A long-time print reporter and editor in the daily newspaper and community press franchises, John Barker was among the pioneers in Canadian online journalism as the founding managing editor of The Kingston Net-Times in November 1996. From day one, local stories in the digital newspaper were updated on the fly throughout the day. Mr. Barker, who has a master’s degree in history from Queen’s University at Kingston, has worked as a news editor for Northern News Services in Yellowknife in Canada’s N
New Year's greetings and glad tidings Prince Edward County. Acadie Books is now online with offerings available for shipment anywhere in Canada at amazon.ca Marketplace for used books, or for more information, send an e-mail to the Acadian from Beaubassin at: thecountycounterintuitive@gmail.com Read Full Story
In 1902, the Picton High School classics master was looking for a way for his staff to entertain themselves on long winter evenings. In a County whose motto is, “Blessed by Nature, Enriched by Man, Loyally Founded, Loyally Built,” the Tennyson Club was just the ticket for such enrichment. After all, Alfred Lord Tennyson, the British Poet Laureate, who penned "The Charge of the Light Brigade,” had just died 10 years earlier in 1892. And Tennyson himself, while at Trinity College in Cambri... Read Full Story
Burlington, Ont. may have Crossroads Christian Communications’ 100 Huntley Street, but Bloomfield has Wesley Acres at West Lake, a 250-acre island camp affiliated with the Free Methodist Church in Canada, with its own share of evangelical media heavy hitters either passing through as guest speakers or summering in tranquility here.Chris Mitchell, who was raised a Roman Catholic but is now the Middle East bureau chief in Jerusalem for the largely Protestant evangelical Christian Broadcasting N... Read Full Story
Prince Edward County residents are blessed with one of the most pastoral landscapes in Eastern Ontario. Closer to paradise, I sense as I travel several times a week between Wellington and Picton along the Loyalist Parkway with Lake Ontario and West Lake just off to my west. Old red and green barns adjacent to freshly-seeded pasture on both sides of the road. Cows and lambs meandering and milling about. Blue skies and sunshine with a south breeze at 18 km/h blows in off the water today giving ... Read Full Story
Eastern Ontario Rural Policy Development Project is a mouthful to say, but it is also a mouthful worth remembering if for no other reason than the sobering numbers coming out of it. A joint effort of the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus, the Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs) of Eastern Ontario and the Martintown-based Ontario East Economic Development Commission, the project has released two new reports at the end of March which confirms statistically what those of us living he... Read Full Story
The action was heating up across from the County on the other side of the Bay of Quinte last weekend with a group of Tyendinaga Mohawks using an old school bus to blockade the CN Rail crossing at Deseronto Road, effectively shutting down CN freight and Via passenger traffic in a dispute about a Kingston developer’s plans to build condominiums on a 930-acre area known as the Culbertson Land Tract. The tract is on a parcel of land granted to the Six Nations in 1793 and the Mohawks of the Bay of... Read Full Story
OK, I admit it. Seeing Theresa Durning last Saturday at the County Cultural Rally in Picton made me feel guilty about being somewhat lackadaisical (or is that just plain lazy) about not updating The County Counterintuitive since March 8. When I started the blog, Theresa told me to keep it fresh by updating it at least once a week. Now, other than meeting her in person just once in passing last June (introduced by my old Loyalist friend and classmate Sue Capon, editor of The County Weekly News... Read Full Story
Down here in the County, we're getting ready for Maple in the County (we tend to affix "in the County" to everything we market here in the County) March 24 and 25. Lots of folks are on board for the event presented by the Waring House Restaurant, Inn, Conference Centre and Cookery School at Warings Corner, including Cliff Foster, and his son, Dean, who’s Fosterholm Farms down near Sandbanks taps 7,000 maple trees. Cliff’s father started making maple syrup in 1924 at the 75-acre ... Read Full Story
Not Conrad Black. He's busy these days getting ready with his co-defendants and lawyer Eddie Greenspan for his fraud trial scheduled to open March 14 in federal district court in Chicago. No, down here in the County these days when you mention Conrad you may well thinking of another Conrad -- and a very popular, if somewhat mysterious one, at least to some local folks. That would be none other than Conrad Guziewicz. Conrad who? That's right, Conrad Guziewicz, the man, who along with P... Read Full Story
