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     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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     Woodlands g‘g . St. Peters Bay 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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