Why did you become a volunteer firefighter? That’s a question we ask quite often around the fire hall, and there are a variety of answers, depending on who you’re talking with at the time. But the theme that runs through most of the conversations around this topic is volunteers like devoting time to their community and helping their neighbours in a time of need.
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By Richard Bell
MLA Lenore Zann will be speaking at the Halifax rally on January 21st in support of the Women’s March on Washington. The following is an edited version of our conversation with Zann two weeks before the rally.
“I had originally toyed with idea of going down to Washington, taking a bus with other Canadian women and taking part in the march. But when I heard there was going to be a rally in Halifax, I was happy to be able to be with my sisters here in Nova Scotia.
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Gravel roads are slowly disappearing across rural Halifax, as HRM and the province pave their way outward from the city core. In December, District 2 Councillor David Hendsbee held an informational meeting on a proposal to pave 14 gravel roads (see list below).
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I’m sitting at my desk looking at the work of artist and teacher Mary Doane, who specializes in realistic, still life watercolours. She has given me cards of her work. I look at “Apple Blossoms III,” at the delicate white petals, some with a pink blush.
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To the Editors:
In advocating for a new school to replace Gaetz Brook and Eastern Shore District High, the Community Campus Vision Association has recently obtained a coy of a hazardous materials assessment done on the former Gordon Bell High School in Cole Harbour, in 2010 – 2011.
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Few know of, or think about, a certain community of folks - a not so secret society possessing an energy and flow all its own. These folk, the HRM Metro Transit riders, get to know one another as they travel. In my region, this encompasses travellers from the Eastern Shore, Lake Echo, Porter’s Lake, Lake Charlotte, Musquodoboit, and West Jeddore.
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“I am a horse for a single harness, not cut out for tandem or teamwork…. For well I know that in the in order to attain any definite goal, it is imperative that one person do the thinking and commanding and carry most of the responsibility.” –Albert Einstein
I got to thinking about the past and future of draft horses after a visit with Gabriel, a noble Percheron owned by Linda McCall and her husband Ernest Monk of Ship Harbour. For over a century, draft horses played a major role, for jobs large and small, in Eastern Shore history and economy with dependable “Horse Power” transportation for the pioneer-era industries.
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By Richard Bell
Musquodoboit Harbour cycling whiz Mackenzie Myatt, now in her 1st year on the bicycle racing team at Savannah College of College of Art and Design (the Atlanta campus), finished 6th on January 4 in Hartford, Connecticut at the 2017 USA Cycling Collegiate Cyclo-Cross Nationals.
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On January 21, women from across Nova Scotia will be rallying in front of Halifax City Hall as part of a world-wide day of support for the Women’s March in Washington. These events come one day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
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By Richard Bell
Faced with disputes over the potential development of more than 1,000 properties within HRM larger than 25 acres (10 hectares), HRM Council produced a severely restricted solution at its January 10, 2017 meeting that will only apply to 83 of the disputed lots, granting the owners of those lots the right to apply for house building permits.
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