Jeez, I was trying to think of what I could say today that will get me enough hits to my site by midnight so that I will have DOUBLED traffic from last month?

How about this exciting news:

I WON the $7500 ADVERTISING PACKAGE from the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE!!!! Read more »

Certainly the highlight of the evening - from my perspective - was Jake’s painting, Ted the penguin, selling for $250. It had gotten an early bid of $100 so it started pretty high and I was determined to get it for my sister-in-law who desperately wanted it. It got a bit out of control when Paul MacNeill got carried away and I found myself wondering how I was going to pay for this painting when I recalled to myself that I had surreptitiously made copies at home earlier and so conceded to Paul. Read more »

The cool print I got from Value Village….

Also donated:

Jakob’s most recent portrait from his watercolour series on penguins:

My son painted a beautiful portrait of a penguin this afternoon. This is his third from his series on penguins. His last, titled “Bob”, sold for $90 at an auction last year. Read more »

More good times were had in Victoria-by-the-Sea this past weekend at Chef Stephen Hunter’s beautiful inn and restaurant, the Victoria Village Inn.

Laura Lee Howard and a gang of friends came out for an Italian dinner which included wild mushroom risotto, pork loin wrapped in prosciutto stuffed with chevre and poached pears with mascarpone for dessert.

I served and had a blast.

Just as I predicted, many newspapers and bloggers have taken the following article from the Canada Newswire as meat for their own articles : Read more »

I don’t follow American news closely but have been told by a number of people to have a listen to Barack Obama as soon as possible.

I think that his speech on race is worth sharing because it is remarkable. Read more »

So, Google Alerts sent me an email today and the first article was from the Canada Newswire titled:

Access to health care: Survey finds Canada is not a level playing field

And proceeds to give statistics confirming that PEI has the worst access to health care in Canada.

Another article mentioning Prince Edward Island is a regional newspaper talking about the survey and mentions PEI’s not-so shocking poor standing.

How many other newspapers and blogs are going to pick this up? I have Google Alerts on the look-out.

Hopefully not too many. This is an example of very bad VIRAL MARKETING potential, poor public relations and frankly, just all around NO good for Prince Edward Island.