FREE - Covid-19 Rapid Test Kits.  No registration required.

FREE - 'Aging in New Brunswick' (English & French editions)

 

 FREE SEEDS! - 2024 Seed Library coming soon!

Please scroll way down - 35 varieties this year

 

We are now accepting applications for Student Employment for the Provincial SEEDS program.  (Student must be a high school student entering grade 10, 11 or 12 in September 2024, graduating 2024 or in higher learning).  (May to September 2024)  The successful candidates will be working in our Visitor Information Center as well as the Library.  Interpersonal skills, knowledge of French and our community and area will be an asset.  Training will be given.  Send e-mail resume with a covering letter to:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Brenda Dunsmore, chairperson) or leave resume at the Library in an envelope marked to the attention of Brenda Dunsmore.  Interviews will be given by the end of April.

 

 Senator Krista Ross will be visiting the Library on

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 12:30 p.m.

The public is invited to come and meet one of Canada's new senators. 

She will talk about her role as a senator and answer questions. 

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Coffee and Cards - Every Thursday from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

A variety of card games are played.

Come on your own or bring friends.

Contact 292-2488 for more information.

Everyone Welcome!

 

Chess:  Open to all - drop in anytime!

Every Saturday afternoon from 1-4 p.m.

 

The Cambridge-Narrows Society of Sesquipedalians

Inviting writers of all ages, levels, and genres to the second meeting of "Lemon Pie":  A group that writes, but is never pedantic or punctilious.  This is not a course and you don't have to read out loud.  It's a great chance to make some stuff up.  There is no cost.

Thursday, March 21, 2024 at the Cambridge-Narrows Regional Library from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Contact Bill Rowe for details 506-654-3349       This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

 

Lakeview Bookworms Book Club meet the 3rd Wednesday of each month

from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.  Everyone welcome! 

Please see the three pages on our 'book club' for more information.

  

Business Owners: 

If you have brochures, menus or business cards, we can display them for you in our Visitor Information Centre.

See 'Tourism' pages on our website:  Where to Eat; Where to Stay; Things To Do

Let us know if you want any changes/additions made to these pages.

 

Community Project:  Book of Obituaries

Family and Friends of Locals

This record of past lives of those who lived in this area is put together by you and other community members.  We encourage your participation.  Feel free to add obituaries and place them in alphabetical order, using the A to Z dividers.  Use the plastic sheets if necessary.  This is a small way that we can commemorate the memory of those who have lived in this area in the past. We hope that it might help genealogists in the future.

 

Book Memorials

You can have a personalized book-plate made in someone's memory. 

Also, we will make a book-plate with the donor's name in a second book.

You can donate certain books or we can choose books that you feel are suitable.  

A volunteer or student will arrange for you to receive a tax receipt for your donation.

Thank you for supporting the Cambridge-Narrows Regional Library. 

 

Our collection of Cambridge-Narrows School yearbooks is lacking the years:

1977,1982, 1988, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

If you have copies you wish to donate to the Library, it would be appreciated.

They will be kept in the 'Local History' section of your Library.

 

  New Project 2023 - Stories about Locals

We would like to start up a new collection of stories for the Local History Section.  If anyone is interested in writing an article about a local person, we'd love to hear from you.  Your essay/article can be long or short - with or without photographs.  This will be a long-term, on-going project.  They will be kept in a special binder in alphabetical order.  You could write about your friend or neighbour or even yourself and your own family.  It doesn't have to be highly detailed.  You might have stories about the way things were in this area in the past.  Let us know if you're interested in this.  Thanks.

 

Seed Library reopens Spring of 2024!

Thanks to Jennifer (Jenny) May of Horizon, NB will have another Seed Library this year and again in 2024.  It is supported by the Community Food Action Program through Cultivating Community Connections with the Grand Lake Wellness Network and the Cambridge-Narrows Regional Library

Free vegetable and herb seeds will be available to members of our Library until supplies last.

What is a seed library?
Seeds will be given to the public, free of charge, with an aim to create greener spaces, encourage people to grow their own healthy vegetables and herbs, promote food security, and facilitate community learning.

How to borrow seeds
It’s easy! Sign up and become a member of the library (membership is free). Members can choose their seeds and sign them out (limit one variety to a maximum of 10 packages for each membership number) each time you visit the library. Please print your name, library membership number and leave any comments you'd like to share - see the green sheet on the small table next to the Seed Library baskets.  The Volunteers can help you.    

Saving seeds
At harvest time, please take extra steps to save seeds for others. The more seeds we save, the more members of our community can experience the joy of growing their own food from local seeds. We want heirloom, open-pollinated, non-genetically modified seeds available to the community to help preserve these for our future. Saving seeds that grow well in this area will ensure that we will have a supply in the event of crop failure in some other areas.

Returning seeds
If you have seeds to share with us at harvest time, please bring them back in an envelope, or clear plastic bag marked with as much information as you can provide.

What else?
The Cultivating Community Connections grant with the Grand Lake Wellness Network allows us to have two events and also to purchase gardening books for the children and adult sections of your library.   

Seed Library - 2024

* same as 2023          ** new for 2024       (# of packets)

* Basil - Sweet (26)

* Beans - Bush (Green) Blue Lake (9)
**Beans - (Yellow) Gold Rush (33)

* Beets - Detroit dark red (23)
**Broccoli (DeCicco) (13)
**Brussels sprouts (Long Island) (13)

**Cabbage (Red Acre) (24)

* Carrot - Neptune (48)

* Chive (microgreens) (17)

* Cilantro/Coriander - Santo (24)

* Corn-Honey Select (13)

* Cucumber - Field Marketmore (53)
* Cucumber - Pickling (14)

* Dill - Bouquet (13)

* Kale - Blue Curled Scotch (36)

**Lettuce (Buttercrunch) (16)
**Lettuce (Red Romaine) (23)
* Lettuce (white Boston butterhead) (21)

* Onion - (Green Parade bunching) (26)
* Onion - Early yellow globe (21)

**Oregano (Green variety) (16)

* Parsley (forest green) (13)

* Peas - Shelling Dalvay (15)
* Peas - Snow Little Sweetie (42)

**Pepper - Green Bell - Early Calwonder (17)
* Pepper - Jalapeno (early organic) (22)

* Pumpkin - small sugar or Pie (19)
* Radish - Roxanne (40)

* Spinach-Olympia hybrid (90)

* Squash - spaghetti squash (15)
* Squash - winter Buttercup (13)

* Tomato - Regular, Bush Beefsteak (28)
* Tomato - Roma/Paste (16)

* Turnip (Laurentian rutabaga) (26)
* Zucchini - Green Black Beauty (20)

These seeds are from Veseys Seeds Ltd. in PEI.  We do not have planting instructions written on the packages - please refer to the Veseys catalogue or website for information.  

Thank you to everyone who has donated their own seeds and is practicing seed saving in the fall.  That's what this is all about!  Keep growing!