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April 6 to April 27: Miramichi Art Core Online Auction Middle School Poetry Contest
The Miramichi Art Core will try something new this year with an
online-only art sale of local art. The works will be profiled on the Submit by April 30
group’s website at www.arttellsstories.ca. The sale will take place
online and individual artists will make pickup and delivery
arrangements for each purchase. Start checking the website on Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month!
Monday April 6 for a chance to own some exciting new works! The Miramichi Literacy Council invites all ASD-
N students in grades 6-8 to write and submit an
April 12: Tartan Day Dinner/Concert original poem, on any theme, up to 25 lines in
Supper begins at 5pm, followed by Scottish music. Tickets are $45 length. Submissions must include the student's
each and must be reserved on or before March 31. Held at the
Beaverbrook Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd. See details page 6. name, school, and grade.
First place will be awarded $75.00, with
additional prizes of $50 and $25 for the runners-
up.
Poems can be submitted through schools or
directly to info@miramichiliteracy.org or Contest
deadline is April 30, 2026.

Seeking Local Histroy: Clearwater Brook Camp (1940s)

Jan Brinch Hansen, a Danish book collector, is seeking Clair, Jimmy, Cecil and Ellery.
historical information about Clearwater Brook Camp, Jan is hoping that fishing logs, diaries, photographs,
owned in the 1940s by Charley and Victor (Vicktor) or any historical information about the camp, its owners,
Norrad. guides, or notable catches from that time may still exist.
He is researching a salmon fishing trip that took place He is especially interested in identifying the five visiting
on the Main Southwest Miramichi River in mid-May fishermen.
1944, when the renowned American judge E. Barrett If you have any information that may help, please
Prettyman visited the camp with five friends — Frank, contact Jan Brinch Hansen at jbh@mail.dk
Harry, Bill, Tom and Mitch. The guides that week were

The Best Sleep Ever

“I often fall asleep in my canoe during a five-day trip
down the Cains River. My three buddies of 20 years and I
canoed the Cains in 2013 and again in 2014. We put in
under the bridge at Doaktown and took out at Salmon
Brook Pool.
I don’t sleep well on these trips — my old body doesn’t
do well with a root or rock digging into my back. By the
third or fourth day, I usually have to take a daytime nap. I
lie back in my canoe, and the fresh air under sun-drenched
skies puts me out like a light. Sometimes my canoe
banging on the rocks doesn’t even wake me up.
When I do wake up, I feel totally rested and reset. It’s
my best sleep ever. Waking up in the wilderness, with birds
singing and the water lapping against my boat, is a special My buddies are always there to take pictures and have
moment for me — a moment of bliss, of feeling rested, and a laugh about it.”
of belonging in the beautiful wilderness of the Miramichi. – Ray Asaph

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