By Richard Bell
More than 100 people turned out on January 5 at the Ste. Therese Community Centre in Grand Desert for a Celebration of Life Service & Reception in memory of the late Oliver Wolfe, who passed away just before Christmas at the age of 103.
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By Richard Bell
Supporters of the Eastern Shore Lifestyles Centre in Sheet Harbour held a meeting in mid-January with Halifax officials to present their case for incorporating a new library into the Lifestyles Centre. Participants at the meeting included Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Public Library Board chair Tara Gault, and Åsa Kachan, chief librarian and CEO of the Halifax Public Libraries.
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By Richard Bell
Education Minister Zach Churchill has yet to release any information about the new site selection process that his department will use to select sites for new schools, like the replacement for Eastern Shore District High. The Community Campus Vision Association pushed hard to start the site selection this fall, but Churchill failed to act. There have been several projected release dates, but the date continues to recede into the future.
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Photo Caption: Len Berkman won $1,708 in the December 5 2018 drawing. Len registered at Wilson’s in Sheet Harbour. Also pictured are (center) Wilson’s owner Penny Mayo and (right) Hope Chest Volunteer Janice Christie.
By Richard Bell
Supporters of building a new Lifestyles Centre in Sheet Harbour have had a highly successful year with their Hope Chest fundraising campaign, raising more than $20,000 with the help of an army of volunteers and the cooperation of local businesses from Ship Harbour to Moser River.
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By Richard Bell
Parents at the Ecole des Beaux Marais (EdBM) are stepping up their efforts to persuade the province to build a new school to replace the aging, increasingly overcrowded facility in Porters Lake.
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By Gregory Hughes
As the newest board member with the Coastal Voices Men's Choir (CVMC), I've been curious about the beginnings of this Eastern Shore-based group of singers. Founding member Tim Bruschett shared some of the history leading up to the choir’s first season of song in 2011.
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By Richard Bell
Halifax author David Woods has been working for years on his play about the experiences of African Nova Scotian during the 1917 Halifax Explosion. In researching “Extraordinary Act,” he has in turn come upon one extraordinary story after another about the courage and bravery of African Nova Scotians during the disaster, and the insidious effects of racism during the recovery.
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By Karen Bradley with Richard Bell
“The Right to be Rural” was the provocative title of a talk on November 15 at the Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library by Dalhousie professor Dr. Karen Foster.
Foster ran through the litany of rural-put-downs by urban elites that we are all already too familiar with. But she also touched on some more recent ideas about how rural communities could create locally-based economies that don’t depend on the old boom-and-bust cycle of extractive industries like coal or gold, or the destruction of renewable resources like clear-cutting forests.
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Letter to the Editor from Kevin Clattenburg
Funny reading the Cooperatorhaving DFO scientists weighing in on kelp and seaweed about how great it is here when overharvesting was taking place at Pleasant Harbour Tangier and DFO was unaware. Thankfully us that live here complained and the situation was finally rectified 2 weeks later. Again DFO was abusing our waters; apparently an American company sold their license, and the new company was unaware of the heavy harvesting of the rockweed that already took place. I wonder how this will affect the baby lobster the lobster fishery in later years?
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The Cooperator will be hosting this resource page to pull together information from all sources on the school site selection process to replace Eastern Shore District High School. We will be including information from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, the Halifax Regional Education Center, the defunct Halifax Regional School Board, the Cooperator’s stories on the issue, and reports from grassroots groups and non-governmental organizations in the current catchment basin.
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