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3 days ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
This reporter was recently out looking for sea glass on the beach in Tignish Shore. I did find sea glass, but I also came across an object stuck in the mud near the shore. It was heavy and looked old. I thought about all the news items I had seen about other Islanders coming across interesting finds on beaches. There was a woman who found a walrus skull thousands of years old on a beach in Tignish. The discovery was made following post-topical storm Fiona in 2022.
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3 days ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
The West Point Lighthouse, one of Prince Edward Island’s iconic landmarks, is celebrating a 150 years this summer. Construction of the tapered square shaped tower lighthouse, with its black and white stripes, began in 1875. At 69 feet, the West Point Lighthouse is the tallest on the Island. kAmz6?5C2 $>:E9[ 86?6C2= >2?286C @7 E96 (6DE !@:?E {:89E9@FD6 x??
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3 days ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
“On 14 June 1956, the pastor, Rev. C O Howlett, who has faithfully served the O’Leary Baptist pastorate which includes Springfield, Knutsford and Alma churches for the past thirteen years, turned the first sod for the new church. The building is 72 by 35 feet with a wing 30 by 14 feet. In the basement there will be an auditorium, School classrooms, kitchen and lavatory. In the wing there is a minister’s study and ladies’ parlour.” “The Guardian,” 3 May1957.
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1 week ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
Noella McDonald is very happy that Shirley’s Café now has a wheelchair ramp at the Tignish establishment. McDonald has a form of muscular dystrophy and for the past 25 years she’s needed the use of a wheelchair. As a result, the Tignish resident has never been able to see the inside of the popular eatery because it’s never been accessible to her. Previously, the only way to enter the business was climbing three steep concrete steps. But no more.
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1 week ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
A wildlife photographer was able to capture an image of a rare bird - a great egret. Amanda Beers is a travelling nurse from Moncton, New Brunswick working at Western Hospital. She’s been a wildlife photographer for 15 years. “I’ve seen them before,” she said of the great egret. “This was the first one I’ve seen in PEI. But I’ve seen them in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick before.”The first time she spotted the egret was near the hospital on May 17.
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1 week ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
This reporter’s trip to Ireland in 2023 was great. However, it’s impossible not to compare a country you are visiting to your home country. One observation I made while visiting Ireland was accessibility. We had about a day and half in Dublin before our tour officially started. The hotel in Dublin had a couple of steps out front to enter the main lobby and didn’t have a ramp of any kind for those who might have trouble climbing the steps or used a wheelchair.
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2 weeks ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
A career in paramedicine runs in Jansen Sweet’s family. The O’Leary native’s father has been a paramedic for over three decades. kAm“x’G6 <:?5 @7 7@==@H65 :? 9:D 7@@EDE6AD[” D2:5 $H66E]k^Am kAmw6 =:<65 9@H 36:?8 2 A2C2>65:4 H2D 2 H2J E@ 96=A A6@A=6]k^AmkAm“x 6?;@J 96=A:?8 A6@A=6[” 96 D2:5] “xE’D D2E:D7J:?8]”k^AmkAm$H66E 8C25F2E65 7C@> E96 A2C2>65:4:?6 AC@8C2> 2E w@==2?5 r@==686 :? a_`e] w6 H2D A2CE @7 E96 7:CDE 4=2DD E@ 8C25F2E6 7C@> E96 E96?
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2 weeks ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
Learning about ageism and elder abuse was the focus of a presentation at the Alberton Arts & Heritage Centre on May 12. The Bridging Generations presentation was the first event in West Prince to mark Family Violence Prevention Week. The theme this year is preventing abuse in older adults. kAm“(6 E9@F89E :E H2D :>A@CE2?E E@ AFE @FC 7@4FD @? @FC @=56C 25F=ED :? @FC 4@>>F?:E:6D[” D2:5 !tx u2>:=J ':@=6?46 !C6G6?E:@? $6CG:46D W!tx u'!$X (6DE !C:?46 ~FEC6249 r@@C5:?2E@C z2C6?
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2 weeks ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
Slave Lake, Alberta in 2011. Fort McMurray, Alberta in 2016. Hammonds Plains and Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia in 2023. Northwest Territories in 2023. Jasper National Park, Alberta in 2024. All these places have been devastated by wildfires over the past decade. These fires have destroyed acres of wooded areas, buildings and homes. Early this year, just south of the border, we all watched how fires destroyed communities around the Los Angeles area in California.
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3 weeks ago | 
peicanada.com | Melissa Heald
Six newborn kittens are in good hands following an effort to locate them after their mother was found deceased by the roadside in Tignish. The mother cat was found near the entrance sign to the town on Route 2 late afternoon on May 1. It was evident she had been nursing, causing concern for her kittens. kAm$F6==2 v2==2?E[ pAC:= s6=2?6J 2?5 #@H82? q2C3@FC DF446DD7F==J =@42E65 E96 <:EE6?D @? |2J c]k^Am kAm%96 EC:@ C62==J 5@?’E H2?E 2?J C64@8?:E:@?
