Blast From the Past! Hillhurst Tourist Home in Perth
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. — Lao Tzu We thought we’d take you on a little trip down memory lane on this page. Graeme and Linda Shaw, having lost their riverfront home, have moved into the old Stewart farmhouse up...
SaveEasy = Customer Service
Paul and Bev Clark have been running our local SaveEasy for nearly 30 years. The Clarks moved to Perth from Woodstock to take over this store when the franchise became available shortly after they were married. Their store is one the staunchest supporters of our local economy. Our SaveEasy...
Hoyt’s Flowers & Gifts
Hoyt’s Flowers & Gifts is one of the oldest operating retail businesses in Perth-Andover. This lovely little shop was begun on the front porch of the home of entrepreneur & housewife Ethel Hoyt back in 1959. Ethel ran the floral business out of her home for several years and...
My Own Food Allergy Story
Back in 1996, when I first moved up here to New Brunswick from Denver, Colorado, I had just recently begun having allergy symptoms. All my life I’d been blessedly free of hay fever, never got anything like hives, and ate what I liked without any ill effects. ...
Staff of life…or death?
Some months back, while I was at the Dental Office waiting to get my fangs polished , I read a fascinating article in MacLean’s Magazine about the effects of wheat on our bodies. Dr. William Davis, a preventive cardiologist, spoke to the magazine about his work and his...
Cash Mobs
Many interesting and innovative ideas and movements are springing up all around the world to help boost local economies during these strange days upon the planet. Times are tough all over for small, independent business people as giant corporations wallow in their own greed and excess and smash small...
Decoded! The Four Way Stop
I just had yet another near death experience at the end of the bridge in Perth-Andover the other day. Proper Four –Way and Three-Way Stop Sign Etiquette seems to be completely absent at those dastardly intersections upon many occasions, so we thought we’d present the following guidelines: A...
Schadenfreude
Have you ever felt a wicked little shiver of pleasure at someone else’s misfortune? That sensation is called “schadenfreude”, a quite useful German term to describe a not very nice attitude. But we see it all the time as people take advantage of and enjoy the misfortunes that...
A Canadian Light Bulb Joke….
And how true all this bureaucracy is! How many Canadians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Twelve. Four to form a parliamentary committee to study how to solve the problem, one to complain that this joke was not in French, one to protest that the interests...
From the Editors….
Life goes on no matter what circumstances folks find themselves in. We are a resilient and hardy breed of souls and no matter how harsh our lives become, humans have always been able to survive because we have HOPE. Well, we’re all sure hoping to get some answers from...