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Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021 • February 17, 2021 • 6 minute read • The Prince Edward Heritage Advisory Committee is calling for a comprehensive plan to preserve heritage buildings in the county. Picton s Benson Hall, above, is one of 29 designated heritage properties owned by the county. Sandra Foreman Photography Photo by Sandra Foreman Photography
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Members of the Prince Edward Heritage Advisory Committee have begun work on a plan to try to preserve the county’s heritage buildings.
They and others met online Wednesday to discuss options for the daunting task. Speakers warned of the risks of losing buildings and culture while also trying to inspire bold thinking about how the structures could be repurposed.
PEC heritage group seeks united action to save buildings
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PEC heritage group seeks united action to save buildings
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Posted on December 13, 2020.
Early November was harsh, with the fallen leaves having laid bare the urban ugliness. Mandatory confinement, closed borders, shorter days, gray all around. And then suddenly a song came over the radio with, “I ask myself all the time/How do these poor folks get along … It’s so sad that when/I get back home/I see all of America weeping/In my rearview mirror…”
The song “America Weeping” on the Dashing Cowboys’ new album “The Antipodes” is staggering in its justice, its perceptiveness, its timeliness. For these, it won awards at the recent gala of the Quebec Association for the Recording, Concert and Video Industries. Everything about the lyrics by Jean-Francois Pauze and the vocals by Karl Tremblay is remarkable. A year after its release, the song is even more moving, because America is in tatters, because of Donald Trump, COVID-19, police shootings; because Quebec is part of North America and because the song’s narrator, a clear-he