Have Your Own Personal Touch At The Playground

As you walk through the St. Andrews Community Playground, you can still find 20-year-old names and handprints cemented in the wall leading to the swingsets.

Now, Chair of the Playground Restoration Fundraising Committee, Isabelle Micheud tells Tide News they are doing it all over again.

Micheud says they are selling hand tiles you can personalize, and they will be placed in the playground during restoration in September.

She says a booth will be set up on Water Street in St. Andrews during Canada Day for the hand tiles, which are $25 each.
Micheud says they need to raise $120,000 for the restoration project by the end of July.

Grace Foundation Approached By Trudeau

It's not entirely clear whether the Grace Foundation wants its 20 thousand dollars back from Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau for a failed fundraiser over a year ago at the Imperial Theatre. 

That, according to a spokesperson for Trudeau who says he asked the Foundation last week to specify if it wants its money back in cash or ``some other arrangement,'' like having him headline another fundraising event for free but the foundation has yet to respond. 

No other group has sought repayment except for the Grace Foundation which released a statement claiming it was distressed over the issue becoming "a political football" and aimed some pointed criticism at Fundy Royal Conservative M-P Rob Moore for fuelling the controversy.  

Two Of Four Men Identified In Child Sex Probe

We now know where the four provincial men facing charges in the Operation Snapsnot probe are from.

On June 13th, police seized computers, cd's, dvd's and more from a Lincoln home and a 42 year old man was arrested and later released.

The next day in another search where similar material was seized 52 year old Fred Price of Frederiction was arrested.

On the 21st, a search in Lorne netted more of the same resulting in charges for a 36 year old man and on June 24th another search was conducted in Miramichi where computers and more were seized leading to charges for 48-year-old Donald Martin.

All four men have future court dates.

The investigation being led by RCMP's Internet Child Exploitation Unit with help from other units and other police forces.