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Logan MacLean
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HEROES OF 2020: P.E.I. businessman Norm Gallant believes there's more to life than money
Norm Gallant knows people talk. He counts on it. He’s been selling furniture at the Furniture Gallery in Summerside for 25 years and knows the importance of maintaining services to small communities. “If you sell a product up in ...
Appeal results in six carloads of items and $5,000 donated for unhoused Islanders
Courtney Crosby doesn’t always feel people are listening when she raises issues of poverty, addictions and mental health. However, she certainly felt like her appeal for help was heard on the weekend. Spurred by the City of ...
HEROES OF 2020: Betty Begg shares love of community through Gifts from the Heart
Betty Begg-Brooks knew she was onto something on a cold, stormy February day when 101 families showed up for help. She’d been working at the Salvation Army and family services. When the charity decided to limit their donations to food, ...
HEROES OF 2020: Two P.E.I. women work to address mental health, addictions shortfalls
Courtney Crosby needed help at 10 p.m. on a week night. She’d been advocating for the mental health of other people for a decade, and she’d been in recovery during that time. She had never before dealt with what she would call a mental ...
Advocates raise funds, awareness around homelessness in P.E.I.
Courtney Crosby knew she had to do something. She was frustrated after hearing Charlottetown’s public works department had sealed up a culvert used as shelter by unhoused people struggling with addiction. She wanted to help but ...
Eastern red bat discovered in P.E.I.
Jordi Segers couldn’t be sure what the data was saying – at least not for the first six years his team looked. But the Eastern red bat was there in the P.E.I. National Park. And this year, there was enough information to be ...
Grad student researching political role of food in P.E.I.
Jill MacIntyre’s interest in sustainable agriculture didn’t come from being raised on a farm. It started in her second year of university. Growing up in Summerside, the political significance of food wasn’t obvious. However, a ...
Food bank use down at Holland College
Tricia Thompson is seeing fewer students at the Holland College food bank this year. The need hasn’t changed, but the college has. With COVID-19 moving many classes online, the Charlottetown campus is quieter now than in past ...
Coping through creation: Songwriting in the time of COVID
Parker Murray was bored after graduating from high school in the spring. He was supposed to be working on his debut album, Seizure, but COVID-19 was slowing production. It was taking too long to get people together safely. Then he got an ...
