Safe Internet Use Children and teens spend a great deal of time online. As a parent or caregiver, you are the best person to help your child stay safe online. Talk to your children about what they should and should not do online. The internet is an amazing resource but it is...
Parents have a great influence on student achievement. Parent engagement in schools and learning make PEI schools better places to learn and grow. School councils and home and school associations All schools have school councils or home and school associations. Getting involved...
Investments will lead to increased tourism traffic It’s summer – open the doors and bring on the visitors. It’s not quite that simple - just ask representatives from Cavendish Beach Music Festival Inc. (CBMF), Sandspit Entertainment Ltd., and Tourism Cavendish Beach. Like most...
John Smith was appointed PEI’s first poet laureate in December 2002, serving until December 2004. It is unbroken It is unbroken though forsaken, set in the tilt of trees toward the prevailing sun. Not lost, though unregarded, spoken in buried syllables. Now it rises, a slow star...
Frank Ledwell was appointed Poet Laureate in December 2004, serving until December 2007. He died on August 14, 2008, at the age of 78. Tranquility When our children have gone at last, we’ll go and live by the ocean shore on the far side of the lake. We’ll cock our ears to catch...
David Helwig was appointed Poet Laureate in January 2008, serving until December 2009. Negatives A monochrome adventuring: the chemicals spread on polymer and exposed to a flash of light hatch this peephole’s-worth of look, but glimpsed in reverse, black snow, slate skin...
Hugh MacDonald was appointed Poet Laureate in December 2009, serving until January 2013. At Merton’s Hermitage Five poets sit in a sort of symmetry our awkward placement of hands reading like young actors unused to the stage suspended somewhere between giddiness and serenity. How...
Dianne Hicks Morrow was appointed Poet Laureate in January 2013, serving until January 2016. The Devil Sends The truck dumps topsoil on the grass at the end of our long clay lane, the place the west wind burns by August. Barefoot I jump in the loamy earth, decide to make a rock...
The following is courtesy of the University of Prince Edward Island The University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathy Hambly and James Moran as well as the re-appointments of Scott Harper and Margo Thompson to its UPEI Board of Governors. “I...
The Prince Edward Island Liquor Control Commission has suspended the lounge liquor license, license number LL90228, for the premises known as “Old Triangle Irish Ale House” located in Charlottetown, for the following period of time, that is: for a period of three (3) days...