21inc. - Day 6

The morning started off with a great breakfast with a varierty of community leaders from Bathurst. Really great discussion about perceptions from and between North and South ends of the province, business development, what is realistic in regionalisation versus centralisation, how this all fits in the bigger picture for New Brunswick etc etc. I sat with the Mayor from Nigadoo and what wonderful values she had about her community, volunteerisms, youth etc. Wish I could I have spent more time picking her brain.

Then we were off to CCNB so Scott, our co-leader, could show us his EcoPlusHome project he has been working on. Essentially a pilot project with over 50 community partners, for an affordable, energy efficient house. Check out the website.

From Bathurst we travelled to Campbellton where Courntey and I, another co-leader but also one of my Board members at work (the Stan Cassidy Foundation) had to leave to travel to Fredericton for a work-related event. The Foundation was a finalist for a Business Excellence Award with the local chamber of commerce. I don't think we could have been any further away from Fredericton on this tour... but we hopped in a rental car and drove to Woodstock, where Courntey lives so we could change, then off to the Delta Fredericton for the Gala. And we didn't win. blrrrrrrrrrrrrr. But it was a great evening. We travelled back to Woodstock for the night, and at 8am the next day we were already at a Tim's drivethrough for coffee, ready for the trip to Edmundston to meet up with the group again.

I should have started to count the kms I covered this week... bus, car, and walking!

AND we got our first snow that day...