A SPECIAL PL AC:

SANDHILLS OF GREENWICH by Edwin Knox, Sherwood, P.E.I.

We have everything complete when the waves roll in to the shore of the wide open beach and when the wind blows through the marram grass alongside the sweeping dunes. It is all there for us to see and appreciate if we just know hOW. I have seen this completeness many times at the "sandhills" of Greenwich and always have come away from there exhilirated. The exhiliration comes from seeing nature undisturbed and in its purest form as it has been always at Greenwich and was today and hopefully, will be tomorrow.

As an appreciative native Islander visiting those delicate yet awesome sand- hills I feel so fortunate. There are few places like it left being so unspoiled. Anyone who takes a leisurely walk from the fields on the inland side, across the dunes and down onto the sea swept beach as I have done many times, will be surely impressed. It is a beautiful place.

Islanders everyone, young and old, should realize how important a place such as the Greenwich sandhills is to us. We live in a time when we see so much of the goodness being lost in our land and in our fellow human beings. A place of such natural beauty can do us so much good just as it is. Many do not realize this or fail to undrestand it but as E.R.Jackson said in Blazing Forest Trails, "The quiet, calm and patient trees can teach us things if we let them. We cannot learn these things in traffic jams, in crowded elevators or in the midst of whirring machinery. A forest is a good place to achieve balance, to put things in our minds in their proper importance." So it is with the sea and the wind at the sandhills of Greenwich, Prince Edward Island.

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GREENWICH IMPACT STATEMENT AVAILABLE. The final report of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the proposed Greenwich Development at St. Peters Bay has recently been

released. The 41 page document prepared by Michael Simmons of Halifax is available through the Dept. of Community Affairs.

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