Dancing in the Sky 2017, a vigil for a community’s losses to suicide and a celebration of the lives of those lost, took place on Sunday, September 10, 2017 at the rink in Musquodoboit Harbour. At least 50 community members joined the Eastern Shore Mental Health Association, MLA Kevin Murphy, and family members who had lost a loved one. Music, readings, and a candlelight gathering followed the talks. Four young men from the band Foggy Road played a number of evocative and poignant songs in memory of friends they have lost.
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Fall is such a delightful time of year. The intense heat of the summer has subsided, the air is crisp and filled with wondrous smells, and we are witness to some pretty spectacular fall colours as Mother Nature paints the landscape for our viewing pleasure. Another favourite fall happening is the recurrence of comfort foods...those rich and flavourful dishes that just seem too heavy for the heat of summer.
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By Susanne Merrett
This is my favourite meat pie recipe. It keeps my carnivores happy while offering up a healthy dose of veg as well. It is super quick to put together and tastes even better the next day. Just add a tossed salad and you have a meal fit for a dinner party.
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Two of Nova Scotia’s best men’s choral groups, one local and one from Cape Breton, will perform a benefit concert for First United Church, to be held at Eastern Shore District High School on October 14 at 7 pm. Headlining the show will be Men of the Deeps, the choir that men from Cape Breton’s coal mining industry first formed 50 years ago. And opening the show will be the Shore’s very own Coastal Voices Men’s Choir.
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We are looking for people who would like to take part in an event on Saturday, Dec 2nd 2017, at The Old School in Musquodoboit Harbour to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion.
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The prolific Acadian painter and printmaker Joseph Purcell is well known along the Eastern Shore. He and I met to talk about his life and art at the Rose and Rooster Café in Grand Desert, where he will show recent work in a three-day show, from September 29 to October 1. Summarizing his approach to his work, Joe says, “I celebrate the natural realm in a decorative fashion with the use of harmonious jewel-like colours and metallic highlights.”
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By Richard Bell
With the opening of public schools a week away, many parents of young children in Sheet Harbour are upset about the province’s failure to move a school playground to make it more accessible and safer for their children to access.
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One of the most important environmental struggles in Nova Scotia is taking place along the Eastern Shore over the plans of Atlantic Gold Corporation for years of gold mining through a series of open-pit gold mines centered around its open-pit mine near the old gold mining town of Moose River Gold Mines.
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Plenty of people have attempted to hike the Appalachian Trail; many have had an encounter with a forest fire; and perhaps some have even felt the touch of a bear. But it is quite possible that Ron Melchior is one of the only people who can claim every single one of these things to be a personal truth and triumph.
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A close-up of a carpet of colourful pebbles lining the floor of a watery pool at Martinique Beach; the textured wood grain of shingles and boats at the East Petpeswick Government Wharf; burnt sienna autumn trees on the shore of a misty lake in Kejimkujik Park—these are just three of the many images in the photographs by the talented Anne Douglass MacLean. Breathtaking and evocative beachscapes, seascapes, and landscapes of the Eastern Shore are her specialty and the subject of the rich language of her photographic work.
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