Welcome to Downtown New
Businesses to Downtown On behalf of Downtown Summerside Inc.,
we are pleased to welcome the following new businesses to the Downtown
area: The
Paragon Craft Shop 216
Water Street Erma
Smith & Doris Flamminio Phone:
4364202 Peter
Baglole Charter Accountiant 293
Water Street Peter
M. Baglole 436-1663 PEI
Residential Construction Sector Council Suite
2, Queen Street Margaret
McEachern 724-3300 Summerside
Lobster Carnival 7
Summer Street Chéri
Bourgoin 436-4925 Shadow
Cast, Tattoo Studio 228
First Street Troy
Sproule 439-3653 Let’s make them feel
welcome. Stop in and say “Hi”, and welcome them
to Downtown Summerside. Up-Coming
Events May
16 Downtown Summerside
Inc. A G M 7:00 at Loyalist Inn June
9 Opening of
Spinnakers' Landing 9:30 - 5:30 June
11 Tall ship Schooner Bowdoin Flagship arrives June
18 Father’s Day June
21 National Aboriginal
Day June
23 – 25 College of Piping Highland Gathering June
27 National Multicultural
Day July
1 Canada Day! July
8 - 15 Lobster Carnival July
11 - 12 Downtown Sidewalk
Sale Contact Us Ron
Casey, Executive Director Downtown
Summerside Inc. 7
Summer Street P.O.
Box 121 Summerside,
PE C1N
4P6 Telephone:
436-7546 Fax:
436-7547 Cell:
432-4629 ron@downtownsummerside.com www.downtownsummerside.com — Board of Directors Nelson Snow, President Fitzgerald
& Snow Pete Peters, Treasurer Consolidated
Credit Union John McNeil, Secretary Hillcrest
Housing Lynn Nicholson Crockett’s
Quality Jewellers Sheri Lee McKenna Tourism
Summerside Brian Ramsay Chamber
of Commerce &
Money Concepts Grant Moase Grant
Moase Quality Jewellers Brenda Biggar SRDC Carl Delaney Silver
Fox Curling & Yacht Club Donna MacKay Enterprise
Venture Don Burns Burns
Property Ian Simmons Kool
Breeze Farms Paul Power City
Councillor Mike Thususka City
of Summerside
Good News for Downtown The Schoonner Bowdoin is expected to arrive in
Summerside on June 11th. The
Bowdoin homeport is Castline Maine, USA and plan to have a two day stay with us. Master John Worth, says they will have
sixteen aboard and will be exchanging
two crew in Port. Built in 1921 for
exploring the Artic waters, is celebrating it’s 85th anniversary
this year. Between 1921 and 1954
she made 26 voyages above the Artic Circle under the command of explorer Donald B. MacMillan. Today Bowdoin, the flagship of Maine,
serves the students of Maine
Maritime Academy ( MMA), Sail Training Curriculum for the state of Maine, and New England. Sparred
length is 100 feet, Rig height 70 feet with the power of 190 HP Diesel and
a wood hull. Sailing grounds include
New England, Prince Edward Island,
Nova Scotia , Newfoundland, Labrabor and Greenland. Come down to the Pier and make them feel
welcome.
Downtown Ambassadors 2006 From L to R Fiona Cregan,
Crystal Gardiner, Todd Gallant, Kevin Walker, Tina MacLean and Jennifer
Hippenstall. They will be busy buskering, organizing tours, boardwalk week
and many other daily activities during July and August at Spinnakers', and also
producing a Youth Newsletter. New for 2006, the youths dress in period
costumes. Coordinator, Crystal Gardiner, can be reached at 432-4424 or visit
them at 227 Water Street. Summer
Staff Our summer staff includes
Tracy Arsenault who as
been hired for 12 weeks to clean up the graffiti. The downtown area has
been hit bad with graffiti and is doing something about it. We hope that once the cleanup is
complete we can stamp out the vandalism and motivate a want and a need to
keep our buildings clean, presentable, and be proud of their appearances. We also have Bryan Cameron on a 20 week project
and will be working in maintenance. His main duties are keeping the
downtown core streets, alleys, sidewalks, and parking lots clean. Rain or shine Bryan will be there hard at
work collecting garbage and disposing of it. If you see an area we missed please call the office at
436-7546 News Letter The news letter is quarterly produced
by the Downtown Summerside Inc., to keep residents and business operators
informed to current trends and successes in the Downtown business
community. The main focus is to stimulate economic
development, which encompasses the geographic area of the Downtown. Our mission statement is to revitalize
the Downtown Area of the City of Summerside. Our goal is to make downtown a profitable place to do
business by ensuring that real estate and businesses interested in the
downtown area achieve their highest potential. Annual General Meeting Downtown Summerside Inc. The AGM will be held on May 16th, 2006
at the Lakeview Resort, 195 Harbour Drive, starting at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to take part in the
discussions, view the reports and comment on their concerns. It is open to
all Property owners and business owners in Downtown Summerside. We are always looking for new faces for
the board of directors and our committees, we would love to see you there. For
more information please contact Nelson Snow at 436-9256 or Ron Casey at
436-7546. _____________________________________________ Summerside Lobster Carnival The
Carnival Week is scheduled to run from July 8th to the 15th
with a new location at the Waterfront Mall. Our theme this year is “Heritage,
Celebrating Island History” Chéri
Bourgoin, coordinator, along with the committee members from the Summerside
Legion and Summerside Rotary Club are hard at work planning all the
upcoming activities. Some of the upcoming activities include Boat Races,
Parade, Opening Ceremony, Celebrity Dinner, Sidewalk Sale, Talent Contest, Bike
Race & Rally, Governor’s Plate
Race, and much much more. Chéri started
working on March 27th for the Summerside Lobster Carnival and looking
forward to all our great successes this year. She is located at 7 Summer
Street till July 22nd, 2006. You can also contact her at 436-4925.
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Workers left to right
Jason Neary, Kevin Clark, John LaPointe, Lee-Anne Murray and Gordon
Genge. Downtown Summerside Inc. and
the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club have partnered with 100% assistant
of HRDC to construct a boat shed by the Silver Fox.
If you have any comments or concerns
about what’s going on in Downtown Summerside, please don’t hesitate to
contact Ron at the office. We are
working for YOU.