Like many Islanders, Summerside business person Cora Lee Dunbar spends a lot of time at the rink. Whether she’s cheering on her son or her daughter or playing hockey herself, the single mother says keeping active is part of their family routine. Cora Lee is a committee member of...
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...
Islanders are stepping up to share their interests, skills and ideas through participation on provincial government agencies, boards and commissions. “It is encouraging to see that Islanders from all parts of the province, and people with varying backgrounds, are willing to work...
Dr. Rosemary Herbert of Charlottetown was looking for ways to continue contributing to her community after a long and distinguished nursing career. “I have 39 years of experience in nursing and health education and I wanted to help out and give back,” she said. When the calls...
On Remembrance Day we honour Islanders who have fought in conflicts over the past two centuries. We understand a little more about the lives they led and the struggles they faced by looking at some of the war memorabilia they brought home. Lest we forget. In a brick building on...
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 3, 2016 -- Four Islanders have been appointed to the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation Board to add new community voices to decision-making about Island museum and heritage sites, says Education, Early Learning and...
At the largest folk festival in Australia that draws crowds of 120,000, a guitar-toting troubadour, Irish Mythen, sang Prince Edward Island’s praises. Two weeks later, an Australian couple Mythen met at her merchandise table e-mailed her photos of three Sydney-to-Charlottetown...
A western PEI company is having great success sharing Prince Edward Island’s abundant wild blueberries with the rest of the world. PEI Juice Works General Manager Jackson Platts says they recognized the opportunity to juice in bulk with the explosion of the craft brew market...
They are two Commonwealth Islands, separated by 3,700 kilometers of water, with one nearly at the Arctic Circle and the other close to the equator. But in an office in downtown Summerside, PEI, staff is busy helping a Barbados company manage and organize their employees’ vacation...
There’s a family dynamic at Sekisui Diagnostics PEI that extends halfway around the world. Sekisui has been on Prince Edward Island for five years but their history of producing clinical chemistry products in the province dates to 1971, when Dr. Regis Duffy started Diagnostic...