Author: Stephanie Kelley

Real Alternative Web AM Radio Comes to Victoria County! Real AM.ca

Do you ever get tired of the recycled tunes that the local radio stations available around here endlessly and repeatedly serve up? Seriously, I don’t care how much you loved the 1980’s… have we not heard enough AC-DC to last us two or three lifetimes?   Now Victoria County...

Social Enterprise Workshop

In order for our villages to thrive and to revitalize our small town business communities the Social Enterprise Business Model offers the best of all worlds. Social Enterprises are businesses whose primary purpose is the common good as it provides jobs for workers and needed services and goods to...

Hidden history comes to light

For over 100 years Canada’s Indian, Metis and Inuit children were taken from their families and sent to institutional settings called residential schools, sometimes forcibly, sometimes under threat of incarceration if parents did not cooperate and always with the deception that what was being done was in the best...

Neqotuk Health Center

The Neqotuk Health Center at Tobique First Nation provides a holistic healing environment for all patients who visit the clinic. By embracing and displaying community cultural aspects, this health center celebrates Aboriginal art, history and traditions. The spiritual aspects of patients’ health issues are addressed along with the physical....

Local Family Creates Crafts Together Cellar Dweller Crafts

Doug and Sheila McKinley, along with their son Logan and daughter Cheyanne, operate Cellar Dweller Crafts out of their home in Rowena. Doug makes a wide variety of wood crafts, shelves and wooden ornaments and takes custom orders. Sheila, who is the Art Instructor at Southern Victoria High School,...

Hilery Hargrove Opens New Law Office in Plaster Rock

Barrister Hilery Hargrove has opened a law office in the Village of Plaster Rock. With his main office still located in Bristol, he will be open for practice two days a week in Plaster Rock.   Hilery’s mother Polly Giberson was born in Weaver. She grew up on the...

A Little Slice of History

The grand old Stewart Furniture & Appliance Store survived the disastrous 2012 flood only to be utterly destroyed by fire a few weeks ago.   The Village of Perth-Andover lost yet another fine old building and another irreplaceable bit of her living history.   The business itself had had...

The great dictator… a vintage film for our times

In 1940 Charlie Chaplin made one of the very best anti-war movies ever filmed.   Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, composed and starred in “The Great Dictator.”   When this flick was released in 1940, the USA was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. The film caused quite a...

Housekeeping Tales & The Servant Problem

I love Jane Austen’s novels, and find re-reading them to be the literary equivalent of eating comfort food. It’s always just such a delight to visit Regency England with Jane, and meet the people of her world as she describes them so perfectly, with all their human foibles laid...

From the Editor…

I recently watched the terrific documentary ‘Garbage Warrior’ which chronicles both the achievements and battles of renegade architect Michael Reynolds. He began experimenting with building self contained homes made from recycled materials in the 1970s in New Mexico. He, and his team of fellow innovators, began building deep-green, low...