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...
Bigger Tigger is Looking for Cat Angels
Big Tig here, This week, Angie took Tig to a couple places and asked Tig to go and try to talk to the wild cats that live there. I asked why a handsome Tiggy has to traipse through the snow, in the cold, to talk to cats? Angie knows...
Workshop at the Negotkuk Wellness Center
Every Tuesday night the Negotkuk Wellness Center has been hosting workshops sponsored by the Negotkuk Language Initiative. The workshops have been on all manner of topics. On March 4th Doreen Sappier gave a workshop teaching participants how to craft their own hand made chemical free lotions and soaps using...
Athabasca Media
Athabasca Media is a state of the art multi-media production house tucked away in a quaint little cottage studio in Craig’s Flat. Last January, the Digital Dudes at Athabasca Media produced the 10th Annual Gold Star Awards for screen presentation for the Fort McMurray Tourism Gala that was...
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...
Math Lessons With Tigger
Big Tig here, . The other day I was trying to teach Angie to count. It seems this is going to be a long term goal, for both of us. Angie says it’s my method, I am pretty sure it’s my student. This is how it goes…. When...
SPCA News
The SPCA Pond Hockey Fundraising Event was a great success, generating much needed money to support the cause of our homeless pets….and rewarding 3 lucky winners with great prizes! There were two raffle draws for a cool $100 based on numbers drawn on squares picked that were super-imposed...