Spring Has Finally Sprung…
Although it sure doesn’t look like it yet considering the amount of snow on the ground, the snow that is falling as I write this, and the big storm predicted for later in the week! But, be that as it may, on Thursday, March 20th at exactly 1:57...
Perth-Andover: A Growing Village!
Re-Purposing Perth-Andover: THE Environmental FACTOR by Francine St.Amand Environment and Education: both sides of the same coin. You can’t improve the state of the environment without being educated on the matter. Education here means knowledge and wisdom gained through life experience … being in tune with and developing an...
2 Year Flood Anniversary and Fireside Vigil & Prayer
A fireside Vigil and Prayer Ceremony to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the 2012 Flood was held on West Riverside Drive on March 23rd. Folks began gathering around the bonfire at noon to share stories and hopes for our village. After Dan and Caroline Ennis joined the...
SV Mini Boys and Mini Girls Basketball Teams Play Finals
This is the 11th year for SV Mini Basketball, and this year’s season is now officially over for both the SV Mini Boys and Mini Girls Teams. Both teams played in the Basketball New Brunswick Provincial Tournaments over the past weekend. Basketball NB divides the teams into divisions...
Elks Dinner and Silent Auction Fund Raiser
The Perth Elks Club hosted a terrific dinner on March 15th. This annual event, which includes a meal and a silent auction, is to raise funds to support the summer camp for the hearing impaired at Magaguadavic Lake. Each summer during the first full week of August the...
Creating Community Connectors Workshop
The Carleton-Victoria Community Inclusion Network hosted a Community Conversation Workshop at the Perth-Andover Baptist Church on the evening of February 26, 2014. Seventeen people from a wide variety of fields and backgrounds attended this workshop. They came from Upper Kent, Plaster Rock, Perth-Andover, Kilburn and Bath. With the...
Free Range Kids Project
If you were born prior to about 1970, your childhood was….as I am sure you are perfectly aware….much different than what kids experience today. We didn’t have a bunch of fancy high tech electronic gadgets, but we had something infinitely more precious… a lot of freedom. Well,...
Re-Purposing Perth-Andover: The Education Factor
OPPORTUNITY for Perth-Andover To Be An Education Model By Francine St. Amand Creating Outdoor Classrooms is a rapidly increasing trend in the public school system and there are several foundations which will support such projects (Evergreen Foundation, MAJESTA Trees of Knowledge Competition, TD’s Friends of the Environment Foundation to...
Perth-Andover Scotiabank Bakes for a Cause!
Stephanie Kelley The Perth-Andover Scotiabank crew stepped up to the plate to help raise funds for the Andover Elementary Playground. A fence was needed, as well as some upgrades and repairs to some of the equipment. The school receive funding for the work, but must pay for the...
Too many people without jobs
And at the same time, too many jobs without people by Francine St.Amand If anyone can make sense of Canada’s Labour Market analysis, please contact me. The Globe and Mail recently (Feb 17) published an article, “Tories’ budget, Statscan at odds over number of vacant jobs” which talked...