Tag: Perth-Andover Flood

Al McPhail The 2014 spring freshet (that word sounds so innocuous) taught us much about ourselves, our community and its future. Here’s my summary of lessons learned (or more accurately, lessons taught…unfortunately it appears some among us learned absolutely nothing).   1. We learned that the much-maligned relocation program,...

Happy Easter to All! And Perth-Andover has so far received the very best Easter present of all…. No flood. We dodged the bullet for another year, but what about the years to come?   Beleaguered village residents have lived through what seems like the longest and most suspenseful horror...

There was a distinct lack of enthusiasm in the air at the recent unveiling of the pictures created by the Glenn Group for possible flood land re-purposing in the village.   Front and centre were large images of a nine hole golf course proposed for Andover which stimulated a...

EXACTLY 2 years ago, the tortured currents of the River Saint John last raised its majestic waters in protest of human intervention and progress! With her watershed now “robbed” of forested woodland and her flow to the sea “tamed” by concrete dams, she has raised her wrath in the...

(title credit to Mayor Ritchie) By Al McPhail The mayor published “a rant in three parts” under this title on Facebook late last week. Upon first (and second and third reading) I was incredibly upset, mostly because as is often the case, he presented his opinion as if it...

Editor’s Note… Perth-Andover resident Rod MacIntosh has conceived an inspired and visionary plan to revitalize the Village of Perth-Andover. All of our small rural villages are under heavy attack by government forces concerned only with money and their political futures, which are dictated by corporate interests…not people, communities or...

Joe Gee of Carlingford, NB has been accepted to attend the Georgetown Conference in PEI on October 3 & 4, 2013. He will be joining Linda Nicholas of Knowlesville and Francine St Amand of California Settlement (see the August 14 issue of the Blackfly Gazette for their stories) as...

The great myth of rural Atlantic Canada is that she is a region whose best years are behind her. Her people are too old, the story goes, and too dependent on failing traditional industries and too dependent on the government. There’s definitely truth in those words…those us of who...

The old man in the hat Do you like buffets? Sometimes I find them to be intimidating. So much food. So little time. That old saying, “eyes too big for the stomach”, comes to mind. With so much choice, it is ever sooo easy to overindulge. Then comes the...