Year: 2013
Below is the schedule of nutrition classes happening at Sobeys in Douglastown for April. There are lots of great options … something for everyone! 5 Secrets to Lowering Blood Pressure (Free) Salt and beyond! Learn which foods can help lower your blood pressure. Wednesday, April 3rd, 10am-11:30am Label Reading with Food Allergies (Free) Are you struggling to…
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Tickets for the 5th annual MYPIE Gala and Awards Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th are now on sale. This red carpet event happens from 6 – 10 pm at the Miramichi Agricultural Exhibition Association. The theme this year is “Legends of MYPIE” and previous award winners will be highlighted and celebrated. Tickets are $50 per…
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On Thursday, March 21, Blackville High School teacher Allan Carter received the Marjorie Sinclair Award for Commitment to Technology in Learning at the 2013 Anglophone North School District CUTE Awards. The CUTE Awards (Creative Use of Technology in Ed…
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Peak Performance Health Center is your one stop shopping for healthy living! The centre offers a gym, fitness classes, massage therapy, physiotherapy, a dietitian and a chiropractor, and it continues to grow, adding even more providers and classes to better meet the demand of the community. Peak Performance Health Center is so much more than…
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In celebration of Easter, the DowntownS Miramichi Newcastle Business District is offering three great promotions! Easter Colouring Contest Pick up and drop off your artwork at participating Downtown businesses for your change to WIN! Prizes will be given for the following age categories: 2-5, 6-9, and 10-13. Thirty, twenty and ten Downtown Dollars will be awarded to winners…
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The Community Inclusion Network and St. Thomas University are hosting a “Poverty Game” on April 16th, facilitated by the Urban Core Support Network. The workshop is designed to help people better understand what it might be like to live and raise a family on a low income. People are put into teams, where they will need…
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There are four confirmed income tax clinics in our region. Volunteers are set up to help low income folks with simple tax situations to fill out their declarations. Every year thousands and thousands of dollars are lost in the form of benefits by people that can’t or don’t file their tax returns. People can drop…
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The Food Security Network is supporting a number of projects related to food access and food literacy. One of these is a mobile kitchen project where Rubbermaid bins are put together to be lent out to different groups needing small cooking equipment and basic ingredients to put on a collective kitchen or any kind of…
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Please join MYPIE on Thursday, April 11 at O’Donaghue’s Pub (upstairs) from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM for a Cybersocial and Business Networking event. The event is organized by the Jalloo Festival of Animation and Game and sponsored by Saint Thomas University. There is no admission charge to this event. MYPIE will introduce you to…
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Blackville School was recently selected as one of twelve schools across Canada to receive funds in the 2013 Future Generation Tech Lab program. Sponsored by Future Shop, Blackville School received $15,000 which will allow the school to purchase more eq…
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Bill Blanchard sent us a couple of photographs of his new narrowboat with a very familiar name that he launched recently at Crick near Northampton in the UK. “I think it will be the only one with that name on the English Canals,” he said. “Narrowboats initially were used at the start of the industrial…
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Candace Carnahan has been motivating people from all over the world with her personal story and contagious energy. Now we may get a chance to see her racing across Canada with her partner Hugh MacKay on the Amazing Race Canada. Candace and Hugh are very active in hiking and outdoor sports and they are eager…
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Update: Congratulations to Junior Goguen and Shelley Bryenton, who both won a one month membership to Westside Fitness! Since 2005, Westside Fitness centre has been offering Miramichiers a spacious workout environment. Located at 520 Newcastle Boulevard, Westside Fitness is family owned and operated. Darryl, Doris, Sarah, Cody and their staff welcome all ages to come and…
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