Petrie Island

Online/New Media by rochekellyFebruary 7, 2011February 20, 2011

Booze and ice huts don’t mix

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/07/17185761.html Contradictory statements issued by the Ontario Provincial Police have ice fishers at Petrie Island confused about whether they can bring booze to ice huts. “You can’t have one law in one place and one law in another. It’s one straight across or not at all,” said Orleans resident Michael Blow. Last Thursday, […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyFebruary 6, 2011February 7, 2011

Bored in an ice hut? Try these things

With 115 ice huts at Oziles’ on Petrie Island, weekends are packed with 300 to 400 people. Since OPP have banned alcohol inside and outside the huts, will it hurt business? “It’s only going to affect it a little bit ’cause I think a lot of people come for the social experience itself,” said Mathieu […]