Miramichi Blog

The Atlantic Salmon Museum, Doaktown, NB will host its annual Hall of Fame Awards Banquet on Friday, September 25th, with a meet and greet reception at 5:30pm, followed by dinner at 6:30pm.

Inductees for 2009 are as follows:

Donald and Hudson (Tompy) MacKay, father and son (both deceased) will be inducted in the GUIDE category, where both gentlemen were employed as guides for many years. Donald was also a caretaker at Burnt Hill.

William Basco (Willy) (deceased) born in Hungary. He guided and worked as a caretaker for Wades, and later for the Campbell's and Keenan's pools in Blackville. He will be inducted in the GUIDE category.

The Rev. Walter Chandler Lynch, lives in Miramichi. He learned fly tying from a couple of friends but mostly self-taught. He will be inducted as both an ANGLER, and a FLY TYER.

Jacques Heroux A member of the NB Salmon Council and the NB Wildlife Association. He has been a guest tyer at some of the major Fly Fishing Shows in Canada and in 1999 he was the winner of the Atlantic Provinces Fly Tying Championship. He will be inducted as a FLY TYER.

The Guest speaker will be Doug MacDonald of Moncton. Doug is well known on the Miramichi, and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Miramichi Salmon Association.

A limited number of tickets are available; please phone (506) 365-7787 for your ticket today. $35.00 each.

Menu:
* 6oz Salmon with egg sauce, mashed potatoes, fiddleheads, carrots, homemade roll, coffee/tea, and dessert.

Activities that evening include;
-Silent Auction
-Chinese Auction
-50/50 tickets

Read more on our website www.atlanticsalmonmuseum.com

Labels: awards, event, fishing, food

The network of Miramichi Young Professionals and Involved Entrepreneurs (MYPIE) will host its first Award Gala Ceremony on Saturday April 18th at the Miramichi Golf and Country Club. The goal of the event is to not only reward three members of the community in the area of community development, entrepreneurship, and profession or trade, but also to celebrate MYPIE's accomplishments to date on the river.

Awards will be presented for the following categories: MYPIE Entrepreneur of the year, MYPIE Professional of the year, and MYPIE Community Champion of the year.

To be eligible the candidates must be residents of the Miramichi or surrounding areas for at least two years and be preferably 35 years old and under. Each award has other specific criteria that must be met. Winners will receive a plaque as well as a significant package prize deal.

The selection committee, which will be specially put together for this event, will consist of representatives from the business community and organizations on the Miramichi. All eligible candidates can submit their applications through an open-nomination process (they can nominate themselves or a third party can on their behalf) and complete all required forms and documentation before April 6th 2009. Nominations forms can be obtained on the MYPIE website (mypie.ca), at Enterprise Miramichi, CBDC Northumberland, Miramichi Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Miramichi.

Nomination forms can be submitted to:

Enterprise Miramichi/MYPIE GALA 2009
Attn: Selection Committee
158 Wellington Street
Miramichi, NB E1N 1L9
Fax: (506) 622-2160
Email: galanominations2009@mypie.ca

The gala will start off with cocktails from 6-7pm to be followed by a dinner with musical entertainment and the award ceremony. Deanna Graves, past president and current treasurer from MYPIE's sister organization, Fusion Saint John, will be the guest speaker of the evening. Table sponsorships are currently available and tickets for the event can be purchased through Enterprise Miramichi at the cost of $25 each; please contact Nadine Duguay or Kelly Sherrard at (506) 622-7890.

MYPIE 2009 AWARDS

MYPIE Entrepreneur of the Year
This award recognizes and celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit and success found within our younger demographic on the river. Determination, dynamism, and innovation are all words that represent well the young people involved in the business community of the Miramichi.

MYPIE Professional of the year
This award recognizes a young civic-minded person that has excelled in their career or industry to date. Whether the achievement touched the lives of a few in your office or of many in the community or in the field of work, this person has the dynamism, positive attitude, and drive to excel at what they do on a daily basis. This person is simply put an example to all in their fields.

MYPIE Community Champion of the year
Community Involvement is a trait that we find in all demographics; this award has been created to specifically recognize the drive, generosity, and commitment displayed by a young person in their community. Whether you are a high school student or a professional with 10 years of experience, you must have shown outstanding community involvement, leadership, and a civic-minded attitude. You are one of the "doers," a mover and a shaker that embraces community spirit and to whom the word volunteer really comes as a second nature.

Labels: awards, business, event, Miramichi

David Adams Richards Up for a GG
David Adams Richards

The Canada Council for the Arts announced the finalists for the 2008 Governor General's Literary Awards yesterday and a Miramichier is among the nominees.

David Adams Richards is nominated in the fiction category for The Lost Highway. The Canada Council for the Arts statement said, "The Lost Highway is an intimate and compelling psychological portrait of a lost soul. David Adams Richards writes with an overarching humanity that points to our foibles with sympathy and humour. His open, honest and supple prose creates a world we at once recognize and see anew."

Richards is one of only three writers to have won both the fiction and non-fiction awards for Nights Below Station Street in 1988 and Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi in 1998, respectively.

The finalists include authors from ages 28 to 77, several previous finalists and three first-time finalists who are journalists. The awards are in the categories of fiction, non fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature (text and illustration) and translation.

A total of 1,469 books were nominated for this year's awards. Thirty-two of the 73 finalists are nominated for the first time. At least nine of the finalists are under the age of 35. The themes of mortality, war and place figure prominently in several of the books.

Canada Council for the Arts funds, administers and promotes the Governor General's Literary Awards. Each winner will receive $25,000 and a specially-bound copy of the winning book. The publisher of each winning book will receive $3,000 to support promotional activities.

Non-winning finalists will each receive $1,000 in recognition of their selection as finalists, bringing the total value of the Awards to approximately $450,000.

The winners will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 10 a.m. EST at the McCord Museum of Canadian History in Montreal.

Labels: arts, awards