Dieppe News

The Moncton and Area Rug Hooking Group is holding a meeting Wednesday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Hildegarde Firehall.

Operation Red Nose got off to a steady start last weekend, with only a handful of volunteers making sure about 25 vehicles and roughly 40 people got home safely in Metro Moncton.

With the province's population of seniors expected to double over the next two decades, the provincial government took steps yesterday to ease the strain on New Brunswick's aging nursing homes and on the province's hospitals.

The Health Department's travelling H1N1 flu vaccination clinics have already administered more than 13,000 doses of the flu vaccine in the Moncton region and officials are looking at more places to set up shop to better serve the elderly.

Scoudouc is in for more road work when the provincial government announces its transportation capital budget in the coming weeks, two cabinet ministers said yesterday.

Shambhala Meditation is holding a free public talk Friday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m. at the Lions Community Centre, 473 St.

While the City of Dieppe has already gone through first reading of a controversial bylaw that will require commercial establishments to post signs that are either bilingual or French-only, there are no such plans here for the time being.

CBC Moncton's ninth annual Tree of Hope radiothon surpassed its goal Thursday, raising a record $245,000 for cancer research and treatment.

Recently in the speech from the throne, our government outlined many highlights for the coming year including how we will be moving the community college network into two systems independent and arms-length from government.

Olympic Torch bearers high-five Moncton Mayor George LeBlanc as he walks onto the ice at the Moncton Wildcats game yesterday for a puck drop ceremony with the torch bearers at the Moncton Coliseum.

The Olympic torch will make its way to New Brunswick today, crossing the Confederation Bridge after spending the weekend on P.E.I. The flame will pass through Port Elgin, Cap-Pele and stop in Shediac for a community celebration before moving on to Sackville, Memramcook and Dieppe.

Your story in the Nov. 16 edition was interesting but rather incomplete when you consider the effort that was required to make the water treatment plant a reality.

I would like to thank Daniel Allain of Downtown Moncton Centre-ville Inc. for the continued support his organization has given us, as well as for his letter to the editor of Nov.

A controversial private member's bill that would essentially legalize assisted suicide in Canada likely won't pass a vote in Parliament, Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe MP Brian Murphy said this week.

The Small Band-Aid Charity Concert, held earlier this year to benefit the Friends of The Moncton Hospital, is now available on DVD.

The new Namaste Spa recently opened at 31 Botsford St. in Moncton. The new spa offers body beauty treatments, water massage, scrubs, body wraps, head massage with hot oil and other treatments which promise to help you relax, concentrate and sleep better and it also improves the condition of your scalp and hair.

A group that campaigned for mandatory bilingual signs in the City of Dieppe is now turning its crusade to neighbouring Moncton.

When Moncton's new casino-hotel-entertainment complex welcomes its first guests this spring, it will also be opening its doors to as many as 400 new jobs.

The top runners and walkers in New Brunswick over the past year will be honoured tomorrow.

Ol' Sleuth is getting right down to it today, beginning of course with NB Power.