Flood time is now… let’s be proactive
“You have to make prevention. You have to be there before the ice is moving” Paul Laplante, Owner of Eco Technologies in Caraquet, NB Last year, in the aftermath of the terrible flood in Perth-Andover, Paul Laplante of Eco Technologies, his Caraquet based company, said he could have helped...
The Old Man in the Hat
in·teg·ri·ty: noun; adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty antonyms: The Harper Government I am not sure what to think. If I understand it correctly, the Government of Canada Harper assumes that I am a thief. They think that of my neighbours, my friends, my...
Wonderful Music Festival at Andover Elementary
Make Joyful Sound! That was the goal when the Larlee Creek Hullabaloo Music Festival Committee teamed up with the Perth-Andover Middle School and Andover Elementary to organize a 3 day Music Camp to introduce kids to Music Culture. Carol Godbout-Kinney took care of organizing the classes in the school...
Tobique Dam Bridge Closure
It’s enough to make a concerned citizen wonder if there’s a conspiracy afoot to destroy the Village of Perth-Andover. On February 27th representatives from the Department of Transport and Infrastructure met with Emergency Personnel and members of DNR and the Village Council to announce that the Tobique Dam Bridge...
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...
HOW DID OUR HOMELAND BECOME SOMEONE ELSE’S COUNTRY??? WITH APOLOGIES TO THE ANCESTORS
The Saint John River Valley that our people have always known as the Wulustuk River Valley is our homeland and has been so for thousands and thousands of generations. At the time of contact our Ancestors referred to it as Ski-gin-ee-weekog or “our Indian Homeland”. Our people were...
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....
Pussy-Willow
Pussy-Willow Where the south sun shines And starts the melt And plays its warming rays And bonny breezes billow, Where tufts of grass are greening And insects strive to stir An early fly will stretch and lie On a neat and natural pillow, Where I am pleasantly reminded Why’th...