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Monday, July 6, 2009

PEI Track & Field Championships Results

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<--- Connor McGuire 5,000m (5Km) 16:23:21

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Canada Games picks UPEI site for major athletics venue

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=100661&sc=98

This area near UPEI could be the future home of a Canada Games facility. The athletic venue
will be on the agenda of a public meeting in Charlottetown tonight. Guardian photo

22/01/08

Canada Games picks UPEI site for major athletics venue

DAVE STEWART
The Guardian

The 2009 P.E.I. Canada Summer Games host committee has identified UPEI as the preferred location for a multi-million dollar athletics venue.
Joe Spriet, president of the 2009 Canada Games, said Tuesday the university has been the preferred site since the bid process began.
The City of Charlottetown will host a public meeting tonight where the athletics venue will be one of three topics on the agenda. Putting such a facility on the campus requires a zoning change, meaning a public meeting is mandatory. The meeting takes place at the Charlottetown Hotel at 7 p.m.
The athletics venue, if it goes ahead at UPEI, would be an ambitious endeavour, covering 10 acres between the university and the Charlottetown Mall.
The venue would start north of the ring road at UPEI. MacAdam Field, the new artificial turf field at UPEI, would not be affected.
The venue was thought to be headed to Stonepark Junior High School, one of the locations identified in consultant Ken DesRoches' report in 2006.
Spriet said initially UPEI showed little interest in the athletics venue "until some issues came into play with respect to what you do with a beautiful facility after the Games.
"You can't just create a white elephant, nobody wants that. One of our huge concerns was after the Games in September '09, that we've got a facility that can be put to proper use with proper operational dollars and programming. Where better than UPEI, if we can make it happen,' Spriet said.
Officials at UPEI were not immediately available for comment.
As one of the stakeholders, the City of Charlottetown as agreed to contribute $500,000 towards the venue.
Mayor Clifford Lee said the city has no interest in taking on operational costs of another facility.
"It's not a decision for the city to make as to where the facility ends up, we're not building it, we don't own it and we're not going to be responsible for the operational costs after the fact,' Lee said.
Among the features at the venue would be a track and enough seating for thousands. It would be the largest facility built for the 2009 Games.
Back when the host society submitted its bid it was thought the athletics venue would cost $3 million. Spriet said the cost will be "a little larger but I won't go to a number at this point. It's somewhat larger (than $3 million).
The cost would be cost-shared by the three levels of government under the federal infrastructure program.
And, although no one is talking about it now, the project could include a new access road - beyond the current two entrances to UPEI.
"I can say this much, it's probably high up there on UPEI's wish list,'' Spriet said.
The president of the 2009 Games said they hope to have council's decision on the rezoning application very soon.
"We've got to get going. In the spring the shovels have to be in the ground and it's got to be built by the time the snow flies next fall.'

2009canadagames.ca

Sunday, September 23, 2007

AIDS Walk for Life Charlottetown - Representin' the PEI RoadRunners

AIDS Walk for Life Charlottetown

Raising Awareness - Educating - Building Community
AIDS Walk for Life Charlottetown took place on Sunday, September 23, 2007 from Memorial Hall, Confederation Centre of the Arts.

Alex & Athena, (accompanied by me on my bike), ran the AIDS Walk today as "Team RoadRunner", representing the PEI RoadRunners Club. Alex & Athena ran the 5K course twice, finishing up just before the walkers finished the loop. The Walk (run, bike...) took us from Mem

orial Hall at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown down Great George St, right onto Water St, right onto Havilard/Rochford St., left on Grafton, around the Boardwalk and then up Brighton Rd/Euston St. to University Ave, and then back to Memorial Hall.

Great idea Athena! Please read Athena's note Here on the PEI RoadRunner's Message Board and let's see how many runners will be on Team RoadRunner next year at the 2008 AIDS Walk for Life in Charlottetown.

"AI DS PEI is guided by the principles of health promotion, population health, and community development. It acknowledges that determinants of health such as gender, social support networks, education, social and physical environments, personal health practices, coping skills, culture, biology and genetic endowment must be addressed if community-based AIDS work is to be effective.

It affirms the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS. It is dedicated to developing new and innovative prevention/education initiatives for targeted populations including Youth, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered (GLBT) community, Women, Intravenous Drug Users and those in correctional institutions. Theses initiatives enable individuals to manage their health through access to high quality support and educational programs.

A ID S PEI attempts to use community development principles such as capacity building and community ownership in order to achieve these goals. It is committed to sharing resources and experiences in order to develop partnerships and to promote the collaborative development of a community-based response to AIDS throughout PEI.

AID S PEI is a non-judgmental, membership-driven organization which promotes diversified community involvement. Through the
assistance of members, clients, staff, and volunteers, our organization makes consistent efforts to meet the needs of all citizens of Prince Edward Island."