Tree Lighting & Food Drive Contest

A contest will be held tomorrow evening to help us give back to our community and to kick off the 20th Annual Retailers Christmas Promotion.

You could have the chance to win $250 dollars in Christmas cash all by bringing a donation for the
Charlotte County Food Bank to the Tree Lighting at the Town Square.

Cash donations or non-perishable food items will be accepted.  Santa is expected to arrive at 7.

Christmas Card For Troops In Afghanistan Vandalised In Market Square

Someone with a black felt marker has vandalised the large Christmas card at the Saint John Market Square kiosk that people were signing for the troops in Afghanistan.

Some sort of grafitti type marking was scrawled on the inside of the card. Artist Norm Jackson came up with the idea of the card and says he's disappointed.

Jackson is hoping he can clean the card up but concedes some of the names and messages might be lost.

He's urging those who signed the inside to come down and have a look to see if their names and messages are lost. If so, they can sign again once the card is cleaned up.

    Photo by Brian McLain

Gas Prices Go Up

If your stopping to get some gas, propane, diesel or furnace oil....it will cost you more than it would have yesterday.

The Energy and Utilities Board has released it's latest weekly price setting which shows the maximum retail for  regular self serve is  gasoline is $107.9, meanwhile gas stations around St. Stephen a selling a litre of self serve regular for 105.8.

Diesel comes in at $111.9, furnace oil is selling for 92.1 a litter and propane tops off at 97.8.

If your headed to Calais today  gas is only going to cost you .84 cents a litre Canadian.