Giving with one hand…
McGuinty government tries to salvage votes through electricity bill rebate In an effort to soften the blow of rising electricity costs in Ontario the McGuinty government is offering consumers a 10 per cent rebate on hydro bills over the next five years. But the move will come as little solace for most Ontarians who have […]
Making hay
Dukes rack up two more in the win column Simon Bessette is a fun guy to watch. The moment he steps on the ice he is moving. Churning his feet forward. Hungry for speed. He is usually the first Dukes player on the ice. Alert fans will have witnessed a typical Simon vignette on Friday […]
Growing up
PEFAC celebrates fifth anniversary It has now been five years since the Prince Edward Fitness and Aquatic Centre (PEFAC) came into being. From the loud voices and noisy controversy into which it was born out of the vestiges of the RecPlex, PEFAC has emerged as a self-assured, yet modest, organization. It still leans heavily on […]
Topsy-Turvy
Liability risk too great to insist skateboarders wear helmets Does this make sense to you? For the past season and a half, the staff at the County’s arenas have been required to wear hockey helmets when they operate the ice resurfacing (Zamboni) machines between periods and uses. The same head protection is required for the […]
Swagger returns
Dukes winning streak restoring confidence After a brief early November wobble, the Wellington Dukes appear to be regaining their swagger bit by bit, putting together a tidy little three-game winning streak over the last 10 days. It hasn’t always been pretty these games without Jordan Ruby in net, but the Dukes are battling hard—scoring when […]
Field naturalists reject wind project
Continued from Page 5 of the Times November 17 issue The Prince Edward County Field Naturalists (PECFN) have a mandate to foster and encourage conservation of natural habitat. We initiated a popular Birding Festival that draws hundreds of visitors from Ontario, Quebec and the U.S. every May; helped build the Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory […]
November swoon
Dukes hope big win in Vaughan ends slump Maybe it’s November. What else can explain the Wellington Dukes’ rocky performances since October 29? That was the night the Dukes lost their first regulation time game of the season. Since then the Dukes have lost two more games and appeared wobbly in their win against the […]
Untouchable
Why wasn’t 2008 fine against Sinclair collected? Why wasn’t he stopped? That was the question many folks had in the days following that fateful Sunday morning when environmental criminal Jim Sinclair busted a hole into the side of the former Methodist Episcopal church on Main Street in Picton this past summer. He violated order after […]
Life cut short
Canniff Foster remembered She was by accounts the most beautiful girl in Hillier Township. So Canniff Foster was as surprised as anyone when Helen Gilbert agreed to marry him. Canniff was a rugged young man, classically handsome and eager for adventure. Helen was the Hillier schoolteacher. It was 1917 and the war to end all […]
Unity of knowledge
Leading experts pool their most recent understanding of the harm of industrial wind turbines on human health Piece by piece, presentation by presentation, the foundation upon which industrial wind industry and much of Ontario’s Green Energy Act sits was taken apart and dismantled this past weekend. The industrial wind turbine business was always on shaky […]