By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
In communities around the world and along the Eastern Shore, people are sharing climate change concerns and action strategies for reducing their environmental impact. Some are making significant lifestyle changes, like building off-grid homes or getting rid of their cars to reduce their carbon footprint. Others are looking for less dramatic changes that they can make quickly. Many feel overwhelmed with the possibilities, and question if one person or family can really make any difference without a huge investment of time and/or money.
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ByKaren Schlick
Flowers, art, and sipping tea, is a perfect combination! This year, the annual Petals and Paint event at the Old School has been extended to two days; Saturday July 13 and Sunday July 14th, from 12 to 5.
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The new Tim Hortons/Shell is going up fast in Musquodoboit Harbour. Bruce Vienneau, who is building the new facility, provided lots of new information at the June Town Hall meeting of the Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs.
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By John Verlinden
Travelling by rail from Upper Musquodoboit to Dartmouth was not for the faint of heart in those early days of the service. During the winter, the cars were cold and people would try to gather around a coal stove to keep warm. During the summer, it was the opposite – hot and uncomfortable.
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By Mackenzie Myatt
[Editor’s Note: We are happy to have Mackenzie Myatt interning this summer at the Cooperator. She’s one of the top mountain bikers in Canada, and we asked her to share some of recent experience preparing for a recent World Cup race in Europe.]
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Any time you start talking about getting water to the core of Musquodoboit Harbour, you hear the same groans I heard at the June meeting of the Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce: “Oh no, we’ve been talking about that since I was the chair of the Ratepayers Commission back in the 1990s.” Only to be topped by an even louder groan, “I was sitting here 50 years ago talking about water.”
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By Richard Bell
Archbishop Anthony Mancini’s announcement on June 16 of the closing of five of the eight Catholic churches on the Eastern Shore has ignited a powerful protest from the parishioners of St. Anslem’s in West Chezzetcook, including the formation of a new society, the Friends of St. Anselm’s Society, dedicated to re-opening the church. The society has already appealed to Mancini to reverse his decision about St. Anselm and plans to appeal all the way to Rome if necessary, a process that may take several years.
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By Richard Bell
What do you call a construction & demolition debris (C&D) recycling plant if you can’t get HRM’s Planning Department to approve its construction? How about a Used Building Material retail outlet?
Don’t laugh.
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By Mackenzie Myatt
On Wednesday, June 5th, more than 100 people attended and were highly engaged in the NS Department of Lands and Forests information presentation and public consultation on the redevelopment of Lawrencetown Beach at Lawrencetown Community Centre. The meeting came only days after community residents and area surfers had gathering for a paint-in protest at the main beach building.
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By Mackenzie Myatt
On June 10th, Canada passed legislation that bans keeping whales, dolphins and porpoises in captivity for entertainment. The new law makes it more likely that the Whale Sanctuary Project will succeed in building its first sanctuary, possibly at one of the Eastern Shore locations it has been scouting.
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