$25,000 donation for Charlotte County Hospital Foundation

 
The Charlotte County Cancer Society's board of directors unanimously voted to donate $25,000 to the Charlotte County Hospital Foundation's fundraising campaign to raise $175,000 for their new mammography machine for the Charlotte County Hospital.  
The new state of the art piece of equipment will make it more convenient for county residents to be screened for breast cancer.
Since it's inception, Charlotte County Cancer has been directly assisting residents of our county with financial help while living with cancer.

Premiers Agree on Apprenticeships in Saint John

The four Premiers reaching agreement on a harmonized strategy for apprenticeship training.

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil saying it was rolled out a bit differently in each location.

All 4 premiers signed a memorandum of understanding on harmonizing apprenticeship training.

The Premiers hosting a news conference at the Diamond Jubilee Cruise Ship Terminal in Saint John.

Vandals Strike In Hampton

The RCMP in Hampton arresting two 17-year-old boys, one from Lakeside and one from Upham along with an 18-year-old man from Barnesville after at least 18 incidents of vandalism of vehicles and homes in Hampton. 

All of the damage with rocks was carried out between the evening of May 23rd and early the next morning. There was also damage caused to Hampton High School.
 
Police are asking anyone else who was victimised by this spate of vandalism to contact the Hampton detachment at 832-5566. If anyone else has any information about these acts of vandalism, please report it to police or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at www.crimenb.ca or 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Vote For Our Food Bank To Get Worthy Clean-Up

Our local food bank could use a good scrubbing -- you can help them with a click of your mouse.

Scrubbing Bubbles listing St. Stephen as one of its Top 10 finalists in the Let's Bubble campaign.

The nation-wide campaign is a call for Canadians to nominate places in their community deserving of a good clean-up.

Scrubbing Bubbles is collecting votes for the Volunteer Centre of Charlotte County to win the scrub-down by the Bubbles clean-up team. 

Voting ends June 10th.

To place your vote, click HERE

Atlantic Premiers Visit The Refinery

The four Atlantic premiers visiting the Refinery this morning.

Irving Oil President Paul Browning tells Tide News he told them the availabity of crude oil and natural gas is important to the future economies of all the Atlantic provinces.

He says we all stand to benefit by ensuring that access adding there are many projects heading our way that have the potential to drive employment and economic opportunity not only for Irving Oil but for the whole region.

Browning was asked if the proposed Energy East pipeline would lead to lower gas prices in the region, he says with a large supply available it stands to reason that this region would benefit.

Saint John Hosting The Four Atlantic Premiers

The Premiers from the four Atlantic Provinces are in town to discuss various issues. The Council of Atlantic Premiers is being hosted by Premier David Alward and one of those issues is a study on the what sort of impact changes to Employment Insurance have had on the region.
 
This isn't the first study on the changes. There was one done for the Alward Government. It showed the changes would reduce E-I benefits in the province by an estimated 7 million dollars. 

A poll done by Corporate Research Associates found 62 per cent of New Brunswickers were opposed to the changes with opposition strongest the older people were. 

Under the changes, if unemployed you would be forced to travel as far as 100 kilometers for a job and accept as much as 30 per cent less pay. Even without the changes, less than 40 per cent of people who lose their jobs qualify for E-I benefits.