One of the great pleasures of editing this newspaper has been the opportunity to learn about the interests and concerns of the Shore’s younger writers. This issue contains the last stories for this academic year from two students from Eastern Shore District High, DJ Shuman and Marcus Brady.
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Letter to the Editor
What Does Protection Mean?
Premier McNeil seems to think that Oil and Gas development is a perfect fit with a Marine Protected Area. Just as he probably thinks that it is appropriate to clearcut a game sanctuary. (Liscombe) The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Keith Colwell says that he is concerned about the livelihood of the lobster fishers with the Eastern Shore being declared an Area of Interest for a Marine Protected Area.
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[Note: The province’s announcement of a new high school on the Eastern Shore has raised questions about the future of Gaetz Brook Junior High. The Gaetz Brook Junior High School Advisory Council chair Melanie MacIsaac recently sent the following letter to Education Minister Zack Churchill and MLA Kevin Murphy.]
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This recipe is adapted from an Anthony Bourdain recipe – Serves 4
“Everyone should know how to roast a chicken. It's a life skill that should be taught to small children at school. The ability to properly prepare a moist yet thoroughly cooked bird, with nicely crisp skin, should be a hallmark of good citizenry—an obligation to your fellow man. Everyone walking down the street should be reasonably confident that the random person next to them is prepared, if called upon, to roast a chicken.”
~Anthony Bourdain
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By Richard Bell
MLA Kevin Murphy will be a critical player in the upcoming but still undefined site selection process for a new high school on the Eastern Shore. Back in 2014, Murphy proposed moving Eastern Shore District High, the skating rink, and the Birches Nursing Home from Musquodoboit Harbour to what he called a “campus” in the Eastern Shore Industrial Park in Chezzetcook. In an interview, Murphy reviewed the history of his “campus” proposal, and the potential for locating additional facilities and services at a new high school.
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By Richard Bell
Is the Twin Oaks Waste Water Treatment Plant polluting Petpeswick Inlet? The plant serves Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital, Eastern Shore District High, and the Birches nursing home.
John Woods has been on a long and twisting odyssey through urban and provincial bureaucracies trying to nail down hard evidence about the impact of the plant on the inlet. Woods, an engineer by trade, embarked on this voyage as the chair of the Infrastructure Committee of the Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce & Civic Affairs.
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By Jaime Bayers
“I could die on the way to the IWK,” says Kirstin Fahie, a seventeen-year-old girl with epilepsy from Sheet Harbour. The emergency room at Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital is one of several across Nova Scotia that has suffered a series of closures over the winter and spring because, in the words of the Nova Scotia Health Board, “of the unavailability of a physician to cover the shift.”
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By Richard Bell
“We’re all just in shock.”
Maggie Wade could not believe her ears. She and a few of her neighbors around Meisner’s Lake in Lower East Chezzetcook were attending a meeting on June 7 called by their MLA Kevin Murphy to talk face-to-face with Margaret Miller, the Minister of the Department of Natural Resources.
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By Marcus Brady
The last School Advisory Council (SAC) meeting for the 2017-18 school year took place featured special guest MLA Kevin Murphy responding to questions about the new high school for the Eastern Shore.
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By Richard Bell
If you’re planning on spending a day at the beach in Lawrencetown this summer, you’re going to need a very thick beach blanket. The view from the top of the boardwalk is desolate. The winter’s storms carried away almost all of the sand, leaving behind little but a steeply sloping pile of rocks.
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