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News before 1996 is not available online.
Islanders may know Alicia Birt from Innovation PEI, where she worked with various divisions for over 15 years. Now, Alicia is working as PEI’s first business navigator, a role she started early last year, where she provides one-on-one support to Island business owners. “It’s...
Shoveling a path to her oil tank is something Jeannie Dixon says she won’t miss. “My oil tank is at the back of my house,” says the single mother, who lives with her three-year-old daughter in Charlottetown. “To not have to worry about clearing eight feet of snowbanks to get an...
While many Island students were catching up on sleep over the winter break, Jennifer Holdway was busy getting ready for a new year at school. Holdway used her time off to create a website for her students at Stratford Elementary, where she works as an itinerant teacher—a teacher...
The Seniors Centre in Kensington was set up like Santa’s workshop earlier this month. A small group of seniors and students from the local community worked like elves to assemble blessings bags for the Kensington Food Bank and Kensington Intermediate Senior High School (KISH)...
Maricris and Paul Lamano love living in Prince Edward Island. They say the Island was an easy choice when they moved to Canada with their six-year-old son in 2017 from the Philippines because it reminds them of where they lived in Batangas, a province surrounded by beautiful...
Mike and Janine Hamilton have been foster parents for more than ten years and have even made an addition to their home so they can help keep siblings together in families where multiple children are in care. “Giving kids the opportunity to do things that they haven’t had the...
Several Island schools received a total of 60 new bike racks that were ready for students when the school year started this fall. The project was triggered when the provincial Active Transportation (AT) Fund working group put out a call to all schools and 21 responded saying they...
Karrie MacDougall has been a staple figure in the lives of some of PEI’s youth in care. Karrie is a member of the Child and Family Services team in PEI. She is the Team Lead for the Transitions Apartments that support youth who have aged out of care. Her work includes program...
Lisa McCarthy is encouraging others to become registered organ donors after their family's decision to donate her son’s organs saved the lives of five other people. Lisa’s 18-year-old son, Brodie passed away in May 2018 after a fatal rugby accident just one month before he was...
Devon McGregor is one of the more consistent adults in the life of some of our Island youth. As a member of Prince Edward Island’s Child and Family Services Child in Care Team, Devon serves youth in foster homes, group homes or those about to age out of the system in a variety of...