On the April 2017 issue of the Cooperator, we reported that short stories by two students at Musquodoboit Rural High School had been selected for publishing in a book in a national contest run by Polar Expressions Publishing. The correct name for the grade 9 student is Ashton Kaspar. We regret the error. (The other student was Alessa Hounsell, grade 12.)
By Richard Bell
The final version of the Musquodoboit Harbour Community Development Plan is now available on the website of the Musquodoboit Harbour Chamber of Commerce & Civic Affairs (http://www.mhacc.ca/community-development-plan/.) The Chamber hired the urban design firm Ekistics Plan+Design to prepare this latest iteration of the community visioning process that began back in 2006.
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The next provincial election will take place on May 30, 2017. This page has links to the information you need about voting (registering, polling places, etc.) and links to the webpages and social media sites of the candidates.
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By Gina Dunn
March 27 to April 9 is a busy time this year in Musquodoboit Harbour. It is the Eastern Shore 22nd Annual Invitational Recreational Minor Hockey Tournament. With four age divisions, 32 teams and more than 500 youth hockey players participating in this tournament over the two weeks, it is one of the largest and well established tournaments in Nova Scotia.
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Stories keep people and events alive. Stories are the motivation for our social history. The Tangier School/Church Hall’s silent walls record memorable and life changing events of more than half a century of a rural Eastern Shore community. There, in the cracks, crevices, and knots of hand hewn timbers of a local spruce, are echoed and embedded the cries of children going unwillingly to school for the first time. Images of generations of mothers and their children are locked within the walls. Nova Scotia Church Halls are "the storehouse of the past and the birthplace of the future."
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