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Good customer service is in the bag
2016-10-28
When PEI Bag Company Sales Manager Jerry MacDonald retired after 43 years, someone at his retirement party said, “when you deal with the sales team here, you think you’re dealing with the owners.”
The way they treat their customers has been key to the 80-year-old Island company’s success, General...
There is always time for learning
2016-10-28
When it comes to lifelong learning, Amanda Brazil walks the talk.
The new member of the Learning Partners Advisory Committee is working on her PhD in educational studies at UPEI. She also juggles her day-to-day responsibilities as a mother of two children and a full-time job as director of policy...
PEI's first cancer physician stays connected to the system
2016-10-21
Dr. Dagny Dryer was more than ready to spend a quiet retirement painting and tending to her tomato crop after more than 30 groundbreaking years as a medical oncologist. That was until Prince Edward Island’s first cancer doctor began to feel the magnetic pull of medicine once again.
“When I first...
Mighty invention solves worldwide problem
2016-10-18
Trout River Industries founder Harvey Stewart solved a worldwide problem in the heavy trucking industry with an innovation developed right here in Prince Edward Island.
Getting a load out of a dump truck trailer used to mean raising the trailer to a severe angle so the contents could tumble out...
Man’s best friend is big business for Stratford dog trainer
https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/mans-best-friend-is-big-business-for-stratford-dog-trainer
2016-10-14
One of the planet’s top dog trainers runs his business in a place you might not expect. At an industrial park in Stratford, Duke Ferguson operates Unleashed Potential®, where dog trainers are trained and dogs from around the world learn to sniff out everything from bed bugs to bombs.
Ferguson...
Retired seniors advocate wants to assure quality of care continues
2016-10-14
Image caption: John Martin is an advocate for seniors as a member of the Community Care Facilities and Private Nursing Homes Licensing Board.
A long career managing nursing homes taught John Martin about the needs of seniors in the western end of the Island.
So after retiring, Martin got back to...
Anne brought her here; the Island convinced her to stay
2016-10-07
Deborah Langston was already an advocate for women’s rights in her native England when an iconic but fictional young woman from Prince Edward Island helped convince her to switch continents.
“We were watching Anne of Green Gables while we were still in England and my mum remarked it was my...