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The Town of Three Rivers has chosen a mascot to represent the community: a river otter named Rivv.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The eastern P.E.I. town’s council announced the new mascot during its March 9 meeting. The idea was selected from more than 15 submissions from residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Mascots can be fun and symbolic and certainly, as far as community building and identity, I think that this is a great image for our community,” said Dorothy MacDonald, the town’s community services manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said it was “heartwarming” to see residents come together to build a symbol for the relatively new town. Several former municipalities, including Cardigan, Montague and Georgetown, amalgamated to form Three Rivers in 2018.<\/p>\n
“Those submissions make us feel like we’re working toward building a great community here,” MacDonald said.<\/p>\n
Other concepts put forward included a poodle and turtle, while others centred on a captain character. <\/p>\n
Rivv was one of multiple designs submitted that featured a river otter theme, MacDonald said.<\/p>\n
“The story goes that our rivers used to have a lot of otters in them,” she said. “In the last couple of years there’s been [signs] that otters have made a comeback.”<\/p>\n
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The Kensington North Watersheds Association started tracking river otters with trail cameras in late 2019. (Submitted by Kensington North Watersheds Association)<\/p>\n
Nearly 100 years after they disappeared from the province, river otters have again been spotted on the Island.<\/p>\n
The species is native to P.E.I., but was thought to have died out in the early 1900s due to a loss of habitat, poaching and trapping.<\/p>\n