Wednesday, October 6, 2010

We've Got Your Back

A local Church plans to make a difference in the lives of students in St. Stephen and Charlotte County with the launch of their new program "We've Got Your Back.

Garth Williams of The Union Street Baptist Church wants the public to be aware of how many students are going hungry.  Williams tells Tide News they are working on a partnership with local Schools and business in the area.

Williams says during the week hungry children can get fed thru the breakfast, snack and lunch programs thru the schools but it's when they go home for the weekend that they go hungry.

The Church and it's partners are looking to fill back packs for those kids to take home. How it will work Williams tell us is that on a regular basis the schools will identify the children who need the food the most.

Members of the church will fill a back pack to send home with the kids over the weekend and then they kids will bring the empty back packs back to the school to be picked up by members of the church to start the process over again.

Williams says they figure they can fill a back pack for about 10 dollars a week and are launching about 21 back packs as early as next Monday.

Williams says they are looking for Community Support.

HMS Bounty Docks In Saint Andrews For Thanksgiving Weekend

If your headed to Saint Andrews this weekend expect to see plenty of people in Town as The tall ship HMS Bounty will be docking at the wharf on Friday.

The ship was originally built for MGM Studios movie Mutiny on the Bounty. A number of events have been scheduled around the visit of the vessel including free movie's at the W. C. O'Neil Area over the weekend.

A wharf-decorating party is planned for tomorrow morning. You can expect  to see a around 70
life-sized scarecrows from Summerside, PEI which will be lined up along the wharf.

The vessel will be escorted into Saint Andrews Thursday at 2 in the afternoon by the Jolly Breeze.

There will be a special farmers’ market taking place over the weekend  along with musical entertainment with numerous local musicians s to perform.

Make sure you join the Tide on Friday and Saturday as we will be broadcasting Live from the Event.

St. Stephen Lumberjacks Contest Hits TSN

The first episode of the Lumberjacks television series featuring this summer’s International Lumberjack Championship here will be aired on TSN Saturday at 12 noon.

The  producer and host of the Lumberjacks TV series and  supervised the filming of the competition held as part of the International Homecoming Festival. St. Stephen was chosen as one of four locations throughout North America where lumberjack  were filmed for airing on TSN.

The Show was co-hosted by our own lumberjack, Rod Cumberland.

The show will air the 9th 16th and the 23 of October.