INSPIRE program
Training program links youth with employers Getting back into employment or education can be a difficult prospect for young people in the County, but the INSPIRE program offered by the Prince Edward Learning Centre (PELC) can smooth the way. The 20-week paid program provides pre-employment training and mentoring with a work placement that matches the […]
Time’s up
Ruling takes the municipality out of 21 Barker Street decision The County learned late last week there is a cost to slow-walking a planning application through its processes—it will be removed from the decision-making process. On Thursday, the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) ruled that the municipality had failed, or neglected, to make a decision […]
New shipping line
Container ship connects Halifax to Picton Anew container shipping line operated by Doornekamp Construction will soon begin trips between Halifax and Picton. The ship will arrive in Picton every other Tuesday, starting in May, and can carry up to 300 40-foot containers. The vessel is 140 metres long and the nominal capacity is 11,000 metric […]
When the Ice Breaks
Karole Marois exhibits at Cressy home studio The theme of water runs through many of Karole Marois’s paintings, and her current studio exhibition doesn’t flow too far off that same course. When the Ice Breaks is the second exhibition visual artist Karole Marois has put together in the time of COVID-19, the first being For […]
Bringing back Rainbows
Reaching for Rainbows slated to resume in September It has now been over a year since the Reaching for Rainbows program was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Picton, the program aimed to help vulnerable girls ages six to nine change their trajectory in life by providing a […]
Fancy birds
Raising pigmy pouter pigeons for fun The sound of contented cooing changes into a flutter of wings as David Stuckey opens the door to the loft containing his pigmy pouter pigeons. The birds have only a passing resemblance to their feral kin, in that the head and beak look similar, as does the colouration. But […]
Helping youth
ROC helps County youth access services Navigating the myriad services available to youth can sometimes be overwhelming, and a pilot program that has been operating over the past four months at the ROC is making it a bit easier for County youth to find the supports they need. The Youth Support Navigation Service (YSNS) is […]
Educating The Times
Dear Corey Engelsdorfer Editor, Owner The Wellington Times Further to the inclusion of a paid advertisement by CAWSBAR on March 10, 2021 in The Wellington Times, we are a group of County residents who are transgender, who ask you to place this letter and attached infographic as a full page insertion in an upcoming publication […]
Beginning birdwatching
Be still, and they will come For the past few weeks, the mornings have had a different sound. Birdsong, absent for many months, has now returned at dawn. Robins are making the early morning wake-up call. Male cardinals, resplendent in their red coats, have found their voice and are staking out their territory. Those living […]
All Welcome Here
BIPOC-led group seek clear path forward from council Judith Burfoot, founder of the Prince Edward County organization All Welcome Here (AWH), began her deputation to council last Tuesday night by saying, according to the last Statistics Canada Census conducted in 2016, five per cent of the County’s population identifies as black, Indigenous and people of […]