Maliseet Gas Bar
As you pass through Tobique First Nation on Route 105 you’ll pass by the Maliseet Gas Bar. Like nearly allof our small rural stores, the Maliseet Gas Bar is a multi-service kind of business! In addition to typical convenience store stock, the business carries a selection of nifty...
Power of Communication
From the editor… Way back when I was 10 years old my dad asked me this classic math question: Which would you rather have, a million dollars or a penny that is doubled every day for a month? Well, a million bucks sure sounded good, but it also sounded...
Bee keeping workshop
Want to learn more about bees and beekeeping? Falls Brook Centre in Knowlesville will be hosting a two part Bee Keeping Workshop. Part one will be on Saturday, August 24th and part two will be held on October 5th. Both workshops will run 1-5 pm. Falls Brook...
Raw Honey vs Pasteurized “Honey”
Honey has been valued by people for thousands of years for its flavour, nutritional value and healing properties. Honey is anti-microbial and was used in ancient times for both dressing wounds and as a preservative for herbal medicines. In fact, raw honey has such amazing natural preservative qualities...
How the Honey Bees Got Their Stingers A Cherokee Legend
Back in ancient times when the people were more pure and could converse with the animals and the Creator would visit with them, the people asked the Creator for something that was ‘sweet’ to the taste. So the Creator sent the Bee, but the Bee had no stinger. Down...
6th Annual Larlee Creek Hullabaloo
Perth-Andover August 16-18, 2013 This year the “Little Festival That Could” promises to be bigger and better than ever! Gathering together as a community to listen to live music has been one of mankind’s greatest loves throughout the ages. If a person could sing or play an instrument, they...
Girl Guide Cookie All Star
Young Brooke McDougall has broken local Girl Guide Cookie sales records by selling an amazing 85 cases of cookies. For this achievement, she received the Girl Guide All Star Award and a new Tablet. She is the first Girl Guide to sell this many cookies in Perth-Andover! ...
The Muniac Convenience Store
Last week I stopped in at the little convenience store in Muniac for the very first time. I’ve driven past many times, but was never in need of convenience store goodies during those trips so I just kept on driving. But I was always curious about the store, and...
Is nestle the most evil corporation in the world?
All over the world, Nestle has been draining the water from financially beleaguered regions. The technique Nestlé uses is this: Find an economically weak region, buy up the land surrounding the water source and grease the political wheels by making a proposal the residents can’t possibly refuse. How...
From the editor….
Armageddon appears to have struck the once lovely village of Perth-Andover as our buildings and homes continue to be demolished and relocated. What used to be a beautiful and cohesive riverfront community now looks like a bomb hit it. As I was walking my dog the other day, we...