Category: Issue 11

High School Outdoor Pursuits Course

The Outdoor Pursuits course is a hands-on course offered by the Southern Victoria High School in Perth-Andover with a classroom component. It is designed to introduce or reconnect students with things and activities that happen outside of a computer screen, television or a handheld device.   The main units...

Shimmer & Shine…It’s All About the Feet!

If our eyes are the windows to our soul, our feet are the mirrors of our health. We tend to take our feet for granted, until they act up on us. And those poor pups at the end of our legs sure work hard over the course of our...

Local Author Publishes New Novel

Martin Beaulieu of Perth-Andover has just published the third novel in his historical science-fiction themed trilogy of books.   I met with Martin the other day to find out more about his work. As it turns out, I’d heard of him originally some 30 years ago when my mom...

Table Talk

from the editor During a visit to the Perth Library last week I checked out Joe McGinniss’ recently published book about Sarah Palin titled “The Rogue.” I’m an ex-pat American who has watched with a kind of fascinated horror at the fascist police state of a train wreck the...

Earthbag Construction

A few issues back in the gazette we ran a story about Earthship Construction. Those wonderful homes are made by stacking earth-filled recycled tires to create the walls of the structures. I just ran across another fascinating and beautiful building construction method called Earthbag Construction, which uses nothing more...

Freeze Ahead Zucchini “Apple” Pie & Vegetarian Mincemeat

Autumn has now officially arrived….time to harvest the crops and put food by. During a recent trip to the store I began chatting with the lady next to me in the checkout line. She had a pile of supplies which clearly indicated that a preserving project was in the...

Mental Meadow

Mental Meadow There were thorns along the pathway And blow-downs I must pass As lightning lit the night sky A torrential rain morass, There were pitfalls ‘long the portage Past the rapids and the falls And all along the valley Where the forest formed the walls, There seemed to...

Big Tig Talks

Hi. This is a very sad and sorry Tigger. Me ‘n’ Ember ‘n’ Sadie got in trouble the other day. It was stupid Ember anyway. I never even did nothin’!! And Sadie just cried and she ain’t in trouble…   This is what happened…Ember is a big jerk! Ember...

DRESSING UP

In the May/June 2012 issue of Pets Magazine, William J. Thomas wrote an interesting article and gave a huge ‘Thumbs Down’ to dressing up your pet in clothing. His article was well written. I could almost hear his voice and as I kept reading I could feel a ‘little...