Cynthia Dunsford, MLA

Stratford-Kinlock, PEI

Festival of Small Halls is back!!

Published in March 1st, 2010

Posted by Cyn in arts & culture, community, events, rural PEI, tourism

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February 26, 2010 Premier’s Office Premier Robert Ghiz announced funding to kick-start the organization of the 2010 Festival of Small Halls during a visit to the Murray River Community Centre. Premier Ghiz made the announcement with Ray Brow, chair of Small Halls; Hon. Neil LeClair, Minister responsible for rural development; and Hon. Allan Campbell, Minister [...]

Only on PEI

Published in January 31st, 2009

Posted by Cyn in Stratford, community, economy, events, family, photos, press

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Where else can a provincial government hold a press conference and ask people to wait an extra 5 or 10 minutes so we can wait for someone’s parents to show up… This was the case just before the announcement (pasted below) was to begin. Jason Aspin, a native Islander, and his business partner Neil Kemp, [...]

Spring/Summer ’08 Photo Review

Published in August 20th, 2008

Posted by Cyn in Canada, arts & culture, community, conferences, cycling, events, photos, travels

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Click on Photo to view my flickr photo album: iBeginShare.attachButton(‘share-tool-63889203174′, {title: ‘Spring/Summer ’08 Photo Review’, link: ‘http://www.cynthiadunsford.com/2008/08/20/springsummer-08-photo-review/’, content: ‘http://www.cynthiadunsford.com/?ibegin_share_action=get_content&id=182′});

Small but Big

Published in June 17th, 2008

Posted by Cyn in arts & culture, community, events, rural PEI, travels

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Check out The Festival of Small Halls. Word has it that the halls have been packed with people and the audiences love it! 5 days left!! RELEASE Line up announced for first ever CFCY Festival of Small Halls, June 14-22 (Charlottetown, PE) – The inaugural CFCY Festival of Small Halls, a celebration of exceptional music, [...]

Youth ConneXt PEI

Published in April 20th, 2008

Posted by Cyn in Stratford, community, events, youth

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Last weekend at the Stratford Town Hall a very enthusiastic group of young Islanders were gathered at a “cross generational symposium on community engagement” to… -Share stories… -Learn from one another, the community and its members… -Inspire ideas for further development… -Commit to meaningful and measurable action… What does this really mean? We want youth [...]

New look

Published in November 4th, 2007

Posted by Cyn in community, events

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Just re jigging things around cynthiadunsford dot com. I will soon be hosted by dot serving dot com (an Island company owned and operated by John Morris). I’ve added some links to the sidebar and fixed the page loading issue. Last week I spent about an hour on a post giving an update on all [...]

The best Canada Day on PEI

Published in July 3rd, 2007

Posted by Cyn in Canada, community, events, photos

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Stratford just happens to have very popular Canada Day celebrations. When Ash and Ian were small we would cart them off for an afternoon of hard core innocent fun, then at MacNeil Park. Nowadays all the fun takes place at Tea Hill Park. This year, for me, was especially meaningful. Have you ever experienced singing [...]

Fundraiser

Published in April 23rd, 2007

Posted by Cyn in events

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This Thursday, April 26th from 5-7 pm there will be a Liberal fundraiser for Stratford-Kinlock at the home of Mike and Pat Schurman, 42 Mullaghmore Dr., off the Langley Rd. in Stratford. Join me and all the hard working team in District 6 for some ‘whine and cheese’, good company and great music by Ian [...]