By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
With the holiday season fast approaching, many of us are looking for gift giving ideas that are both fun and practical. Homemade treats from local produce offer a solution you can customize to suit the occasion and the recipient.
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Photo Caption: The artists at work behind Joe: Jayden Stockall, Logan Sangster, and Hannah Myers (Grade 6 students).
By Karen Bradley
Some time ago, renowned local artist Joe Purcell (aka Joe Black) shared two paintings with the Porter’s Lake Elementary School. The paintings disappeared during moving, until Paul O’Toole, the new Fine Arts Integration specialist for the Halifax Regional Centre for Education accidentally stumbled upon them. O’Toole was so amazed by the paintings that he made sure they were soon hung in the school hallway where the children could see them and be inspired by them.
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The parishioners of St Anselm’s Church in West Chezzetcook are still working hard to re-open their church. The church was closed to parishioners on November 11, 2018 due to the presence of nontoxic mold.
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By Richard Bell
There was a respectful HRM Planning public information hearing on November 18 at the Old School in Musquodoboit Harbour on Bianca and Pierre-Luc Sevigny’s request for a Development Agreement for “intensive agricultural use” on their newly acquired 7.58 plot (PID #41032590) on West Petpeswick Road in Musquodoboit Harbour. The hearing was largely a replay of an exchange that had been taking place on Facebook since word of the request first got out.
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By Lesley Magee
On the first Tuesday of October, a group of community members with diagnoses of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other mobility and cognitive challenges, along with their caregivers, got together at the Old School Community Gathering Place for their first Enhance Through Dance session.
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By Richard Bell
HRM and the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR) have spent tens of millions of dollars between the construction of the William Porter Connector Road, and Porters Lake Elementary School.
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By Richard Bell
Parents of the splitting-at-the-seams L’Ecole des Beaux Marais in Porters Lake are bitterly disappointed by the failure of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) to include a replacement for the school in the new 2019-2024 Nova Scotia School Capital Plan.
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URB HEARING ON C&D DUMP POSTPONED
The powerful UItility and Review Board has postponed the hearing on the Kiann Management (Lawrence Bellefontaine) appeal of HRM's rejection of its request to rezone a parcel of land on Highway 7 in Porters Lake for use as a construction & demolition debris waste processing facility. The Concerned Residents of Porters Lake, Lake Echo, Preston and Mineville Areas had been mobilizing opponents to testify at this hearing.
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The 2019 Eastern Shore Mens Open Slo Pitch League season has come to an end in Musquodoboit Harbour. The league held its annual league playoffs with 11 teams playing for 2 divisional titles. The B Division was decided between The Wild and Harbour Yard Goats, with the Yard Goats (shown above) beating the Wild two straight games to take home the title in the Double knockout format. The deciding game had a final score of 13-11. Finals MVP went to Nick Power of the Yard Goats.
In the A final, it was a tight battle between the Schooners and Myrtles Turtles. The game was decided by just 1 run, 12- 11 with the Turtles (shown below) taking home their 5th straight title. Nick George was the Finals MVP for the Turtles. By winning their 5th straight title, the Turtles tie a long-standing league record of consecutive championships with the great Fence Buster teams of the early 2000’s.
The Odd Sox (shown above) won the B division championship, defeating the Dirty Dozen,with the Angels coming in 3rd. This was the second straight B division championship for the Odd Sox.
The Lady Aces (below) won the A division Championship, defeating last year’s champions Chaos, with the Vixens coming in 3rd place.
