By Alanna Jones
Legion 147 Musquodoboit Valley is gearing up for this year's annual fishing derby. The event has become a major fundraiser for the Legion with nearly 200 tickets sold last year
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The province will be holding a public meeting on June 5 at 7 pm at the Lawrencetown Community Centre to present plans for repairing and restoring the rundown Lawrencetown Beach Park.
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By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
After a seemingly endless wet winter season, the weather is finally warming. For Pippa Creery and Bob Kloske, the arrival of spring means finally getting back to working on their earth-bermed tire home in Ship Harbour.
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By Dee Dwyer
Many dog owners on the Eastern Shore may be familiar with Katie’s Farm and the organic dog biscuits that Jude Major made from her garden, the first certified organic farm on the Eastern Shore.
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The Railway Station comes to life this month with a busy line up of events and projects. Opening day is scheduled for Monday, June 17th. The Museum was fortunate to receive funding from both the Provincial and Federal governments to hire students for the summer. The first few days, staff will be on site setting up the Visitor Information Centre, getting the displays ready for the museum, and welcoming its first tourists of the season.
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At the Nova Scotia Lions Club Convention on April 27th, the President of the Musquodoboit Harbour & District Lions Club, Jeff Crowell (on left) presented a cheque for $ 24,000 to the Nova Scotia Director for the Lions Foundation of Canada, Dave Manning, to sponsor the training of two Autism Assistance dogs.
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By Richard Bell
Gold companies are stumbling over themselves staking claims across vast swathes of central Nova Scotia. The gold at stake is disseminated gold, in particles largely invisible to the naked eye. But by using open-pit mining and a water/cyanide-based extraction process, companies can make big profits with gold selling at over $1,000 per ounce, provided that the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency approves all the proposed mines, and no significant local opposition develops.
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By Richard Bell
In a surprise visit to the Eastern Shore on Wednesday, May 8, Jonathan Wilkinson, the current Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard, indicated that he was seriously considering a radical change in DFO’s entire approach to the hotly contested Eastern Shore Islands Marine Protected Area (ESI-MPA): co-management with communities. He noted several times during the course of the 90-minute meeting that the entire ESI-MPA proposal might never happen.
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Letter to the Editor: RCMP Arrest
The treatment of John Perkins by the RCMP and Atlantic Gold’s security thug at a community meeting in Sherbrooke on May 24th was appalling Most in attendance were shocked and astonished by the unnecessary use of force and the RCMP’s role in supporting the Company in its’ efforts to rid the meeting of anyone questioning Atlantic Gold’s plans for the area
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[Editor’s Note: On April 4, the HRM Harbour East Marine Drive Community Council (HEMDC) voted unanimously to accept an HRM staff report recommending against rezoning a parcel of land along Highway 7 in Porters Lake to use as a construction & demolition (C&D) processing site. But Lawrence Bellefontaine’s Kiann Management Ltd. then appealed this decision to the Utility and Review Board (URB). Use the search engine on the Cooperator website for articles on this long struggle, which began in 2015. Just click on the looking glass in the upper right corner.]
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