| Celebrating its one year anniversary, the Chameleon Language Centre (CLC) in Charlottetown will have an Open House on March 27 from 2–5 pm. CLC offers linguistic services (language training, translation and interpreting) in a variety of languages.
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| In its continuing effort to reach the entire province, the Institute of Island Architectural Studies and Conservation and noted Acadian historian, Georges Arsenault will present an illustrated lecture, in French at the Acadian Museum in Miscouche.
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| This is the 12th year that the International Tea House has been held. The event showcases artists and chefs from a wide variety of cultures, with the goal of creating friendships between newly arrived immigrants and Islanders.
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| Monthly meeting and Attic Windows demo of the Northern Lights Quilt Guild will be held at the O’Leary Community Centre March 1, 10 am to noon.
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| Brain injury information session with Dr. Christine Beck is March 4 at 2 pm
The Aliens are coming March 17 at 7 pm (stormdate March 24). Island Nature Trust presentation looks at invasive alien species which are a cause for serious concern from a biological and an economic point of view. Purple Loosestrife, Japanese Knotweed, Norway Maple and tunicates are a few. Find out what is invasive, what is not, prevention and control measures and more.
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| Beaconsfield Assembly Dance evenings are Wednesday from 7-9 pm at Beaconsfield’s Carriage House, Charlottetown. No prior dance experience is required. The music is a mix of jigs, reels, waltzes, marches, and strathspeys.
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| The International Tea House is an event where immigrants and locals Islanders come together and celebrate diversity.
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| Nortons Razzle Dazzle Red ’10, a major fundraiser for The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Prince Edward Island, takes place February 13 at The Culinary Institute in Charlottetown.
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| Research conducted by The Lung Association (2008) shows that most smokers on PEI want to quit. Eight-two percent have tried, averaging five quit attempts in total, two in the last year alone.
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| Sixteen research and development proposals have been offered funding through the Innovation PEI Pilot Fund, a program which provides seed money to entrepreneurs and scientists to test innovative and high-risk ideas with commercialization potential.
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| The Mawi’omi Aboriginal Resource Centre at UPEI will host its 3rd annual aboriginal festival on March 24 and 25, from 10 am–4 pm, on the campus.
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| Northern Watters Knitwear received one of five awards presented to retailers in Atlantic Canada at the Atlantic Craft Council awards weekend in February 2010.
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| The Kindred Spirits Quilt Guild will meet on March 17 in the Jack Blanchard Family Centre, 7 Pond Street, Charlottetown.
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| The PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada and the Carrefour de I’lsle-Saint- Jean have come together to raise funds for Haiti relief with Island to Island: Hope for Haiti on March 20.
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| Child Find PEI is sponsoring its annual telephone appeal on the Island. Tickets are being sold for the 16th Annual Mother’s Day Cash Give-Away to three lucky winnners of $1,000 each.
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| There will be a pancake breakfast fundraiser at Fitzroy Centre, 170 Fitzroy Street, on March 20th from 9:30 am–12 pm. |
| Chances Family Centre is working with the Runnels Family Farm to provide weekly vegetable deliveries to low income families.
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| Please note that the deadline for the March issue of The Buzz (streetdate February 25) is 4 pm, Friday February 12. Please make sure all notices, Buzzifieds, articles, press releases and advertising insertion orders are in by this date.
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| In response to the catastrophe in Haiti, the Province of Prince Edward Island will contribute $50,000 to the Canadian Red Cross to assist in relief efforts.
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| The Winter 2010 Edition of Sandpiper, the quarterly newsletter of the Atlantic Canada Chapter of Sierra Club Canada, has hit the virtual street.
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