Posted by
Gina Dunn · December 08, 2015 2:01 AM
By Maelissa Watson
It is that time of year, Quilting Time on the Eastern Shore. Eileen Bradley, a talented, dedicated, and experienced quilter graciously agreed to share her life story. Growing up as a child in Tangier, she watched her Mother, Edna Hawes Cooper nee Mason sew. Her Mother took patterns from Eaton’s and Simpson’s catalogs drew the design on paper; measured the child that needed a dress, skirt, trousers, or a coat and pronto perfect fashion. Eileen has fond memories of the numerous beautiful coats and dresses her Mother made for her. Clippings of all the materials left over were carefully stored in a basket for quilts or hooked rugs,
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Posted by
Gina Dunn · December 08, 2015 1:49 AM
Eastern Shore District High School sports schedules
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Posted by
Gina Dunn · December 08, 2015 1:36 AM
I learned from Councilor Hendsbee’s latest monthly communiqué that HRM is replacing our existing orange sodium streetlights with brighter blue LED lights. According to HRM, this change of some 44,000 streetlights will result in “improved visibility and safety for all users.”
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Posted by
Gina Dunn · December 08, 2015 1:30 AM
I was so excited to be chosen as an instructor for a “The Year of Craft” Fibre Arts Conference organized by the Newfoundland and Labrador Craft Council. There were fourteen crafters covering the fibre arts of quilting, net making, felting (both high fashion and nature-inspired sculpture) embroidery, dying and printing, tapestry weaving, paper making, sculptural knitting, and me, hand spinning yarn –from Canada, the U.S., England, and India.
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Posted by
Gina Dunn · December 08, 2015 1:22 AM
We on the Shore cannot afford to stay silent anymore. To build a future, we as communities must become the authors of our own destinies.
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Posted by
Gina Dunn · December 08, 2015 1:03 AM
This is in response to Richard Bell's recent comments in the Co-operator:
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Gina Dunn · December 08, 2015 12:58 AM
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Gina Dunn · November 30, 2015 12:00 PM
Eastern Shore Bantam A Girls team wins the GOLD medal
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As anyone who remembers their tenure as the owners of the Salmon River Inn, Musquodoboit Harbour’s Adrien Blanchette and Elisabeth Schwarzer know how to get things done.
So it’s not surprising to find them taking the lead to navigate through the bureaucratic hoops to start bringing refugees from the Middle East and Africa to the Eastern Shore.
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