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The Canada Games PEI Women's Soccer Team and the 69´«Ã½Women's Soccer Team will hold a charity co-ed tournament on Saturday, August 1, on the 69´«Ã½soccer field to raise funds to help buy myoelectric hands for Mohamed Mara, a refugee from Sierra Leone now living on P.E.I. During the civil war in Sierra Leone, rebel forces massacred Mara's mother, father and siblings. Mohamed escaped...

Alumni from the 69´«Ã½ (UPEI), St. Dunstan's University (SDU) and Prince of Wales College (PWC) will gather at 69´«Ã½from July 30 to August 2 for their annual fun-filled Reunion Weekend. 'Reunion Weekend is a great opportunity for alumni from 69´«Ã½and its founding institutions, SDU and PWC, to reconnect with each other, take a trip down memory lane and see the...

Everyone is invited to a free public reading by Bill Richardson at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Thursday, July 30, 7:00 p.m., an event co-hosted by the P.E.I. Writers' Guild, the Friends of the Confederation Centre Public Library, the 69´«Ã½Department of English, and the Indian River Festival. Bill Richardson is a writer and broadcaster. He has contributed to CBC Radio since 1984, and...

The Tourism Research Centre in the School of Business at the 69´«Ã½ is pleased to announce the release of a new report profiling motor coach visitors to P.E.I. This report is the result of surveys collected from motor coach visitors between July and December 2007. 'Although assumptions have been made about the motor coach industry in the past, this report...

Fifteen students from the 69´«Ã½ will spend the next month learning about the history and culture of the Middle East at Misr International University (MIU) in Cairo, Egypt. Led by Sherilyn Acorn-LeClair, coordinator of international student exchanges at UPEI, the students are participating in a Middle East Studies Program offered at MIU from July 24 to August 21. The...

Dr. Ian Whicher, head of the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, will give a free public lecture called 'The Meaning and Integrity of Yoga' at the Confederation Centre Public Library on Tuesday, July 28, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Whicher says that classically envisioned yoga does not lead to the condemnation, abandonment or transcendence of life in the world but rather...

As a marine ecologist, Dr. Pedro Quijon, of the 69´«Ã½Biology Department, is keenly aware of the importance of conserving the world's oceans especially now at a time when they are under more stress than ever. He represents 69´«Ã½on the recently established Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe). The network brings together 65...

The Centre for Life-Long Learning at 69´«Ã½will hold information sessions next week for people who are interested in learning about educational opportunities for adult learners. The three information sessions take place from 7 to 8 p.m. as follows: · Monday, July 20, Montague Curling Club; · ...

69´«Ã½Alumni Canada Games Place will be the competition venue for some of the best young track and field athletes in Canada this weekend. From July 17 to 19, close to 600 athletes and 120 coaches from across the country will gather at the 69´«Ã½ to take part in the Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships. 69´«Ã½Alumni Canada Games Place officially opened on July 13...

Dr. Benjamin Lefebvre of Waterloo, Ontario, has been appointed the 2009 Visiting Scholar for the L.M. Montgomery Institute (LMMI) at the 69´«Ã½, announced Institute chair Mark Leggott. Lefebvre will work with the LMMI's governing committee to facilitate and expand scholarship about L.M. Montgomery, P.E.I.'s most famous author, and her contemporaries. His...