Paul Almond Book Launch at P-A Library
The Village of Perth-Andover received a special treat on May 22nd with a visit from celebrated author Paul Almond. Paul stopped in at the library as part of his book launch to introduce “The Gunner”, which is book six in his historical Alford Saga, a series of novels based...
Western Valley Centre for Coaching Awards Banquet
The 17th Annual Western Valley Centre for Coaching Awards Banquet was held at the Florenceville Curling Club on May 22nd. The room filled up as people gathered to honour this year’s award recipients and enjoy a lovely sit down dinner prepared by volunteers. The meal was delicious, and...
Fly Season Begins…
The fiddleheads are making their annual spring appearance and as we are all bloodily aware, when the fiddleheads pop up, the biting critters hatch out. The first few flybites of the season are the nastiest, for me, anyway…my body has just spent the winter (a really freaking long...
Pet Page & SPCA Update
During the recent meeting of the board of directors of the New Victoria County SPCA several new officers were elected. The SPCA would like to welcome Ray Miller of Plaster Rock on board as the new president of the group. Diane Seneschal of Grand Falls remains the Vice...
P-A Community Conversations
The Perth-Andover Community Conversations Initiative has been around since winter of 2013. Being a community-building geek, I have been following the work of The Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, based in Kitchen-Waterloo for the past few years. Institute President, Paul Born, and author of Community Conversations, sums up the...
A Day of Learning at the Wolastegewiyik Healing Lodge
On May 9 I attended an interesting and educational workshop at the Healing Lodge at Tobique First Nation. Focussed on self- care, the workshop began with an opening prayer and then moved on to cover a range of topics and experiences. Alison Sappier explained the uses and benefits...
Saying Goodbye-Saying Hello
Lorna Demeria Sometimes it seems that we are always having to say goodbye. So far 2014 has been a year of goodbyes for us. Some of them have been happy, some bitter-sweet and some of them seriously hard. We lost a very special dog early on in the...
Pet Page & SPCA Update
As we all kept an anxious eye on the ice jams this year, the banks of the Tobique ran over and the saturated ground flooded the basement at the SPCA Shelter in Arthurette. None of the resident cats were hurt, but it made quite a mess and the shelter...
Re-Purposing Perth-Andover:
The Demographic Factor Francine St. Amand In recent issues of Blackfly, I discussed the Educational, Environmental and Economic factors in the pitch to restore and redevelop the flood-prone areas – primarily on the Andover side – as a naturalized park. This park would allow space to integrate other community...
Greed is a Good Thing
By Linda Nicholas Editor’s Note: On April 25 a Social Enterprise Development Dialog was presented at the Pond-Deshpande Centre in Saint John. Several folks from Perth-Andover attended the presentation, the following essay is from Linda Nicholas, who attended the dialog. Social Enterprise is For Profit Businesses creating Shared Values…...