Picton Gazette Express Vol. 2 No. 3

January 30, 2025

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Just a few days before Ford announced a provincial election, our brand new MPP Tyler Allsopp was in town to announce $20 million for our beleaguered highway.

Five major concerns were sounded by the Waring’s Creek Improvement Association at a public meeting earlier this month. Environmental leaders are worried about gains made over 32 years of careful stewardship of the County’s sole cold water creek. The Gazette went to the engineers behind Port Picton Homes’ proposed development on the watershed, Cold Creek, to see how the concerns were being addressed. It’s a bit of a demanding read, but, on some fronts at least, reassuring.

The one-year renovation of the storefront space of the nineteenth-century brick building will continue, to create a community hub event space and full kitchen in the back. The Gazette speaks with HK Agents Carol Love and Erin Lynn Lachance on the exciting days ahead.

The Weekend Ticket

It’s Flashback February! A month of history sponsored by the County Museums.

Saturday 1 February at 1pm: don’t miss the author talk at Picton Branch Library:

Gail Hamilton speaks about The Tomorrow Country, a historical novel that follows an orphaned homeless child living in England in 1837. She is sent to Canada to live with a family she has never met, alone. The protagonist of the story is one of Canada's Home Children.

Also on Saturday, Winterfest returns to Macaulay Village Park on the Heights, noon to 3pm.

It’s all family friendly and FREE! ❄️ We’ll be serving up chili and hot chocolate, there will games, free books for kids, a performance from the ABC Choir, a Free Store where the price of everything is zero, and much more! Winterfest is brought to you with the support of: The Department of Illumination, Baxter Arts Centre, County Kids Read, NorthFIRE Circus, PEC Libraires, Picton Committee, Prince Edward Learning Centre, Bloomfield Hallowell Rec Committee, Experience Picton, Carte, Dunrose Distribution and Base31.

Finally, for those winter evenings, snuggle up in the dark at The Regent! A Complete Unknown is still on. For the Friday PA Day, Transformers One is half price. And Oscar nominees The Substance and Babygirl are in town.

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