QUICK HITS | | 🧭 PEI Community Navigators: A new website will help connect rural PEI residents and newcomers to a broad range of community services and resources. The PEI Community Navigator website, which was launched by CBDC, includes a helpful business and resource directory that allows a user to enter their address, then choose the type of service they require. The directory will display results based on travel time from the user’s address (super cool!). There are currently over 1,700 listings, and businesses are invited to self-submit their information to be included in the directory. This resource is also handy for people living in Charlottetown. | | ⛄ In Like a Lamb? We won’t be sipping brewskies on the beach, but for those of us who prefer a mild winter, AccuWeather released some good news last week. According to their Canadian winter forecast, our region will see above normal temperatures thanks to higher-than-normal Atlantic water temperatures and the orientation of the jet stream. The forecast, which should obviously be taken with a grain of salt, does go on to warn that the second half of our winter season could produce coastal storms and nor'easters. |
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COMMUNITY | Volunteer group fills gaps following Fiona | |  | | Few Islanders even knew this group existed while Hurricane Fiona was barrelling toward our Island. Back in the spring, a small group of volunteers organized a food drive to help keep the community fridge stocked. But it was the group’s response to the devastation Fiona left behind that introduced the name Charlottetown Mutual Aid into common conversations.
Three of the group’s core volunteers made a 45-minute presentation Monday to the PEI Legislature’s standing committee that is investigating the province’s response to the storm. The presentation highlighted some of the group's successes in reaching people who needed help, but it also highlighted gaps volunteers observed in government’s immediate response to the storm, providing financial aid to Islanders, and housing.
(Links above take you to slides in their presentation)
Since Fiona hit, the group was able to raise nearly $60,000 – $43,000 from community donations, and $15,000 through a grant provided by the United Way of PEI. Aside from monetary contributions, Islanders donated an estimated $60,000 worth of items.
To reach Islanders in need, the group launched a website where they received more than 300 requests for help. To reach even more people, volunteers hit the streets on a door knocking campaign that found more than 800 people needing assistance. Volunteers also served between 1,100 and 2,200 hot meals. In total, Charlottetown Mutual Aid has provided direct support to over 4,000 people since September 26.
Charlottetown Mutual Aid’s post-Fiona efforts are ongoing and support is still needed. The easiest way to reach the group is through their Twitter profile if you'd like to help out, request support, or make a donation.
WATCH: Here's a YouTube link to watch the full presentation 🎞️
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COMMUNITY CORNER | | 🥫 The Charlottetown Y Service Club will be collecting food items this Saturday in support of the Upper Room Hospitality Ministry. This is their largest food drive of the year, helping to keep the shelves stocked up at food banks used by nearly 1,000 families each month. | | Date: Sat. Oct. 29th | | Time: 9:00AM - 1:00PM | | Charlottetown: Winsloe Lions Club, West Royalty Sobeys, Charlottetown Superstore, Malcolm Darrach Centre, Foodland, West Royalty Superstore, Culinary Institute, Sobey on Allen Street, and Earl Foster (124 St. Peters Road). | | Cornwall: North River Fire Department, Cornwall Lions Club, York Point Community Centre, and Independent Grocery Store. | | Send a quick message if your organization would like to send out a quick PSA. There's no charge for these. |
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#PEIslandEdition | Pot of PEI Potatoes🥔 | | Tanya Calver, one of the owners of All Points East Campground on North Lake, found the end of the rainbow in an eastern PEI potato field. (IG: @tanyaleeisme) | |  | | Tag @PEIslandEdition or use #PEIslandEdition to get your post featured in Island Edition! |
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WHAT'S GOING ON? | | Wednesday | | 🎥 The Good House @ City Cinema / 7:00PM: A New England realtor ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets when she rekindles a romance with her old high school flame. Buy tickets | Watch Trailer | | 👻 Spooky Jeopardy @ The Hive / 7:00 PM: Join host Mitch Chaisson at The Hive, 119 Grafton Street, for some spooky trivia. Prizes for best costumes. | | Thursday | | 🎥 The Good House @ City Cinema / 7:00PM: A New England realtor ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets when she rekindles a romance with her old high school flame. Buy tickets | Watch Trailer | | 📖 In Conversation with Wayne Johnston @ Studio One, Confederation Centre of the Arts / 7:00PM: Bookmark's 50th Anniversary Reading Series
presents Newfoundland storyteller and bestselling novelist, Wayne Johnston. In his newest book, Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood, Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood. | | 🎷 Island Jazz Presents: The Trio from Mars w/ Spooky Guests @ Baba's Lounge / 8:00PM: Chris Coupland (keys), Dean Dunsford (bass) and Davey Weale (drums) have two scary sets including their favourites from John Carpenter movies. | | 🎃 Halloween Trivia / 9:00 PM: Join host Darcy Campbell at Hunter's Ale House, 185 Kent Street, for some spooky Halloween-themed trivia. | | 🎥 Blade @ City Cinema / 9:15PM: A half-mortal, half-immortal is out to avenge his mother's death and rid the world of vampires.Buy tickets | Watch Trailer |
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WEATHER | | Wednesday | ☁️ H19°C 🌡️ L14°C
💨 S SE 13 km/h, gusting 50 | | Thursday | 🌤️ H18°C 🌡️ L3°C
💨 SW 20 km/h, gusting 45 | | Island Edition Storm Watch | 🌀 A few areas of the Atlantic show potential for some tropical development later in the week. If you're a weather nerd, we just dodged a bullet with INVEST 94L which failed to develop, but will influence our weather this evening into overnight as rain and gusty winds, maybe a thunderstorm. |
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