The Eastern Shore Musquodoboit Valley Literacy Network (ESMV Literacy) extends a Call of Interest for Board Members to help support literacy in the communities served by our network.
Please contact Vicki Rutledge at 902-391-0014 or email [email protected] for more information.
Good news for ice cream lovers! Roz Staple, the owner of the Polar Bear Express Ice Cream stand, has reopened her business. We were able to reach Staple by email about her business.
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By Richard Bell
There’s a brand-new contender on the battlefield of grassroots groups fighting to prevent some of the biggest aquaculture companies in the world from going ahead with massive expansions of their controversial open-net finfish farm operations in Nova Scotia’s shallow coastal waters: the Healthy Bays Network (HBN). The new organization includes the Twin Bays Coalition (location), St. Mary’s Bay Protectors, Protect Liverpool Bay, and the Association for the Preservation of the Eastern Shore (APES), with additional support from the Ecology Action Centre, the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and the Nova Scotia Salmon Association.
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The public health requirement for social distancing to fight Covid-19 can create a variety of social and emotional challenges. Now there’s a new, free program, “Cyber Social,” to provide education on how to maintain or improve health during this time through one-on-one telephone or video calls over a privacy-compliant health care platform.
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By Amy Collett
The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected countless nonessential small businesses. Now that the government has started to open things up again, owners might be wondering how to navigate the next few months while keeping their employees safe and increasing sales. The following resources will help getting through the transition of reopening.
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By Jude Major
As the weather suddenly took a turn for the better and the warmer, so too did the plots in the Musquodoboit Harbour Community Garden. It’s amazing what a little sun and warmth will do for growing green things and for improving a mood.
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By David Shuman
The Musquodoboit Harbour and Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs (MHACCCA) has released a program supporting COVID recovery for the area’s small businesses called “Chamber Bucks.” The Chamber used $5,000 of its own funds and created vouchers that people can use at some local businesses.
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Lands and Forestry has no rehabilitation program for orphaned black bear cubs: it kills them. The cruel policy recently made waves nationally with the death of an orphaned cub left at Hope for Wildlife. The centre legally had to notify L&F, which collected the cub immediately and killed it. There is a change.org petition to change this policy to one of rehabilitation.
Thanks to a quick response from Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency and Lands & Forestry, and favourable winds, emergency responders were able to contain a large brush fire in a heavily wooded area of Porters Lake. The first report of the fire came in at approximately 12:30 pm on Saturday, May 23, on a weekend in which a provincial fire burn was in effect. The total area covered by the fire was roughly 50 hectares, and there were no injuries or damages to homes.
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By Richard Bell
We have been getting questions from readers about the unsolicited appearance in their mailboxes of an 8-page version of the newspaper called The Epoch Times, claiming that the Chinese government was responsible for the COVID-19 virus. We had also been seeing a sudden burst of advertising videos on Facebook urging people to subscribe to the paper. There are news reports about this 8-page subscription solicitation showing up in mailboxes elsewhere in Canada.
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