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Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 7:08 PM
By John English
I have been thinking a lot lately about relationships and how they reveal who we are. Having dipped a toe into the writings of Carl Jung (1875-1961), a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst considered to be one of the most influential thinkers and writers on human psychology, I feel that I have a clearer view into how, in my many different kinds of relationships, I strive to express the completeness of my individual self.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 7:04 PM
Transportation, Gardening, Information, and Food
Since the Old School Community Gathering Place opened in 2011, we have developed more and more programs to improve the lives of everyone living on the Eastern Shore. Our current programs include the Wellbeing HUBS, Youth Employment Skills, Eastern Shore Mental Health, affordable housing, the food pantry, Enhance through Dance, Pride, Tai Chi, and Fibre Friends. We have also learned how participating in these programs provides people with a place to access skills, knowledge, and community resources.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 6:59 PM
By Cynthia Parr
There are many ways to remember and preserve bits of history: through the usual reading and writing or visiting museums, but also through conversation and the crafting of traditional objects. If you drive down the West Jeddore Road, you may notice a garage with around 40 painted buoys hung above the doors. Quentin Brown, a skilled woodworker and local historian, has created these buoys over the last 10 or 15 years.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 6:57 PM
By Dee Dwyer
“My grandmother used to do that !” or “that’s a lost art”--these are two comments that Karen Negus of Tatting for Spirit often hears when customer browse her unique and intricate tatting work. It is time-consuming--“It takes 25 minutes to make something the size of a quarter,” says Karen--but entirely appreciated by those who love her work. Imagine her tatting in a tranquil moment with her 18-year old African gray parrot, Ruby, perched on her knee.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 6:55 PM
By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
Collette Robertson’s photography reflects her love of being in and on the ocean, both in her professional life as a marine biologist and as an avid all-season surfer based in the Lawrencetown surfing community. Robertson works primarily with analog techniques (film) and is always exploring different photographic processes. She has tried dry plate, paper negatives, cyanotype, and Polaroid, and more recently started combining digital and analog processes.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 6:53 PM
By Savayda Jarone, Herbalist
Wild food foraging is a fast-growing hobby and lifestyle here in Nova Scotia and throughout North America. Foragers are driven by a desire to connect with nature’s offerings, to cultivate self-sufficiency, to reduce food costs, and to supplement their diets with nutrient-dense and natural foods.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 6:50 PM
By Robert Rutherford
The only firewood we had when we moved to West Petpeswick were the tops of red spruce the lumber barons didn't want. They left them where they lay among the younger trees that were too thin.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 6:48 PM
In last month’s article “The First Keepers of Jeddore Light,” Cynthia Parr laid out what she had learned from digging into local archives about the first three people who had served as lighthouse keepers (the expanded version of the article can be found on The Cooperator's website, in the Community & Culture tab).
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 6:44 PM
The Eastern Shore Cooperator has two positions through the Canada Summer Jobs program. The pay rate is $14.50/hr for a 30-hour work week, starting at the end of May.
If you would like to apply for one of these two positions, please send a resume and three samples of your work to [email protected] so that we can start interviewing as soon as we hear from CSJ.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · April 28, 2023 6:35 PM
By Richard Bell
Jessie Greenough already has a well-deserved reputation as a serial non-profit entrepreneur, having guided MusGo River to become one of the province’s most successful rural transportation provider. The provincial government recognized this success, asking Greenough to set up another non-profit offering the same service out of Sheet Harbour and the Musquodoboit Valley.
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