Category: Living Local

Wolf Spiders & Arachnophobia

Have you seen one of these big guys around your house or yard lately? Don’t freak out! It’s a harmless and beneficial wolf spider.   People have been reporting finding big scary spiders running around in their homes recently. These large critters are not nearly as big as some...

Summer Solstice Bonfire

Francine St Amand and the Vigil Aunties held a Summer Solstice gathering and bonfire to celebrate the new season on the evening of June 21st.   The weather was beautiful, the conversation entertaining, the fire crackled merrily and the bugs kept away so it was a perfect night to...

WE’RE ALL DUNROAMIN’

This article was written by one of our most ardent supporters. She really “gets” the importance of the furry four-legged people in our lives. They really do make a difference. Daisy By Valerie Furge When I returned to New Brunswick from Newfoundland a number of years ago, I brought...

Bikers for a Cause… Ride for a Dream

Four young men from Toronto are biking from Toronto to St Johns, Newfoundland this month to raise public awareness. They are on a mission to End Violence Against Women, One Province at a Time.   They stopped in for lunch at the 878 Bistro in Perth-Andover on a rain...

Another DunRoamin’ Success Story!

Lucy Lucy was adopted last week. Although we miss her, I am certain that she is in a place where she will continue to thrive and grow.   Lucy was one of the Desert Dogs that came to DunRoamin’ Stray and Rescue from the hoarding situation in California. She...

New and Modern Treaties and the Continuing Manipulation of Our People

New and modern treaties means dealing with new and modern fascist Nazis. New and modern Nazis but with the same old violent attitude and mind set that white is right and that might is right.   These new and modern Nazis, just as with Hitler’s Nazis, have absolutely no...

Does Time Exist?

KOOKMIS-ENOOG (Our Grandmothers) on Indian time Our two peoples’, Indians and Euro-Christians, world views are as different as night and day.   One excellent example of this fact is the concept of time. Time such as past, present, future, hours, days, weeks, months and years. Time is a Euro-Christian,...

VIGIL AUNTIES: Celebrating Success

Back in September, when I started experimenting with this idea of the Vigil Aunties, I was responding to what I observed as a “collective community nervous breakdown” – the aftermath of the Flood. This Saturday, May 25th , the Vigil Aunties will be hosting its 8th campfire gathering (November’s...

WE’RE ALL DUNROAMIN’

It’s amazing that we have to have a coalition to try to stop animal abuse and neglect and to persuade people to spay and neuter their pets. The Animal Rescuer’s Coalition of North America has a newsletter that many animal rescuers look to for inspiration and guidance. This article...

THE PERTH-ANDOVER COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS INITIATIVE

COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS is an idea that is going to become more familiar to people in Perth-Andover and Surrounding Area over the next year. Over the winter, Francine St.Amand made an offer to the Village Council to organize a series of monthly 2-hr workshops/information sessions – covering topics that have...