West River Watershed
For the past several years the West River Watershed Group has been doing work during the summer months to improve the health of the Clyde River. Next Tuesday evening, members of the group will be providing an update on the work to date and the plans for the coming season.
Their presentation takes place at 7:00 pm Tuesday, April 17 at the Riverview Community Centre. Everyone is welcome to attend and find out more.
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The Clyde River Council is seeking a new municipal administrator. We are looking for a well-organized person who can work on their own and with Council to ensure the smooth running of the community’s official business. The administrator works from home and must have a telephone, computer and internet access. Click here for an outline of the duties involved. This position is part-time and paid through a fixed regular stipend.
Start date: June 1, 2018.
Interested candidates should send an email outlining their professional and personal qualifications and experience to clyderiverpei.cic@pei.sympatico.ca.
For more information call Hilda Colodey at 902-675-3171.
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All Clyde River residents are invited to attend a public meeting at the Riverview Community Centre at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 6th. The meeting is intended to provide information on the 2018 municipal budget and tax rate. There will also be updates on municipal re-structuring and the provincial Municipal Government Act. For more information contact Bruce Brine, Municipal Administrator at clyderiver.cic@pei.sympatico.ca. If a storm date is required, it would be the following night, March 7th at 7:00 p.m.
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Marilyn MacLean, of P.E.I. Potters Cove, shows some of her work during a craft fair at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. MITCH MACDONALD/THE GUARDIAN – The Guardian
Reprinted with permission from The Guardian: Thirty year passion for pottery turns into side business for PEI Artist
Marilyn MacLean’s successful pottery business appears to be fate.
MacLean, who has nearly 35 years of experience making pottery, has seen the demand for her product grow rapidly since starting her side business P.E.I. Potter’s Cove about a year ago from her Clyde River Home.
The name has an interesting story behind it, said MacLean.
According to the community’s website, a previous MacLean family that lived in the area in the 1850s had a property boundary marked by a cove named “Potter’s Cove” because of the brick kiln that was once located there.
“I thought it was fate, it was like it was meant to be,” said MacLean, whose business previously went by “pottery by Marilyn MacLean”. “I’ve had a passion for pottery for over 30 years and finally I realized my dream of having a home studio.”
MacLean said she fell in love with pottery by accident after applying for Holland College’s graphic design course.
However, the course was filled and MacLean didn’t want to put her education on hold for a year.
“I thought I’d try another medium and pottery was in the course catalogue,” said MacLean. “The rest is history.”
MacLean later worked at The Dunes before taking business at Holland College.
She has worked at Bell Aliant, formerly Island Tel, for the last 25 years, but has never stopped creating pottery.
Once the college closed its fine arts program almost 20 years ago, several former students formed the P.E.I. Potters Studio Co-op in Victoria Park and MacLean was invited to be an instructor.
MacLean is still one of the co-op’s three instructors and teaches both adults and children pottery.
However, last spring saw MacLean realize her dream of making her own home pottery studio.
Starting with a few items for sale, MacLean’s products were in New London’s Village Pottery all last summer.
While she has had orders from as far away as Oregon and British Columbia, MacLean has seen much of her sales come from other local craft shops as well as through individuals at craft fairs and Farm Day in the City.
With somewhat of an overwhelming demand for her products, MacLean said she hopes to keep her production on a lower scale until turning it into a new full-time job once she retires.
“I’ll do my best to make everybody happy and enjoy the success and I’d imagine it will just get better,” she said.
MacLean said she feels her involvement in pottery was fate and noted that she is a “medical miracle.”
When MacLean was born, she spent two years in the hospital while on oxygen, which resulted the loss of sight in one eye.
“It’s odd that life is just, it’s so special and I don’t take it for granted,” said MacLean. “That’s my purpose in life, to spread the love and passion of pottery.”
The Guardian article here.
Editor’s Notes:
Potter’s Cove is referenced in story here. See the location of Potter’s Cove pinned below on satellite map:
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Our third and final lecture is this coming Saturday. See you there.
Saturday, February 24th – 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. – Dr. Lewis Newman – “Changes and Improvements in Medicine & Medical Technology in my Time” – Dr. Newman’s presentation will reference vaccines, Small Pox, Malaria, Polio, artificial limbs, artificial joints, organ transplants, thermometers, endoscopies, CT/MRI/PET scans, blood glucose monitoring, insulin pump, cataract surgery, key-hole surgery, artificial insemination, oral contraceptives, and gene therapy. He will also touch on the Tuberculosis pandemic that affected almost all Island families in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Dr. Stanley “Lewis” Newman was raised in New Haven. He spent his early school years in New Haven and then Borden School for Grades 9 & 10. He attended Prince of Wales College and went on to Dalhousie for his undergraduate and medical education, graduating in 1969. He began his general family practice in Sydney, Nova Scotia. In 1971, he moved back to PEI and had a general family practice in Charlottetown at the Polyclinic until 2006. Between 2006 and 2012, he was a Hospitalist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. For 15 years he was House Doctor at Beach Grove Home. He retired in 2012.
The Clyde River Lecture Series takes place at the Riverview Community Centre at 718 Clyde River Road. Dr. Newman’s presentation will be followed by refreshments and a social time. Our museum will be open to view local artifacts and heritage photos.
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Photo by Kim Mann, Saskatchewan, 2017 GBBC
(News release – National Audubon Society)
The 21st Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) will take place February 16 to 19 — in backyards, parks, nature centers, on hiking trails, school grounds, balconies, and beaches. This global event provides an opportunity for bird enthusiasts to contribute important bird population data that help scientists see changes over the past 21 years. To participate, bird watchers count the birds they see for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count, then enter their checklists at birdcount.org.
“The 2018 GBBC again promises to provide an important snapshot of bird occurrence in February,” says the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Marshall Iliff, a leader of the eBird program. “Some stories to watch in North America are mountain birds moving into lowland valleys and east to the Great Plains, crossbills on the move across much of the continent, and many eastern birds responding to extremes as the winter temperatures have oscillated between unseasonably warm and exceptionally cold.”
“The Great Backyard Bird Count is a great way to introduce people to participation in community science,” says Dr. Gary Langham (@GaryLangham), vice president and chief scientist for the National Audubon Society. “No other program allows volunteers to take an instantaneous snapshot of global bird populations that can contribute to our understanding of how a changing climate is affecting birds.”
In 1998, during the first GBBC, bird watchers submitted about 13,500 checklists from the United States and Canada. Fast-forward to the most recent event in 2017. Over the four days of the count, an estimated 240,418 bird watchers from more than 100 countries submitted 181,606 bird checklists reporting 6,259 species–more than half the known bird species in the world.
“Will we break last year’s record number of Canadian participants?” asks Jon McCracken, Bird Studies Canada’s National Program Director. “A lot depends on the weather, but a little snow and cold shouldn’t get in your way. Remember that you don’t have to venture far afield at all. You truly can count birds right in your own backyard or, better yet, take a pleasant winter stroll around your neighborhood.”
To learn more about what scientists discovered the past 21 years and how to take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, visit birdcount.org. The Great Backyard Bird Count is a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society with partner Bird Studies Canada and is made possible in part by founding sponsor Wild Birds Unlimited.
The 21st GBBC is additionally notable because it is the February call-to-action for the Year of the Bird, a 12-month celebration of birds to raise awareness of how people can help birds by taking simple actions each month. The Year of the Bird is led by National Geographic, the National Audubon Society, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, BirdLife International, and more than 100 participating organizations. Learn more about Year of the Bird at www.birdyourworld.org.
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Saturday, February 10th – 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. – JoDee Samuelson – “Watermills in PEI, especially those in Clyde River” –For her Master of Arts in Island Studies from UPEI, JoDee wrote her thesis on water-powered mills on Prince Edward Island and Gotland Island, Sweden. Her interest in mills began while she lived in Clyde River, across the river from the Dixon/Scott Mill and down the road from the Beer’s Sawmill on the Bannockburn Road. JoDee will pass along her research on the mills on the Clyde River that at one time provided flour, oatmeal, and sawn lumber for a prosperous ambitious community.
JoDee Samuelson grew up on the Canadian prairies and has lived on the beautiful south shore of Prince Edward Island for the past 30 years. Jody is an award-winning filmmaker and writes a column “The Cove Journal” for Charlottetown’s monthly arts magazine, The Buzz.
JoDee will have Old Mills of Prince Edward Island maps for sale at the event – $15 each.
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Riverview Community Centre
