No one should go hungry
Postal worker honoured after quest to feed the hungry
Lt.-Col. Glenn Moriarity has come a long way with the Prince Edward Island Regiment.
Fresh out of high school, he and a friend decided to join the regiment as part of the summer youth employment program.
At first, his position in the regiment was only part-time, but after finishing the eightweek program and going through basic training, he started on what would become a lengthy career.
On Sunday, the Charlottetown resident will take over as commanding officer of the regiment in a change of command parade that begins at 1:30 p.m. The ceremony will take about an hour.
As long as the weather cooperates, the change of command will take place in the parking lot at the Culinary Institute of Canada in Charlottetown. If it rains, the parade will be moved back into the Queen Charlotte Armouries just down the road.
Moriarity will be taking over command of the regiment from outgoing commanding officer Steven
Wynne.
Running the regiment is a job Moriarity is familiar with.
“This is my second tour as CO,’’ Moriarity said, referring to his last stint between 2005-08. “It’s an honour.’’
After joining the reserves, Moriarity was promoted to lieutenant in 1987 and held many positions in the regiment, including command of two reconnaissance squadrons and he was regimental second-incommand.
In 2001, he was appointed aide-de-comp to the lieutenantgovernor and he was awarded the vice-regal commendation and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.
In 2005, he was appointed as commanding officer of P.E.I. Regiment and, in 2011, he served as a provincial liaison officer with the Canadian Forces Liaison Council, a position he will hold until he takes over as commanding officer on Sunday.
In a twist of irony, Wynne will take over Moriarity’s role as liaison officer.
“It’s the role I had been doing for the past six years,’’ Moriarity said.
In addition, in 2007, during the war in Afghanistan, Moriarity had 15 members of the regiment go off and serve. He was involved in selecting and identifying troops.
Guests attending Sunday’s change of command parade are asked to be seated by 1:15 p.m.
Volunteer postal workers are gearing up for the 24th annual Canada Post food drive in Prince County on Saturday, Oct. 21.
And to honour postal worker Myles Birch, who originated the food drive 32 years ago with his co-workers, it will be called the “1st Myles Birch Memorial Postal Workers’ Food Drive”.
The former Canada Post employee came up with the idea, which supports the Salvation Army, after seeing the need for a food bank in Summerside.
Birch decided to take a Saturday and go door-to-door to collect items to help create the food bank and soup kitchen.
He touched the lives of many Summerside families in need.
For many years, he and another colleague would dress up as Santa Claus and collect money from co-workers to surprise families in need with gifts for their children and food for their tables during the holiday season.
Years later, his initiative is still going strong thanks to the generosity of the people of Prince County.
Postal workers will be going door-to-door collecting items from residents’ homes and dropping them off on Pope Road on Oct. 21.
The Salvation Army asks the public for non-perishable food items.
For the rest of Prince County, non-perishable food donations can be taken to a local post office up until today.