District 1
“Politics has always been in my blood,” Councillor Steve Streatch told the Cooperator in an interview. My father Ken served an MLA and a minster under John Buchanan, and my sister Judy’s been a minister as well. Running under the slogan, “Proven Ability,” Streatch has been through 9 elections, and held office for more than 13 years.
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District 2
After years in small businesses and community volunteering, Nicole Johnson decided to put her experience to work for the community. “Whatever I’ve done, it always kept me coming back to the community,” Johnson said in an interview with the Cooperator. “I’m not coming in with a personal agenda, I’m coming in to work with people collectively.”
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District 2
“I kept hearing people say we needed new blood, a new perspective, so I decided to put my name in the ring and give it a shot,” Tim Milligan told the Cooperator in an interview. In a short bio, he wrote that as the election got closer, he found himself “continually thinking, ‘If I don’t like something, I should (and thankfully can) do something about it.” He was “tired of ‘grumbling of what growth and leadership could be had within District 2.’”
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District 1
Moving from the world of robotic lawnmowers to Halifax City Council doesn’t seem like that big a jump to Stephen Kamperman. “I was ‘the Lawn Guy,’” Kamperman told the Cooperator in an interview. “I’ve been worried about our civic groups not getting the support they needed, so I decided to throw my name in for Councillor.”
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District 1
Cathy Deagle Gammon is making her second run for the District 1 seat. In 2016, she finished in 2nd place, only 400 votes behind in a six-way race.
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District 2
If exposure on Facebook video were the key to this election, David Boyd would win hands down.
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District 1
David Hendsbee is very clear about why he’s running for another term as District 2 Councillor: “I love my job.”
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District 1
Art Wamback brings a long history of military service to bear when he talks about why he wants to serve as the next city councillor for District 1. “I worked full time for 37 years in the Canadian Navy,” Wamback told the Cooperator. “I retired on March 1, 2020, but I didn’t last 6 months in retirement before I decided to run for Council.”
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By Jennifer Deacon
Starting a new art gallery on the Eastern Shore is a special challenge. Just ask Anthea Taljaard, who opened her Eastern Shores Gallery on July 10 on Hwy 7 in Head of Jeddore just east of the Jeddore shopping centre.
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By Richard Bell
Develop Nova Scotia, the agency in charge of bringing high-speed Internet service to rural Nova Scotia, today announced that Bell Atlantic would be providing fibre service to 4,890 homes and businesses on the Eastern Shore. The areas are shown in light purple on this map from Bell Aliant.
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