Billy Odonnell News Today

Red Shores Charlottetown will host a book launch following the Saturday, Oct. 21 race card for "Hoofprints And Heartstrings," a boy's memories of Maritime harness racing in the 1970s, with Saint John, N.B. author Russell Henderson.

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith takes readers back about 38 years ago to 1985 as he recalls a very big day of racing at the Meadowlands track which was then in just its tenth year of existence, having opened in 1976.

Almost 1 1/2 years after the Marshall Fire burned a third of homes in the Wildflower Condominiums complex, community members celebrated beginning reconstruction.