Home at last
Hospice Prince Edward gains strong support and achieves key milestone Grant Reynolds understands better than most the importance of a community- based residential hospice. Nine years ago his wife was diagnosed with brain cancer. She had little more than a year to live. She defied the prognosis—for a while. The disease went into remission. Karen […]
Movin’ on up
Dukes surge past Kingston to take over second place November can be a tough month for a hockey club. It is the doldrums of the season—no longer fresh and new, yet still a long road to the playoffs. Spirits sag and energy is in short supply in this dark month. Not so for the Dukes—not […]
Winning ways
Dukes roll along despite depleted lineup It might have been a tough weekend for the Wellington Dukes—four of their brightest prospects were in Nova Scotia participating in tournaments in Yarmouth and Digby. Mike Soucier was with Team Canada East in the World Junior Challenge—where his team lost the bronze medal game badly to the Swiss. […]
Mortality threshold
How ministry bureaucracy tasked with protecting Ontario’s natural heritage is clearing the way for industrial wind development What is an Important Bird Area? Does it have any specific meaning or legal weight? Not much, it seems, when it comes to industrial wind factories or solar energy generating facilities, according to the province’s Ministry of Natural […]
Failing children
Three more foster parents charged with sexual crimes against children in their care Ron Slatter professed innocence. He said he had been the target of vindictive Children’s Aid Society officials who were getting back at him for complaining about a lack of funding for foster families. Earlier this year Slatter was charged with sexual assault, […]
Boards merge
County CAS takes first step toward amalgamating with Highland Shores Children’s Aid The Children’s Aid Society of Prince Edward County has made it official—it will merge its operations with those of Highland Shores Children’s Aid. Highland Shores is itself the merged creation of the former Hastings Children’s Aid and Northumberland Children’s Aid. The County CAS […]
Dazzlebug
“They don’t write songs like that anymore” this Saturday at the Wellington Library Fraser Hardman grew up in the north of England and went to school there and in Scotland. He has played in a variety of bands on both sides of the Atlantic, from folk to jazz to rock and roll, and even a […]
Shortchanged
War ended before wireless operator could get there Lorne McFadden wanted to fly. He had done his share of marching and drills as a teenager in Sudbury, training every Friday with the Copper Cliff Highland Cadet Corps. He wasn’t looking to do more. When war broke out and Canadians signed up to fight overseas, Lorne […]
About face
Troubled CAS relents to pressure after a bad year Update: The board of the Children’s Aid Society of Prince Edward confirmed on Friday it will merge operations with Highland Shores Children’s Aid–the agency it spurned just under a year ago. The local Children’s Aid Society says it will no longer go it alone. The […]
Protective custody
Seeking a balance between beavers and trees Outwitting the industrious beaver has proven more difficult than first thought. Readers will recall last year about this time that municipal officials had to resort to trapping the flat-tailed rodents in the Wellington harbour and moving them out of the area. Where they were moved, or their condition […]