Dangerous Driver In St. George Gets Reported Twice To Police Within Minutes

You know you're in trouble if you get two 911 calls on your driving in one day.

RCMP responding to a dangerous driver on the L'etete Road in St. George yesterday morning (March 20,2014) around 9am.

While on route, police receiving a second 911 call that the man was now at the St. George Tim Hortons parking lot and had driven into another vehicle.

The man did not stay at the scene of the crash.

Police say they went to the Tim Hortons parking lot and helped the victims.

RCMP say noone was injured in the crash.

The 33-year-old St. George man was arrested a short time later and taken into custody.

He is scheduled to face charges in May in St. Stephen Provincial Court.

Opening Night For The Wizard Of Oz Musical At SSHS

It's time to get away from all those potholes -- and follow the yellow brick road.

Tonight is opening night at the St. Stephen High School for the new musical, "The Wizard of Oz".

St. Stephen High School Drama, including students from St. Stephen Middle School will doing their first performance tonight at 7pm at the St. Stephen High School Auditorium.




The play was chosen to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the film.



If you can't make it to the show tonight, there will be 5 more performances after tonight.


Saturday, March 22, at 2pm
Sunday, March 23, at 2pm
Friday, March 28, at 7pm
Saturday, March 29, at 2pm
Sunday, March 30, at 2pm.

Tickets are $10, available at the SSHS front desk, or at Stuart's Gifts in St. Stephen. For details call 466-7312.

Provincial NDP Says Premier Has Alot Of Explaining To Do

A culture of lawlessness or at least willful indifference to the law.......Those are the words of Provincial NDP leader Dominic Cardy about the controversy over the expenses of M-L-A's. 

Cardy charges there was a coverup when Campbellton-Restigouche M-L-A Greg Davis fell more than six months behind on the rent payments for his constituency office.
Davis received 40 thousand dollars for his constituency expenses but details of how that money was spent haven't been released yet. 

Cardy charges both the Liberals and Conservatives would like the expenses controversy to just go away. He advocates a system where M-L-A's would put their expenses online for all to see with regular updates.

Shale Gas Opponents Say Job Claims By Alward Government Are Just Spin

The New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance has scheduled a series of public meetings around the province, including one in Sussex, to give people all the information on shale gas instead of what it calls propaganda from the Alward Government. 

Jim Emberger of the Alliance tells Tide News if you look at the number of jobs created by shale gas in Pennsylvania, the claims being made in New Brunswick about how this will turn the economy around have been wildly overblown. He says in Pennsylvania, 4 jobs were created per well as opposed to the claim in the Deloitte Touche report that 21 jobs will be generated per well. 

Emberger also argues Massachusetts has created three times the number of jobs with green energy as compared to what Pennsylvania has generated with shale gas.

Holder Back In NYC To Promote The Two Nation Vacation

American travel writers in New York City getting an earful from a New Brunswick-Maine contingent singing the praises of the Two Nation Vacation.
 
Tourism Minister Trevor Holder tells Tide News they are talking to them about the newly renovated Algonquin Hotel and they were very interested in that.

Holder is in the Big Apple with Maine's Director of Tourism Carolann Ouellette and Nancy Blount of Blount Small Ship Adventures.
 
The province and port recently announcing that Blount will begin using Saint John for homeporting in 2015.

CFIA Issues Chicken Recall

A chicken product that could be in your fridge is being recalled due to the possible risk of listeria.

The recall impacts Kirkland Signature brand Grilled Chicken Breast Strips sold in this province, Ontario , Quebec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and in Ontario.    It may also have been sold in other provinces.

If you bought this chicken throw it out or return it to the store where you bought it.

For more detail on the recall, click here

Assault Sends One Man To Hospital

An assault on the west side early this morning around 3:00 is being investigated by major crime. 

One man has been taken to hospital. City Police tell Tide News the altercation took place in the area of Church Avenue and Morris Street. So far, no one has been arrested.

Considerable damage was caused after a fire in a kitchen at a home on Seeley Street. One man was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. The fire did not spread to the rest of the house.

Canada Beats The Olympic Silver Medallists In Curling

Canada is just two wins away from winning gold at the Ford World Women's Curling Championship after defeating Sweden 9-6 to finish the round robin with a 10 and 1 record. 

With the win, Canada will meet Switzerland in the playoffs tonight at 7:30. The winner advances to Sunday night's gold medal game while the loser will play in tomorrow afternoon's semifinal. 

There's a tie breaker this afternoon at 2:30 with Sweden taking on South Korea.