of TSN analyst and Toronto Raptors announcer Jack Armstrong rang out in the PECI gymnasium Friday as he coached Prince Edward County Clippers youth on the game, and conduct on and off the court. Basketball players of all ages attending the camp day organized by Clippers founder Rob Garden
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- More than 300 bed and wall quilts were on display at the Wellington area in the Prince Edward Quilter’s Guild’s biggest show
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- Prince Edward County firefighters contained fire damage at Picton’s Royal Canadian Legion building to one first-floor room, but some artifacts inside were damaged.
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- The County celebrated Canada’s 149th birthday in grand fashion – under mostly sunny skies with a brief rainfall.
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- Prince Edward County Field Naturalists celebrated the lapse of a 30-day notice to appeal the decision to revoke the REA for the nine-turbine project at Ostrander Point.
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