A better problem

Council urged to put more aside in reserves as it considers a 1% increase in the tax levy County council sat down this week to begin haggling over its 2013 budget. Taxpayers, meanwhile, await the impact on their pocketbooks. As the horsetrading began, council was looking at just a one per cent increase in the […]

Trip to Queen’s Park in support of PECMH

Barking mad

POOCH rally against cuts to Picton hospital gathering steam This dog knows how to hunt. The ranks of the group known as POOCH—Patrons of Our County Hospital—are swelling everyday. In a week Dave Gray has received more than $1,800 toward the goal of sending two or more buses of County seniors to Queen’s Park in […]

History erased

Demolition begins at Point Traverse It seems a bizarre case of bureaucracy run amok. For 200 years fishermen have pushed out of this tiny harbour at the southern easterly tip of Prince Edward County to reap harvest in Lake Ontario. For 200 years the goals and ambitions of the wildlife conservation folks blended compatibly, for […]

Seaworthy

County crew discovers seductive passion of crafting a wooden boat There are no straight lines. Nothing is square. Yet the dimensions must be true and precise. Otherwise months of work sinks like a stone. Disappearing underwater in a few seconds. Boat building holds a maddening grip upon those it attracts and seduces. It becomes an […]

Making an impression

Wellington resident looking to fill a couple buses to protest hospital cuts at Queen’s Park Dave Gray is upping his effort to take a busload of seniors to Queen’s Park next month to demonstrate this community’s unhappiness with the decision to reduce Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital to nine beds, as well as eliminating maternity […]

Sad end

Dukes have victory snatched from their hands It shouldn’t have ended this way. On this night the Dukes were the better team. Faster, smarter and more determined. They deserved at least one more game at home. But some bad luck, some questionable calls (and non calls) by the referees snatched the victory away from the […]

Pulling back

County brings development and waterworks connection charges in line with neighbours No longer willing to lead the region in terms of eye watering development and waterworks connection charges, the County has moved to lower these charges in hopes it will encourage builders to come back to the County. “Your staff has responded,” Susan Turnbull, the […]

What’s enough?

QHC administrator says 12 beds all PECMH needs How many hospital beds are enough? QHC director Steve Blakely was hoping to turn the conversation away from bed cuts to a determination of what is the right number of beds. “How many hospital beds do we need?” asked Blakely at QHC’s board meeting last week. QHC’s […]

Cutting in pieces

QHC board endorses revised plan to cut PECMH to 12 beds over three years Quinte Health Care has slowed down the pace by which it will eliminate nine beds from Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital, but the cuts will proceed. At its monthly meeting on Tuesday QHC’s board endorsed management’s process whereby four inpatient beds […]