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May 9–11 the 10th Annual PEI Guitar Festival will be held in Tyne Valley and Charlottetown. Thur’s concert will be held at Brittania Hall, Tyne Valley while the Fri and Sat concerts will take place at The Guild in Charlottetown. For info see www.peiguitarfest.com or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . While the schedule fills quickly, organizers want to hear from guitarists interested in performing.

May 2013
Atlantic Playwrights

Island playwright Kathleen Hamilton will be participating in the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) Evening of Readings in Sackville, New Brunswick in May. The event will showcase new Canadian plays being written by playwrights from diverse backgrounds throughout the Atlantic region.

The Evening of Readings will be held in the middle of the 2013 PARC Playwrights’ Colony (May 5–18 on Mount All

May 2013
UPEI Physics Students Honoured

Two UPEI physics students took home honours from the Science Atlantic Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy Conference held recently at the Université de Moncton. Logan Montgomery won the Science Atlantic Science Communication Award, and Taylor Dunn won the ACEmat Award in Computational Modeling of Materials. Dunn’s award is for his project, titled Polymer translocation dynamics through a nanopore, wh

May 2013
Riptides Shortlisted for Atlantic Book Award

Riptides Shortlisted for Atlantic Book Award

The Atlantic Book Awards Society has released the shortlists for the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards. Among them, Riptides: New Island Fiction, edited by Richard Lemm, has been listed in the category for Best Atlantic-Published Book.

Dr. Lemm is a professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island. Working with Acorn Press, Lemm issued an open call in 2011 for fiction from writers with a strong

May 2013
Tributes Paid to Léonce Bernard

Premier Robert Ghiz extended condolences to the family of the Honourable J. Léonce Bernard who died March 26.

“Mr. Bernard was an outstanding individual who contributed greatly to the Island’s Acadian and francophone community and to his province as a former member of the Legislative Assembly, Cabinet Minister and Lieutenant Governor,” said Premier Ghiz.

Mr. Bernard was first elected to the Legislative

May 2013
CSTA President’s Awards/news

Mayor Clifford Lee was recognized by the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance (CSTA) as the recipient of its 2013 CSTA President’s Award during its annual Sport Events Congress. The Award recognizes outstanding achievements of those who have helped profile and build sport tourism in Canada. Managed by the City’s Events Development Officer, Wayne Long, SCORE!, Charlottetown’s sport tourism brand, attracts and a

May 2013
Women’s Secretariat Grants

Valerie E. Docherty, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, recently announced the names of 6 Island organizations that received funding through the Interministerial Women’s Secretariat Grants. Grant recipients included the Women’s Network PEI, The Aboriginal Women’s Association, PEI People First, PEI Family Violence Prevention Services, PEI Association for Community Living, and the East Princ

May 2013
Councillor Recognized

Councillor Mitchell Tweel, who represents Ward 4 in Charlottetown, was presented with the 2013 Harold MacLean Memorial Trophy at the association’s recent annual convention. The recognition came as part of the City’s efforts to assist in the cleanup of the Charlottetown Harbour. Councillor Tweel was presented with the award for his role in working with the association to keep the issue in the forefront.

May 2013
New Spring Park School Open

Spring Park School, a new 66 thousand square-foot facility, was officially opened in April. Planning and design for the new $10 million school was completed by W.D. Lawrence Architecture, and Brighton Construction was the construction manager for the project. The school features a learning centre, resource centre, literacy centre, health services room, project-based learning studio, multipurpose room,

May 2013
I Used to Think I’d Make a Good Boy

Carol Little

Author and poet Carol Little shares her difficult childhood and teen years in the latest Fierce Short published by Fierce Ink Press. In her creative non-fiction piece I Used to Think I’d Make a Good Boy, Little talks about the challenges of growing up in a small town when you don’t fit a particular gender mould.

Taunting, bullying and efforts to make her conform plagued Little as she

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