The Point Lepreau generating
station is temporarily offline after an issue on Saturday night with one of the
turbine system pumps.
The issue occurred on the non-nuclear side of the
plant.
Repairs are underway and the station is expected to reconnect to
the grid and power back up to 100 per cent later this week.
Provincial Health Minister Ted
Flemming says New Brunswick is ahead of all other provinces with the exception
of Ontario when it comes to keeping seniors in their homes for as long as
possible. Flemming says the "Home First"
policy means the government, hopefully, won't have to spend a lot more money
constructing new nursing homes for a growing population of
seniors.
Flemming is even hoping to see
the movement of seniors from long term hospital care, not necessarily into
nursing homes, but back to their own homes as long as there's proper home care
in place. He
says the role of hospitals is to treat people, who are sic,k on a short term
basis and move them out as quickly as possible.
An update on the shoplifting
incident at the mall on Friday.
A 14 year old arrested outside Brunswick
Square after a bracelet was taken from a jewellry store. After a search, police found the
boy also had some marijuana.
He was held in custody until a court
appeance facing three charges including theft under $5000.
A 25 year old St. George man,
facing a charge of armed robbery in the holdup of the Garden Street Circle "K"
last Friday morning, is back in jail after making a brief court
appearance. Stephen Hall of Fundy Bay Drive
was in court for a bail hearing but asked for a one week adjournment. The judge
agreed to that and scheduled his next court appearance for next Monday
afternoon.
Various organic black peppercorns
being pulled off grocery store shelves because they could be contaminated with
salmonella.
Eleven products including three from Frontier, four from 365
Everyday Value and four from Simply Organic being recalled. The Canadian Food
Inspection Agency says if you have the product in your home you should throw it
out or return it to the store where you bought it.
Salmonella can lead to
fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea in healthy
people. There have been no reports of anyone getting sick from eating any of
these peppercorns.Click here for a full list of the recalled products.
We all know that New Brunswick
has an employment problem--but does it also have a problem with its work
ethic? That
was the question posed to Premier David Alward, who responded it's not for him
to say whether there's a work ethic problem. All he knows is that he meets New
Brunswickers every day, and they want jobs.
That being said, the province has
seen unfilled jobs in a number of sectors including Tourism and Hospitality,
which can get short shrift as people leave for better paying jobs out
West. But
according to the Premier, we're seeing that trend of unfilled positions and
empty classrooms turning around.
