The Blackville Firemen’s Club will host their annual fundraising canoe run “Splashdown” on Saturday, July 20th, 2019 from the mouth of the Cains River to the Blackville Municipal Park. Registration and poker hands ($10 per hand and includes a burger and pop) will begin at 11 AM prior to the run at the mouth of Cains. There will be a bbq at the halfway point. Burgers and hot dogs will be available to purchase. Come on out, enjoy the river and support the Blackville Firemen’s Club.

Canada’s longest running Irish festival has something for everyone! Come enjoy pubs, music, cultural activities and the hospitality of Miramichi

Seek out the troubled spirits of times long past… if you dare… on Saturday July 13 as part of the Graveyard Tour at Wilson’s Point starting at 9:30pm. Wilson’s Point has always been a haunted place. Plagued by misfortune, disaster, and death, the site of Miramichi’s first English-speaking settlement and Acadian refugee camp will soon…

James M. Fisher, of The Miramichi Reader shares this book review The Great Trees of New Brunswick (2nd Edition)

The 3rd Annual MAST “Miramichi Art Studios Tours” will be taking place from July 26th to 28th, 2019 at various home studios along the Mighty Miramichi region. Studio Times will be from 10 am to 5 pm.

Beginning Thursdays, July 4th, Fridays July 5th and Saturdays, July 6th, come out the Newcastle Public Library, located at 100 Fountain Head Lane, for a Summer Breakfast Program. Admission is FREE and this breakfast is open to Kids and Teenagers and will be held on those days from 10:00 am to 11:30 am.

The Newcastle Rotary Club is donating funds to help children improve literacy this summer. Last year Miramichi was the first city in New Brunswick to launch a city-wide campaign to reduce summer learning loss. This year Cradle to Career Miramichi is further enhancing their efforts and they are working with Frontier College to offer free summer camps for children who are struggling with reading.

Camp Sheldrake is an overnight outdoor adventure summer camp for youth and teens that offers leadership building, hiking, archery, canoeing, arts and crafts and so much more. It is situated on 150 acres in Bartibog, boasts two waterfronts, several kilometers of woodland trails and overlooks the beautiful Miramichi River. This year it is celebrating it’s 20th year of existence.

René Smith, Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 3 Chatham member recently received the Governor General of Canada, Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers.

Looking for somewhere new to check out and buy from local?? Come one and all out to see the new Miramichi Evening Market! Beginning every Thursday evening all summer long from June 27th to August 29th, 2019 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. All around Water Street in Miramichi East (Chatham) in the Historic Chatham Business District.

Join City of Miramichi Mayor Adam Lordon as he greets Keynote Speaker John Norman on Monday, June 24th at 6:30 pm at the Vogue Theatre. John Norman is the dynamic young mayor of Bonavista, NL who has been credited with turning his community into a “mecca for millennial”

The Miramichi Senior Citizens Home Inc. is in need of volunteers to join their team. They are in need of people with the delivery of hot nutritious meals to members of the Miramichi community through their Meals and Wheels program.

Register by June 30th for this two day paint event! Over the course of the weekend you will create two beautiful oil paintings to bring home, that you painted yourself, meet new friends and have lots of fun! Homemade breakfast and lunch will be served both days along with dinner on Saturday. After dinner we’ll enjoy a 2 hour boat cruise aboard the Max Aitken from leaving from Ritchie Wharf.