P-A Community Conversations
The Perth-Andover Community Conversations Initiative has been around since winter of 2013. Being a community-building geek, I have been following the work of The Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, based in Kitchen-Waterloo for the past few years. Institute President, Paul Born, and author of Community Conversations, sums up the...
Georgetown Rural Redefined & Regional Wellness Grants
By Francine St.Amand WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN is the message that Georgetown Conference area delegates want to impress upon Perth-Andover and Surrounding Area. On Nov 28, Joe Gee, Luke Sinstadt and myself presented our second public presentation about the conference. While this fulfills my commitment to the Village Council...
Where Do We Go From Here?
A rant in 2 parts Al McPhail Part 1 Now, the hard part. How do we get our village on the right road again? How do we make ourselves whole? The past couple of years have been the most challenging in the history of our village. We are facing...
Redefining Rural Public Presentation
EDUCATE AND COLLABORATE is the message the local Georgetown Conference delegates seek to impress upon their communities. The delegates who attended the Georgetown Conference on Rural Revitalization in Prince Edward Island on Oct 3rd – 5th launched their first Public Presentation at the Perth-Andover Civic Centre on October 24th....
13 Ways to Kill Your Community
Stephanie Kelley Our local Georgetown Conference delegates, Francine St.Amand, Luke Sinstadt, Joe Gee, Tina Martin and Linda Nicholas, returned home from the Redefining Rural Summit inspired with ideas and information on ways to revitalize our rural communities. All the delegates agree that attending the Georgetown Conference was a game...
GEORGETOWN CONFERENCE ON RURAL REVITALIZATION
By Francine St.Amand SHUT UP!!! In a nutshell, that was THE most important message I got from the Georgetown Conference. These were Doug Griffiths’ words, when he spoke about how adults suffocate the courage and creativity out of each other and especially, youth. Author of 13 Ways to Kill...
Another Local Resident Heading to the Georgetown Conference in PEI
Joe Gee of Carlingford, NB has been accepted to attend the Georgetown Conference in PEI on October 3 & 4, 2013. He will be joining Linda Nicholas of Knowlesville and Francine St Amand of California Settlement (see the August 14 issue of the Blackfly Gazette for their stories) as...
The Georgetown Conference…Rural Redefined!
The great myth of rural Atlantic Canada is that she is a region whose best years are behind her. Her people are too old, the story goes, and too dependent on failing traditional industries and too dependent on the government. There’s definitely truth in those words…those us of who...