Harley Tickets Now For Sale

You can now get your Harley ticket!

Rally In The St. Croix Valley spokesperson Bob Hamel making the announcement via Facebook this morning the Harley Tickets are now for sale.

Hamel tells Tide News 1st and 2nd prize at the Annual Harley Draw will both be 2014 Harley Davidson motorcycles and the best part is the winners will get a chance to upgrade. Hamel says the winners can use their prize bike as a down-payment towards the bike of their choice at the dealership.

He tells us it will still be one draw, with only 800 tickets available for $50 each.

You can get your tickets from any 2nd CAV member.

For more details... call Bob Hamel at 467-7101.

Artists Chosen For Sculpture Saint John

The bigger and better Sculpture Saint John for 2014 includes more communities so in turn requires more artists.

Executive Director Diana Alexander tells Tide News says three of the artists coming this summer were here back in 2012.

Jim Boyd is local and his piece will go to Hampton and Jhon Gogaberishvili from the Republic of Georgia is also returning and this time his piece will go to St. Stephen. His first sculpture went to UNB Saint John.

The Sussex sculpture will be created by Australia's Hew Chee Fong and the peice for Black's Harbour will be created by Bulgarian artist Petre Petrov. Calais, Maine has also been added to the community list.

The event runs from August 7th to September 20th.

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Saint John Is Not Alone In Overspending During Winter

The Port City is in the same pickle as hundreds of other North American municipalities that likely overspent this year on clearing and removing snow.

Kevin Rice of Transportation and Environment Services tells Tide News they will be speaking to council in May about how much was spent on winter maintenance up to the end of March.

He says some budgets might be overspent and others would be underspent and the City as a whole will put the numbers together to determine where the offsets might be.

Rice remembers a winter a few years back where the City overspent by a million bucks and he expects this winter has been worse than that.

Alward Government Being Assailed Over Roads

The Alward Government coming under fire again for its winter road maintenance. Provincial Transportation Minister Claude Williams says this winter has been the worst in the last twenty years and you have to deal with the realities associated with that.

Bay du Vin Liberal M-L-A Bill Fraser says he will pass along to Williams the hundreds of reports he has received about the condition of the roads. He argues they have never been in worse shape.

Williams, who says the budget to maintain roads has not been reduced, claims the plows have been out when required and if extra supplies of salt and sand were needed, they were bought.

He also points out when it's stormy, you can plow a road and an hour later with the drifting, it will be snow covered again.

Investigation Launched Into Washroom Closure At K-V-H-S

The controversy over whether Kennebecasis Valley High violated the Health and Safety Act after a washroom at the school was vandalised continues at a higher level.

The Provincial Education Department will investigate what happened after parent Blair Surette wrote a letter of complaint to Education Minister Marie-Claude Blais. He says just one washroom was made available to the hundreds of boys attending K-V-H-S and the rest were all locked for 2 and a half days.

Surette says that one washroom on the main floor ran out of soap and toilet paper so it got pretty disgusting. He claims the school may have violated the Health and Safety Act. He also tells Tide News Blais, herself, has spoken to him directly about the issue.


Surette says he has lost confidence in the school district because in his words "Someone's not telling the truth".

Ice Storm Will Take Chunk From NB Power's Bottom Line

NB Power's finances will be taking another hit because of the second ice storm in the Moncton region and the Premier admits this stormy winter is causing unsettling financial issues.

The clean-up costs for the December ice storm that ravaged Charlotte County, the Kennebecasis Valley and Kingston Peninsula in December came to $12-million with 88 thousand restorations.

The most recent storm saw 75,000 restorations with more than 100 crews working on the outages, mostly in the Bouctouche and Shediac areas.