To say the Tourism Minister is a bit excited about the 2014 edition of Sculpture SJ in an understatement.
Trevor
Holder tells Tide News for some of the smaller communities in our
region it will be the first piece of public art they have ever received.
He
says in many cases this piece of public art on a main street in a
smaller community can create a streetscape effect that can go a long
towards other development that happens around it.
After a year off, Sculpture SJ returns late next summer involving 8 communities including Blacks Harbour, St. Andrews and St. Stephen.
St. George received a sculpture in the 2012 edition. (In Photo)
Pension
reform talks got heated in the legislature today, with Liberal Dieppe
Centre-Lewisville MLA Roger Melanson accusing Finance Minister Blaine
Higgs of evading questions on the actuarial model the government used to
back up its statements on the Shared Risk Model.
Meanwhile Higgs
says the research is well-documented and his job is to search for
solutions to a problem pension plans across Canada are currently facing.
CUPE has written an open letter expressing concern the SRP actually transfers all the risk to the members.
The
Canadian Union of Public Employees is speaking out on what it sees as
the effect of 9 million dollars in cuts to the highway winter
maintenance program.
The
President of local 1190 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is
warning there will be 55 fewer pieces of equipment to get rid of the
snow with 70 fewer operators.
Andy
Hardy also charges for the second year in a row, sand and salt budgets
have been reduced while the province is giving more than 6 million
dollars to a consulting firm from Quebec.
A judge
in Fredericton granting SWN Resources a two-week extension to its court
injunction to keep protesters from interfering with testing for shale
gas.
The
company arguing the injunction, which includes a buffer zone around
their equipment, had to be extended in order for it to finish up its
work.
Last night, part of Highway 11 was closed after protestors set fire to tires.
According to a report out of Saskatchewan, Potash Corp will be slashing 130 jobs in New Brunswick.
The
Saskatoon-based company says the jobs are being cut because of soft
demand for potash and phosphates, which are used to make fertilizer.
The
U-N-B Saint John campus at Tucker Park was shut down for much of
yesterday and last night following the discovery of a suspicious package
at the Athletics Centre.
An
evacuation was ordered until it could be determined if the package was
dangerous. Divisional Chief Mark Wilson says a special unit of the RCMP
was called in from Halifax and firefighters remained at the university
for 9 hours.
It turned out the package was not dangerous with shredded paper inside. City Police are now investigating.
Four
teenagers who died early Saturday morning in a car crash being
honoured at a funeral service this afternoon in Cap-Pelé. Premier David
Alward also offered his condolences in the legislature.
18 year
old Justin Léger, Sebastien Léger, and Justin Brown, and 17 year old Luc
Arsenault all died when their car struck a culvert and went off the
road in Notre-Dame The funeral service started at 3 p.m in Cap Pelé.
