By Nathalie Green
After two years of cancellation and delay, the eleventh annual Sambea National Jumper Festival is taking place on June 18th at Sambea Farm 24 Conrad Road, Lawrencetown. The event hosts riders and their horses eager to test their skills against curated jumping courses. The competition starts at 8:30 am.
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By Jennifer Deacon
Clara Clayton-Gough is an East Preston resident, a mother of seven and a seventh-generation African Nova Scotian basket weaver.
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By Savayda Jarone, Herbalist
I believe we would be healthier if we made more soup!
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By Thomas Scott
The Sambea National Jumper Festival returned on June 18 for the first time since the pandemic.
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[Editor’s Note: This editorial represents the opinion of this newspaper about the location and design of the proposed new school. In our own stories, we have interviewed and quoted proponents and opponents of the Eastern Shore Industrial Park site, and have published unedited submissions from proponents. This editorial contains the conclusions we have come to after reviewing what we know. To the extent that our conclusions are in any way provisional, we deeply regret that both the previous Liberal government and the current PC government have refused to release critical information that should have been public before the selection of the site.]
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By Richard Bell
One of the remaining mysteries about the secretive site selection process for the new consolidated junior/senior high is exactly how long ago the Liberal government decided to locate the school in the Eastern Shore Industrial Park in East Chezzetcook.
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Slide from SST showing features of consolidated junior/senior high. The main entry is at the top in gray. High school on left wing, junior high on right wing. Bright green rectangles are classrooms; dark blue rectangles on the senior and junior wings are labs. The large red rectangle in the center is the gym, with unisex changing room above. Orange is cafetorium. Next to gym, lower pink space is music room, opening to a low stage and the cafetorium. Above music is pink theatre room that can open into the gym.
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By Richard Bell
For the last two years, the former government and now the current government have refused to allow the public to see the contents of a March 2020 Public Works technical report on two possible sites for replacing Eastern Shore District High (FOIPOP requests 2020-20456-TIR and 2021-0172-DPW).
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By Jennifer Deacon
There was some sort of enchantment in the air when Jackie Barkhouse and Monika McEwen were brought together. "We met through craft shows and had an instant connection,” Barkhouse told me in an interview. “At that time, I had my business, Saltwater Soul Inspired, and Monika was running Monika McEwen Art Dolls. We believe in Mother Nature and the wonders that she provides us, and we believe that we all have magic inside us. Things like the faeries have always been of interest because they were in the stories and songs I grew up hearing from my Irish father."
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The province has put additional funds into several income assistance programs, including heating assistance and income support.
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