N.B. news: Message in a bottle found in Portage Vale [Video]

Seven-year-old Scarlett Robichaud spends two weeks in Portage Vale, N.B., every summer visiting her great-grandparents, and while every visit is special she made an extra special memory this year.

On July 8, Scarlett threw a message in a bottle into a river.

“It said my name and my age and my address,” she said.

Her reason behind it made a lot of sense.

“I wanted to see if I would make a new friend,” said Scarlett.

Just 10 days later, Scarlett received an email.

“I just said that I have never found one living for 19-years at that place. I never found anything like it and I thought it was really sweet and special that I did,” said 19-year-old Sophie Sheppard.

Sheppard says she found the bottle stuck in between two trees while visiting her mom and childhood home.

“I thought somebody was just littering, to be honest, I thought somebody had just tossed that bottle in the river and just let it go, so I went …