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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By Fiona Brooks
The Nova Scotia Nature Trust is a non-government charity dedicated to protecting Nova Scotia’s natural legacy through private land conservation. Over the past 25 years, we have protected over 100 special places all across the province, from old growth forests to habitat for rare turtles. One of our most exciting campaigns is about protecting the 100 Wild Islands on the Eastern Shore.
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By Brian Murphy
[Editor’s note: In promoting the creation of a Marine Protected Area along the Eastern Shore, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has cited increased tourism as a potential source of new jobs and new businesses. But opponents of the MPA are questioning this assumption, raising questions about the impact of increased tourism, such as increased litter and habitat disruption.
Brian Murphy, has found himself the subject of an unfounded rumor that he supports creating the MPA to further the fortunes of his company, Murphy’s Camping on the Ocean. Murphy contacted the Cooperator, and shared lengthy emails he had written trying to set the record straight. This article is an edited version of two of these emails.]
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Only 3 more days left for a chance to win a $20 gift card from Sobeys, Tim Hortons, Superstore, or Starbucks. All you have to do is go online and fill out an anonymous survey for the Dalhousie-sponsored “SAMoSA Study” (an unlikely acronym for Spatial Accessibility to a Multitude of Services and Amenities.)
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