Press

Listed below are an assortment of media articles and information concerning our Millennium Trail. Each link opens in a new window 

A trail for all seasons …

Celebration of the Millennium Trail revitalization

The PEC Trails Committee held an event last Thursday for the long overdue celebration of the Millennium Trail revitalization. Starting at 3 p.m. members of the committee lead a casual trail ride or walk starting at the Belleville Street trail crossing and then heading east. They returned to the Highline Hall …

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Rob Rides

PEC Trails Committee member, Rob Legge rides and rides and rides. If you were on the trail in Consecon around Christmas 2022, you might have seen him passing the recently completed kiosk or crossing the bridge.

He’ll be missing for a while, but we will all be cheering him on when he competes in an international race in Europe. Go Rob!

Full details in the Picton Gazette – click here

Prince Edward SxS/ATV Riders donations

Pictured at the Millennium Trail entrance off Lake Street in Picton from left: Brad Thompson and Rick Insley with the Prince Edward SxS/ATV Riders; Mayor Steve Ferguson; Nancy Parks, Back the Build campaign chairperson and Pat Maloney on behalf of the Millennium Trail. (Photo: Briar Boyce/PECMHF)

Members of the Prince Edward SXS/ATV Riders donate funds from their Poker Run event on the Millennium Trail to the PEC Trails Committee to support Trail maintenance and to the PEC Hospital’s “Back the Build” program.

Read the full story at Quinte News 

Pitching In

Members of the Prince Edward SidexSide/ATV Riders group took to the Millennium Trail this weekend to conduct some volunteer brushing and garbage collection. Trail usage concerns, commercial and otherwise, has been brought before council in recent weeks. (Facebook photo via Picton Gazette))

Story book walk

September 2, 2022 – The Wellington Rotary Club had an official opening of the Story Book Walk at the Millennium Trail, led by Rotarian Linda Donville, and constructed by Rotarian Ted Nash.

More from the Wellington Times here

Discovering the trail

Wellington Times

You can read the reporting by the Wellington Times of Pat Maloney’s presentation to the Prince Edward County Horticultural Society covering the works and progress made in past four years. Image and story courtesy of Wellington Times  here 

Riding with the animals

Wellington Times

The first of two Join our HERD! events to be held in Prince Edward County took place on Sunday afternoon. In an idea dreamed up by Krista Dalby, artistic director with The Department of Illumination, the fun began with an outdoor workshop in Benson Park where the idea was for people and bicycles to transform into animals for the afternoon. The theme involved recycled materials, mostly cardboard, where piles of decorated tails and ears and eyes were waiting to take on new life.

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8 Wing Training on Trail

CountyLive

Members representing the 8 Wing CFB Trenton Aircraft Salvage and Recovery team were participating in a training exercise on the Millennium Trail, Thursday.

During a quick stop in Bloomfield, Sgt. Petey Danger, supervisor of ATESS Aircraft Recovery and Salvage, said the team – with members from several units and squadrons from 8 Wing – was travelling from Consecon to Picton. ATESS (Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron) provides specialized engineering, training and production services in support of worldwide air force operations.

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