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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By Mackenzie Myatt
Declining participation in the Eastern Shore Minor Hockey Association (ESMHA) has prompted another proposal to officially partner or merge with the Cole Harbour Minor Hockey Association. The issue is likely to be a topic of debate at the ESMHA’s Annual General Meeting on Sunday, May 26that 6:30pm in the Bingo Hall.
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Letter to the Editor
The Provincial Government has granted Cermaq Canada, a fully owned subsidiary of the giant Japanese industrial company Mitsubishi, four options to lease sites in the Chedabucto Bay and St Mary’s region for Marine based Fish Farms. BUT this is just the start. The company hopes to obtain about 20 salmon farm licenses in Nova Scotia.
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Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, and Labour, sent a letter on April 25 to Central Nova MP Sean Fraser letting him know that she had assigned officials to consult with Statistics Canada to work on coming up with an "equitable" way for HRM's 3 rural hospitals to participate in the federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Family Nurses and doctors. For background on this story, go to "Feds Moving to End Rural Hospital Injustice."
Minister Hajdu's letter.
