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    September 1st, 2010

    FIRST ENCOUNTER OF THE TASTE! KIND

    donna-kearnsDonna Kearns, County and Quinte Living’s publisher, has been attending events in Prince Edward County even before she moved here.

    Swinging through the County one day, on the way to other destinations, Kearns and a friend thought they’d stop and attend TASTE! a celebration of regional cuisine. They were delighted. Kearns felt she already had a “feel for the place” by the time she made Prince Edward County her home in 2007.

    Kearns’ story of her first encounter with TASTE! parallels her vision in creating a lifestyle magazine to celebrate Prince Edward County and the Quinte region. She has published County and Quinte Living for the past three years, a magazine that features an everyday look at the community and people she loves. Kearns feels connected to the area and that through her publication she is giving a glimpse into the life in the area. “The County has a kinder and gentler feel as opposed to a bustle and yet, the people are proactive and energetic,” Kearns affirms.

    Kearns became a TASTE! event supporter as she viewed the opportunity as a natural “partnership.” Both the event and her print and online magazine offer ways to experience the variety of delectable culinary treats and vineyard offerings. She is inviting people to share in the abundance of a Prince Edward County lifestyle.

    We’re glad Donna Kearns drove through and returned to stay!

    Ineke Guadagnin


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    August 27th, 2010

    Showcasing the “County” One Video at a Time

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    Trevor Crowe wants to showcase Prince Edward County. His company Crowe Video Productions is a local, full-time producer of the latest web videos and specializes in capturing local businesses in a creative way. Crowe’s company also provides training and online tutorial videos, live event streaming through social media, multi-cam event recording to Blu-ray, wedding videography and film or VHS transfers to DVD. This extensive list of activities keeps his team busy!

    Since setting up shop in Picton in the spring of 2010, business has quadrupled. Today’s County retailers, whether they are art galleries or cheese factories, “rely on traffic from websites and social media sites for their business,” Crowe shares. Crowe Video Productions’ work entices web viewers to stop and look at dazzling videos posted on his clients’ websites. In one project, County Showcase, he collaborates with the local Prince Edward County associations to produce short business web videos that will be prominently featured on tourism and visitor homepages. He sites that statistically, 90% of tourists go online to plan their trips. Crowe feels that his compelling videos increase the chances of a tourist choosing his clients’ businesses.

    Crowe and his wife are out house hunting to move their family back to Prince Edward County. Crowe Video Productions’ is committed to becoming a fixture in a growing community. Supporting an event like TASTE! a celebration of regional cuisine came from a desire to be a part of this region’s growth. Crowe Video Productions will be on location shooting a promotional piece for the event and rubbing shoulders with clients who know the success of his work. Then he’ll get back to house shopping.


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    August 26th, 2010

    COUNTY WINERY JOINS THE ARMY

    caroline-granger1Caroline Granger is a Get Involved type of woman. She’s the hands-on boss at the Grange of Prince Edward, the County’s largest grape grower and winery but she lends her energies and enthusiasm to causes far beyond her own family, property and business. She’s already a director and chairman of the Governance Committee of of Farm Credit Canada, chair of Taste the County and chair of Alternatives for Women in the County. Now she’s gone and joined the Army.

    Okay, not really. But Caroline Granger has created her own mission to raise $50,000 to support Ontario’s military family resource centres; not for profit organizations located on every base across Canada that support local military families.

    Why this? Why now? Not long ago she and her 14-year old son Quinton were on the 401 just ahead of a procession carrying a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan. People stood on bridges along the route from CFB Trenton to Toronto holding Canadian flags to honour the soldier making the final journey down the “Highway of Heroes,” and she and Quinton got talking about what it would be like to be a military family.

    “I got a whole different viewpoint that day,” she says, perhaps more sensitive suddenly to what military families must be experiencing.’ Rather than just feeling sad, Caroline decided to do something positive. “There is always something you can do to help,” she says. Her one-year battle plan is to donate 50 cents from every bottle of Trumpour’s Mill wine sold in LCBOs and $1 from each bottle sold in restaurants to local Military Family Resource Centres.

    If you were to praise her for this admirable sacrifice, she’s likely to respond “Sacrifice? What sacrifice.” She and we know that most of us will never make the kind of sacrifices our military families make.

    The $50,000 she hopes to raise will flow like good wine into special programs for children, spouses and social support systems. To paraphrase the Blood Donor motto ‘it’s in her to give.’ To Caroline, who spends as much time in the vineyard as she does in board rooms at this time of year, it’s a natural thing to do.
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    “The least we can do is help make sure their families are okay,” she says. “I think soldiers appreciate that.”

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    August 21st, 2010

    WISH YOU WERE HERE!

    ttc-blog-kidsWIN A SUMMER IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY
    I’m so lucky to live in Prince Edward County. Sorry to sound chauvinistic, but there it is. Oh I leave occasionally, to visit people and our kids (not that our kids aren’t people, too) in Toronto and Europe. But I adore getting off the highway and crossing the bridge at Carrying Place and being home. Okay, it’s another 20 minutes until I’m really home, but at that point I’ve got my lake, my birds, my fields and my sky. Big sigh.

    My point is, if I didn’t live in Cherry Valley, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, North America, The World, The Universe – I would jump at the chance to enter a contest to win a whole summer in the County. Yowza! Four weeks in a cottage close to Sandbanks Provincial Park (biggest freshwater dunes in the world, folks) plus a ton of entertainment, food and wine thrown in. It’s another brilliant idea cooked up by the economic development office and Taste the County™ together with Sandbanks Summer Village, who are great sponsors of local initiatives – like the TASTE! event and now this whole Summer in the County thing for 2011. Sandbanks Summer Village is an old-fashioned, state-of-the-art cottage resort in Cherry Valley, and, no, that’s not an oxymoron. From what I’ve seen and heard it has all the laid-back charm of an old-style lake resort, and a heck of a lot more conveniences. But I digress.

    So, Sandbanks Summer Village are contributing four weeks accommodation for FREE and local wineries, restaurants, galleries, even a cooking school, are adding wining, dining, entertainment and goodness knows what else to the prize.

    Anybody in Canada can enter, and, get this, they have an online ballot you can fill out. You can see the ballot and all the prize details at www.visitpec.ca/contest. No point in me entering. I can already just ride my bike down to Sandbanks to swim, then come home and drink some County wine in my garden. Wish you were here? Enter the contest!


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    August 6th, 2010

    AMELIA EARHART IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY

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    Prince Edward County, ON, (July 28, 2010): For the month of August, Prince Edward County is going to see a lot of Amelia Earhart. The Festival Players production of Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly begins August 4th and runs through to August 28th. Eliza-Jane Scott stars as iconic aviatrix Amelia Earhart in this new musical, written by John Gray (who wrote the well-known Billy Bishop Goes to War). The show opens on Wednesday, August 4th at 6:30pm, playing under a grand tent in the fields behind the Waring House in Picton.

    In 1930’s America the celebrity machine of the day created an idol whose image resonates even now, 70+ years after her death. Amelia Earhart…Why did she want to fly? Where did she come from and how did she become who she was? Gray’s examination of this infamous figure is part biography, part romance, part comedy and part musical. We’re taken along for the ride. And what a thrilling ride it is.

    “What an honour, truly. The talent onstage and behind the scenes is immense. The play is a love letter to history, steeped in nostalgia of the period. ” says Artistic Director Sarah Phillips who heads this production. “Of course we all know the name, Amelia Earhart – but what do we know of her really? It’s been fascinating bringing John Gray’s version of this celebrity flier to life.”

    The group brought together to work on this show is brilliant: Eliza-Jane Scott (Festival Players, Stratford Festival, Stage West) plays the title role of Amelia Earhart, Karin Randoja (Buddies in Bad Times, Caravan Farm Theatre, National Arts Centre) plays her earth-bound sister Midge and Christopher Sawchyn (Canadian Stage, Citadel, Canadian Opera Company) her publicist turned husband. The trio is joined onstage by music director and pianist Michael Barber (Theatre Aqaurius, Mirvish, Stratford Festival) and Sarah Phillips, Artistic Director of Festival Players, directs.

    Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly plays from August 4th – August 28th. Check the website for schedule details, www.festivalplayers.ca. Tickets can be purchased in person at Books & Company, 289 Main St, Picton, by phone at 613.471.1991, 1.866.584.1991 or online at www.countytix.ca. Seating is limited so it’s best to purchase in advance.

    Media contact:
    Sarah Phillips or Yorrick da Silva
    sarah@festivalplayers.ca
    yorrick@festivalplayers.ca
    613.399.5677


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