Fire Claims Two Blackville Businesses

Blackville Auto Value and Car Wash

A fire that broke out at Blackville Auto Value this morning has claimed the local business as well as the attached Blackville Car Wash.  Life Radio CJFY, located next to the destroyed building, was first to break the news around noon Monday. Fire trucks were on the scene for hours containing the blaze. There were…

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Bless Me Father

A confessional booth similar to the one in St. Raphael’s church

It was the first Friday in May of 1955 and eight year old Pat Fournier was going to confession… but what would he confess to? In this eighth installment of his memoir “Memories of a Boy Growing Up in Blackville”, Pat recalls the story of how the misfortune of another child from his neighbourhood lead…

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The ‘Chocolate Flu’

Album cover for 78 rpm record album of tunes by popular fiddler Ned Landry

On a late-July day in 1954, seven-year-old Pat Fournier and his siblings play a prank, with some unpleasant consequences, on their neighbour Ronald MacKenzie. The Chocolate Flu is the seventh installment of Pat’s memoir “Memories of a Boy Growing Up in Blackville”. THE ‘CHOCOLATE FLU’ Written by Pat Fournier July 1954 – Seven years old…

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First Communion

It is the summer of 1954 and seven year old Pat is about to make his First Communion at Saint Raphael’s Roman Catholic Church. In this sixth installment of “Memories of a Boy Growing Up in Blackville”, Pat recalls the special occasion led by Father Nowlan and the Bishop. First Communion Written by Pat Fournier…

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School Daze

The date is September 8, 1953 and it’s Pat Fournier’s first day of school. In this next installment of “Memories of a Boy Growing Up in Blackville”, join Pat as he walks the mile and a half trek to school, while sharing memories of the people and places along the way. School Daze Written by…

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