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Lighthouse Links Folds After Province Demands Serious Public Consultation

By Richard Bell The Cooperator has learned that Lighthouse Links withdrew from the letter of Offer to purchase Owls Head Provincial Park and convert it into a luxury housing development with a few golf courses after learning that the province had determined that the company’s plans for public consultation were inadequate, and that the province would require a more thoroughgoing public consultation process.

November 26, 2021

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Lighthouse Links Abandons Golf Course Plan

By Richard Bell Lighthouse Links announced on November 23, 2021 that it is withdrawing from the December 16, 2019 letter of Offer that it had signed with the province to purchase Owls Head Provincial Park and convert it into a luxury housing development with a few golf courses.

November 23, 2021

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Whale Sanctuary Visitors Centre Opens

By Richard Bell The Whale Sanctuary Project (WSP) took a major step forward with the October 29 opening of its Visitor and Operations Centre in a 100-year-old house in Sherbrooke, not far from the site of the proposed sanctuary itself in Port Hilford. The pathbreaking nature of the project and its potential economic impact on the area was reflected in the turnout of federal, provincial, and local elected officials, including Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor Arthur Joseph LeBlanc and his wife Patricia, newly appointed federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser, several Guysborough Councillors, and HRM District 2 City Councillor David Hendsbee.

November 03, 2021

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Land Title Claims: The Struggle Continues

By Cassandra Grosse The long-running effort to secure land titles for hundreds of landowners in North Preston, East Preston, Cherry Brook/Lake Loon, Lincolnville and Sunnyville, the Land Titles Initiative (LTI), has a new Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Nova Scotia Office of Equity and Anti-Racism Initiatives, Alisha Brown-Fagan (photo). She succeeds Angela Simmonds, who took over LTI only last spring. Simmonds has moved on to the Nova Scotia Assembly, after winning the Liberal seat for the new Preston riding in the August 17, 2021, election.

November 02, 2021

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Help with Home Heating Costs This Winter

Energy forecasters are predicting higher prices for home heating this winter. If your incomequalifies, you can get help from several programs run by the province and the Salvation Army.http://www.novascotia.ca/heatinghelphttp://www.novascotia.ca/heatinghelp

October 30, 2021

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Dillman's Bridge to Re-Open

By Elizabeth MacKinnonAccording to a spokesperson for the Department of Public Works, Dillman’s Bridge in MeaghersGrant will finally be open again by the end of October after being out of service for almost twoyears.

October 30, 2021

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Opening the Aquifer at Last!

By Richard Bell The lack of piped water in the core of Musquodoboit Harbour has been the chief obstacle to fulfilling the village’s potential as a Rural District Growth Center under HRM’s Regional Plan. (The Community Development Plan includes water as a priority.)

October 30, 2021

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The Current Highlights Challenges We Must Address

Editorial-- Wednesday night September 15, 2021, Matt Galloway, host of CBC’s The Current,* set up at the Old School Community Gathering Place in Musquodoboit Harbour to produce an extraordinary and sometimes heartbreaking show about the problems facing rural healthcare, in Nova Scotia and across Canada. For more than two hours, we heard testimony about both problems and solutions from patients, survivors, doctors, nurses, social workers, and community volunteers.

October 03, 2021

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Part Time Reporter Wanted

The Eastern Shore Cooperator continues to look for a part-time reporter through an extension of the Canada Summer Jobs program. The position will start in late October and run for 12 weeks at 15 hours per week, at the current Nova Scotia minimum wage of $12.95/hour. Applicants must be between the ages of 15 and 30. You do not have to be a current student, or intending to go back to school, to apply for this position.

September 06, 2021

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Chamber Correction

In the August 2021 edition of the Cooperator, we identified Kent Smith as the first president of the Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs (MHACCCA). Margo Hudson was the first president of the MHACCCA. We regret the error.

September 05, 2021

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