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Fat Cat Art Rocks!

Stephanie Kelley It’s my own personal conviction that that there’s way too much energy invested in being all serious and gloomy, and not nearly enough in actually enjoying this ride we call life! So it’s always a delight to run across someone’s life work that celebrates art and humour...

Fill Your Home with the Love of Rescued Pets!

Valerie Furge My husband and I share our home with a dog, four cats and a number of fish. All (not counting the fish) have come from a variety of shelters under a variety of circumstances – each different but with the same underlying theme – cats and dogs...

A Pet Story: Olive the Other Reindeer

Last year, or maybe even in 2012, we’d published a photo of “Olive the Other Reindeer” on our pet page, a DunRoamin’ rescue who was looking for her forever home.   A few days ago, I ran into Marilyn Lewis and we got to talking pets and she told...

Heavy Equipment Training in NB

High Velocity College, a heavy equipment training school based in Camrose, Alberta, has begun operations in New Brunswick. The college is currently based in the Tobique Fisheries Building at Tobique First Nation.   Fifteen students have been enrolled in the 12 week heavy equipment operations course, and are halfway...

Hops….A Multi-Purpose Plant!

Hops are not just for beer. They make a beautiful and hardy ornamental plant for your garden, and the plant has a long history of use as medicinal herb as well as a beer ingredient by many different cultures.   Hops are a vigorous, climbing perennial plant that is...

HOPS: Opportunity For An Aleing Economy?

By Francine St.Amand HOPS is one of those niche agricultural crops that is showing up more and more in NB’s rural landscape. When Joe Gee started up a vineyard on his farm in Carlingford last year, I realized that HOPS cultivation was something I wanted to learn more about....

25th Blessing Anniversary of St Mary of the Angels

On Sunday, June 8th St Mary of the Angels celebrated the 25th anniversary of the building that was erected after the flood of 1987 inundated their former church on West Riverside Drive.   Bishop Emeritus Gerard Dionne, who is now 95 years old, told us “Before that historic flood,...

The Modern Knowledge Tour

Have you ever heard that old joke that goes “They must think I’m a mushroom…. They keep me in the dark and feed me cow manure?” Everyone can relate to this on some level, but most people don’t realize that this little joke accurately describes how our world is...

Busman’s Holiday at The Bistro!

So….what do you do to relax and unwind when you take a break from the kitchen when you are a gourmet chef and you work every day?   You go out to dine someplace else, of course, at a fine restaurant serving gourmet cuisine that another chef prepares for...

Trails of Hope & Light

As I entered the foyer of Mah Sos School last week I was immediately drawn to the visually stunning display of the Trails of Hope and Light Wampum Belt.   This amazing work is the result of a group project created and handmade by Residential School survivors.   Wampum...