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Spring ahead with CBC at the P.E.I. Provincial Home Show

Drop by CBC living room at the P.E.I. Home Show; meet CBC personalities and CBC Kids' Gary the Unicorn

Home Show March 7-9

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A woman and a man stand for a photo with two teenagers in the middle at a home show.
CBC Compass host Louise Martin and CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland meet P.E.I. Provincial Home Show guests at last year's show. Louise and Jay will be back in the CBC living room on Sunday, March 9. (Greg Guy/CBC)
The P.E.I. Provincial Home Show is March 7 to 9 at Eastlink Centre, Charlottetown and CBC will be there.
 
A unicorn mascot with blue face and ears, purple hair and hoofs. He's wearing a red sweater and has a rainbow horn. He's in front of a sign that says: "WOW" in rainbow colours. There are directors chairs in the background.
CBC Kids' Gary the Unicorn makes his debut in P.E.I. at the home show. (CBC Kids)
The home show is combined with P.E.I. Provincial Outdoor Show again this year.

While checking out the latest trends in home construction, gardening, landscaping, renovations and decor at the show, be sure to join us in the CBC living room.


You'll get to meet CBC personalities and explore some of your favourtie CBC programming from our CBC platforms, including CBC Gem, CBC Listen, the new CBC FAST channel and more.

Learn more about our new podcast This is P.E.I.  Got an intriguing question about the Island that you always wanted to ask? Let us know. CBC P.E.I. uses its sources, the archives and hits the streets to find the answers.

Be sure to bring the kids to meet Gary the Unicorn, from CBC Kids' The Story Store. Gary is making his Prince Edward Island debut at the home show.

We'll have some prizes as well.

A woman with long brown hair and a purple t-shirt smiles in the middle of a garden with tall flowering plants.
CBC's Maritime Noon's gardening expert will be at the P.E.I. Provincial Home Show on March 7, for a live broadcast of the show with host Bob Murphy. (Courtesy Niki Jabbour)

Live Broadcast: Meet gardener Niki Jabbour on CBC's Maritime Noon

CBC's Maritime Noon host Bob Murphy returns home to the island for a live broadcast of the popular phone-in show from the CBC living room, on Friday, March 7.  Halifax gardener, horticulturalist and author Niki Jabbour will join him in person to answer your gardening questions. If you're not in Charlottetown at the show, you can phone 1-800-565-1940.

And speaking of spring. Be sure to pick up a pack of Vesey sunflower seeds (while supplies last). 

Charlottetown Fire Department reminds us to spring ahead

The Charlottetown Fire Department Logo with the city coat of arms in the centre and a fire hydrant and a ladder and an axe. The words Charlottetown Fire Department are in red.
Clocks will go ahead one hour for Daylight Savings Time at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9. Members of the Charlottetown Fire Department will be at the CBC booth on Saturday, March 8, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., to remind everyone to "spring ahead", and to also change their batteries in their smoke detectors. They will have some batteries to hand out (while supplies last). Drop by and meet members of your local fire department.


Two photos: Left, a man and a Black woman chat with a younger man, right two older men chat at the CBC living at the home show.
CBC Island Morning and This is P.E.I. host Mitch Cormier (right photo) CBC News' Steve Bruce (left photo) will be at the home show on Saturday, March 8. (Greg Guy / CBC)

Meet CBC personalities

Friday, March 7
Noon - 1 p.m.  - CBC Maritime Noon host Bob Murphy with gardener Niki Jabbour - live broadcast from the home show
5 p.m. - 8 p.m. -  Wayne Thibodeau of CBC News

Saturday, March 8
9 a.m. -  Noon - Mitch Cormier, host of CBC Island Morning and This is P.E.I. and Kerry Campbell, CBC News
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.  Steve Bruce and Sheehan Desjardins of CBC News

Sunday, March 9
Noon - 3 p.m. - CBC Compass host Louise Martin and CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland

About the P.E.I. Provincial Home Show

Location:
Eastlink Centre, 46 Kensington Road, Charlottetown

Date and Time:
Friday, March 7:  Noon - 8 p.m.
Saturday,  March 8:  9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday, March 9: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Admission
Adult (18-59): $8
Senior (60+): $6
18 and younger: Free

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