McAdam Mayor Frustrated With ANB Policy

Four fire victims from McAdam were made to wait over an hour for ambulances to arrive -- while they looked upon a health clinic 700 feet away.


A mother and 3 children -- including a baby -- were not allowed to be taken to the McAdam Health Care Centre yesterday after a fire in a home, because it is against Ambulance NB's policy to take a patient to a clinic rather than a hospital.

McAdam Mayor Frank Carroll is frustrated with the policy.

He says they are a rural community, with bad travel conditions, and that makes it difficult in emergency situations.

He says what is not acceptable, is not using the best possible services available, to respond in the best possible way.

ANB confirms the policy, however the decision to change it is in Health Minister Madeline Dube's hands, not theirs.

The minister was unable to be reached for comment.

Fundy Discovery Aquarium Makes Trade With Biodome

It's a unique kind of business trade.


The Fundy Discovery Aquarium in St. Andrews is the new home for 2 animals, an Atlantic wolffish, and a much rarer kind in the Bay of Fundy, a spotted wolffish.

Employees from the Biodome in Montreal, in trade took a couple of Atlantic sturgeons back to Quebec.

As a tradition at our local aquarium, names are needed for the fish, who are temporarily and unoriginally being called "Spot" and "Stripes".

Visitors can submit their ballots for the new names until St. Patrick's Day.