To the Honourables Kevin Murphy, Zach Churchill, and Keith Colwell:
Gentlemen:
On behalf of the Community Campus Vision Association, I would like to extend our great appreciation for your efforts and decision, approving a replacement school for the Eastern Shore District High School. We know that through review of all of the data provided, and by listening to the strong public words of support, you realized that replacement of this unhealthy and outdated facility is a need, not a want. You have recognized that this facility, in design alone, does not begin to match the standards of virtually every other high school in the province.
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By Jude Major
After being on board the Queen Elizabethfor almost a month, I arrive in San Francisco. It’s sunny and mild and benign; gentle weather. I look at the palm trees along the streets. In this clear northern light they seem faintly incongruous, too far north
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By Richard Bell
In his first public appearance in a community getting a new school (Eastern Shore District High), Education Minister Zack Churchill made it clear that he was considering radically diminishing public input to the school site selection process in order to get new schools built as fast as the government would like. And to further muddy the waters, Churchill said that his department was also considering changing the very boundaries of the catchment area for the new high school.
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By Richard Bell
Paul Nicholl, the owner of Dobbit Bakehouse in Musquodoboit Harbour, has won this year’s “Jake the Baker” competition, a national contest sponsored by Bakers Journal, the country’s leading industry trade magazine. The journal cited Nicholl’s “community involvement in a wide range of mentorship programs,” and his participation in raising funds “for various local fundraising campaigns.”
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NEWS FLASH: EMERGENCY ROOMS CLOSED IN SHEET HARBOUR AND MUSQUODOBOIT HARBOUR!
(MAY 24)Once again, emergency rooms are closed in Sheet Harbour and Musquodoboit Harbour. The emergency room at Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital closed at 8am this morning, Thursday May 24, and will not reopen until 8am on Tuesday, May 29. The emergency room at Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital closed at 8am on Thursday May 24, and will reopen at 8pm, May 24.
In Sheet Harbour, more than 260 people turned out for an emergency meeting in May called by Senator Tom McInnis. In an interview below from the June printed version of the Cooperator, Senator McInnis explains why “Health care is the number one problem in the country,” and what he hopes a new community-based health care group can do to start fixing things from the bottom up. For a sneak preview of this interview, click here.
Emergency room closures are in part due to the scandalous failure by governments headed by all three parties to do what needed to be done to recruit enough doctors to keep these facilities staffed and open. A quick look at the “News” section on the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s website on Thursday morning shows emergency room closures within the last week at Northside General Hospital, Glace Bay Hospital, Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital, All Saints Springhill Hospital, Strait Richmond Hospital, Fisherman’s Memorial Hospital, Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital, and Eastern Shore Memorial Hospita
Fighting for Better Health Care in Sheet Harbour
By Richard Bell
When he sees a problem, Senator Tom McInnis is not one for sitting around complaining. And he has no doubt that right now, “Health care is the number one problem in the country.”
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By: Jill Bellefontaine
Many members from the Eastern Shore community and beyond gathered at the Porters Lake Pub and Grill on the evening of May 26th to participate in the 3rd Annual Cayley Fox Memorial Fundraiser. Tickets were sold out before the night had even begun.
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By: Jill Bellefontaine
Dozens of grandparents, parents, children and even their dogs gathered bright and early Saturday (May 26) morning for the annual Lake Echo Fishing Derby at Orenda Canoe Club. The Derby brought on an intense feeling of community pride and passion for the outdoors. There were breakfast sandwiches to start off the damp foggy morning, and hotdogs and hamburgers to close off the warm and sunny afternoon. 50/50 tickets and raffle tickets were for sale on various items all day.
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By Richard Bell
It’s hard to imagine a commercial space that’s gone through a bigger change over than the little yellow building at 8339 Highway #7 in Musquodoboit Harbour. Last November, an RCMB raid emptied out the Hells Angels, who’d been holding court there since 2016.
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By Susanne Merrett
Two of my great loves are food and writing. Another is movies. In Montreal at film school, I would often watch three or four movies a day. Now, seldom a day passes that I do not watch at least one movie. Old, new, foreign, classic, I love them all.
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By Richard Bell
There is little more precious in Nova Scotia than access to the coast. Estimates of Nova Scotia’s coastline range from 7,500 km up to 13,000 km. And estimates of the amount of that coastline in private hands range from 87% up to 95%. Even worse, there is little legal provision for protecting public access to the coast.
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