Plastic Insanity
A few years back I stumbled across a most horrific discovery….the man-made sea of floating plastic crap in the Pacific Ocean called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. And then it got even more mind boggling, it wasn’t the only one of these obscenities. There are four more of these...
Tasty Ratatouille
I have been eating more vegetables recently, and avoiding meat. We don’t have much access to meat from humanely and naturally raised animals up here yet, and industrially raised animals suffer brutal lives, are fed with GMO feed and are full of chemicals, antibiotics and hormones. Eggplant is...
Creating a New Paradigm
“All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of a single candle.” The following essay is from the wanttoknow.info website, a news source that I find very informative and useful, especially in these weird and parlous times upon good old Mother Earth. This essay focuses...
The Day of the Crocodile or, Flooded Out in Northern Ghana
The vivid accounts of the flooding in Perth-Andover, having reached me by chance in far-off Ludwigsburg, Germany, have brought back memories of my own flood experience years ago in the West African nation of Ghana. That’s the way floods are. Provided you survive, you do get over them. But...
Macintosh Weaving
Last weekend I popped into the Farmer’s Market at its new location at the Canadian Legion to check out the action. It’s a little too early in the season for produce, but there were many Crafters and Artisans displaying beautiful hand-made wares. Judy MacIntosh had a table displaying some...
Pet Tails
Poquito’s Story by Stephanie This handsome lad & I hooked up about five years ago. I was heading downriver on Rte 105 when I spotted a very small kitten running towards the road. He was running in a kind of lopsided way, and looked terrified. I slammed on my...
Marty’s Electric
Marty’s Electric Tucked away in a modest store front we have, here at 832 Perth Main Street, a terrific little general store. Marty’s Electric is like a shop from another era…one that is driven by customer service and that offers a little bit of everything. You might by-pass this...
Rising from the Ashes
We’ve certainly had a tumultuous and devastating spring so far. But, we have a new team on the job in our Town Hall and hopes are high that we’ll see some real change and progress for Perth-Andover. Terry Ritchie reiterated to us that he stands for a New Way...
FLOOD VICTIMS…FOOD FOR THOUGHT
How much does the flood recovery spending estimate of $25 million really cost the province? Here’s a little math primer you might find of interest…. The Disaster Finance Assistance program is a federal/provincial funding arrangement for cost sharing the cost of disasters. The formula is as follows: For the...
The Partnership Way
John Perkins, author of “Secrets of an Economic Hitman” and “The Secret History of American Empire” (both highly recommended reads, BTW, if you want to know more about the machinations of empire building) relates this interesting interview. While traveling in Tibet he met and spoke with a group...