I don’t know if this is someone’s idea of cleaning up city hall, but last night someone bombed Moncton City Hall with soap bubbles!
Posts Tagged ‘Moncton’
Help Find Donna O’Reilly
Mar
04
2010
On Friday February 26 at 8 pm, Donna O’Reilly, 54, disappeared as she was leaving her job in Highfield Square in Moncton. She was seen leaving the building but never made it to her car just a few metres from the door.
Donna, a native of Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, is five-foot-three, 130 pounds, and has green eyes and shoulder length hair. According to CBC.ca, her family believes the only possible explanation for her disappearance is abduction.
The family is trying to get the word out as far and wide as possible in an effort to be reunited with their wife, mother, and grandmother. If she was indeed abducted, she could be anywhere right now. Please help spread the word… and if you become aware of any information, regardless of how small, please call the RCMP on the number provided on the flyer above.
What Has 8900 Steps…
Feb
01
2010
… and a temperature of -20 Celsius (with the wind chill factored in)?
The walk around my neighbourhood that da missus takes me on, that’s what. Me darlin’ wife has a regular walking partner from down the road. Lately, that lady hasn’t been feeling up to going so my wife takes me as a partially willing second choice. Tonight, I decided to put a pedometer on to measure the distance in paces and it came to, you guessed it, 8900 steps.
Can you guess how cold it was? 
Moncton’s Château à Pape Destroyed by Fire
Jan
31
2010
This past Saturday, in the wee hours of a freezing winter’s night, a Moncton landmark, Le Château à Pape Restaurant was destroyed by fire. The building was one of the oldest in the city.
Last Tuesday, my wife and I had dinner at Le Château à Pape with the city manager, Jacques Dube, and his wife, Nancy. We don’t regularly rub elbows with the city’s senior staff members, but my wife bought some tickets at work in support for charity and won the top prize. They were charming, down-to-earth people and the food was great. We had a genuinely nice time. In the days leading up to our night out, we got increasingly anxious about what the heck we would talk about. I mean, this was the city manager and his wife, both of whom we had never met, and we were about to sit in a fancy restaurant with them for 3+ hours. While I resisted the urge to start the conversation with “So… how about them roads?”, at one point I did make a comment which, in retrospect, seems a little eerie. Mr. Dube had removed a lamp from the centre of the table and placed in on the floor. It was tall and was blocking the view for each of us looking directly across at each other. As he went to lay it on the floor, he realized that it wasn’t an electrical appliance, it was a lit candle. I made a joke something like, “Ha! That was close! This building has been here for more than a hundred years and one dinner with the city manager and the place burns to the ground.” Hardy-har-har!
Little did we know that three evenings later…
Is There Anybody Out There?
Nov
04
2009
I lucked into a free ticket to go see the Austrailian Pink Floyd concert in Moncton this past Monday night. Our friends Kevin and Christine from Charlottetown had planned to attend but for some reason Christine couldn’t go. Kevin, being desperate for friends, had almost no choice but to ask me if I’d like to go.
Like my Cirque du Soleil experience, I had heard the show was good but I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. What the heck… the worst I could do is get my money’s worth. Well! Was I in for another treat! The show was awesome, the music was impeccably reproduced, and the crowd was thoroughly into it.
I managed to take a couple of vids with my iPhone. The light and sound in the building kind of overwhelmed the recording equipment in the iPhone, but you will get the feel of the concert by watching anyway.
Here’s the encore:
Check out other vids of the show on my Youtube Channel.
Thanks again Kevin, for inviting me along with you.
Raceday!
Oct
03
2009
Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited to a promotional event put off by a local information technology services vendor (Bulletproof Solutions) partnered with Cisco. They had rented a local racing oval and secured a couple of racecars and, you guessed it, I got to drive one!
It was quite a rush to say the least! Check out the photos in the stack below. Click to see more.
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