The City letting us know they are
preparing to deal with rainfall and snowmelt from the heavy rain and warm
temps.
Transportation and Environment services crews are inspecting catch
basins in known trouble spots to ensure they are open and ready to handle any
run-off.
The City warns the freeze and thaw cycle can cause ice to form
on the street and sidewalks and crews will put down sand and salt where its
needed.
To the joy of Saint Johners, that same freeze-and-thaw cycle can
bring on potholes in our streets.
Potholes can be reported by
calling 658-4455 or email service@saintjohn.ca
Three Saint John Sea Dogs are on
the list of the NHL Central Scouting Service's final rankings for North American
players for this year's NHL Draft.
Olivier LeBlanc, Matthew Highmore and
Spencer Smallman were identified earlier this season and have kept their spots
in the final ranks.
18 year old Leblanc is at 126 while Highmore who is
also 18 is ranked at 155 and the 17 year old Smallman is at 173.
The 2014
NHL Draft starts June 27th in Philadelphia.
A full room at the Delta to hear
TD Bank's chief economist speak about the valule of literacy and numeracy skills
in today's workforce.
The call was made to make literacy an issue in
coming provincial election campaign.
Craig Alexander says the you don't
get a job for life anymore so you need different skills for several employers.
He says literacy skills are the great enabler and if you experience unemployment
the greater literacy skills you have will strongly limit how long you are out of
work.
Learning difficulties that lead to school failure can increase the
risk of absenteeism, dropping out, substance abuse, teen pregnancy all of which
keep the cycle of poverty or dependency going.
A 20-year-old man being arrested
after police found drugs during a traffic stop in St.
George. RCMP
finding a quantity of M-D-M-A, which is often referred to as ecstasy, and a
small amount of pot Sunday evening around 7pm, while conducting a traffic stop on Main Street. The man will be appearing in
court in August.
The provincial Health Department
releasing the letter sent to Dr. Marc Pelletier of the New Brunswick Heart
Centre at the Regional Hospital about the large infusion of provincial funding
which amounts to 4.5 million dollars. 2.3 million dollars will be used
to renovate the cardiac care unit and 2.2 million for the purchase of an
intervention suite at the heart centre.In the letter, provincial Health
Minister Ted Flemming writes that for too long politics have influenced
decision-making in the health care system but now the decisions are being made
on the basis of what's best for patients. He also claims 40 million dollars
of savings in healthcare this year alone.
Do harm-reduction initiatives like needle exchanges actually make a difference in the lives of drug addicts?
For the
Executive Director of AIDS Saint John Julie Dingwell the answer to that
question is a no-brainer. She tells Tide News it absolutely does, not
only reducing the spread of disease amongst drug users but acting as a
connector.
She says
once people start using the service on a regular basis, that's when the
organization can really begin working with them "to show them that they
matter."
Dingwell speaking as part of a discussion panel at U-N-B Saint John on community policing and harm-reduction in the city.
A scary
crash sending 3 adults and a child to hospital after a car left Sandy
Point Road ending up in a stream at the bottom of an embankment.
One person was stuck in the backseat of the vehicle so the jaws of life were required to get them out.
It was a challenging rescue for police and fire as they were standing 2-3 feet of water in a small brook.
Emergency services got the call just before 3:30pm.
With up
to 50 millimetres of rain forecasted in the region, New Brunswickers are
being warned to keep an eye out and prepare for flooding.
Richard Keeley of River Watch tells Tide News water levels are expected to peak on Wednesday and Thursday.
Keeley
says if you live in a flood-prone area and you have a basement, you
should move your belongings to a higher level and be sure that any
drainage equipment is functioning properly.
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