Vegetation restoration
A bit of rain couldn't stop Parks Canada staff in P.E.I. from planting plenty of new trees — more than 1,000 of them.
The new trees and shrubs will replace many of the vegetation damaged during post-topical storm Dorian's swath through the Maritimes last year.
"I think the rain probably motivated folks to work quickly," resource management officer Hailey Paynter told the Guardian's Daniel Brown. "(And) I think we just had a group of very hard workers."
Restoration work in the park had already begun pre-Dorian, but the storm helped move up the timeline.
Read Brown's story to learn about the work so far, and what's left to do.
110 years young
For 110-year-old Janet Luscombe, celebrating a birthday during a pandemic is nothing new — it's the second one she's lived through.
Luscombe was born before the sinking of the Titanic, lived through two world wars and more than a centrury of technological advances ranging from candlestick telephones to a Facebook video call, which is how she spoke with the Telegram's Barb Sweet recently.
“Nan’s secret to a long life is, ‘Don’t sit in the rocking chair,’” her granddaughter, Lori Dewar-Gerstenecker, tells Sweet.
Good advice.
Click here for more, including video of Luscombe's 110th birthday.
Running his own race
Isaac Mazer set a goal and is committed to seeing it through to the finish line.
The 34-year-old decided this spring to run the P.E.I. Marathon for the first time. When marathon organizers were forced in late July to cancel this year’s Oct. 18 run due to the coronavirus pandemic, Mazer was left wondering what to do.
Having already invested weeks of training, he decided to run the route anyway.
“I just want to be able to run it and really enjoy having all the training that I put into it come to a climax in some sort of fashion,” he told the Guardian's Jason Malloy. “Finishing it, having the whole event come to a close, will be really enjoyable.”
Check out Mazer's plan to mimic the marathon route.