The Flood Issue
As Perth-Andover continues to recover from the Deluge of 2012 we plan to keep you as up to date as possible with news and advice from our various committees. We’d like anyone with news or ideas to share to please drop us a line at blackfly@bellaliant.com . We’ll print...
Unusual Tourist Attraction
The town of St Paul, Alberta is home to the world’s first Flying Saucer Landing Pad! This unique structure was erected in 1967 to celebrate Canada’s Centennial and to attract tourists, both earthlings and galactics, to the town. The Hon. Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Minister of Defense, flew...
They Don’t Make Stuff Like They Used To!
Some 20 years ago I owned a vintage Hoover Upright vacuum cleaner manufactured sometime in the 1940’s. I’d inherited it from a gal pal who had moved into a 4,000 square foot McMansion with a central vacuum system so she had no more need for this venerable household gadget....
From the Editors
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Blackfly Gazette. Jonathan Gagnon and I had been working on this project of starting a little hometown newsletter for a couple of months prior to The Flood when all hell broke loose! We put our project on hold while we and the...
Balm of Gilead
During a recent chat with a friend of mine, she told me how a friend of hers had gotten relief from his previously chronic eczema by applying the home-made “Balm of Gilead” she had given him. She went on to explain that her friend had been plagued by...
Acne, Rosacea and the Demodex Mite
Acne has been plaguing us humans since the dawn of civilization. Egyptian pharaohs got it, and it was written about by both Aristotle and Hippocrates in ancient Greece. Even way back then medical healers saw the connection between the onset of puberty and acne but then, as now, doctors...