News & Events

• 2008 Christmas cards by Artist Trudy Callbeck are on sale
  Our 2008 Christmas Card is now on sale. This year’s Holiday card was created especially for us from a beautiful painting by renowned artist Trudy Callbeck. It is entitled "Ode to the Christmas Tree".
• Car Draw
  • Congratulations to Tim Jenkins of Charlottetown. Tim was the 2008 winner of the Stars for Life Foundation for Autism car draw. Dave chose the cash prize of $25,000 instead of the 2009 Ford Mustang.
  • Early bird winners for $1,000 each were McLean Construction and Ron Carmichael.
  • Thank you to all individuals and businesses that supported our draw. A big thank you to our sponsors Prince Edward Air, Ocean 100 & K Rock, The Guardian and Fair Isle Ford.
• First tree farm planted
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• The Stars for Life Foundaton for Autism joined together with the families and friends of children with autism to plant the first tree farm which will provide future jobs & activities for young people with autism for years to come. A good time was had by everyone with a barbeque and great weather.
• 4 Acres of Land was provided by the Ennis Family for $1.00 per year and Rogers Communications donated $1500.00 to purchase trees. Thank you to both for your generous support!
• Evening of the Stars! Dinner and Auction
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  • The Evening of the Stars was an amazing success raising over $54,000, which will go to help fund building the first home for young adults with autism. The event played host to some of the best talent that Canada has to offer including emcee for the evening Bill Carr, who kept everything moving smoothly and kept everyone laughing. "Dr. Music" Doug Riley amazed the crowd with his musical talent, and Cory Spence, a thirteen year old boy with autism from Albany PEI, won the crowd's hearts as he made them laugh and cry during his singing perfomance. Following Cory there was the first viewing of the "Faces of Autism on PEI", a slide show including pictures of Island children taken by Award winning portrait photographer Louise Vessey, and music perfromed by Cory.
    Our major sponsor for the evening was Rodd Hotel and Resorts. A big thanks to them for all their support, as well as our other sponsors: Prince Edward Air, The Travel Store, Kwik Kopy Design and Print Shop, Sobers, the Guardian, K-Rock and Ocean 100.3.