There were many wonderful craft items on display at the Visitor’s Centre in Plaster Rock during World Pond Hockey!   Albert Beaulieu makes hand turned burl bowls that are both beautiful and useful. Albert also makes the hand turned trophy cups that are awarded each year to the winning...

Several years back, in 2011, Plaster Rock resident Nancy reed along with her friend Janice Beaudoin began experimenting with making hand crafted soaps just like our grandmothers (or great grandmothers, or great great depending on your age!) used to make.   Their hobby took off, and they have been...

By Linda Nicholas What if you could reduce your power bill to $25.00 a month or less? Would you do it?   My answer would be; ‘darn right!’ I imagine yours would be too. So, how could this be?   The answer is Democratic Energy.   The Greek word...

Stephanie Kelley Recently, I’ve been on natural pro-biotic food odyssey, exploring and experimenting with lacto-fermented vegetables. I was therefore quite excited to learn about a fermented pro-biotic beverage I had never heard of called water kefir.   Both milk and water kefir are pro-biotic beverages made with kefir grains,...

Stephanie Kelley Don’t you just hate it when you lose stuff, especially favourite glove in the middle of winter? And, this time of year gloves seem to want to jump out of our pockets, fall out of our cars…or maybe there are inter-dimensional glove pixies playing with our minds...

Stephanie Kelley Jennifer and Jason thought they had a cat named Petey, but as it turned out, Petey had much bigger ideas….   Petey came to live with the couple in their apartment at Victoria Villa when he was a wee kitten during the summer of 2012. He quickly...

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...

Brenda Goodine James Fallows is an Atlantic Magazine national correspondent who, with his wife, has been visiting smallish cities and towns as part of a project called “American Futures”, where promising feats of economic or cultural reinvention are underway.   In his article in the January/February 2014 issue of...

Stephanie Kelley Mark your calendar and get ready to participate in the first annual Tomlinson Lake Snowshoe to Freedom event on Saturday, March 8th. This promises to be a fun-filled day of history, learning, exercise and connection with the natural world at the final destination point of North America’s...

Stephanie Kelley & Big-n-Yellow The 1st Perth-Andover Sparks Unit meets at the Andover Elementary School every Tuesday night. The girls take up a number of causes, and their promise is : “I promise to share and be a friend.” They certainly did that and more with their recent challenge...