CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I — In celebration of a new campaign and website, the Mussel Industry Council of North America, based in Charlottetown, P.E.I., took the show on the road this past weekend. While not necessarily a traditional tail-gate cooking staple, the council fed hundreds of hungry Grey Cup fans with their own alternative to brats and franks.

“We shipped 2,500 pounds of fresh Blue Cultured mussels to Calgary,” says Linda Duncan, executive director, Mussel Industry Council. “When the Atlantic Schooners, an active group of football fans, asked if we could share this great food with all the die-hard CFLers, we couldn’t resist.”

KENSINGTON, P.E.I – Thanks to $6-million dollars of funding from the federal and provincial governments, a bio-refinery is set to be built in P.E.I.

The plant, which will create 19 new jobs and bring in around $5.4 million in farm receipts, will be operated by U.S.-based company Nature’s Crops International. It is expected that the facility will provide local farmers with new opportunities for rotating crops while also allowing them to introduce their products to the growing global markets for new food manufacturing as well as cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

MONCTON, N.B. — Imvescor Restaurant Group (formerly PDM Royalties Income Fund) has clarified its year-end and financial reporting requirements and provided a sales update for the third quarter and nine-month periods ended Sept. 27, 2009.

As a result of the Plan of Arrangement, PDM Royalties Income Fund, Imvescor Inc. and all other entities that formed Imvescor Restaurant Group, were assigned deemed year-ends of Oct. 9. 2009. At the first meeting of the Board of Directors of IRG, directors set a new fiscal year-end as the last Sunday in October. For 2009, the year-end is therefore Oct. 25. Based on the short timeline between Oct. 9 and Oct. 25, securities commissions supported the company's request for a single filing for the new entity for the 10-month period ended Oct. 25, 2009. Audited financial results for the 10-month period will be reported within 90 days of the year-end.

HALIFAX — According to statistics released recently from the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage, the province welcomed 1,676,800 visitors from January to September, up one per cent compared to this time last year.

In the month of September, 229,800 people visited Nova Scotia. This represents an increase of five per cent compared with September 2008. Road visitors increased by 10 per cent, while air travel decreased by four per cent, and room nights sold were up one per cent, compared with September 2008.