April 20, 2021
By Kristena Schutt-Moore
On Sunday, April 11 Ares Worsley was announced as the winner of the Quinte Regional Science and Technology Fair. Ares started two months ago by competing in the Birds Creek Public School’s annual science fair. It was his first time competing and he was looking at studying how things fly. With some help from his teacher, Chris Spencer, Ares decided on doing a project about how things fall.
He used three different sized balloons and dropped them from the top of a door frame. He repeated this three times with each balloon size and measured how fast they fell by counting the individual frames of the videos he recorded of each fall.
Wood has never been so valuable, so why aren t  New Brunswick trees worth more?
New Brunswick is receiving no extra royalties from forestry companies for trees they are cutting on crown land this year, even though prices for lumber made from those trees are at record highs and other provinces are moving to claim some of that growing windfall for their taxpayers.
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Lumber prices have tripled in the last year but NB timber royalties paid by forestry companies haven t budged
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A 10 foot long, heat treated and kiln dried two-by-four was selling for $12.35 in Saint John over the weekend, as lumber prices of all kinds hit record levels in North America. (Robert Jones / CBC News)
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Salcombe Yacht Club brought the start forward on Saturday April 17th to allow sailors to be off the water in time to celebrate the life of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh in the afternoon. The earlier start did nothing to diminish the enthusiasm of the 33 sailors who took to the water in a Force 3 East North Easterly on an ebbing tide.
Race Officer, David Greening, set the fleets on a course to the Yalton Mark in order to provide a tactical beat then to Blackstone, a Y mark of Port Waterhouse followed by Millbay to a shortened finish.
In the handicap fleet the RS Elite of Martin and Cheryl Beck led off the starting line, slicing through the ebb tide. The Yawls split between the Portlemouth side and the Salcombe side, with Mike Knowles and Nicki Bass staying on local turf by beating to Ditch End before crossing the tide, resulting over a healthy lead over the Yawls of Mike and Karen Whitehouse and Geoff Gilson and Chris Spencer Chapman. Four Yawls hung on doggedly to the coat tails of th
RESIDENTS have been left disgusted and shocked after the discovery of huge amounts of rubbish was left on a beach. What appears to be a den, wind breakers and beer cans and bottles we scattered on the beach at Beckfoot, near Silloth. The mess has since been cleared up, but the concerns of a fire on the dunes could have created a much more serious issue. Chris Spencer, the deputy manager Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, said: “It was a disgrace. There have been a number of isolated incidents, but on a whole, people who visit do respect the area.