The Daily Specials at Casa Mia Restaurant for Saturday, May 25, 2013 are:

• Cream Of Corn soup served with foccacia. $4.99
• Ham and cheddar quiche served with side salade. $11.50

Casa Mia Restaurant
131 Queen Street
Charlottetown, PE
Telephone: (902) 367-4440
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Rated: Parental Guidance (Nudity, Language May Offend, Mature Theme)
Runs: 111 minutes
Director: Gilles Bourdos
Country: France
Released: 2012
Starring: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers, Romane Bohringer
Language: In French with English subtitles

“Renoir is an absorbing, atmospheric film that on the surface is as leisurely and calm as some of the sun-dappled landscapes in the Impressionist master’s canvases. It’s 1915 at the Renoir estate on the French Riviera, and the arthritic, wheelchair-bound Pierre-Auguste Renoir, still mourning his wife’s death, begins working with a new model, a fiery aspiring actor named Andrée. Soon, she begins shaking things up in the staid household inhabited by maids who were once Renoir models and the painter’s sullen youngest son. When another son, Jean, arrives home wounded from the war, it’s not long before he and Andrée are flirting, with the woman urging him to find a calling and pursue it. (Of course we know he’ll go on to become a brilliant film director.)... Alexandre Desplat’s shimmering score and Mark Ping Bing Lee’s cinematography evoke the setting with gorgeous dabs of colour and sound, and the performances are subtle and effective. The film has a quiet, cumulative power that creeps up on you. One of the most memorable images is of a group of women carrying two men across a river – a lovely, bittersweet metaphor acknowledging the work women did in the lives of two of France’s most celebrated male artists.” - Glenn Sumi, Now Magazine. “Pierre-Auguste Renoir still reigns as one of the most popular Impressionist artists. He's known for his paintings of beautiful people, scenes from nature, and lovely still lifes. ‘Why shouldn't art be pretty’ he said. ‘There are enough unpleasant things in the world.’... Thanks to its admirable mix of nudity, the beauty of nature, and insights into the craft of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son Jean, this serious exploration of art and the life of an artist joins our list of favorites.” - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

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"Cats have AB blood groups just like humans'" Bella has had the pleasure of Alma staying over for a few nights last week. They together went into hiding, as my grandchildren were visiting. They both are a bit frightened of the two year old who wants to squeeze them into her being. I spent some time with the kittens and have changed my mind about which ones I want. My choice might change again, who knows. I wanted quiet kitties most of all and the one who has markings like Bella and the orange one seem to be the most quiet. The two black and white tuxedo cats a lot both meow when they are picked up. The black and white I want is the smallest and the orange one is the biggest and firstborn.

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A recent survey shows a high percentage of Charlottetown residents are committed to water conservation efforts in their own homes.

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Graduates and their dates flooded the Montague waterfront Friday afternoon in preparation for the Montague Regional High School prom. Graduate Megan Roach, 18, of Montague smiles with proud mom Jennifer Rogers. Megan’s father is Eddie Roach. Heather Jordan Ross photo

Graduate Katelyn MacKinnon, 19, of Montague, holds tight to date Lucas Woods, 21, also of Montague as they snap shots before prom. Katelyn’s parents are Janice and Roger MacKinnon. Lucas’ parents are Doreen and Charlie. This year, Montague students opted to have a dinner instead of a prom dance. Heather Jordan Ross photo

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The Town of Montague will not lose its Post Office.

That message comes from Anick Losier, Communications Officer at Canada Post who assures residents that although the building is up for sale the federal mail service has no intention of leaving town.

Town officials and the tenants housed inside the Main Street building reacted to notice that Public Works had planned to sell the building earlier this week.

“It’s (Montague) the third largest community on the Island. It wouldn’t make any sense for us to leave. If they sell the building and we have to move then we’ll simply find another place for the Post Office,” Ms Lozier said.

Canada Post, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and Cardigan MP Lawrence MacAulay lease the space from Public Works in the Post Office building.

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While I reserve the right to have darts in my eyes with regards to past wrongs, it must be said that Tim Banks and his APM have done an absolutely stellar job restoring the Kays Building in downtown Charlottetown. The wrapping came off the building this week, and it’s obvious that the restoration involves good measure of both whimsy and careful attention.

Add that to the modernist palace of pleasure Mr. Banks is building from the ashes of the old Seaman’s warehouse on King Street (a development that, with every pass-along of gossip, gets more rotating Porsche elevators and helipads and tomato juice fountains), and suddenly APM emerges as an exceptional beacon of architectural courage in a city given to Homburg-style “preservations” and Atlantic Superstore disposa-buildings.

I don’t expect Tim and I will be going for coffee any time soon, but, kind sir, I tip my hat to you. Well done.

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Montague Regional High School is holding its annual instrumental concert Thursday. The MRHS Band Spring Concert will feature the concert band and the jazz band from Grades 10, 11, and 12.

The show will be an eclectic “good mix of stuff” from Michael Jackson to Ozzy Osborne and many more, says director Kirk White. The concert will start at 7pm in the cafeteria and costs $6 for adults and $5 for students and seniors.

In photo: Robert Villard, Tyler Laird, Ian Campbell, Danny Cain, Evan Furness, Andrea Smith, Jacob DeFusco. Heather Jordan Ross photo.

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Robert Henderson, Minister of Tourism and Culture, was at King’s Playhouse in Georgetown today to announce the recipients of the large grants for PEI’s 2014 celebrations.

Six events unique to Kings County and southeastern Queens County were approved under the $5 million intiative that will celebrate and commemorate the 150th anniversary of the historic Charlottetown Conference of 1864 and PEI’s role in the formation of Canada.

“The 150th anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference in 2014 is a once in a generation opportunity for Islanders to celebrate their shared history and for visitors to come and join us in our celebrations,” Mr Henderson told the crowd which included Allen Roach, Minister of Innovation and Advanced Learning, and Steven Myers, Leader of the Opposition.

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P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz says he is disappointed about the controversy surrounding Mike Duffy's Senate expenses.

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• Bag News Notes' Michael Shaw considers the remarkable cool of one of the terrorists involved in the Woolwich killing of a British soldier. Does this cool mean this is routine?


• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling and Will Baird at The Dragon's Tales both note astronomers who think that Saturn's moon Titan, nearing summer, is about to experience hurricanes.


• Also at The Dragon's Tales, Will Baird notes a new study of exoplanet magnetic fields suggesting that planet Gliese 667Cc orbits too close to its sun to avoid tidal locking, and thus has suffered a collapse of its magnetic field and erosion of its atmosphere.


• Eastern Approaches notes the contretemps between Germany and Hungary, curiously triggered by the German chancellor saying that she would not send in the cavalry (metaphorically) to deal to Hungary's destruction of its democracy.


• GNXP's Razib Khan notes that the Aborigines of Australia were not culturally static, among other things observing that Aborigine language groups reflect the recent dominance of a single language family.


• The Search's Butch Lazorchak argues in favour of the development of lossless recording techniques versus lossy ones, from the perspective of long-term preservation.


• At Une heure de peine, Denis Colombi writes, in French about a recent article on race and sex. There may be tendencies, but they are only tendencies, not uniform across populations by any means. What does it take to belong to amorphous groups?


• Window on Eurasia links to a Russian commentator who argues that Russia should look not to Europe or China for models of development, but rather to the continental superpower that is the United States.

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Lennox Island Chief Darlene Bernard is seeking a fourth term but faces competition from two other candidates to lead P.E.I.'s largest Native band.

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Canadian forecasters are warning warmer-than-average ocean waters and the lack of an El Nino warming of the central Pacific Ocean will contribute to an "active" hurricane season this year.

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