Country Prose by Charlie Hansen
Helen Cornelius and Jim Ed Brown on the Country Gold Tour at the Florida State Fair
Florida shouldn’t be like this. The weather is terrible and the only difference between here and PEI is that there isn’t any snow. The music, however, carries on ever in the worst of winters. All the parks still have events that they call jams (they’re not really but we won’t tell them) and they’re usually packed to capacity even on the coldest of nights.
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Michelle Morrison brings people together for good reasons
Difference Engines by Nina Linton
Michelle Morrison amid the posters at Back Alley Music.
Michelle Morrison sees herself as a matchmaker of sorts. However, she is not one to make romantic links, instead concentrating on community connections.
A counselor by trade, outside of the office Morrison lends a hand wherever she can, donating her time, expertise and contacts to many local groups and charities, as well as furthering many self started initiatives with aims of bettering the populace.
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I’m Dining Out Here by Andrew Sprague
For the last few years Montague has been a bit of a void when it comes to restaurant dining. In fact, I can’t say for sure there’s a restaurant open year round aside from the Pizza Delight and The Dynasty (a Chinese restaurant for those not familiar). So to say there’s little to offer someone looking for a good, chef-prepared meal in February is almost an exaggeration because there’s really nothing…no cafes, no fine dining, no home cooking, no nothing. Kings County’s biggest town has been a vacuum sucking the taste buds off the tongues of its citizens for far too long. But I discovered a new place. One that delivers a great, home cooked meal, at a great price. Citizens of Montague, rejoice!
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The Other Notebook by David Helwig
I don’t watch television much these days, the local news, live sports now and then, maybe one or two shows during the week. Our only connection to the outside world is rabbit ears, but even if we had a dozen channels I suspect I wouldn’t watch a lot more. But I have become a student of TV drama on the CBC since that’s all we get. I once worked in CBC TV drama, and I wrote a few scripts, years ago now.
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City entertainment venues celebrate the Irish traditions
by Peggy Miles
A few years back I was visiting St. John’s, Newfoundland. It was the beginning of March and more than once I was asked by excited Newfoundlanders if I was going to be in town for St. Patrick’s Day. After replying that unfortunately I was not, each time I received a sympathetic look that really said “we feel sorry for you.”
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Profile: Catherine O’Brien
by Jane Ledwell
Catherine O'Brien (photo: Alanna Jankov)
It seems the things I fear the most, I have to do,” says Catherine O’Brien, gamely. A nationally successful musical theatre performer, she is “absolutely apoplectic at auditions”—a fact that has not prevented her gaining roles in prestigious festivals across Canada, including the Charlottetown Festival, which brought her to PEI. Catherine arrived here in 2000 for roles in Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon on the Confederation Centre mainstage, and, she says, “I not only fell in love with the Island, I fell in love with an Islander.”
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