Local wartime artifacts headed to Ottawa

People in Saint John and Sussex have made a donation of two wartime artifacts to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

One item is the ventriloquist puppet of Sergeant Russ Whitebone of Saint John, who served with an army show from 1942 to 1946.

The other is a wooden cross grave marker for Private John Ferman Ashe, who was killed at Vimy Ridge in April of 1917.

Site of new school uncertain

The District Education Council still hasn’t made up its mind where the new middle school should go in the north end of Moncton.

Four of five sites are still under consideration, according to the Times and Transcript, after a meeting Tuesday.

Vice-chair Angela Lawson, a member of the planning committee, says provincial officials asked the council to consider a three storey building so she assumes one of the sites would be smaller…but there’s been no decision yet. The province wants to buy the land by the spring with the school expected to open in 2019.