Tomorrow night is movie night at Dorchester School, where they will be screening Tim Burton’s “Big Fish” for free. The only thing participants need to bring is a lawn chair, there will be free popcorn and bug spray available for movie-goers. The show starts at 8 p.m. behind the school.
Someone defaced a campaign sign for federal Liberal candidate Dominic Leblanc on Main Street near the on ramp to Highway 2. The large campaign sign has been spray painted with an attempt of a swastika, it was backwards, and a message reading “COVID Nazi”. The hyperbolic historical comparison is not the first on Sackville streets. Posters have appeared recently in town comparing Mount Allison’s mandatory vaccination or testing policy to racial segregation policies once the norm in parts of the US and Canada. Dominic Leblanc posted a response to the vandalism on social media Tuesday, calling it “despicable,” and a “display of hate and intolerance.” The sign has since been replaced.
Struts Gallery is looking for an artist to design and build a float for Sackville’s Fall Fair. The artist will be given creative liberty to build a moving sculpture or performance of sorts, with funds to cover their time and supplies. Struts will provide a trailer to pull the masterpiece. Float proposals are due by this Monday, August 30th.
14 recent cases of COVID-19 have been categorized as “community transmission,” 13 of which are in Zone 1 (Moncton). During the province’s live COVID-19 update yesterday, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Cristin Muecke urged all New Brunswickers to keep wearing their masks, but leadership has made no indication that the mask mandate will return any time soon. Over 1,000 New Brunswickers are currently self-isolating by order of Public Health across multiple health zones, and there are confirmed cases of both the Alpha and Delta variants in the province. Four people are currently hospitalized in New Brunswick.
Another exposure notification has been released for Zone 1, with a very specific time frame. Somebody who may have been infectious with COVID-19 was in the Moncton City Hospital Emergency room on Monday, Aug. 24 between 5:47 p.m. and 3:52 a.m.
And Erica Butler brings us to the shores of Johnson’s Creek in Moncton, where the Fort Folly Habitat Recovery team, along with friends from the Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance, spent an afternoon cleaning up a dump site full of plastics and other trash. The site was under a bridge over the creek, between the Université de Moncton and Highway 15. Fort Folly Habitat Recovery has been cleaning up illegal dump sites throughout the Petitcodiac watershed with funding from the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund. As of Aug. 19, Fort Folly field technicians and collaborators have picked up over 1,500 kilograms worth of garbage from the Petitcodiac watershed.
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