By Elizabeth MacKinnon, Grade 9, Musquodoboit Rural High School
On Friday November 16, Musquodoboit Rural High School hosted an all-day Food-for-All Symposium. More than 40 speakers and presenters came to our school and gave talks and demonstrations. There was cheese making, knife sharpening, spoon carving, campfire cooking, permaculture, composting, tractors, bee keeping, pasta making, baking, and many more. A full list can be found on the Facebook page, Thoughtful Food Project.
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By Gina Dunn
Avery Anderson may only be 10 years old, but she has a wealth of experience on the stage already. Avery has been singing for as long as she can remember. She enjoys singing all types of music and has sung at the Trunk 7 Music Festival, in school plays, at hockey games, and many other places around the community.
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By Jude Major
[This article logs the final leg of Jude Major’s trip from New York to Vancouver and back to Halifax, by boat, train, and bus, but no planes. A shorter version of this piece appeared in the December, 2018 print edition of the Cooperator.]
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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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