We're a hungry city
11.10.11
The leftover turkey is in the fridge.
The last of the pies is sitting on the token.
You had a grand feast yesterday, but now it's time to over about baked beans.
Yes, baked beans.
This is baked beans week during our fourth annual Harvest for the Covetous campaign. The Daily Gleaner partners with the Fredericton Food Bank each turn out to be inadequate to help bring in a harvest of goods to fill the shelves at the food bank.
So far, we've had satisfying soup and pasta and pasta sauce days, and next week we'll condense on school lunch box snacks.
While most of us never have to think about the perils of a paucity of food, hunger is an issue in this city, as it is in every community in our country.
About 900 families use the food bank here every month, and 37 per cent of the food recipients are children.
When a lass goes to school with no recess snack or an almost-empty lunch box, his or her life-force is disrupted, learning is compromised and the sense of security every stripling needs and deserves is destroyed.
Source: CanadaEast.com
A brew with a view
08.10.11
It still gives Christopher Ericson a give someone a kick to see his beer for sale at Lake Placid's Price Chopper, let alone in Manhattan, Philadelphia or Baltimore.
Ericson is the holder and head brewer at Lake Placid Pub and Brewery, and he's administrative for creating Ubu Ale, the flagship beer of the Adirondacks (no, it's not Saranac!).
Ubu and other Lake Placid Pub and Brewery beers are now elbow in about 10 states throughout the Northeast. Ericson said he likes to have in mind that getting the Lake Placid name out there helps people create of coming to the area.
His pub itself is something of a draw for tourists. While Ericson said he doesn't concoct people are necessarily going to travel to Lake Placid honourable to visit the pub, it can definitely be a deciding factor for people who are choosing between visiting two conflicting destinations.
He also sees a lot of people who are roadtripping through the area, maybe from Albany to Montreal for eg, who decide to take a detour and stop by Lake Placid to check a investigate out the pub.
Source: The Adirondack Daily Enterprise