Supporting Island Families - Central Queens Elementary teacher Jonathan MacDonald was all smiles as he decorated his classroom to welcome students to his grade 2/3 split. He has a message for his first class as a full-time, permanent teacher – “persistence and patience pays off.”...
Supporting Island Families - In five decades as an early childhood educator, Alice Taylor has learned that helping a family helps a child. Taylor runs a local version of a Canada-wide program called Handle with Care, which promotes the mental health of young children. She was...
Prince Edward Island wasn’t on Melinda Ells’ radar when she started her job hunt after graduating from Dalhousie University as a nurse practitioner But after five years here, the 34-year-old Advocate Harbour, NS native can’t stop singing the Island’s praises. “It’s very peaceful...
Growing up in a house with no plumbing gave Nancy Gaudet a passion for the trade. The Cornwall resident is the Island’s only female Red Seal plumber. “When I was really young we shared an outhouse with my grandparents, I had to deal with a lot of stuff,” she said with a laugh...
A life of experience has taught Tyler Murnaghan the value of making a difference. Tyler’s father Kenneth Murnaghan leads the Brain Injury Association of PEI. His mother Tammy worked as an addictions counsellor and with the Red Cross in disaster relief. “With the two of them so...
Canada’s most successful and critically acclaimed new musical in recent memory is about a Prince Edward Island icon, and has a cast full of Islanders. Anne & Gilbert is based on the novels Anne of the Island and Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery, both sequels to the classic Anne...
Donald DesRoches believes lifelong learning is the key to success in the modern workplace – and a fundamental right. “Change is constant and continuous learning is the best way to manage,” he said. The president of Collège Acadie practices what he preaches. Last June he donned a...
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...
When Diane Griffin considered opportunities to get involved with any of nearly 70 government agencies, boards and commissions through Engage PEI, she knew exactly where she fit: the Museum and Heritage Foundation. Many people might not realize it but the Museum and Heritage...
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...