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Another Salty Sea Tale
The Jeep and the Duke???(true story) Posted on September 2, 2017 by irishroverpei I recently had a visit from my family and grandchildren, they requested I tell them a salty story of my Navy Days! The popular one requested was the Jeep and the … Continue reading
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Health Care???
After listening to Cross Canada Check Up on Sunday 14th August 2022, I have a worrying concern. Yes, our health care system is in trouble but is the Federal and Provincial governments actually attempting to resolve the crisis? I’m not … Continue reading
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Summerside Exotic Car Show
my 83 years I have attended many car shows, antique, classic, British, concours and today what was billed as exotic. Hmm, I have seen more exotic cars in the Super Store parking lot. This was without a doubt the least … Continue reading
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Weekend Funnies
Long Deployment Just before our first long deployment, two Navy buddies and I were talking about the stress of leaving our families. A senior officer, a veteran of many deployments, overheard our conversation and offered the following advice: “You must … Continue reading
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Heath Crisis
It is quite amazing! We have a foreign trained doctor here on PEI who can’t practice medicine. He needs to sit an exam that requires a month long study session first. Plus this exam will cost him $20.000, money he … Continue reading
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Pride Parade
I was interested to hear the report from Alanna Jankov regarding the recentPride Parade. Every parade through cities or towns etc need official approval. For example side streets and intersections need to be blocked off from traffic. If you have … Continue reading
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Where are the MLAs???
Every night on Compass we hear of more problems causing great hardship and difficulties to Island citizens. Tonight Monday 8th August 2022 Compass reported our province has the highest overtime work rate for nurses in the country. A high 33% … Continue reading
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CBC Reporting, eh?
Strange that in yesterdays blog I sarcastically stated how sharp and incisive the CBC Compass crew were. Remember they reported the big surprise in the delay of the demolition of the old Holland College Summerside school. They had suddenly discovered … Continue reading
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Surprise Delay in Demolitions
This was reported on Compass Friday evening 5th Aug2022. Compass is always in the front line and first with detailed breaking news as we all well know and depend on. We were first wonderfully entertained by razor sharp incisive interviews … Continue reading
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Weekend Funnies
Cleaning Up (Thanks to Veronica for this one) Our neighbour’s dog crapped in our garden so my wife told to me to get a shovel and throw it over the fence I don’t see what that solved, now we’ve still … Continue reading
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