At the June 17 General Meeting of the Eastern Marine Branch 161 Legion Amy Randell, 4th Year University student and Kegan O’Grady, 1st Year University student, received their Bursaries from President Dean Othen. Congratulations and best of luck in your studies.
By Dee Dwyer
The potter Iris Naessens-Patterson and the artist and teacher Marlene York had a show last year called Accelerated Erosion where they made art of the clay from the coast of Lawrencetown. Iris made pots, but Marlene York made paintings from the clay!
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By Richard Bell
The Four Harbours Legion in East Ship Harbour is launching a Veterans War Memorial Banner Project this fall in collaboration with the Musquodoboit Harbour Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs (MHACCCA). The Legion will be working with veterans and their families to create banners that will be displayed on poles along Highway 7 from Musquodoboit Harbour east to East Ship Harbour.
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By Grant Spearman, President CVMC
It’s a wrap for another year!
Coastal Voices Men’s Choir finished off another successful season with back to back concerts on the May 24/25th weekend at Calvin United Church in Lawrencetown and St Peter’s Catholic Church in Sheet Harbour.
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‘I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas’
“The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
--T.S.Eliot
An apt literary snippet in lobster season is not hard to find. Though Eliot was referring to the low mental state of his subject, it’s a beautifully phrased and memorable image. Poetry in motion, literally.
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By Richard Bell
If you were looking for the best mead in Canada, Musquodoboit Harbour would be an unlikely place to start.
But at this year’s All Canadian Wine Championships, the Harbour’s own Fireside Meadery won a double gold for its Ember Metheglin mead (made with water, honey, and spices), the best in its category, and a gold for its other mead offering, Sunset Cyser (made from apple cider and honey).
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By Savayda Jarone – Herbalist
There’s something so precious about summer — the sunshine, the fresh berries, the herbs bursting with flavour. It’s a season that practically begs to be bottled up and savoured. And guess what? You can do just that… with homemade herbal syrups!
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By John English
“There is nothing on this earth more
to be prized than true friendship.”
--Thomas Aquinas
I desire connection. As a human being, I am a very social animal; I need a “tribe”, a social group in which I feel accepted, protected and valued. Within this social group is my family unit – parents, grandparents, children, and extended relatives – but also included are my fellow group members, my neighbours and co-workers and coffee shop mates. Among this non-family component of the social group are my friends.
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By Kaitlyn MacNeill
After the Hammons Plains and Upper Tantallon wildfires in 2023, as well as the more recent wildfires in California this past spring, the effects of climate change have become clearer than ever before, raising questions about fire insurance.
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