What's Happening?
Community Groups and Contacts
Arcadia Village Office: (506) 488-2581 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cambridge-Narrows Regional Library & Tourism: (506) 488-3971 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Volunteer Contact: Brenda Dunsmore (506) 488-3418
Book Club (3rd Wed. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.) Marilyn Erb (506) 488-3344
Coffee & Cards (Thursdays 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.) April Wilson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Various card games played over coffee and conversation.
C-N Society of Sesquipedalians (3rd Thursday 6:30 to 8 p.m.) Bill Rowe This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For writers of all ages and levels to discuss writing. This is not a course.
Cambridge-Narrows Community School: (506) 488-3500
Community Food Smart Program
Elementary Breakfast Program (Thursday mornings 7:30 to 8:30)
Coaching - looking for volunteers
Marcy Malloy, Community Coordinator for Volunteers
Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
school news and updates: www.cns.nbed.ca
Urban Rural Rides
Looking for safe, convenient and affordable transportation?
Register for free today 506-999-2102
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Mill Cove Nursing Home/Mill Cove Foundation
(506) 488-3033
Jemseg Lions Club (1st and 3rd Thursday 7:30 pm)
Danny Young (506) 442-1018
www.facebook.com/jemseglionsclub
Life at the Lakes Marilyn Young: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.lifeatthelakesfestival.ca - first week-end after New Brunswick Day in August
Cambridge-Narrows Volunteer Fire Department (every Monday 7-9 pm)
contacts: Paul Beale, Fire Chief 262-4130; Don Mason, Deputy Chief (506) 471-3918
Flames - auxiliary to Fire Dept. (1st Tuesday 7-9 pm) - Jewel Beale 262-4140
Meals on Wheels Judy Jones (506) 488-3425
Akerley Area Quilt Guild (2nd & 4th Wednesdays 900-3:30)
Starting September 10 at C-N Municipal Building
Learn/teach how to make quilts. Creation of charity quilts for "Victoria's Quilts" and "Quilts of Valour"
contact: Donna Richard - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Victoria's Quilts (2nd Wednesday 12 noon - 3:30 pm)
contact: Brenda Dunsmore 488-3418
FunDay Monday (sewing/crafts) (Monday 10-3:30)
at C-N Municipal Building
Bring your own quilting, knitting and any other craft activity. Work on your craft while enjoying conversation with friends.
September to May, contact: Bernice Belyea This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Music Circle at C-N Municipal Building
Every other Friday, alternates between 6-9 pm one Friday and 2-5 pm the next
Local musicians, beginner to professional, share their music. All types of music and instruments. Acoustic only.
Contact: Mary Torcat: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Winter Speaker Series at Good Shepherd Church
2nd Tuesday 2-3 pm
Contact Teresa Hatto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Recreation
Line Dancing
Tuesdays - 2 classes at C-N Municipal Building:
Beginners 9:30 to 10:20 a.m.
Advanced 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
at C-N Municipal Building
Dancers, facing the same direction, are led through a series of choreographed steps to music.
Contact Sharlene Jones at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Group Fit Exercise Fridays 10 to 11 a.m. @ C-N Municipal Bldg.
A combination of cardio, strength training and stretching for Older Adults
$5/lesson; pre-register with: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Yoga Mondays 6-7 p.m. at C-N Municipal Bldg.
Contact Anne Newman - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gentle flow Yoga with chair assist if needed. For beginner to experienced.
Pickleball - Mon, Wed and Fri from 7-9 p.m.
at C-N Community School, 2158 Lakeview Road
A paddle sport combining elements of tennis, badminton and ping pong
Contact: Adel Chehade at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
all ages and all experience levels welcome
equipment and instruction provided. FREE
Square Dance Class
Tuesdays 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.at the Cambridge-Narrows Municipal Building
Contact: Terry Hebert: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Choregraphed dance movements in a round, directed by a caller
Queens County Heritage 488-2483 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Women's Institutes:
Lower Jemseg - 1st Monday - Sharron Adams (506) 488-9107
Waterborough - 1st Monday - Carolyn Pellerin (506) 362-5537
Codys - 1st Tuesday - Ellen Malloy (506) 362-2135
Jemseg/Grand Lake Watershed
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Voices for Sustainable Environments and Communities
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see Facebook pages for:
Cambridge-Narrows Wellness Group
Cambridge-Narrows Classified Sales and More
Grand-Washademoak-Jemseg Community Events Calendar
Family and Friends of C-NCS
Washademoak Lake
Cambridge-Narrows and Surrounding Area
Cambridge-Narrows Sports and Recreation
Cambridge-Narrows Volunteer Fire Dept.
Jemseg Lions Club
Cambridge-Narrows Caring Connections
Churches - refer to the Jemseg Newsletter
Note: If you want to see changes made to this list
of community events and contacts,
please leave a message for M. Erb at the Library (506) 488-3971
Your BEST SOURCE of Community Events is the Jemseg Lions Club Community Newsletter.
Pick up a copy at the Library - or check their Facebook page.
HOW TO BUILD A COMMUNITY
Turn off your TV/computer/all screens
Leave your house
Know your neighbours
Look up when you are walking (not at your device)
Greet people
Plant flowers
Use your library
Play together at the community outdoor skating rink
Buy from local merchants
Share what you have
Help a lost dog
Take children to the park
Garden together
Support neighborhood schools
Fix it even if you didn't break it
Have pot lucks
Honour elders
Pick up litter
Read stories aloud - to children, seniors and everyone in between
Join a service club
Talk to the mail carrier
Listen to the birds
Put up a swing
Help carry something heavy
Barter for your goods
Start a tradition
Ask a question
Hire young people for odd jobs
Share what you’ve learned
Bake extra and share
Ask for help when you need it
Start a book club
Sing together
Share your skills
Walk together/exercise together
Be a good listener (get off your device)
Listen before you react to anger
Mediate a conflict
Seek to understand
Just be kind
Get out and VOTE! - a privilege and a duty
Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
Know that no one is silent though many are not heard. Work to change this.
Learn about your local history - put names & dates on the back of old photos
Become a volunteer in your community