By Richard Bell
Lighthouse Links announced on November 23, 2021 that it is withdrawing from the December 16, 2019 letter of Offer that it had signed with the province to purchase Owls Head Provincial Park and convert it into a luxury housing development with a few golf courses.
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By Richard Bell
The Whale Sanctuary Project (WSP) took a major step forward with the October 29 opening of its Visitor and Operations Centre in a 100-year-old house in Sherbrooke, not far from the site of the proposed sanctuary itself in Port Hilford. The pathbreaking nature of the project and its potential economic impact on the area was reflected in the turnout of federal, provincial, and local elected officials, including Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor Arthur Joseph LeBlanc and his wife Patricia, newly appointed federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser, several Guysborough Councillors, and HRM District 2 City Councillor David Hendsbee.
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By Jennifer Deacon
After a career in nursing that took her from Halifax to Yellowknife, Rosalie Parsons retired to Spry Harbour and a whole new career as a master quilter and teacher.
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The following memory is taken from one of the stories that will appear in a new book written by Brian Staple called, This Place Knows Me. The book, scheduled for release this December is a collection of stories about life growing up in Musquodoboit Harbour.
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By Richard Bell
Betting on the Eastern Shore has paid off handsomely for Bruce and Stephanie Murphy of Musquodoboit Harbour. In just over three years, they’ve gone from a start-up to The Shore Clothing Company, a small business that has thrived while the pandemic was claiming so many other small businesses across the country. We sat down for an interview in their old barn that they converted into a production studio.
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By Cassandra Grosse
The long-running effort to secure land titles for hundreds of landowners in North Preston, East Preston, Cherry Brook/Lake Loon, Lincolnville and Sunnyville, the Land Titles Initiative (LTI), has a new Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Nova Scotia Office of Equity and Anti-Racism Initiatives, Alisha Brown-Fagan (photo). She succeeds Angela Simmonds, who took over LTI only last spring. Simmonds has moved on to the Nova Scotia Assembly, after winning the Liberal seat for the new Preston riding in the August 17, 2021, election.
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I urge Premier Houston to rescind the sale of Owl’s Head Provincial Park, the
coastal park reserve that the Liberal government secretly offered to sell for $306
per acre ($216,000 for 705 acres).
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By John English
Libraries and bookstores abound with titles that purport to show me how to determine my life purpose
– “Discovering Your Soul’s Purpose”, “Pathway to Purpose”, “The Meaningful Life”, etc. I have also noted
that there are many “life coaches” and self-styled gurus who are prepared to guide me to a life of
greater fulfillment and happiness. The surfeit of these offerings suggests that meaning and purpose are
important components of life, and that if I’m not trying to determine what my life purpose is, I should
be. The cynic in me also recognizes the cash value of my search for meaning for the many spiritual
counselors waiting to assist in my search, for a price.
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The 15th Annual Children’s Christmas Wishes runs from mid-November to mid-December. Buy a gift for a
less fortunate child. Tags of Wishes will be on the Tree at Sobey’s Check-out Musquodoboit
Harbour. Deliver gifts tagged & unwrapped to Musquodoboit Harbour Library by December 11 to put in the
Christmas Wishes bin (not the general foodbank gift bin) Register your tag at
[email protected] or 902-889-3440. Gifts are distributed via Foodbank.
