Busy Hands
Annual craft show has successful weekend at the Armoury The Busy Hands craft show returned to Picton last weekend, after being held at the Wellington Arena for the past several years, with the exception of 2020, when it was a combination of online ordering and drive-through pick-up at the Crystal Palace. This year the event […]
Budget 2022
It’s the most wonderful time of the year Wednesday evening will mark the start of capital budget deliberations at Shire Hall. For those with a short memory, during the last budget, Council passed a 3.2 per cent increase, meaning County taxpayers paid $41.6 million in property taxes—a $1.3 million increase over the year prior. At […]
Celtic Yuletide
Seventh Town part of Festival Players winter concerts Afour-piece acoustic Celtic/folk group, Seventh Town have performed at many venues at many events throughout Prince Edward County over the years, and while Covid curtailed performances somewhat, they will be performing live this weekend. Along with The Bookends, Seventh Town will form part of Festival Players Celtic […]
A journey towards healing
Families of residential school survivors tell their stories Last Wednesday at Macaulay Church, Callie Hill, Executive Director of Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na (TTO) gave a presentation about a new book that tells the stories of families whose parents, grandparents or great-grandparents were sent to residential schools. In the period between 1862 and 1962, more than 130 […]
Vaccination policy
Volunteer firefighters must be vaccinated, or tested regularly Mandating Prince Edward County’s contingent of volunteer firefighters to be vaccinated was an agenda item at last Tuesday’s council meeting. The drawn out discussion saw a report from the Fire Department that called for volunteer firefighters to be included in the County’s COVID-19 vaccination policy, which already […]
Expansion plans
Drake properties set to grow Wellington footprint When the Drake Devonshire Inn settled in Wellington a few years back, there’s no question things changed. The very fabric of the village experienced a renaissance of sorts never before seen in recent history as this establishment’s Toronto base welcomed an existing and new clientele to their new […]
Circles of Joy
Online workshops to share stories of joy The Department of Illumination will be spreading some light of a different kind in an upcoming series of online workshops where participants are encouraged to tell stories of joy. In collaboration with Toronto-based Kick Start Arts, the Department of Illumination (DoI) will be collecting personal stories of joy, […]
Food security
Working group looks to hire first staff position Eighty per cent of the people who are food insecure in Prince Edward County are not being served, according to the Food Security Working Group (FSWG). The reason has little to do with availability of food, but is largely centred on the continued stigma of food bank […]
Picton Heights
Revised development plans bring mixed reaction The message coming out of a public meeting on the revised development plans for Picton Heights continues to be concern over the displacement of existing tenants, but also an acknowledgement the plans amended since the last public meeting (held February 2021) have addressed some of the more pressing issues. […]
Table Settings
The art of feeding seasonal agricultural workers It is spring 2020 COVID-19 has disrupted most day-to-day activities and life as we know it has to adapt and adjust to keep up with so much uncertainty. Life in the fields and vineyards in Prince Edward County goes on because a pandemic doesn’t stop activity at a […]