COVID-19 on P.E.I.: What s happening Friday, Jan. 29
Residents are celebrating at Garden Home because everyone is vaccinated, and a war of numbers over the spending of federal pandemic relief.
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Garden Home residents celebrated the loosening of restrictions with cake and company. (Steve Bruce/CBC)
Residents of the Garden Home long-term care facility in Charlottetown received their second doses of vaccine to fight COVID-19 this week, and on Thursday celebrated being able to loosen restrictions as a result.
Numbers have been flying this week as a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives said P.E.I. was not using all the federal money it had been allocated for COVID-19 measures. However, the report s author acknowledged Thursday that the P.E.I. government was intending to spend most of a $65-million contingency fund though few details of how it was being spent have been released to date.
Pandemic boosts betting at Charlottetown race track
The Charlottetown Driving Park is the only open harness racing track in Canada right now, and it was first to open in the spring, and that created a surge in revenues in 2020.
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Posted: Jan 27, 2021 2:12 PM AT | Last Updated: January 27
The harness racing season on P.E.I. started in early June.(Red Shores Racetrack & Casino/Facebook)
Here’s everything you need to know in order to plan your evening!
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31
Red Carpet Live on Facebook
(View on SC’s Facebook page or standardbredcanada.ca)
To kick off the night, we have “Red Carpet coverage, sponsored by Grand River Raceway and produced by CUJO Entertainment, with our Red Carpet Host, Kelly Spencer, on Standardbred Canada’s website and Facebook page. Kelly will be checking in with some of the finalists and special guests as they arrive on the “Virtual’ Red Carpet.
6:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. (EST)
Intermission & Video Greetings
Get your refreshments and get comfortable!
Video greetings, sponsored by The Hambletonian Society, will be playing just prior to the O’Brien Awards Show.
Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park in Prince Edward Island is pleased to announce that the 2020 O’Brien Awards VIP Gala is officially sold out!
The event, which follows the guidelines and protocols from the Chief Public Health office, is being hosted in Top of the Park on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, in conjunction with the 2020 Virtual O’Brien Awards Gala.
Lee Drake and his wife, Jennifer Evans on the Red Carpet for the 2019 O Brien Awards
Lee Drake, Manager of Racing, Brands and Broadcast is looking forward to hosting the event. “We’ve got a great evening planned for our guests including a three-course gourmet dinner, video features, interviews, and special guests including O’Brien Award of Horsemanship finalist, Gilles Barrieau. We will all be tuned in to watch the Virtual O’Brien Awards Gala and are very pleased to have connections to many of the Island finalists with us, family and friends of the Future Star Award finalists, Rachel Andrew
It has been over half-a-year since Bugsy Maguire’s biggest career moment but he returns to the fray in the preferred pace Saturday afternoon at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
The 13-dash Saturday presentation starts off at 12:30 P.M. with the preferred pace going to the gate in the 12th race for a $2,850 pot.
Bugsy Maguire put together a story book moment in winning the 2020 Governor’s Plate Final in July at Red Shores Summerside with Brodie MacPhee in the bike but suffered an injury shortly after and was absent for the remainder of the season. The seven-year-old son of Bettors Delight has qualified the past two weeks with qualifying driver Jaycob Sweet in the bike for trainer Wade Sorrie. But for Saturday’s pari-mutuel event, Sorrie will call upon leading driver Marc Campbell to steer for owner Walter Simmons of Summerside.