This presentation mentions that “a minimum of 80+ acres is required for the campus development.
Thanks officials for approving a replacement for ESDH.
As part of our effort to offer different perspectives on the site selection process, the Cooperator will be producing a series of interviews with people who are working on defining what that process ought to look like. The first interview in this series took place on November 12, 2018 with Kent Smith, chair of the Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce & Civic Association. The Chamber has published a detailed report arguing that the new high school should be sited in Musquodoboit Harbour in order to provide students with access to all the services already available, from the rink to the hospital to the library. This video is 8 minutes long.
The stories below ran in the Eastern Shore Cooperator. The stories are in reverse chronological order.
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By DJ Shuman
In the last week of September, I was one of three ESDH students who travelled to Edmonton, Alberta to attend the Canadian Student Leadership Conference. As representatives of Nova Scotia, we learned a lot about how to be effective leaders, what diversity looks like in a changing world, and what the future of Canada can look like.
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By Richard Bell
Anyone who’s ever tried to grow anything along the Eastern Shore knows how unwelcoming the thin rocky soils can be. But Frank Cheevers doesn’t worry much about the soil at his hillside farm on West Lawrencetown Road that he calls Skeldale Farm.
He’s growing plenty of food, but the roots of his arugula and spinach never touch the earth: his entire production comes from a sprawling greenhouse housing hundreds of yards of piping feeding liquid nutrition to his produce.
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By Dee Dwyer
Last month, I profiled Joan Baxter, Karen Bradley, and Gwen Davies, who will read at the Fall for Books Festival 2018 at the Old School on Sunday, November 4 from 1 pm to 4 pm. This month I am profiling the other three authors reading on that date: Brian Bartlett, Genevieve Graham, and Richard Bell.
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By Dee Dwyer
You may have seen Musquodoboit Harbour’s Catherine Berry running by the road somewhere on one of the many loops along the Eastern Shore, a slight figure with a trademark hat firmly in place. Sometimes she has a few companions, but more often than not, she’s alone, training for her next marathon.
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By Pearl Akers
I’m a firm believer that Christmas is for kids. Unfortunately, some parents cannot afford to provide them with what they’ve asked Santa for.
So in the fall of 2007, I started a pet project of involving the community in providing gifts for kids at the Foodbank in Musquodoboit Harbour. I enlisted the help of Sobeys and the Royal Bank in Musquodoboit Harbour and they both have been good enough to continue to do so. This fall the 12th annual Children’s Christmas Wishes Tree will be set up near the checkout at Sobey’s Musquodoboit Harbour store.
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