Many people are hearing a lot about chaga lately. It’s been in the news, and it’s fast becoming one of those internet sensations with dozens of companies selling chaga products while making bold claims for its ability to heal many illnesses.   Is this true? Inquiring minds want to...

The Best Choice For Baby By Liza Davenport Breastfeeding. It is the natural way of feeding our infants and young children. Then why are there so many women out there having such a difficult time with the practice, if this is a natural way of life? Here are the...

All About The Beer with Mitch Biggar Here are some simple ways to enhance your beer loving palate. This will enable you to become a better taster and in turn wow and amaze your friends with your beer geek knowledge.   Hops Defined Hops are the flowers of the Humulus...

As part of our Blackfly Think Positive for 2014 Campaign we asked people around the village about their New Year’s plans and resolutions for 2014 and what they’d like to see for our community. Carol McLaughlin sent this in to us…. providing some wonderful thoughts to ponder as we...

New Career Strategies for Rural New Brunswick & Ideas to Create a New Prosperity Wishing You a Happy & Prosperous New Year! Now there’s a season’s greetings that we hear often – but what does it mean in 2014?   PROSPERITY as we have been conditioned to think, is...

Okay, so here’s the follow up on the Ragged Ass Road sign in the Woodworking article. This turns out to have a marvellous and entertaining history, complete with a hero…Lou Rocher… who was a humble and hardworking man, a true Canadian kind of guy who logged, sought minerals, ran...

A Turn of the Future Last Christmas my family unanimously decided that instead of stressing out and trying to buy gifts for each other person, we’d each simply get one cool gift and then do a Yankee Swap on Christmas Day.   This worked great! So we did it...

The Victoria County SPCA Annual Fur Tree fundraiser turned out to be a big winner for both the shelter and the person who held the winning ticket! Ticket sales provided much needed funds to help care for the animals at the shelter. The Fur Tree Grand Prize this year...

Can you believe a New Year is upon us already? 2013 seemed to go by in a complete blur…   Finally, at long last, after months of trials and tribulations the flood homes have been relocated, and Perth is beginning to rebuild. Communities in rural New Brunswick face some...

It’d been hard n’ heavy sledding Out in the “oil patch” Days that sometimes seemed like weeks When even “upsides” had a “catch”, His job was flying bush-plane Between the many sites Equipment, goods, and personnel A lot of sleepless nights, Stormy weather, schedules And unforeseen delays Hiccups to...