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Community on board to help hoarders
Is the mess in and around your home clutter, first-degree squalor or full on hoarding? For professionals in safety and healthcare fields, it can be tough to determine the line between extreme clutter and hoarding but when health and safety are at risk, local organizations are working together to help. The Prince Edward County Fire [...]
Dancers delighful at annual recital
. The County School of Dance students delighted their families, friends and fans at The Art of Dance 2013 recital held at the Regent Theatre on Sunday.Performers were fresh from earning top marks at the annual Orillia Opera House Dance Competition. Willow Rasmus, received a $175 scholarship and a special award. There were four overall [...]
PECI celebrates raising $40,855.84 for community causes
Prince Edward Collegiate Institute students and staff celebrated the raising of $40,855.84 over the 2012-2013 school year. Money was raised through the annual fashion show, head shaving, T-shirt sales, bottle drive, bracelet sales, The BET student play, personal donations and the Grade 10 Business Class “Apprentice” (Sarah Reddick) Kicks Against Cancer, staff-student baseball game, Cake [...]
Coffee parties support Hospice
The Golden Girls Bridge Club raised $520 at their Hospice Prince Edward Coffee Party/Bridge Luncheon held at the home of Fran Renoy. Donations to the party were made by Coffee Roasters, Portabella Bistro, Janice Powell and the Kinettes and Carol Harvey. The Coffee Party is one of 45 that are taking place this month to [...]
St. Gregory’s students take to the track
Athletes from the Algonquin Lakeshore Catholic School Board meet at the Mary Sills Park in Belleville last week for the district track and field competition for students in the western half of the school board. Above, the County’s Luke Norton, runs for St. Gregory’s Catholic School, centre, while the runner at left, from Our Lady [...]
Turtle watch continues during June nesting season
Bruce Booth, of Cressy, shares these two photos, reporting that the rain has brought the turtles out onto his property. “Last year from June 1 to June 10 we had 13 snapping turtles come up on the property and counted seven nests,” he said, noting that this year, the turtles were later. The Bay of [...]
PEC builders launch Canada’s first St. Ayles skiff
The builders, family and friends gathered on the shores of Picton Bay to christen and launch “Sea Shadow”, Canada’s first St. Ayles skiff. The celebration marked the culmination of a five month “labour of love” project. This winter, 12 retired amateur boat builders here in the County built Canada’s first Scottish Coastal rowing skiff. The [...]
PEC Relay for Life blasts through fundraising goal
Prince Edward County’s fourth annual Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life event burst through its fundraising goal of $200,000 by unveiling $222,775 in funds raised at the 12-hour event beginning Friday night at the Picton fairgrounds. “By joining us tonight, you’re part of a global movement dedicated to saving lives and supporting friends and family [...]
Students witness ripple effect of drinking and driving
Kristen Piper knew she was going to be arrested. In front of her Prince Edward Collegiate senior student peers, Piper was handcuffed and charged with impaired driving causing death. Turns out she was happy to be cuffed by PEC OPP Detective Constable Matt Caissie as the incident was part of a mock accident through the [...]
Butterflies are free at Q.E.
About 80 students in three Queen Elizabeth Public School classes set free dozens of butterflies they had raised from caterpillars. Over the past three weeks, students in junior and senior kindergarden and Grades 1 and 2 studied the metamorphosis, talked about what was happening and what was next and produced related crafts. They had received [...]
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