Network 4 Change has a brand new website.  What is Network 4 Change?  I know how you can find out!

http://network4change.ca

Beausejour and the surrounding area will be sprayed for mosquito control starting July 9, 2007. More details may be found here > http://www.townofbeausejour.com/info/category/news/.

I’d like to take the opportunity to offer up a review of a new restaurant in Beausejour.  A Taste of Italy was not yet sporting a sign out front, but I ventured in regardless.  Many remember quite a few other business and restaurants in the same location in the Beausejour Hotel on Park Avenue Between the Lyric Theatre and the Royal Bank. The first thing I noticed as I entered was the new decor.  It’s been given a nice facelift, with a green/black theme, new chairs etc. A nice improvement.
The menu was surprisingly brief, but covered the basics well.  I ordered Fetuccini Alfredo, and my spouse order Lasagna.  Both came with a fresh salad, and garlic toast. When our meals arrived, we were both struck immediatly with it’s top notch presentation. They looked great. Upon first taste, we realised immediately we were eating something made from scratch, right down to the sauces.  Nothing came from a can.  I can’t emphasize enough just how excellent and well prepared our food was, and how much we enjoyed it.

Service was fast and friendly, and the food was excellent.  The prices were a little more than you might be used to in Beausejour, but you get a very substantial serving of some of the best food anywhere.  And it’s really two meals in one anyway, since something happened to me that almost never happens.  I was full before I got half way through my meal.
Two thumbs from two Beausejour residents for the new Taste of Italy restaurant on Park Avenue.

I’d like to draw your attention to a new page that was created for the Beausejour Motocross.  It’s here to keep riders and spectators informed.  Check it out here.

If you have an old computer, consider donating it. We are currently looking for a PIII with windows 98se or better computer. This computer will be used to run special software designed to help develop language in a child with special needs. Email lane@mybeausejour.com if you’re able to help. And thank you!

if you don’t want someone else deciding your fate.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006. That’s election day. If you haven’t received an enumeration card, you can still vote. Just show up with lots of ID, and they’ll direct you to the right booth and will take your vote.

Time to dust off and start fresh! And maybe enjoy some of that raspberry drink Sylvia tells us how to make!

Stock up on the goodies, and dig out your old bedsheets. The kids will be coming soon, and they deserve a good startle! When I was a kid, my favourite houses to go to were the ones where the grown ups played along. Like the guy who put a scare crow on a chair on his front porch weeks in advance, only to swap himself inside it. Kids coming up the walk would jump a mile when he popped up at them.

So let’s make these kids work for it! I like to put on a black light and hang up glow in the dark spider webs and things. I think I scare some of the parents too!

I’m not psychic, nor can I even remember something in the two minutes it takes me to hang up and phone and sit down at the computer. Because of this, I need your help.

If you scroll down the main page of mybeausejour.com, you’ll see a listing of community events. Did you know you can enter events yourself? In fact, I kind of rely on community members to do just that. Repeating events only need to be entered once, so don’t think you have to keep doing it. Once is enough.

If you want to spread the world about an event, this is a great place to do it. And it’s free, in case you thought otherwise.

How do I enter an event? Well, this is the place, click me!

A lot of people ask me about computer security when using the internet. Since a lot of viruses, spyware, trojans etc. make their way into computers through the email system, I recommend they use an email program that is safer than the standard Microsoft options. Since Outlook Express hasn’t been updated in an extremely long time, and since so many people use it, virus authors have made it their number one target. Just changing to another email program reduces infection risk considerably. If you choose an email program that is routinely updated, you’ll be fairly certain to have upgrades available that deal with any new threats that may arise.

What do I recommend? I think a fantastic email program is Thunderbird. It can handle multiple accounts, has all the features you would expect from a modern email program, and it just plain safer. It’s a fine example of what the open source community is capable of.

… around the spammers.

I’ve made it even harder than ever for spam to make it through the mybeausejour.com internet servers. I’ll watch these settings, and will decide if I want to make adjustments in the next few days. I haven’t seen a single piece make it through to any of my accounts for several hours. It’s freakishly quiet. I had to send myself some email just to reassure myself the internet wasn’t broken!

I’ve just about completed a major server upgrade. Completely new hardware, a bunch of new software, and most important, some really tight new spam blocks. Servers that allow spammers to send through them, even unknowingly, won’t be allowed into the mybeausejour.com email system. We handle email for the sites on the right that we host and more. We’re protecting them from the bad servers, which we’re blocking at the door. Spam can never be eliminated, but it’s now seriously reduced, and in a way that actually improves server performance. Spam, you are my enemy, and I will eat you!