The Eastern Shore Food Bank is now offering fresh bread from the nearby Dobbit Bakehouse on the first Wednesday of each month.
Paul Nicholl, owner of Dobbit’s, told the Cooperator that the store had been supplying the Food Bank with loaves of frozen bread. “But I wanted to do something better than that,” Nicholl said. “I reached out to my flour suppliers, and they agreed to donate enough flour to make 32 loaves of Granny’s White Bread, which we knew was the most popular bread with families. We provide all the other ingredients. And one of our bakers, Colleen, agreed to donate her time to actually make the bread.”
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Spring has finally sprung, and life is returning to the Musquodoboit Harbour Railway Museum. According to John Verlinden, President of the Heritage Society, the Museum is looking forward to the new season and welcoming visitors and community members to its facility.
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Letter to the Editor
Judging by the number of letters to the editor of this paper and the Chronicle Herald, along with the profusion of “No MPA Here” signs along the Eastern Shore, a visitor might well assume that the residents of this area are unanimous in not wanting an MPA here
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By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
Building an earth-bermed tire home is an adventure that it not without its challenges. In the March issue, Pippa Creery and Bob Kloske shared some of what inspired them to take on this labour-intensive project (“Earthships: A New Way of Building,” March 2019).
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The RCMP is investigating a break-in and vandalism at the Orenda Canoe Club in Lake Echo sometime overnight Easter Sunday into Monday. The Club is in the middle of a large-scale renovation to add a second floor and double the size of the original building’s footprint. The Club posted the following information on its Facebook site about the incident and the RCMP’s investigation:
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The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) has named Central Nova MP Sean Fraser as the winner in the Parliamentarian category its 2019 Champions of Mental Health.
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By Richard Bell
On May 2, the Harbour East Marine Drive Community Council is scheduled to vote on moving ahead with a proposal to set up a Porters Lake Business Improvement District (BID).
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By Richard Bell
With a presentation before the HRM Standing Committee on Transportation at the end of March, MusGo Rider took another step towards establishing a Fixed Loop Transit Service along Highway 207. The proposed 40km loop would run from Porter’s Lake Terminal along Highway 207 to the terminal in Portland Hills, with a connection to Cole Harbour Place.
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By Meaghan Salter
The 8thannual VDay on the Shore will be looking at our relationship with the earth and how violence toward women and the earth are related. For the last 8 years, Women Addressing Violence on the Eastern Shore (WAVES) has used the VDay celebration to help all people understand the role that violence plays in all our lives, through stories, poems, songs, art work, and other media
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By Richard Bell
Memory Lane Heritage Village is closing in on its fundraising goal to make it the first museum in Nova Scotia, and maybe the first in all of Canada, to get all of its electricity from onsite solar panels.
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