Table 12:1, Kinkora’s Citizens of the Year“

1980 - Ethel McCardle 1981 - St. Clair Duffy 1982 - Bertha Lawless 1983 - Mamie Mulligan 1984 - Arnie Johnston

1985 - Betty Smith

1986 - Gladys Mulligan

1987 - Leslie Smith

1988 - Rev. Edmund J. Roche 1989 - Audrey Morris

1990 - Jean Gaudet

In the early 19805 St. Clair Duffy, the sole school trustee for Kinkora and surrounding communities on the fifteen- member Regional Administrative Unit No. 2 School Board, persuaded his fellow trustees and the education ministry that a new and much larger elementary school should be built in Kinkora. The school, called Somerset Elementary, was built in 1983-84. It is a modern building with eight classrooms, capable of accommodating some 225 students in the first eight grades; it also has a library, gymnasium, kitchen and cafeteria, teacher’s lounge and Principal’s office; it was built at a cost of $2 million, paid by the govern- ment3° Buses transport students from the surrounding com- munities to it; it is also used for sports events by the near- by communities.

In the early 19805, the Kinkora Village Commissioners (now called Kinkora Community Councillors) with assistance from the P.E.I. Department of Community and Cultural Affairs prepared a socio-economic study of the community with a View towards enacting a development plan to guide future growth in the area]1 Their plan, which was approved by the RBI. Department of Municipal Affairs in 1985, agreed that “no serious constraints upon

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