Donna O'Rielly Still Missing




Provincial Police have asked their P.E.I. counterparts to be on the alert in case a missing Moncton woman shows up on the Island.

Charlottetown deputy Chief Gary McGuigan confirms his department received an advisory from Moncton with a photo of Donna O'Rielly.

O'Rielly, 54, disappeared last Friday.

She was last seen leaving her job at a Moncton shopping mall around 8 p.m.

Security cameras show her leaving the mall but she did not make it to the car she drove to work.

Family members, many of them in Newfoundland and Labrador, believe O'Rielly is still alive.

Low Income Senior's get Raise in Allowance

A seniors' group is happy the province is keeping its word by raising the low-income seniors' allowance to 400-dollars.
But the Senior Citizens Federation still wants the government to improve coverage of diabetic testing supplies for older people.

The Department of Health said yesterday the province invested about six (m) million dollars a year in 2008-09 to support access to diabetes medication for close to 15-thousand people.

That coverage was provided to groups including low-income seniors and residents of nursing homes.

Gas on the Rise...

Self serve regular has gone up in price after the weekly setting but diesel has gone down. The maximum that can be charged for self serve regular is up to 104.4. The maximum price for diesel decreased slightly to 106.9 a There has been no change with furnace oil. It remains at 90.4 a litre but there has been another reduction in the price of propane which is now down to 111.9.