By Marcus Brady
Back in 2008, it was my Dad who introduced me, a crazy eight-year-old metal-head, to my favorite heavy metal band, Trivium. My Dad was playing the video game Madden NFL ’09 when he heard the song “Into the Mouth of Hell We March.”
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By Gina Dunn
There’s always government and community talks and meetings about local economic development – how can we create jobs in the area? How can we boost tourism in the area? How can we help small businesses and create new ones?
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Many thanks to all the kind workers who prepared lovely turkey dinners for the seniors from East Ship Harbour to Mushaboom. They were served at St. Denis Church Hall and in the Mushaboom Fire Hall. It was a lovely Christmas gift to the seniors from some very kind people.
From Eastern Shore Seniors
Editor's Note: A shortened version of this letter from the Community Campus Vision Association's Jean McKenna ran in the January/February 2018 edition of the Cooperator.
A Letter has been sent to the HRSB as a result of their last Board Meeting:
Dear HRSB members:
I am the Chair of the Community Campus Vision Association. We are a group advocating for replacement of Eastern Shore District High School and Gaetz Brook Junior High, with a single Junior / Senior high. As you may be aware, our catchment area reaches from Lake Echo in the west to Ship Harbour in the East, some 56 km. as the seagull flies, considerably further in light of the numerous lakes, bays, and coves within the boundaries.
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By Richard Bell
As he looked around the almost completed HRM building in Musquodoboit Harbour, Community Recreation Coordinator Doug Murphy could barely contain his excitement.
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By Richard Bell
The Seaforth community turned out at the Seaforth Community Hall on January 7 to celebrate the life and work of Gordon Stobbe, a new recipient of the Order of Canada in recognition of his decades of work as a fiddler and musician.
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By Arnold Hughes and Donnie Lushington
[Editor's Note: This document is the full text of Hughes and Lushington's "An Open Letter to Our Local Communities." The Cooperator has a 600-word limit on stories, so we published an edited version of this letter in the December 2019 issue of the paper.]
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Letter to the Editor
Falling Further Behind at Eastern Shore District High
The Superintendent of Schools for HRSB, Elwyn Leroux, has just announced that trucking of potable water to Eastern Shore District High will no longer be necessary, as newly drilled wells will shortly be connected to the school. This is certainly surprising, as engineering reports prepared for the Board clearly show that these wells cannot deliver a sufficient supply of water.
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In the middle of a small village, in the center of a small province, lies a unique building: The Musquodoboit Valley Bicentennial Theatre. On a walk through the building’s many spaces with Treasurer Helen Jenson and Board Member Barbara Bell, I learned the ways in which a building can bring a community together.
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Senator Tom McInnis and representatives from the ESLCS (Eastern Shore Lifestyles Centre Society) hosted a clinic on Saturday, November 18 on how to get something done in Nova Scotia.
At stake was the replacement of the Sheet Harbour Lions Community Centre, a four decades old building closed from November to April because of roof problems. The building is owned by HRM, which assessed the building and concluded that the hall is not safe to occupy during the winter months due to the potential weight of snow on the roof. Last spring, HRM Regional Council voted to include $2.5 million in the capital budget to replace the building.
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