Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 17

May 08, 2025

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Wellington Dukes owner faces down losses year after year

Almost a hundred people gathered at The Andrew to celebrate the launch of the 2025 iteration of  Prince Edward County’s Chamber Music Festival. Organizer Maureen Dunn and a team of volunteers hosted a lavish party anchored by a special performance.

Culture: Mean Girls

Smash Prince Edward Collegiate Institute production opens tonight!

Prince Edward Collegiate’s production of Tina Fey’s musical Mean Girls features Serenity Fraser as Cady Heron and Alaura Miles as Regina George. Both are natural stars, and each gives an astonishing performance in this not-to-be-missed production. You’ll be saying you saw them when. The two would-be prima donnas battle it out for school supremacy by belting it out in song, accompanied throughout by a stellar supporting cast of 17 players.

Charlie Angus is a bit of a contradiction. He’s a long-serving, superstar politician with a national profile — but his heart is in the small scale, local and grassroots. In kitchen table organizing. Meetings in churches and community halls. How we met Charlie is how everybody meets him. Through a friend of a friend.

The soothing sounds of the Gazette’s piano anthem never fail to cheer. Never mind great beer!

Open houses both days this weekend in an exciting spring market.

The Weekend Ticket

Mean Girls opens tonight and runs May 8, 9, and 10 at PECI’s Gymnasium B at 7pm. Tickets available at School Cash Online, Books & Company, and the PECI Main Office.

Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory hosts the Spring Birding Festival all weekend. Celebrate the Return of the Birds! Set within peak migration at Prince Edward Point, there are guided walks, workshops, bird-banding, kids stuff, and delicious food.

The Bird is the Word on Friday 9 May at 6:30pm at Books & Company. County Poets read bird poetry!

Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar perform at the Segeant’s Mess May 9 at 7:30pm. Reserved seating still available.

May 11 is Mother’s Day. There are brunches and other specials at Waring House, Angry Birds, Isaiah Tubbs Resort’s The Knoll, Wander the Resort, The Royal, and throughout the County.

Charlie Angus’s Resistance Tour is at The Regent Monday 12 May at 7pm. Introduced by Kate Crothers. Conversation and Q and A moderated by Chris Fanning. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here.

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