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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With the recent losses to the community of Austin Mannette and Kim Young, we would like to offer condolences to their family and friends. Both of these people gave so much to their Shore communities. Austin’s nursery was one of the Cooperator’s most loyal advertisers. We loved talking politics with him while we picked up flowers for the office’s flower boxes. We came to appreciate Kim’s dynamism and her caring concern for her community early in the paper’s history when she and her husband Mike spearheaded the community fight against HRM’s sudden enforcement of a 100-foot road frontage rule. They are missed already.
--Richard Bell, Editor
By Stephanie Parrish, Hope for Wildlife Society
Every year, Hope for Wildlife receives hundreds of calls regarding seals lying on beaches or ice flows; this is the time of year where you may start to see more seals spending time on land.
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By Dee Dwyer
If you’ve taken a walk on the Gaetz Brook Greenway, you may have seen a wooden owl perched on one of the trail`s bridges. Or driving along Pleasant Drive in Gaetz Brook, you pass a lawn full of quirky, one-of-a kind sculptures and whimsical Minions. These creations are some of the wonderful creatures made by the personable and generous Calvin McKay.
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