The Saint John Sea Dogs are mixing it up this year with a new initiative in support of MOvember.
The team will donate a certain amount of money based on the number of fans attending games.
The team is hoping to raise awareness and money for men's health issues, by getting fans more involved.
President
of the team, Wayne Long, tells CHSJ news the Sea Dogs will donate
$5,000 if an average of 3,800 fans show up during the seven home games
this month. The team will donate $15,000 if the average is 5000 fans
during the games, and $30,000 for an average of 6,000 fans.
The team will also donate $10,000 for any game that's sold out.
An
initiative to get the Saint John's homeless young people off the streets and
into their own shelter in the South end still has a shot at $150,000.
Safe
Harbour Transitional Youth Services is taking part in the Aviva
Community Fund and has made it past the first round. Project Coordinator
Colin McDonald tells Tide News the shelter would offer help to youth
who want to get on the right track.
McDonald
says there's a big difference between a 16-year old kid who has just
hit the streets compared to someone who has been on the street for 20+
years and are very immersed in street culture. Youth are the least
likely group to identify themselves as homeless, so it's hard to say
exactly how many young people are homeless in Saint John, but in 2012,
67 youth stayed in adult-serving shelters.
Voting for the second qualifying round ends on Monday. To cast your vote for the idea, click here. To check out the other ideas, click here.
The time change might give us an extra hour of snooze time, but most people don't use it to catch up on their Z's.
That's
according to Dr. Rachel Morehouse, the Medical Director of the Sleep
Centre at the Regional Hospital, who tells Tide News we tend to stay up
late the night before the clocks fall back instead of turning in at our
usual time.
Morehouse
says we always feel like there is something more important than sleep,
and are constantly cutting corners when it comes to getting our beauty
rest. Most people need seven a half hours of sleep every night.
Daylight savings time ends at 2am tomorrow morning.
Yesterday's stormy weather knocking out power in homes across the province.
There
are over 1300 customers in the province who are currently in the dark.
NB Power says the hardest hit areas are Rothesay, Sussex and Moncton.
They are working to get the lights back on by this evening. For the most up-to-date information on the outages, click here.
The 22nd Annual Teddy Bear Fair is happening today at the Saint John Regional Hospital.
Kids can bandage up their teddy bears, and at the same time gain hands-on experience in a hospital.
Angela
Watling, the event organizer tells Tide News that the interactive event
helps children learn more about hospitals. She says it introduces kids
and their parents to a hospital setting, and raises funds for children's
programs at the Saint John Regional Hospital.
The fair
includes a casting clinic for teddy bears to get bandaged, and a
surgery clinic. The event takes place today from 9am-3pm.
