Market Square Boardwalk

Most Saint John residents enjoy the Market Square Boardwalk as sort of a "new-fashioned" town square where fun and events happen in the sun & fog all summer long.  This past week they launched a new website that captures some the excitment & action of the Boardwalk in an interactive format at: www.marketsquareboardwalk.com 

A neat feature on the site is the ablity to actually join as a member to receive updates & have a chance to win some cool prizes! 

You can also get live updates from the Boardwalk on Twitter at: twitter.com/attheboardwalk

I know I'm looking forward to the Joel Plaskett Emergency on June 30th for sure!

Harness Racing in New Brunswick

On Monday I headed down to the Fredericton Raceway to check out the racing debut of the horse "Khayam I Am". A Fredericton group dubbed "The Syndicate" recently chipped in and bought "Ky" and have been attracting some great attention to great tradition of harness racing here in the province of New Brunswick. I must admit it had been many years since I had been to a horse track here in the province but I was instantly caught up in the excitement. Winning a bit of money certainly helped my day as well!

In the end, Khayam I Am finished a strong second in an exciting race that apparently featured some of the greatest crowd cheers heard at the racetrack in years.  Check out the video of the race on Facebook here. 

Best of luck this season Ky! Hopefully we can see her down here in Saint John at EPR sometime.

 Here is a neat history of racing at the Fredericton Racetrack from YouTube:

Red Ball Internet

Had the chance to hang out with the guys at Red Ball Internet today and I was really excited to check out a growing New Brunswick company with such a cool product. Red Ball offers both the public & private sector the ability to pretty much mobilize anything, allowing a new way of thinking about doing everything from delivering a pizza to monitoring entire municipalities. After a few minutes with their team I realized the sky truly is the limit with the possibilites for their innovation.  Check them out online at: redballinternet.ca

   

Opera Bistro on Twitter

My long time friends at Opera Bistro in Saint John have jumped on to Twitter recently. By "tweeting" out their daily restaurant specials to a local network of followers, I think Opera is catching on to an important new wave of Twitter users: those that provide tidbits of useful information to their followers. Opera has been sending out the daily lunch special (sometimes with photos) around 11:30am giving hungry uptown office workers a sneak peak at their potential lunch. I find the CBC NB news feed and Crabbe Mountain ski report similar in their usefulness. I find it far more helpful then another "web marketing guru" adding me from Denver or San Fransisco. Hopefully we will see more of this type of local tweeting soon.

Follow Opera Bistro at: twitter.com/operabistro