From: The Guardian

By: MARY MACKAY

When it comes to creativity, Garfield “Gar” Gillis of Point Prim doesn’t keep his enthusiasm bottled up inside.

Instead, he heads straight to the great outdoors to add to the structural integrity of the growing bottle town in the backyard of his Point Prim home.

“The light makes all the difference in the world,” Gillis says of the warm glow cast by the sun shining through the bottles to the interior of his latest bottle building, a 14-foot-tall lighthouse made with nearly 3,400 bottles. Read more…

From: CBC News 

Ten years ago Friday, tourists making a weekend visit to P.E.I. were coming via the Confederation Bridge for the first time, and the impact of the span has been given mixed reviews.

‘A phenomenon like the bridge only comes around once in a lifetime.’— Don Cudmore, TIAPEI

In its first year, the increase in tourism from the Confederation Bridge was beyond anyone’s expectations. A 40 per cent jump in visits put the Island over a million visitors for the first time.

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