Shame and Arrogance of NB Power
How is it possible that a corporation owned by the taxpayers of New Brunswick is allowed by our elected government to conduct its affairs with total disregard for the safety and personal property of those same taxpayers? How has this corporation been allowed to steal our very livelihood and...
Flood Mitigation Study Report – An Insult to Perth-Andover Flood Victims
Well, we finally got our report – right on schedule I might add. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money and valuable time! Our government insisted from the start that this report was absolutely essential and would serve as the basis of action so that the plight of our...
Eulogy for Ian
Ian was a beautiful and remarkable cat who lived with me for the past 10 years. He was an older cat when he came to my house, so he was getting on in years. He’d begun slowing down a bit, and then suddenly, in the course of a week,...
WE’RE ALL DUNROAMIN’
(www.bekindtogodscreatures.com) I-LEAN Well, surprisingly, I have a new favourite cat! I don’t take this admission lightly, but this little stray has inspired my admiration, as others have, with her strong will to live, her strength under adversity and her trust and acceptance of us – her proud caretakers...
How did we get to this point?
I received an email just recently from a lady who wrote “My house survived this flood with just 7 feet in the basement… a couple more inches and it would have been on my main floor.” My first reaction was boy, did you dodge a bullet and you were...
The Village of Plaster Rock is hosting their 2nd Annual Soap Box Derby on September 15, 2012. These races, which use the force of gravity only to power the vehicles, have been around almost as long as auto racing. In the wake of the very first car...
Falls Brook Gives Kids Hands On Experience
To promote environmental sustainability Paper Mate is sponsoring Tree Canada and Andover Elementary School in a project to plant 26 Maple, Willow and Linden trees on the grounds of the school. Last week 24 of these beautiful saplings were planted by the staff of Falls Brook Centre, Dave Dunlop...
Scamsters & Con Artists
From the editor… Conning innocent and naïve folks out of their hard earned bucks has been a perennially popular method to rob people while avoiding all that drama that a stick-up entails. The con artist gets the money, the victim gets robbed and frequently also gets a little moral...
In The Kitchen… Corn Tortillas & Beans
How many kitchen tools and gadgets are lurking in your cupboards and drawers? Do you use them all on a regular basis? Or do many of them take up space just because you might need them some day? Do you have some kitchen clutter that you got as a...
Facebook, Fascists & Fools
Last week in the state of Virginia Marine veteran Brandon Raub was arrested and detained for psychiatric evaluation because of things he had said on his Facebook page. Apparently he had made some rather incendiary comments that reflected his utter disgust with the crooks in government who have been...