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Where’s the hub bub?

July 6, 2015, Summerside, PEI – You would think people would be making a big “hub bub about it,” says Sylvia Doiron, because $500,000 is a lot of money. But there has not been much hub bub, says Doiron, only an eerie kind of quiet among folks around Summerside, P.E.I., at least when it comes to the latest half a million dollar twist in the island’s ongoing potato tampering saga.

The narrative, recall, began last October when darning needles — of the sort Doiron sells at Pins & Needles, a sewing shop on Water Street — showed up in P.E.I. spuds purchased at stores around the Atlantic provinces. The skewered potatoes were traced back to Linkletter Farms in Summerside, triggering an industry wide panic. READ MORE

July 6, 2015  By National Post



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