Daily Archives: February 1, 2010

Angèle Arsenault honored with Lifetime Achievement

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Acadian artist wins Music PEI award

Angele Arsenault at Music PEI Awards

Angele Arsenault at Music PEI Awards photo La Voix Acadienne

It’s a perfect Angèle Arsenault smile, beaming broadly her joie de vivre as she receives the Music PEI “Lifetime Achievement” award.

M. Arsenault is one of PEI’s most successful artists. Singer, songwriter, musician – she has done it all. After leaving the Maritimes, she had a huge success in Quebec with 20 record albums, TV appearances and awards. Her love for music and her audience is infectious.

I asked her once what was the secret of her success. She said she studied Bette Midler who poured joy into her music and performance. Midler, she said, held nothing back and she made her a model. For the audience, every performance from PEI’s Acadian charmer is a moment of joy. Angèle has an infectious spirit lifts the audience.
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Apple iPad is self-employment machine

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Cool, elegant and useful the iPad is the programmer’s dream

Apple iPad a hit with 75 million Touch users
The Apple iPad is not the end of computing as we know it but it is going to make a difference.

After the naysayers have their way, the iPad will ship in a few months and millions of people will start using them and exploring what they can do. Several thousand programmers are getting ready to show them new apps that will be downloaded from the Apple iTune App Store. For those programmers it means 70% of what was $250 million in December 2009.

The Apple iPad represents one of the best self-employment opportunities for Mac Developers in decades. They don’t need a 10 person start-up. Programmers only need the SDK and one good idea. There are millions of good ideas for software that will run on the iPad.
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Dr. Bob Romcke dies age 80

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Distinguished public health dentist and polio survivor passes away

Dr. Bob Romcke
By Stephen Pate, President of the PEI Polio Survivors

Dr. Bob Romcke passed away at the QEH on Thursday January 28th, 2010 at age 80. He was known as a gentleman and a man of courage and perseverance.

Dr. Bob was a dentist. While studying dentistry at McGill University in Montreal as a young man he contracted polio. The deadly illness, that was a scourge back then, affected his upper body.

He had to take a leave from his studies and spent sometime in an iron lung.

Dr. Bob endured his recovery and convalescence. He was able to leave the iron lung behind, return to McGill University and graduate as a dentist.

In 1965, Dr. Bob started what would become universal dental care for Island children. It was his vision and determination that drove the child dental program for decades.
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