We Can Do It
We Can Do It No! Paper plates, Styrofoam Plastic knives and forks TV dinners, ready to eat Screw-off tops and corks! No! Throw away, dispose of Cast off, and discard Environmentally friendly Seems simply – oh so hard! Yes! Reuse and recycle The key to success Reduce and reclaim...
Banks’ Birthday Party!
Thank You! I wanted to thank everyone for making my first birthday the very best birthday a little cat could have ever hoped for! There were lots of people stopping in to wish me happy birthday and I got many lovely presents. But, the best gift I could have gotten...
Tigger Tails from DunRoamin’
Big Tig here, I need help. I will be sooo grateful to whoever can back up a Tig. I am not ashamed to say: Bigger Tigger is in LOVE!! Heart stopping-fur tingling-wanna purr all the time- love. With one problem….she don’t love a Tig!! I don’t understand it either....
Artistic Lapidary Endeavors
To Southeastern Maine and back a “Rockhound’s Journey” By Bryce H. Easter and Janet M. Easter Bryce Easter is a local lapidary living in Fort Fairfield, Maine. Together, with his partner Janet, the two explore our local landscape searching for minerals and semi-precious gems to cut, polish and turn...
13 Ways to Kill Your Community
Stephanie Kelley Our local Georgetown Conference delegates, Francine St.Amand, Luke Sinstadt, Joe Gee, Tina Martin and Linda Nicholas, returned home from the Redefining Rural Summit inspired with ideas and information on ways to revitalize our rural communities. All the delegates agree that attending the Georgetown Conference was a game...
Anti-Fracking Protest in Perth-Andover
Stephanie Kelley Tobique First Nations anti-fracking protesters closed the Trans-Canada to transport traffic for about 8 hours on October 17. This peaceful demonstration was in support of Elsipogtog First Nation activists who had been subjected to police brutality earlier in the day. Elsipogtog protesters have had an ongoing blockade...
Let’s Talk about Sex… the Consensual Kind!
by Emily Lockhart Emily Lockhart grew up in Perth Andover and graduated from Southern Victoria high school in 2005. She holds a BA in Sociology and Women’s Studies and an MA in Sociology from the University of New Brunswick. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Socio-legal studies at...
Family Cultural Day at Tobique First Nation
Stephanie Kelley A Family Cultural Appreciation Day complete with a potluck picnic, barbecue, dancing, drumming and nature hikes was hosted by Tobique First Nation on October 12, 2013 at Mudwass Park. The event received support from the Heritage Canada Youth Take Charge initiative through Falls Brook Centre in Knowlesville....
Note from the NBGP
The New Brunswick Green Party (NBGP) is committed to building a green economy. One would have to live with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell not to realize we are in the last stages of an economy based on the use (mis-use?)of fossil fuels; with the associated side effect of...
“Judge a book by its Cover”
the old man in the hat I like books. I guess I grew up a time in our history when there were no cable channels, no satellite TV, no internet, no cell phones, no Facebook. You know. The dark ages. The 1960’s. Rabbit ears and three channels. My children...