On Friday, June 20 the Chezzetcook and District Lions Club held an Old Fashioned Kitchen Party. Those in attendance enjoyed a fun night dancing away to the music of Bruce Carpenter and the Guys.

West Petpeswick is the home for this adorable fox family. They have grown quite a bit since this photo and are moving around and wandering further afar. Nature is so beautiful!

The First United Church celebrated their 100th Anniversary on Sunday, June 8 with a Pot Luck lunch after the church service. This is always a good time to meet and greet people you may have not seen for awhile.

The Anniversary cake was enjoyed by all.

Many items were available. BBQ burgers and hot dogs were available for hungry shoppers.

At the June 17 General Meeting of the Eastern Marine Branch 161 Legion Amy Randell, 4th Year University student and Kegan O’Grady, 1st Year University student, received their Bursaries from President Dean Othen. Congratulations and best of luck in your studies.

Here is the complete July 2025 printed edition of the Eastern Shore Cooperator monthly newspaper.

Click here to open the July 2025 issue

By Dee Dwyer 

The potter Iris Naessens-Patterson and the artist and teacher Marlene York had a show last year called Accelerated Erosion where they made art of the clay from the coast of Lawrencetown. Iris made pots, but Marlene York made paintings from the clay!  

By Richard Bell  

The Four Harbours Legion in East Ship Harbour is launching a Veterans War Memorial Banner Project this fall in collaboration with the Musquodoboit Harbour Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs (MHACCCA). The Legion will be working with veterans and their families to create banners that will be displayed on poles along Highway 7 from Musquodoboit Harbour east to East Ship Harbour.   

By Grant Spearman, President CVMC 

 
It’s a wrap for another year! 

Coastal Voices Men’s Choir finished off another successful season with back to back concerts on the May 24/25th weekend at Calvin United Church in Lawrencetown and St Peter’s Catholic Church in Sheet Harbour.  

‘I should have been a pair of ragged claws 

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas’ 

 “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 

--T.S.Eliot 

An apt literary snippet in lobster season is not hard to find. Though Eliot was referring to the low mental state of his subject, it’s a beautifully phrased and memorable image.  Poetry in motion, literally.   

By Richard Bell 

One of the surprising attractions in Sheet Harbour is the wreck of the 166-foot sealer/fishing/cargo-carrying Arctic Trader, which sank in 1994 at a dock next to the East River bridge. At low tide, the highest point of the wreck is only a few feet under, putting the wreck on the scuba diver’s list of fairly easy diving spots.   

By Renée Chapman 

Are you a local musician or visual artist? The Musquodoboit Harbour Chamber of Commerce has a new Music & Arts Committee and wants to help support you! To register yourself on our database, please email your contact info along with any social media links or website to Renée at [email protected]. 

By Richard Bell 

Memory Lane Heritage Village in Lake Charlotte will be going all out this summer with a series of events starting in late May to celebrate its 25th anniversary as one of the province’s most outstanding community museums.  

The Cooperator spoke with one of the founders, Gordon Hammond, who walked us through some of the high points of the organization’s history, starting with Ned Webber, the founder and owner of the Webbers General Store on the corner of Highway 7 and Clam Harbour Road in Lake Charlotte.  

Retired Senator Tom McInnis drew an all-star cast to his 80th birthday on April 9 at the Tap Room in Sheet Harbour. (L to R) HRM Councillor David Hendsbee, Conservative Central Nova Candidate Brycen Jenkins, MLA Kent Smith, Elmer MacKay, Peter MacKay, Brenda McInnis, and the lone Liberal in the room, Sean Fraser, who piped McInnis into the party.  

By Richard Bell 

The province is moving ahead with a long-needed plan at the western end of Lawrencetown Beach to shift Highway 207 away from the ocean. The combination of rising sea levels and increasingly intense storms have already resulted in damages and highway closures, with the waves heaving rocks and debris onto the roadway. The plan calls for shifting the highway away from the ocean in a more-or-less straight line from the McDonnel House down the hill, eliminating the existing curve. HRM Councillor David Hendsbee and MLA Kent Smith both support the change.  

By Savayda Jarone, Herbalist 

As spring finally emerges, our local medicinal and edible weeds begin their annual comeback. Among them is Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica), a plant as versatile as it is problematic. It’s hard to miss, growing in thick stands along the shore and throughout Nova Scotia. 

By Jeddore John 

What a guy! You gotta hand it to him. He really knows how to get things done. When we all thought he was just an over-reaching rich guy intent on gathering all power to himself, he was actually putting an amazing plan in action. 

His plan goes like this: 

When Natasha Hiltz returned to Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital as the new assistant manager, she found a healthcare landscape dramatically transformed from the one she had worked in years ago.   

Natasha, a registered nurse, recalls the hospital’s former 12-to-15-bed inpatient unit, a 24-hour emergency department and the long-term care building, which has since been replaced.

The Deanery Project in Ship Harbour will be holding a landmark ecological design forum, May 9-11, Natural Building EAST 2025: On the Shores of Change.  

The gathering will bring together builders, designers, sustainable materials suppliers, students, homeowners, and environmental advocates—all passionate about exploring sustainable building practices and community resiliency in response to the climate emergency. 

by Deirdre Dwyer 

If you have been to Uprooted Cafe in Musquodoboit Harbour, you’ve probably seen the carved birds near the cash register by the woodcarver and mentor David Shuman. And you may have gotten to talk to Dave, who often lunches at his granddaughter’s café and does a little public carving next to the display of his work.   

It is hard to believe that the winter has passed by,and it has been 4 months since we began practicing. We had challenges along the way with Thursday storms causing cancellations of practice as well as our Open Rehearsal at the Old School.