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Covehead Light

PEI couple hopes to save Covehead Light

Posted Fri, 2011-03-25 10:40
Date Published: 
2011-03-25
Source: 
CBC News Charlottetown, PEI

A Stanhope couple is putting together a group to try to save the Covehead lighthouse.A Stanhope couple is putting together a group to try to save the Covehead lighthouse. P.E.I. Lighthouse Society/Canadian Coast Guard

An Island couple is spearheading a community group to take over the Covehead lighthouse.

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced last year P.E.I. lighthouses would be decommissioned and said that community groups have first dibs to take them over.