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Harvest House Atlantic in Moncton held the first of five vaccine clinics last month.Moncti Deputy Executive Director Marc Belliveau says about 40 per cent of the residents chose to be vaccinated. He says just to have the vaccine available was a big step, and put some minds at ease, “Also understand, not everyone wanted to receive it. It is no different in a shelter environment or a homeless community as it is in a general population, either misinformation or not having enough information, people wanting to just sit back and wait, see how different trials work before jumping in.” Over 100 ...

Posted: Apr 30, 2021 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 30 Warren Maddox said of the clients who use the Fredericton shelter, "they're incredibly vulnerable and they're vulnerable on a health basis as well as a societal basis." (Vanessa Foss/sumitted) comments The executive director of the Fredericton Homeless Shelters says it's hard to express the relief he felt when his clients and staff were finally vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks ago. "It's a lot, it's quite a heavy burden," Warren Maddox said of the long 13 months of worrying the virus would make it's way into the shelter. Acc...

Barbara Elias has been raising funds for charity through an online auction she joined three years ago. Social Sharing Since she started the auction 3 years ago, Barbara Elias has donated all funds to the Humanity Project Posted: Feb 07, 2021 9:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 7 Barbara Elias, 87, has been running an online auction she joined three years ago. And she has no intention of slowing down anytime soon. (Submitted by Barbara Elias)

Posted: Jan 29, 2021 6:10 PM AT | Last Updated: January 29 Jean Dube, executive director of the House of Nazareth shelter, said it's time for him to step aside so a new director can get moving on bringing in more addiction and mental health services.(Shane Magee/CBC)

Don Rittner Another removal of Albany history hits the road By Don Rittner on December 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM   by Don Rittner   My first history/archeology project back in 1972 was relocating and preserving the Kings’s Highway, the first road between the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys that connected Albany (Fort Orange) to Skenectada (Schenectady). I took up the unfinished work of Schenectady City Historian William Efner who began this project back in the 1930s. Fortunately I was able to save a mile long section of the original sandy road when Mayor Corning purchased the first ci...