Opinion

Letter to the Editor

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

January 19, 2018

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A New Threat to Replacing ESDH

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.

January 19, 2018

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Full Text An Open Letter to Our Local Communities

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.]

January 01, 2018

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Falling Further Behind at Eastern Shore District High

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.

December 01, 2017

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The Halifax Explosion and Civilian Casualties of War

By Jim Reid In working on an event commemorating the effects of the Halifax Explosion on the people of the Eastern Shore, I have been struck by how often people have talked about the Explosion as if it were some kind of peacetime event, with no connection to WWI.

November 29, 2017

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Hungry For Life

By Jude Major I am hungry for life. Just because I am a “senior” does not mean that I am done. Just because I am a survivor of trauma does not mean that I am incapable. It is time to own some hard truths. It is a great relief to see that we have become so much more open and accepting, as a culture and as a society, to hurt people. It is, however, still painfully hard to own mental/emotional illness or injury, so I will put that out in plain view. What do I have to lose? I will lose secrecy, I will lose isolation, I will lose fear—especially fear of rejection, fear of myself, fear of falling. It is harder to fear falling into the black hole of anguish if we all speak freely about it.

November 29, 2017

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Province Should Fight Litter

LETTER TO THE EDITOR--DECEMBER 2017 The province needs to do a better job combatting the persistent and growing problem of litter on our roadsides. I’m concerned about the negative impression all this litter gives visitors to our province, It may also have a negative impact on prospective property owners thinking about moving to our communities.

November 29, 2017

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Anti-Dump Coalition Seeks Your Input on Next Steps

Editor’s Note: The Coalition for Safe and Healthy Communities for East Preston, Mineville, Lake Echo and Porters Lake led a (thus-far) successful fight to prevent the location of a hazardous waste transfer station on Highway 7 near the Porters Lake-Lake Echo border. They are now asking people for input and direction, starting with the simple question that too few organizations ever ask, whether people support the continuation of the organization at all. We were impressed by the effectiveness of this group’s steering committee in navigating the complexities they faced at the outset, and in coming up with a winning strategy. We urge readers of the Cooperator to support the continuation of the Coalition.

September 28, 2017

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CCVA Asks Provincial Officials for New School

Editor’s note: The Community Campus Vision Association has been lobbying for the province to replace the aging buildings of Eastern Shore District High and Gaetz Brook Junior High with a new school consolidating the two schools. The following letter from CCVA Chair Jean McKenna describes CCVA’s September meeting with provincial officials to share CCVA’s investigations of the conditions of the two schools, and to push for a replacement as soon as possible.

September 28, 2017

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Grieving a Clearcut

To the Editor, Eastern Shore Co-operator: Behind the trees that line my road, there's a large fifteen-year-old clearcut. On the map, it just shows as a small coloured circle, a spot that is now designated “cut”. But the reality is far different.

August 02, 2017

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