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The long waitlist for daycare in Prince Edward County has attracted national attention — and funding for an expansion of The Hub Child and Family Centre. In addition to support from Prince Edward Lennox and Addington Social Services, an expansion grant from the joint federal and provincial initiative, Canada Wide Early Learning Child Care means a whole new HUB opens at Base31 in January with licensed spaces for 49 children.

It’s never a good idea to visit a destination expecting it to be some half-baked moniker, like “the Venice of the South” or “the New York of the West Coast.” But when a friend’s wedding brought me to hole up in Ontario’s Prince Edward County earlier this summer, I couldn’t help but fall for a preconceived notion: a sleepy, agrarian region that buzzed with the same creative energy I felt bubbling up in the Hudson Valley some 15 years ago.

Base31 is on the move. Named New Business of the Year at the 2024 Quinte Business Achievement Awards last month, it also announced three new partners — CaraCo Group, Fieldgate Homes and Paradise Developments have joined the consortium, more than making up for the loss of Tercot Communities earlier this year.