Alternative Employment
New Career Strategies for Rural New Brunswick & Ideas to Create a New Prosperity Wishing You a Happy & Prosperous New Year! Now there’s a season’s greetings that we hear often – but what does it mean in 2014? PROSPERITY as we have been conditioned to think, is...
Roadside Attractions Attract!
Okay, so here’s the follow up on the Ragged Ass Road sign in the Woodworking article. This turns out to have a marvellous and entertaining history, complete with a hero…Lou Rocher… who was a humble and hardworking man, a true Canadian kind of guy who logged, sought minerals, ran...
Hands On With Wood…
A Turn of the Future Last Christmas my family unanimously decided that instead of stressing out and trying to buy gifts for each other person, we’d each simply get one cool gift and then do a Yankee Swap on Christmas Day. This worked great! So we did it...
Victoria County SPCA Fur Tree Winner
The Victoria County SPCA Annual Fur Tree fundraiser turned out to be a big winner for both the shelter and the person who held the winning ticket! Ticket sales provided much needed funds to help care for the animals at the shelter. The Fur Tree Grand Prize this year...
Alternative Employment
New Career Strategies for Rural New Brunswick Francine St.Amand “WE ARE NOW IN AN AGE WHERE INTELLECT IS THE CURRENCY”, gracefully proclaimed Catherine Chambers. As we stagger and limp away from the left-overs of the Industrial Age, the buffet of diverse possibilities awaits us in the Information Age, is...
SV Mini Vikings Rock!
Volunteer Coaches Needed… FIND YOUR MAN! That was the shout that reverberated through the gym as the SV Mini Vikings Basketball team played Grand Falls on December 4th in Perth-Andover. SV won this game, which put them ahead in their league season with their second win before Christmas. Head...
NDP Leaders Visit Perth-Andove
NDP Party leader Dominic Cardy and Senior advisor Brian Duplessis stopped in for a lunch break recently with Carlingford resident Joe Gee. Joe explained the meeting, “I started getting involved with the community on many different levels. One area in particular was our government. I never really paid...
RELOCATION! RELOCATION! RELOCATION!
(title credit to Mayor Ritchie) By Al McPhail The mayor published “a rant in three parts” under this title on Facebook late last week. Upon first (and second and third reading) I was incredibly upset, mostly because as is often the case, he presented his opinion as if it...
Where Do We Go From Here?
A rant in 2 parts Al McPhail Part 1 Now, the hard part. How do we get our village on the right road again? How do we make ourselves whole? The past couple of years have been the most challenging in the history of our village. We are facing...
Christmas Cheer
Editor’s Note: We got this delightful email from Shelly Snow last week. Shelly, and her partner Peter Bach, are the new Christmas Cheer coordinators. I was ten or eleven when, after years of questioning and plotting, I cleverly worked out a scheme to count the carrots left in...