Miramichi Blog

Talk with Me/Parle-Moi program holding family activity for Literacy

The Miramichi Talk with Me/Parle Moi program and the Newcastle Public Library are celebrating Family Literacy Day. On Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 3-5 p.m, the Newcastle Public Library will host literacy focused songs, story time, rhymes and activities for the whole family. A colouring contest will also be held during this time and judged at 4:30pm, with winners announced at 5pm.

Families are invited to return at 7pm to the Newcastle Public Library for a Slumber Party with Librarian Catherine Reid. From 7pm-8pm there will be sleeping bag races and pass the pillow games. Families will also be able to create a star mobile and finish off the evening with a snack and story.

Parle Moi/Talk with Me is a program of the Extra Mural Program's Early Language Services. The program's mandate is working with families who have children aged birth to 5 years old. The program and the Newcastle Public Library are partners in literacy, encouraging children and families to read together.

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New Year's baby welcomed at the Miramichi Regional Hospital

The Miramichi Regional Hospital welcomed its New Year's baby at 11:52 p.m on January 1. A baby girl, Georgia was born to Melanie Robertson and Jimmy Browne of Miramichi weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Georgia is a sister to brothers, Mason and Cole.

As part of the New Brunswick Medical Society's 2009 Safe Start Program, family physician Dr. Moses Rambaran, presented Georgia and her mother with a new infant car seat. The NB Medical Society presents an infant car seat to the first New Year's baby born in each hospital as part of its Safe Start Program. The program reinforces the importance that children need to be properly restrained in motor vehicles.

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