Stephanie Kelley As any coach in any one of our community sports programs will tell you, it’s difficult to cover the many costs of managing and maintaining the teams. There are uniforms to purchase, entry fees for tournaments, travel costs, equipment…the list is endless! PAMs Varsity and JV Coach...

Stephanie Kelley Valentine’s Day is traditionally a day to celebrate love, particularly romantic love. We humans, most of us anyway, love to be in love! And who doesn’t love a good love story? I thought I’d share 3 of my all time favourite classic romance movies with you, “The...

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food… Stephanie Kelley Who needs medication when Mother Nature gave us turmeric.? Take a look at the incredible health benefits of this plant: Digestive Aid Blood Purifier Anti-inflammatory Wound Healer Skin Tonic Analgesic Anti-viral Anti-bacterial Ant-Fungal Antiseptic Anti-carcinogenic Fat Metabolizer...

Stephanie Kelley In the last issue of the Blackfly I described some of my culinary adventures with fermented vegetables. I had made a batch of kimchi, which was by that time ripe enough to eat, and I had just started a batch of traditional sauerkraut. (recipes are in issue...

Stephanie Kelley We’ve made it through the first month of winter but baby, it’s still cold outside. A handsome silver tabby cat was found trying to take shelter under some vehicles in Aroostook. He was homeless, and the guy who found him couldn’t keep him, so Robert III, as...

Big Tig here, .   Tigger was in the dog house. Angie was mad at me. I might have played a couple of mind games with the new dog. I might have got a couple of the other cats to help me. We might have continued, if we hadn’t...

Wayne Sabine 2014 is an election year in New Brunswick. Election time is basically the only time the citizens have any say in the direction their province will head in the next four years. It is our responsibility as eligible voters to seriously look at the various party platforms...

From the editor…. If you forgot to make resolutions at the beginning of the year, or have already broken any resolutions you made, you can have a second chance with the start of the Chinese New Year!   According to the Chinese Zodiac, on Friday, January 31st we leave...

By Trevor Bowmaster This is the resolution time of year – and we make all kinds of them, from resolving to lose weight to taking up a new hobby. And even though we have the best of intentions, most of our resolutions eventually fall by the wayside. But here...

Really, I’m sometimes kidded about going into Coffee-Coffee with my decrepit work clothes on. [Better on than off …!]  Well, they’re the proverbial “real deal”! So’s ‘She’ who proclaimed that it would be much easier to peel pulp with a “spud” if’n the tree was limbed and topped while...