A Spiritual Conspiracy
On the surface of our world right now There is war, violence, and craziness And things may seem dark. But calmly and quietly At the same time Something is happening underground. An inner revolution is taking place And certain individuals Are being called to a higher light. It is...
Sooner Or Later
Some fine morning Some fine day All of us will come to A parting of the way, Born for by and by The cruising of due season Quick shortness of our living Unravelling of reason, Nonchalant risk of nuance With no space to spare Self abandoned to time’s shelf...
SPCA Shelter Tails…
Stephanie Kelley Another shelter adoption success story! String Bean found her forever home a couple of weeks ago. She’d been at the shelter the longest of all the cats, and deserved to finally have a real home of her own. String Bean was found, along with her three...
Big Tig Dishes Advice
Big Tig here, I was laying around, waiting for Angie to fill up my food dish, (seems that it is always empty. Angie says it’s me that keeps it empty. I say it’s the dogs. It’s an ongoing debate between us), reading my fan mail and I realized that some...
Cellist Emmanuel Ortega
Music in the River Valley! Stephanie Kelley The Village of Perth-Andover gained a new resident last October when classical musician and cellist Emmanuel Ortega moved to town to coordinate the Sistema New Brunswick youth music program at Mah Sos School at Tobique First Nation. This is the fourth community...
New Village Development Idea Presented to Council
Stephanie Kelley Local folks have been stepping up to the plate with some great new ideas for ways to revitalize our local communities, and to repurpose flood prone land in Perth-Andover. At the most recent council meeting in Perth, Dilys Sabine presented her thoughts on creating a local Equestrian...
Divide & Conquer
Stephanie Kelley One of the best ways for a ruling class to conquer any civilization is to cause it to defeat itself through internal strife and then to step in to pick up the pieces. This scenario is being played out in New Brunswick right now, with a vitriolic...
“All About The Beer”
with Mitch Biggar Wine is not the only drink that can be aged for maturation. Many beers benefit from extended aging. We’re not talking about your average beer with a mere shelf life of 3-6 months, tops — before quality begins to degrade. We’re talking about beers that beg...
Full of Beans!
Stephanie Kelley Among all the food groups commonly eaten all around the world, no group has a more health supportive combination of protein plus fibre than legumes. A single one cup serving of beans provides nearly 15 grams of fibre and 15 grams of protein, which is about one...
“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner”
The old man in the hat Rob Ford. If you don’t recognize the name, you must not watch TV, have an internet connection, no Facebook and no Twitter account. Lucky you. Mr. Ford is mayor of Toronto, that fair, magical city, in a province that recently joined us...