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Mountie accused of
domestic assault
testifies he was
abused by alleged
victim
Kershaw packs them in
Two days set aside in June
to hear remainder of trial
By KEITH CORCORAN
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M@NewsmanKeith
More time for testimony is needed in the trial of an
RCMP officer accused of domestic abuse.
The case adjourned until June 4 to allow yet more
time for the case to be heard by Judge Jim Burrill. The
trial began in June 2014 and was originally scheduled
to last five days. A further five days were scheduled
for last week, but that wasn’t enough time to complete
proceedings.
Crown attorney Rick Hartlen continued his crossexamination of the accused on Friday, April 24, in an
effort to present the Mountie’s evidence as exaggerated,
embellished and taken out of context.
The accused, who cannot be named because the complainant’s identity is protected by a publication ban and
identifying her could identify the accused, is charged
with assault, sexual assault, uttering threats and careless handling of a firearm.
The province’s Serious Incident Response Team, an
independent investigative body that probes significant
matters involving police, looked into the woman’s allegations. The allegations date between December 2010
and August 2012. The accused has been off his job as a
police officer since his arrest in August 2012.
During testimony on Thursday, April 23, the accused
officer denied the allegations made against him by
the alleged victim, telling the court he never choked,
punched or poured hot liquid on her.
Incidents described by the alleged victim in her testimony last year were distorted or did not happen, the
court heard on April 23, the same day Crown attorney
Rick Hartlen began his cross-examination of the accused.
“I never punched this woman anywhere. I never hit
her,” the accused officer testified.
“I never choked her in any way. I would never choke
anyone, let alone my wife.”
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About 300 shoppers wait in line
for store opening
Mall, town hoping to cash in on Winners draw
By GAYLE WILSON
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An estimated 300 people braved the drizzle and
fog on the morning of April 23 to be among the first
through the doors when the new Winners store in the
Bridgewater Mall opened for the first time. Many were
drawn by promises of gift cards ranging from $10 to
$100 for the first 100 people.
Meanwhile, a number of mall officials and town
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will be a winner with the arrival of Bridgewater’s latest big chain store.
As the customers filed past the security barriers,
pushing shopping carts with Winners logos on them,
they were greeted by a chorus of clapping and greetings from staff and management.
Any drowsiness that might have been lingering
among the shoppers quickly dissipated amid the highenergy atmosphere.
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Federal Green party leader
to headline meeting
Mountie accused of domestic
assault testifies he was abused
by alleged victim
MOUNTIE from A1
her. Cst. Shipley did not recall making
any notes. The interview was not reHe said the alleged victim’s “over- corded. “It was just a group setting in a
powering” control and “demeaning” residence,” he said. “It wasn’t a police
talk drove him at one point to grab his interview, so I didn’t record it.”
unloaded police service pistol from a
Five witnesses, mostly police officers,
locked box. “I took it out and I had it to testified Monday, April 20, as the defence
my head and I said [to her] ‘You might as began presenting its case. The RCMP’s
well be pulling the trigger ’cause you’re former district commander in Lunenkilling me.’” He testified he never tried burg County testified his investigation
to put her hand on the trigger.
found no evidence of physical abuse
“I was at a wit’s end in trying to prove going on in the accused officer’s home.
to this woman what she was doing to
Staff Sgt. Bruce Hill, now based in
me.”
a different jurisdiction, said he was
As for allegations that the alleged vic- made aware of rumours of a domestic
tim was beaten regularly by the accused matter involving one of his constables
during the course of the relationship be- but said, under cross-examination, it
tween 2010 and 2012, the accused stated, was his take that the alleged victim
“I’ve never ever beat her at all. Ever.”
was not divulging the full story. “I had
The officer stated that he acciden- a feeling but nothing to base it on,” the
tally “sloshed” a full cup of hot liquid staff sergeant said under Mr. Hartlen’s
antihistamine as he was
questioning.
trying to get away from
It appeared the acthe alleged victim, who
cused and the alleged
was berating and physivictim were having
cally “poking” him at
martial
problems,
the time. While some
Staff Sgt. Hill suggestof the drink accidened, but after talks with
tally spilled on both of
both individuals and
them, neither sustained
an investigation by a
burns, the court heard.
municipal police force,
Mountie accused of
“She didn’t scream. She
at the request of RCMP,
domestic abuse
didn’t say anything,”
the conclusion was that
the accused testified.
there was no evidence
His testimony, which
of domestic abuse hapstarted
Wednesday,
pening at the couple’s
April 22, painted the alhome.
leged victim as obsessive, controlling
Staff Sgt. Hill was questioned by the
and jealous. April 22 was the same day Crown concerning his overall managedefence attorney David Bright began rial approach with the alleged victim
the direct examination of his client, in the case. “I was concerned about the
outlining his interpretation of the rela- rumours,” the senior officer said, “and
tionship between the alleged victim and my overall approach was to make sure
the accused.
she was safe and that she knew where
“I wanted the marriage to work. I was she could get help.”
committed to it. I didn’t want to give up
Most of the officers who testified
on it,” the accused said. “Yes, we had our April 20 had worked at some point with
good days. We had plenty of good days, the accused. Law enforcement witnesses
but there [were] days where I could not described his personality and demeanor
understand who I was living with. She as easygoing, fun, level-headed, calm,
turned into a different person.” He said professional and quiet. The accused
that the alleged victim subjected him never exhibited anger or violence with
to verbal and physical abuse and that the public or co-workers, they testified.
she exhibited possessive, jealous and
Cst. Christa Morrison said she felt
irrational behaviour during the course comfortable knowing the accused was
of their relationship. Incidents were backing her up on an emergency redescribed in detail in court, including sponse. “You have to trust who you’re
allegations of scratching.
working with,” she said.
Steve Shipley, a municipal police offiThe alleged victim spent about three
cer who led an investigation into physi- of the initial five days of the trial on the
cal abuse allegations, and the accused’s stand. Back in June 2014, she testified
mother were the witnesses called by the she had been repeatedly assaulted by
defence on Tuesday, April 21.
her husband. She described two occaThe alleged victim “vehemently de- sions on which he pulled out his handnied the allegations,” Cst. Shipley testi- gun and threatened suicide.
fied, referring to what he heard as part
The woman’s son also took the stand
of the 2011 domestic assault investiga- at one point, saying his mother and
tion requested by Lunenburg County stepfather argued a lot. He testified that
RCMP. “She was very emphatic, pas- he once saw the constable stand on his
sionate that this [violence] did not take mother’s foot after she had stepped on
place.”
a piece of broken glass and then shove
Interviews were completed with her against a wall. There were other
other individuals as part of the probe. times, he said, when he saw his mother
The accused was not interviewed as with bruises and a black eye. She told
part of the process because of the lack him she’d fallen, but he told the court he
of a formal allegation, the court heard. didn’t believe her.
Cst. Shipley and some civilians spent
The Crown closed its case in June
about 20 minutes at the woman’s home 2014, but, due to lawyers’ schedules, the
to form a supportive environment for trial was only able to resume last week.
“I never punched
this woman
anywhere. I never
hit her.”
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Elizabeth May speaks in Chester on May 3
guest speaker. Ms Dumaresq suggested securing
Ms May to speak at the
society’s event was a calAn environmental advoculated move. “We figured
cacy group based in the
that since she was down
Chester area will welcome
here – its hard to get her –
federal Green party leader
that we would snaffle her
Elizabeth May as guest
for our own purposes,” she
speaker during the organisaid with a laugh.
zation’s upcoming annual
The meeting is open to
general meeting.
the public. Ms Dumaresq
Ms May, a British Codoes not know what Ms
lumbia MP who represents
May’s speech topic will be.
the riding of Saanich–
“She said, ‘Do you want
Gulf Islands, will address
the May 3 meeting of the
me to speak on anything?’
Friends of Nature Conserand we said, ‘No, anything
vation Society at St. Steyou’d like to talk about.’”
SUBMITTED PHOTO
phen’s community centre
“So, we’re gong to be
Federal
Green
party
leader
in Chester. Ms May will
surprised.”
Elizabeth
May.
address the meeting soon
Ms May became the
after the scheduled 7 p.m.
Green party’s first elected
start time.
MP when she defeated inLong-time society board member
cumbent Conservative cabinet minister
Sandy Dumaresq, indicated that Friends
of Nature has had a long association with Gary Lunn in the 2011 election.
She was on the ballot in the Nova Scothe 60-year-old lawyer, politician and entia
riding of Central Nova in 2008 when
vironmentalist. Ms May is also a member
she
ran unsuccessfully against incumof the society’s board.
Ms Dumaresq’s husband Syd is con- bent Conservative cabinet minister Peter
nected to Halifax’s Atlantic School of MacKay
Ms May has family roots in Cape BretTheology. The school is hosting a fundraising gala on May 1 with Ms May as on.
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M@NewsmanKeith
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Federal Tories choose
Keddy’s successor
By ROBERT HIRTLE
[email protected]
M@LunenburgNews
Shoppers came out in the hundreds for the opening of the new Winners store in
Bridgewater.
About 300 shoppers wait in line
for store opening
WINNERS from A1
Team Winners was pumped, having
just finished a rousing opening ceremony
on the other side of the barrier.
“If you look around, you see a really
beautiful store. And the transformation is
not only of the store, but as a great team,”
Paul Raubichaud, Winners’ district
manager for Nova Scotia, told the group
of staff and guests on hand for the ceremony.
Jodi Tanner, the manager of the store,
echoed the sentiment.
“You guys built this,” she exclaimed to
the employees standing in a semicircle.
Bridgewater’s deputy mayor, Bill McInnis, represented Mayor David Walker,
who was in meetings in Halifax for the
day.
“We’ve been saying we’re the main
street of the South Shore. We really are
now with Winners,” declared Mr. McInnis.
He singled out Michael Levy, property
manager of the Bridgewater Mall.
“We’re very proud of Mike and his
company and we’re very proud of you at
Winners. And all of you have our full support,” said the deputy mayor.
Bridgewater Mall is owned by ZT
Bridgewater Investment Inc., which in
turn is owned by Zenda Group of Montreal and Time Equities of New York.
The mall is managed and leased by Zenda
Properties of Montreal. As well as being
property manager at Bridgewater Mall,
Mr. Levy is Zenda’s vice-president of
asset and property management.
Winners is the fourth big-name store
that has come to the mall under the complex’s latest development plan, along with
Mark’s, Leon’s and Sport Chek. Dollarama
has shifted and expanded within the mall.
Approximately 100,000 square feet of
space was renovated in the development
project. This included subdividing the
space to create individual stores, adding
signage, major entrance and façade improvements and expansion of the loading
facility.
Mr. Levy told LighthouseNOW in an email that the company is still in the final
stages of the redevelopment project, but
it anticipates final costs to be just over $9
million.
He says the “ownership’s commercial
construction division” oversaw the entire
redevelopment, with the Winnipeg-based
flooring company RCS Inc. handling the
core and shell, and fit-ups for the first four
tenants. Charlottetown-based APM Construction Services handled the Winners
interior, he said.
For its part, RCS reportedly drew 100
per cent of its workforce from within
Nova Scotia, taking on board local companies such as the South Shore’s Plyform
Construction of Maitland, Bernard L.
Mailman Projects of Hebbville and Sea
Coast HVAC of Bridgewater.
Mr. Levy says 60 per cent of the total
contract value was spent locally on labour, accommodations, material and rentals.
“Also, they utilized local hardware
stores, plumbing and electrical material
suppliers and local metal fab shops,” he
added.
“I would estimate that overall 40 per
cent of the work was completed by local
labour force, contractors and material
supply houses.”
There soon may be more big-name retailers in the pipeline for the town, according to Mr. Levy.
“We’re currently working on a number
of national and very strong regional deals
that would possibly see another 25,000plus square feet of new retail and service
tenant coming into the mall before the
end of the year.”
Existing mall tenants need not be concerned about potential competition, he
said.
“Our first and primary goal as owners
and managers is to provide a diverse, and
balanced tenant mix comprised of local,
regional and national retailers in an effort to ensure the consumer and general
public are provided with the best shopping experience, and to encourage the
population of the South Shore to visit the
Bridgewater Mall,” Mr. Levy explained.
“We actively source retailers in categories that are under-served in our mall and
in the market as a whole – fashion retail
is definitely one of these categories,” he
noted.
Any argument that the presence of
one of Canada’s top-performing fashion
retailers potentially could erode sales at
other fashion retailers is “likely invalid,”
said Mr. Levy.
“The sheer magnitude of the increase
in foot traffic and visitors to the mall, as a
result of the presence of a new Winners’
store (along with Mark’s, Sport Chek,
Leon’s etc.) is bound to increase sales for
all tenants of every variety. Cross-traffic
and co-tenancy are integral parts of retail
success.”
Meanwhile, Bridgewater shoppers say
they’re pleased there’s yet another option
for them in town. Sixteen-year-old Emma
Williams, for one, convinced her parents
to drive her and two friends to the mall by
5:30 a.m. so they could be first in line and
receive gift cards when the doors opened
two and a half hours later.
“We were waiting outside in the cold,”
her mother Peggy Williams told LighthouseNOW.
“For our daughter it was the fact there
was a new clothing store in town,” she
said.
“And the fact we don’t have to go to the
city to go to a Winners,” added her husband, Stephen Williams.
“We needed something to liven up the
mall,” he said.
The Conservative Party of Canada
has chosen its new flag bearer for the
South Shore-St. Margaret’s riding in the
upcoming federal election.
Richard Clark of Barrington Passage, 23, defeated former Queens MLA
and provincial cabinet minister Kerry
Morash, as well as former Conservative Party national treasurer and senior ministerial political advisor Rick
Perkins, at nomination meetings held
in Barrington Passage, Tantallon and
Bridgewater April 24 and 25.
Mr. Clark, who has been extremely
active in the Conservative Party since
the age of 13, will attempt to hold the
ROBERT HIRTLE PHOTO
seat that New Ross resident Gerald
Keddy has represented for the past 18 Richard Clark smiles as he addresses
years.
Conservative supporters after being seHe left his job in Ottawa as a policy lected to represent the party in the riddirector with the Atlantic Canada Op- ing of South Shore-St. Margarets in the
portunities Agency to seek the oppornext federal election.
tunity to run for the seat. Prior to that
he worked on the Conservative Party’s
national campaign team for two years
One of the three nominating meet- in a somewhat unusual manner, with
ings was held in his home town, which delegates being asked to rank the canmay have helped him win.
didates as their first, second or third
In accepting the nomination, Mr. choice. They could also just submit a
Clark called his election a “humbling first choice or a first and second choice.
experience.”
If no candidate obtained the required
“The two people I want to thank are 50 per cent plus one, which is exactly
Rick and Kerry. They
what happened, the
were absolutely fantascandidate with the fewtic competitors, true
est number-one votes
gentlemen, true Con“ he campaign
was dropped.
servatives,” he said.
The
number-two
starts on Monday.”
“And I know that … the
votes were then added
Liberals do not have a
Richard Clark
to the number-one
Conservative candidate
candidate that is anyvotes, and the candidate
where near the calibre
with the most numberof those two gentleone and number-two
men.”
votes combined was deMr. Clark said he is
clared the winner.
excited and looking forward to the next
While somewhat cumbersome, the
six months leading up to the electionk, system eliminated the need for a second
which is expected to be held in October. ballot.
“Tomorrow, we’re going to take a
Officials said approximately 600 indilittle break. The campaign starts on viduals participated in the voting.
Monday,” he said. “As I said before, I am
Earlier this year, the Liberal Party
incredibly proud of this government, chose West Dublin resident Bernadette
I’m proud of this prime minister, I’m Jordan, a development officer for the
proud of Gerald Keddy’s legacy and I fundraising arm of the Bridgewater and
know that in October we’re going to Lunenburg hospitals, as its candidate.
make sure that South Shore-St. MargaAlex Godbold, a school teacher who
rets is blue.”
who resides in New Germany, will repVoting during the meetings was done resent the New Democratic Party.
T
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Fisherman faces $70,000
in fines
Conditions of licence breached
By KEITH CORCORAN
[email protected]
M@NewsmanKeith
A Chester Basin-area fisherman
must pay $70,000 in fines after admitting to breaching the conditions of his
licence.
John William Levy, 50, pleaded guilty
in Bridgewater provincial court on
April 17 to failing to provide an accurate
hail of fish and failing to determine an
accurate weight at dockside.
Judge Paul Scovil sentenced Mr. Levy
to a $35,000 fine on each count, account-
ing for the amount of proceeds the
Crown and defence agreed were generated from the offences. Mr. Levy has
until May 11, 2016 to pay the fines.
Court file records indicate the Chester Basin man failed to report nearly
180,000 pounds of ground fish between
2006 and 2008.
Most of the product went to a Blandford area company, records indicate,
and fisheries officials discovered an
issue after carrying through an inspection at the company in 2009.
Lunenburg lawyer David Hirtle represented Mr. Levy in court.
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Help those less fortunate
I
have been hearing that a lot of people are being
charged for stealing food from grocery stores. It’s
sad to see this, but people with such low incomes
can hardly afford a place to live or to pay their
power bills. They buy clothing at Frenchy’s because
they cannot afford shopping for new clothes in department stores.
All we have to do is walk down the meat aisle at a
grocery store and check the prices – they’re unreal.
Plus, in every other aisle in these stores, food in
smaller packaging costs more. Maybe there should
be donation that stays here in Canada. Instead of
adopting people overseas, they could give donations
to help the homeless as well as those close to the poverty line or lower.
It is no wonder so many people are stressed out
or depressed. If I knew how to do it I would start an
organization that would help Canada’s homeless and
poor people.
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to the editor
Home care should not be privatized
T
his letter is regarding the Nova Scotia government’s decision to privatize home care.
I am a continuing care assistant (CCA) and
I have been working in home care in Lunenburg
County for the past eight years. For several years, I
was a home-support worker in Cumberland County.
We are not working on an assembly line; our seniors
who need care are taxpaying men and women. I am a
home-support worker because I enjoy the unhurried
pace that cannot be found working in a nursing home
and I can proudly be part of a team that helps seniors
stay in their own homes.
We do much more than wash dishes and mop
floors. We are not a maid service. We are in homes
making sure that our clients are living safely. We
are front-line workers who see clients every day and
are the ones who assess functional decline or improvement and report to our nursing supervisor any
pertinent observations. We are sometimes the only
friendly face our clients may see for days, their only
door to the outside world. Some of my clients have a
very small world consisting of a chair and a window.
We travel in all kinds of weather, on icy roads in the
winter,` and we have to put on a different persona
each time we enter a home.
I was appalled to learn that we are not listed under
the Canada Health Act but have been deemed an essential service here in Nova Scotia. If for-profit companies are allowed to bid on services, the standard
will drop. Clients who are unable to pay may sit for
days in their own urine and feces because they cannot afford to pay for this service.
We are basically a nursing home on wheels. We
need reliable vehicles and money to put fuel in
them. We paid good money to take the CCA course
and we have worked hard to maintain the quality of
standards. We work on our own and we never know
what situation we may be walking into every time
we knock on a door. Clients confide in us because
they trust us to keep their business confidential. I
am proud to be a part of the team, which includes
nurses, doctors, OTs etc.
If privatization is implemented, Nova Scotia will
be losing a valuable not-for-profit public service. Why
is the Nova Scotia government focused on money and
not on quality service for our housebound seniors?
The country was built on the backs of these citizens.
Why are they not as important as those seniors in
nursing home? Do they not deserve the same qualified caregivers? Why aren’t more long-term care facilities being built?
The biggest part of the population is made up of
aging baby boomers. I ask that you please reconsider
this move.
DONNA RICHARDS, CCA
Pleasantville
Council needs to
address sewer pipes
T
he epic of the tilting Cormorant approaches
the level of a Cecil B. DeMille production,
when, in fact, any competent chief officer and
second engineer who are aware, as they should be, of
the first principles involved in ship stability, would
right this ship without sufficient fuss for a Grade-B
documentary.
Of course the“threat” of “nearly” 200 litres of diesel and “some” hydraulic and lubricating oil in the
main engine “crankcases” discharging into the river
brings out coast guard helicopters and all manner of
self-appointed and high-priced councillors who would
better serve the interest of the river and its inhabitants by taking the “tilt” out of the raw sewage pipes
currently discharging an average of 250 litres per
person per day into the river.
As they say, do the math.
D SCHANDALL
Upper First Peninsula
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Action needed now
C
ongratulations are due to councillors for recognizing and acknowledging the fact that the
Lunenburg County Lifestyle Centre (LCLC)
operating deficit will be in the neighbourhood of
$800,000. In March 2014, our councils preapproved
an operating subsidy of $653,000 for the year ending
March 2015. Until that time, councils were forecasting the operating deficit to be $360,000. The admitted
deficit has now more than doubled in a little over one
year.
The information about the extent of the LCLC
operating deficit has been available for a long time to
anyone who wished to see it. It is nevertheless a milestone to have councils publicly acknowledge the dire
situation we are in.
It is a fact that revenues generated by the LCLC
may grow a bit. Left unchecked, as it is now, the deficit will grow rapidly and forever.
We have had many studies conducted about our
situation in Nova Scotia. All, in one form or another,
came to the conclusion that we must take action to
change our situation. One of the first steps is to stop
spending money we do not have on things we do not
need.
Here are two examples of unwise spending by our
councils, one already spent and one proposed:
1. Last spring, we spent a large amount of money
to buy a floor to cover the ice surface so that large
events could be staged in the arena. No events have
been held that required the floor. The floor is in storage. (Editor’s Note: The floor was used for the Sammy
Kershaw concert on April 26)
2. The 2015-16 capital budget is at hand. Among
capital expenditures proposed is “a fryer to increase
the service level and decrease wait times for food
at the canteen.” The canteen is leased by 27 West. I
appreciate the need for french fries to be produced
quickly. But why can’t the operator buy his own
fryer? Why do the taxpayers of the Municipality of
Lunenburg and Bridgewater need to subsidize his
catering business? And how does a deep fryer fit in
with the healthy lifestyles the LCLC is supposed to
encourage?
Some may say these are very small items, although
the floor cost over $400,000. They may well be minor
expenses, but these are only two of many, many more
examples. They add up. They are an indication of
how our councils and the LCLC staff look for ways
to spend money rather than ways to save money. Perhaps we could look for ways to increase revenues.
I have had several elected officials tell me that they
recognize we are in a dire situation and it is deteriorating. Some have told me they believe there is nothing they can do.
I live in hope that at some point it will become
evident to each member of both councils that action
must be taken. Call your council member; demand
action.
JOHN HARLEY
Upper Branch
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DISTRICT OF CHESTER
Community Events
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Chester, NS B0J 1J0; or email [email protected]. Submission deadline is 12 noon on the second last Tuesday of each month. For more information call the Recreation Office at
902-275-3490.
FRIDAY, MAY 1
Karaoke at the Chester Legion from 9:00 pm
till 12:30 am. Everyone 19 years and older
welcome.
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MAY 1 – 3
1st Annual Hubbards Writers Festival - Check
out Workshop Offerings and Community Reading Series during the Hubbards Writers Festival,
in Hubbards and along the Aspotogan Peninsula
to Northwest Cove. For more info visit: www.
hubbardswritersfestival.com or call Pat Thomas
at 902-858-2030.
SATURDAY, MAY 2
Country Breakfast at the Chester Basin Fire Hall
from 7:30 to 10:30 am. Enjoy bacon, sausage,
baked beans, scrambled eggs, toast, juice, tea/
coffee. Cost $7. Take-out available.
100 Mile Yard Sale, Bake Table & BBQ Fundraiser at Aenon Baptist Church, 57 Hwy 12, Chester
Basin. Yard sale & bake table start 8:00 am and
BBQ from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Yard Sale at St. John’s Church, Chester Basin
from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. There will be tables
of home baked yummies, treasures and trinkets
and hamburgers & hot dogs, pop, tea & coffee.
Multi-Family Yard Sale 4826 Hwy 3, Marriott’s
Cove.
Pancake Breakfast at the Hubbards Area Lions
Club from 9:00 to 11:30 am. For more info/
donate call Shirley 858-2082.
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Chester United Baptist Church, Seton Choir will
be performing their Spring Concert starting
7:00 pm. Free will offering at the door.
Mayfly Dance at the New Ross Legion from 9:00
pm to 1:00 am. Door prize spot dance with music by Vintage. Cost $8 per person. For more
info call the Legion 902-689-2650.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MAY 2 & 3
May Fest Penny Auction at the Chester Basin
Legion from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Awesome
prizes!!!
SUNDAY, MAY 3
Flea & Craft Market at the Hubbards Area Lions
Club, 21 Lions Club Road from 10:00 am to 2:00
pm. To book a table call Shirley 858-2188.
Crib Tournament at the Forties Community
Centre, 1787 Forties Road, New Ross. Doors
open 12:00 noon. Registration 12:30 pm. Play
1:00 pm. Cost $20 per team. Canteen available. For more info call 689-2147.
Country Gospel Music Night at the Aenon
Baptist Church, 57 Hwy 12, Chester Basin
starting 6:45 pm. Special Guest Jeff & Debbie
Beck, Emery Wentzell and our own Local Talent.
Everyone welcome. Free will offering.
Friends of Nature 61st Annual General Meeting at St. Stephen’s Community Centre, 54
Regent Street, Chester starting 7:00 pm. Guest
Speaker: Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green
Party of Canada. Refreshments will be served.
Everyone welcome. For more info visit: www.
friends-of-nature.ca.
THURSDAY, MAY 7
Shoreham Village presents…Feeding with Sensitivity Training for people who want to help the
elderly eat well. This will be at Shoreham Village OT room from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. For more
info/register call 275-5631 Ext 246 or email:
[email protected].
THURSDAYS, MAY 7, 14, 21, 28
The Lunenburg County YMCA is excited to bring
the Youth Leader Program to Chester! This
FREE program provides opportunities for youth
ages 12-18 to participate in leadership training,
connect with peers and their community, gain
self-confidence, volunteer with YMCA led
youth programming and community events.
Drop in to the Chester Brass Band Building, 186
Pig Loop Road, Chester, at 7:00 pm and explore
the possibilities your Y has to offer youth. For
more information visit ymcalunenburgcounty.
org or contact YMCA Youth Coordinator, Kim
Whitman-Mansfield by e-mail [email protected] or by phone 902-5303392.
FRIDAY, MAY 8
Chester Municipal Heritage Society AGM at
St. Stephen’s Parish Centre, 54 Regent Street,
Chester. Potluck 5:00 pm. Guest Speaker Dr.
Brian Tennyson “Nova Scotia’s Involvement in
the First World War” at 6:15 pm and AGM at
7:15 pm. All welcome.
Aspotogan Arts & Crafts invites you to our
Opening Reception at the District #1 Community Centre, 30 Firehall Road, Blandford from 7:00
to 9:00 pm. We are also pleased to announce
that the Deck Restaurant in Blandford will offer
The Artists’ Menu during the weekend: Seafood
Chowder & Dessert with tea or coffee for $ 10.
SATURDAY, MAY 9
Breakfast at the Chester Legion from 7:30 to
10:30 am. Enjoy eggs (any way you like them),
French toast, hash browns, beans, bacon, sausage, toast, tea/coffee and juice.
Ticket Auction at New Ross Legion. Doors open
at 12 (noon) drawing starts at 2:00 pm.
Hosted by the Champion Cheer All Stars - a
Lunenburg County cheer team based out of
Chester’s EnPointe studio. Chester PRO Kids
will be hosting a canteen. Everyone welcome
to attend.
Hubbards Farmers’ Market opens for its 20th
season at the Hubbards Barn & Community
Park, #57 Hwy 3 Hubbards. For more info
please visit our website: www.hubbardsbarn.
org.
Chester Area Middle School (CAMS) Vendor’s
Fundraiser Market starting 1:00 pm at CAMS.
Come on out and enjoy great food, listen to
local music and see all the wares that our
community has to offer just in time to buy
that special gift for Mother’s Day!!! Admission
$2.00 or $6.00 per family at the door with a
chance to win a door prize! If you interested in
a table, please contact David & Kelly Moore at
[email protected] or 902-275-2229.
Turkey Supper at the Chester United Baptist
Church from 4:30 to 6:00 pm. Serving a full
course turkey supper with all the trimmings.
Cost is $12.
Roast Beef Dinner at the Western Shore &
District Fire Hall. Join St. Mark’s Anglican
Church in Celebrating Mom with a roast beef
dinner, dessert, music and laughter, plus an
Auction. Doors open 5:00 pm. Dinner 6:00 pm.
Advance tickets only ($20) by calling Peggy 6272606 or Debbie 627-2069.
Variety Show at the Chester Basin Legion starting 7:00 pm. Doors open 6:00 pm. Cost $6.
There will be a canteen, door prizes and 50/50.
Entertainers: Country Kids, Newfound Country,
Yesterday, and I’m with Stoopid. MC Douglas
Moore and sound system is provided by I’m
with Stoopid. Hosted by Lunenburg County
Crime Prevention Association.
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SUNDAY, MAY 10
Mother’s Day Supper at the Forties Community
Centre, 1787 Forties Road, New Ross from 4:30
to 6:00 pm. Doors open at 4:00 pm. Serving
starts 4:30 pm. Enjoy chicken, cranberries,
peas, carrots, potatoes, dessert and tea/coffee. Adults $12, Children (5-12 years) $6 and
Children under 5 years are $3. For more info
call 689-2000 or 689-2612.
SUNDAY, MAY 17
Crib Tournament at the Chester Legion starting
1:00 pm.
FRIDAY, MAY 22
to 12:30 am. Everyone 19 years and older
welcome.
SATURDAY, MAY 23
till 12:30 am. Everyone 19 years and older
welcome.
Route 12 will be playing at the Forties Community Centre, 1787 Forties Road, New Ross from
9:00 pm to 12:30 am. A variety of Country
Rock and 50’s & 60’s favourite music. Door
prizes, canteen and 50/50. Tickets $7.
FRIDAY, MAY 29
Karaoke at the Chester Legion, 9:00 pm to
12:30 am. Everyone 19 years and older welcome.
SATURDAY, MAY 30
The Chester Garden Club will be holding their
Annual Gardener’s Sale from 9:00 am to 12:00
noon at the Chester Tourist Bureau (old Chester
Train Station). The sale will feature, quality
perennials from Members’ Gardens, herbs and
annuals and perennials from local Nurseries,
Selected Shrubs and Trees. Come and join us to
mark the beginning of the Summer Season.
Bud Buster Fair at the Chester District School
from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Play a round at
Gulliver’s favourite mini-golf course, watch a
magician work their mystical, come see what’s
on offer at our auction including fabulous class
art-work, take a chance at plinko, big prizes
to be won, come test your skills at the hockey
shoot out and much much more.
SUNDAY, MAY 31
Fish Fry at the Hubbards Area Lions Club from
4:00 to 6:00 pm. Cost $12 per person. For
more info call Shirley 858-2082.
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Mahone Auto site may switch from cars to kitchenware
Cilantro looking to use the space for its e-commerce business
He said there would be plenty of room self as a “tech geek growing up,” Mr.
requirement is permitted only by way of
for pallet shelving, a workstation area for Reibling went on to study finance and aca development agreement.
As well, under recent changes to the employees in charge of packaging and an counting at Palm Beach Atlantic Univermunicipality’s public participation pro- area for receiving stock.
sity, an interdenominational Christian
If all goes according to plan, the former gram on planning matters, a public inforAfter a slow start, the company’s on- institution in Florida.
home of Mahone Auto in Blockhouse will mation meeting will be held, with notices line sales are now taking off, according to
Having returned home to Nova Scotia,
soon be churning out cooking supplies.
posted to residents in the area. MODL’s Mr. Reibling.
he says he’s found his niche with CilanCilantro the Cooks Shop of Lunenburg committee of the whole agreed on April
“We went live with the website three or tro’s online sales.
has put an offer on the four-acre property
21 to recommend to coun- four years ago, and that first Christmas
“It clicks with me so much. I just love
on Highway 325. The
cil that the public infor- we did about $9,000 worth,” he said.
what I do.”
offer comes via a
In comparison, last year the company
mation meeting be held
If Cilantro gets approval, he will soon
numbered company
May 5 at the Blockhouse had roughly $180,000 in on-line sales, and be retailing through cyberspace from a
and is conditional
in the first four months of this year warehouse in Blockhouse.
fire hall at 7:00 p.m.
on planning permisCilantro’s application alone it has alsion from the Muwill also be referred to ready turned over
nicipality of Lunenthe local advisory com- $130,000. Mr. Reibburg (MODL). The
mittee for review and ling attributes a
premises
were
large part of the
recommendation.
Tim Reibling
owned by Mahone
A source of high-end growth to connectvice-president Cilantro online operations.
Auto Real Estate
kitchenware and cooking Cilantro’s sales
Holdings Ltd. and
ing tools, Cilantro is to the on-line sellwent on the market
Entrance Fee: Saturday, May 30 - $2 per person
probably best known ing site, Amazon.
at an asking price of
for its small shop in the com.
Sunday, May 31 - $1 per person
$350,000 after Mahone Auto closed down striking lime-green historic building on
(bag day: $5 to fill a bag)
One of Cilanlast September.
Lunenburg’s King Street. Last summer, tro’s biggest sellers
Tim Reibling, vice-president of Cilan- the company opened an additional store online is the Rok
tro’s on-line operations, doesn’t antici- more than double in size, at 2,500 square espresso
maker,
If you have gently used items to donate, please
pate there will be any serious objections feet, on North Street in Bridgewater.
which retails for
DROP-OFF at the Main Building of the
to the application for a change of use to
While the former Mahone Auto site is $199. Mr. Reibling
South Shore Exhibition Grounds in Bridgewater.
a warehouse. He says what the company a strategic location – on a highway and says Cilantro sold
STARTING MAY 13 - MAY 27
is proposing has a lower impact on the with convenient access from Bridgewater, about 250 of these
PLANTS UP TO MAY 29
neighbourhood than the property’s previ- Lunenburg and Mahone Bay – there are last year.
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9am - 7pm
ous use did.
no plans to develop it as a retail operaTypically, prices
Weekends
& Victoria Day, 9am - 5pm
“It’s more environmentally friendly tion, according to Mr. Reibling.
overall are about
and a good fit for the space,” he told Light“It’s pure warehousing,” he insisted 10 to 15 per cent
NOTE: To reduce disposal cost, SHAID can
houseNOW in an interview.
of plans for the Mahone Auto property. cheaper on-line, aconly take gently used and unbroken items.
MODL’s planning and development “Maybe additional offices. I’ll have an cording to the Mr.
DAMAGED OR BROKEN ITEMS
services received an application for a office out there. Things could change, but Reibling.
WILL BE REFUSED!
development agreement from Cilantro on that’s the plan.”
Describing himApril 14. Cilantro wants to use the 8,000
square foot premises as a warehousing
operation for its e-commerce business.
TOWN OF LUNENBURG
The Blockhouse land-use bylaw stipuNOTICE
lates that a change of use in an existing
TOWN OF LUNENBURG
structure that is above the maximum size
The Town of Lunenburg Electric Utility wishes to advise
NOTICE
customers of an upcoming scheduled power outage:
Sunday, May 3, 2015, 6:00 a.m. - 6:30 a.m. affecting
RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES
all customers serviced by the Utility including:
CLEAR BAG PROGRAM FOR
• Old Town
• New Town
NON-RECYCLABLE WASTE (GARBAGE)
• Garden Lots
Effective June 1st, 2015, all residents and businesses will be
• Blue Rocks
required to place non-recyclable waste (garbage) in clear bags
ANNUAL GENERAL
• First Peninsula
for curbside collection. Clear bags are available at hardware
• Bridgewater Road
MEETING
stores, department stores and grocery stores. We encourage
• Centennial Avenue
The Annual General Meeting
businesses and residents to begin using clear bags for
• Mason’s Beach
of Shareholders of
garbage at their earliest convenience and prior to the revised
This work will proceed as scheduled unless heavy rainfall is
High Liner Foods Incorporated
Solid Waste Management By-Law enforcement date of
forecast. In the event it is postponed the work will take place
will be held:
June 1st, 2015.
on May 10, 2015, 6:00 a.m. - 6:30 a.m. We apologize for any
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 11:30 am
inconvenience this may cause. This outage is necessary to
For privacy reasons each household and/or business
Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel
do Substation maintenance. For more information, please
will be permitted to use one opaque bag (black or dark
1919 Upper Water Street,
contact: Raymond Francis, Electric Utility Superintendent,
green) per collection day which shall be no smaller than
Halifax, Nova Scotia
at 902-634-8311.
66 cm x 91 cm and no larger than 75 cm x 120 cm. Up to a
maximum of six (6) clear bags of garbage may be placed
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
curbside per collection or alternatively up to a maximum
the Annual General Meeting
• Doral Boats
of five (5) clear bags of garbage plus one (1) opaque bag
of common shareholders of
• Quicksilver Inflatables
for privacy.
High Liner Foods Incorporated
By GAYLE WILSON
[email protected]
M@LHNOWnews
“It’s more
environmentally
friendly and a good fit
for the space.”
29th Annual Yard Sale
May 30 & 31, 2015
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• Mercruiser Stern Drives
• Mercury Outboard Motors
will be held at the Halifax Marriott
Harbourfront Hotel, Acadia Room,
1919 Upper Water Street,
Halifax, Nova Scotia at 11:30 am
on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.
Shareholders may obtain a copy of
the notice and materials in respect
of the Meeting by writing to the
Secretary at the Company’s
head office.
Secretary
High Liner Foods
100 Battery Point, PO Box 910
Lunenburg NS B0J 2C0
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The bag colour changes will mean that residents and
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Privacy bags must be sorted correctly and may be subject to
curbside inspection. The contents of garbage placed in opaque
bin liners (kitchen catchers/shopping bags) must be emptied
into a clear garbage bag and once emptied these bin liners
should be disposed of in a clear garbage bag.
Level of accuracy may be affected by weather patterns and circumstances.
• Clear bags for garbage: chip bags, diapers, vacuum
cleaner bags, Styrofoam, textiles, kitty litter, etc
• One opaque bag for garbage is allowed for privacy:
waste items which residents or businesses consider
private or personal.
All other wastes will be collected the same way it was prior to
the implementation of the clear bag program:
• Green cart for organics: all food scraps, meat and bones,
wet or soiled paper, paper plates and pizza boxes;
• Clear bags or plastic grocery bags for paper: newsprint,
flyers, food boxes, books and magazines; and
• Tied bundles for corrugated cardboard: cardboard
flattened and tied in bundles no greater than 3 feet by 2
feet; bundles no thicker than 2 feet.
If you have any questions, please call (902) 634-8992. Visit
http://www.explorelunenburg.ca to view the revised Town of
Lunenburg Solid Waste Management Bylaw and the waste
sorting brochure.
Waste sorting presentations may be arranged by calling Valda
Walsh or Kirk Symonds at (902) 624-1339.
A8
business
Former yacht captain rides
a wave of business success
Mahone Marine buoyed by strategic location
By GAYLE WILSON
[email protected]
M@LHNOWnews
After 22 years and long periods away
from his family at sea, Zack Green had
been looking forward to a more homey
and relaxed lifestyle in Nova Scotia.
Mr. Green, former captain of a luxury, 142-foot private yacht that sailed all
around the world, returned to Mahone
Bay. He grew up in the area and wanted
his wife Jennifer, who is from Vancouver,
and their two children to enjoy the kind
of life he had as a child. His semi-retirement plan was to buy and sell a few boats
here and there.
“It was just to play around with it and
keep me out of trouble,” he explained to
LighthouseNOW in an interview.
However, since he established Mahone
Marine in 2011, he said, sales have gone
from “nothing to millions.”
“It’s not what we envisaged at all,” Mr.
Green admitted. “Now I’m back to my 100
hours a week to keep it running.”
Nonetheless, he proudly shows a brochure of the stylish yacht he powered
for wealthy property developers from
New Jersey for 10 years, taking them
throughout the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. After more than two decades
in the yachting industry, amid a culture
of wealth and success, it’s not surprising the business he and his wife own has
become a guiding light of success on the
South Shore.
“Very quickly we’ll probably be doing
more services, or as much as almost
anybody in Nova Scotia,” claimed Mr.
Green, referring to the boating industry.
“I attribute that to our visibility from the
highway.”
Mahone Marine occupies a 16-acre plot
just minutes outside of Mahone Bay. Access is from Highway 3, but the property stretches to, and is clearly seen from,
Highway 103.
Mr. Green said he was once told approximately 16,000 vehicles pass by on
the 103 every day.
While the location may be worth a
proverbial million bucks, the property
had been for sale for 15 years. According to Mr. Green,
the for-sale sign was
overgrown by trees.
Jennifer Green only
found out about the
property when she
stumbled upon it
going through online listings.
Still, developing the business has not
been without its price, both in sweat equity and cash.
There was land to clear, for a start.
They began with a small temporary building and soon realized they would need
something more substantial. There used
to be a hill where the main, 2,400-squarefoot building now stands, and it had to be
levelled.
Rather than selling the odd one here
and there, Mr. Green decided to take on
a whole line of boats. He secured a deal
with Edgewater, becoming its exclusive
dealer in Atlantic Canada. Since Edgewater uses Yamaha engines, Mr. Green became a Yamaha
dealer as well.
Hence, Mahone
Marine
can now do warranty work on
any
Yamaha,
buy parts directly from the company and get
training from
Yamaha for its
technicians. He
had to push for
the privilege,
though.
Getting Yamaha to let the business come on
board as a dealer was his biggest hurdle,
said Mr. Green.
“I persisted and persisted and persisted until it happened,” he recalled.
The privilege did not come cheap, however. As with most dealerships, Mahone
Marine had to buy the stock in order to
sell it.
Still, Mr. Green saw it as an investment, along with the considerable
amount spent on a new logo and a computer system designed for power-sports
dealers.
The computer system put Mahone Marine streets ahead of the competition, he
said.
“It streamlines our orders,” Mr. Green
explained. “Most customers see their
parts within three days if we don’t have
it in stock.”
And he was not in the frame of mind
to stop there. Realizing the company
was servicing a lot
of Mercury engines,
he secured a dealership for Mercury. To
make that one happen, they had to take
on a line of Chapar-
RURAL
South Shore Opportunities cbdc
GAYLE WILSON PHOTOS
Zack Green is a former captain of a
luxury, 142-foot private yacht that
sailed all around the world.
Left: Mahone Marine occupies a 16acre plot just minutes outside of
Mahone Bay.
the summers. Many are wealthy Ameriral boats fitted with Mercury engines.
cans. Often they’ll leave their boats with
From there, Mahone Marine went on
Mahone Marine over the winter, enlistto stock Robalo fibreglass boats, Sweeting the company to tackle any maintewater pontoon boats and Polar Kraft alunance projects they were too busy to get
minum boats.
to in the summer, such as electronic work
The company has gone from one techand painting.
nician to three and is about to hire a
Mahone Marine touts itself as a comfourth. The business is open year-round,
pany more than willing to go above and
and during the busy summer months
beyond the standard
it has 12 full-time staff
service. As an example,
members.
Jennifer
the business is open
Green is the official
seven days a week durowner of the company,
ing the summer.
although she only works
Mahone Marine is
part time.
poised to start reaping
As well as the bigZack Green
the rewards of the conticket items – boats –
Mahone Marine
siderable investment
Mahone Marine deals
the company has made,
in a variety of nautical
said Mr. Green. Howstock ranging from life
ever, it’s not all about
jackets to nuts and bolts.
money, he noted. Pointing again to the
Mr. Green anticipates that 2015 sales
brochure of the luxury yacht he used to
overall will be in the region of $3 million.
work for he recalls how giving his former
“Obviously, to get where we are I guess
employers were toward him.
I’ve stepped on some toes and I know it’s
“I worked for this family who was very
upset a few people. On the other hand,
generous and I hope I can do the same for
I’ve had people say how great it is that
the people who work for me.”
there’s finally someone here.”
Creating a successful company on the
He says his customers are mostly peoSouth Shore may be as good a start as
ple who live in Halifax and elsewhere but
any.
return to Mahone Bay and the area for
“It’s not what we
envisaged at all.”
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A non-profit organization governed by local business-minded people.
Provides practical guidance, without charge as you plan your
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A9
business
Entrepreneurship at NSCC
Potholes taking their toll on vehicles
W
pricing, marketed the business around
hile the winter semester
campus and sold their products to the
may be winding down at the
campus community.
Nova Scotia Community
Ideas included tote bags made from
College (NSCC) – Lunenburg Campus,
gently used T-shirts, a do-it-yourself
our students have been quite busy with
craft table, fresh popcorn served with
a number of on-campus projects that
seasoning and gummy-candy kebabs
help display the true spirit of entrepredipped in chocolate, which could be
neurship. Entrepreneurship is vital to
delivered to that special someone on
Nova Scotia’s future, and NSCC’s Your
campus. Each business proved to be
Entrepreneurial Self (YES) program
profitable, which enabled over $200 to
is helping our college community gain
be donated to business
the skills required to sucscholarships on campus.
ceed on the local, national
All of the above was
and international stage.
in addition to the NSCC
During the 2015 winter
Lunenburg annual tax
semester, the Lunenburg
clinic, which took place
campus hosted its anduring the last few days
nual Ideas Competition,
of March. This clinic
at which students had the
allows second-year acopportunity to develop an
idea, either as a team or as
NSCC LUNENBURG counting students to
an individual, that could
CAMPUS BUSINESS complete over 300 tax
returns for their felhave a business or comFACULTY
low students as well as
munity impact. Students
then presented that idea
It's Your Business low-income community
members. Under the
to a panel of local entredirection of accountpreneurship experts in the
ing instructor Denise
style of “Dragons’ Den.”
Dodson, this has become
This competition took
place at each NSCC campus throughout a terrific opportunity for our students
to gain some real-world, hands-on tax
the province, with the winner of each
experience while assisting members of
advancing to the provincial competithe public.
tion in Halifax where students from
These examples are just a peek into
colleges and universities across the
some of the many terrific activities
province competed for some fantastic
that take place each year at the Lunenprizes.
burg campus to help ensure that our
This year, NSCC Lunenburg Camstudents, from those in business to
pus natural resources environmental
trades to health services, understand
technology students Beth Bulger and
their potential as entrepreneurial leadAlex White not only won at the campus
ers. Remember, there are many ways
level but also placed second in Halifax.
that you can become involved in buildIt was a proud day for the campus. Our
ing entrepreneurship in the commubusiness students also proved this senity as well.
mester that they have no shortage of
If you are unsure of where to start,
entrepreneurial spirit.
check out the next NOW Lunenburg
Some of our first-year business
County event and learn more about
administration students created and
some of the innovative projects taking
ran their own businesses for a day as a
place on the South Shore
part of their marketing class. Students
Daniel MacKinnon (daniel.mackinhad the option to receive funding from
[email protected]) teaches marketing and
the YES program or fund their own
economics at Nova Scotia Community
venture. These future business leadCollege – Lunenburg Campus.
ers came up with a business idea, set
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Some garage owners in the area are
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in with mechanical issues caused by the
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“We’re seeing about 25 per cent to 30
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Often, it seems drivers have little option other than to zig zag their way down
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“If you get caught doing it then you’re
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He strongly recommends a spring wheel
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A10
Provincial changes likely end
Chester’s town bid
By JONATHAN WADDELL
[email protected]
M@LHNOWnews
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Chester’s attempt, yet again, to have the village become a town is apparently dead in the
water.
That’s according to one of the effort’s leading champions, after the minister of municipal
affairs announced changes to the Municipal
Government Act last week.
Mark Furey introduced amendments to the
act that would bar towns from becoming villages and villages from becoming towns.
“I would say now it is,” said Brenda Mulrooney, a village commissioner in Chester and
the president of the Association of Nova Scotia
Villages, when asked if the move to make the
village a town is over.
The village was in the process of receiving
proposals for a study examining the capacity of
the village to become a town.
“It is budget time. We were going to consider
budgeting for that and now, I guess, we don’t
even have to,” said Mrs. Mulrooney.
Mark Furey told LighthouseNOW that one
of the motivations for the proposed legislative
changes is the competition between levels of
government, and the need to abandon “artificial or real borders” and think collectively as
regions to address fiscal challenges.
“We cannot continue to expand our models
of government if we want to provide clear
direction for the province … this is where we
have to think collectively, and to be quite honest, we continue in some circumstances to be
insular and focus solely on our own backyard.
That thought process has contributed to the
worst performing economy for 25 years in the
province of Nova Scotia,” said Minister Furey.
When asked if that is the argument for amalgamation of municipalities, such as combining
the Municipality of Chester and the Municipality of Lunenburg into one Lunenburg County
government, the Minister said, “That would be
the ideal objective.”
He then “changed hats” and took up his other
portfolio as the Minister of Business.
“With the restructure of government and
the creation of the Department of Business,
municipalities are going to play a very important role in the economic development. The
regional economic networks that are ongoing
in both structure and application have been
moved within this most recent budget to the
Department of Municipal Affairs. So there is
a very strong linkage here … about aligning
government services within a specific area
through the regional economic networks …
We’ll continue with our dialogue with municipalities to advance consolidation or a different
governance model.”
He then went onto cite Queens County as the
best example of a county government.
Jack Novack, director of the local government program at Dalhousie University, said
he was not surprised when the minister introduced these changes.
“There’s been a long-standing desire by the
government to consolidate municipalities,” he
said. “It’s just one more way of saying ‘This is
what we want and it’s not always easy for us to
come out and say it, but we’re going to make the
situation such that this is the only direction you
can go and it’ll look as if it’s your decision.’”
Professor Novack suggested many communities may have a different fiscal position if the
province did not impose the municipal education tax upon them.
The minister acknowledged that the education tax was a source of significant discussion,
but argued that schools are an important element within municipalities.
Allen Webber, warden of the Municipality of
the District of Chester, welcomed the proposed
amendments, saying that it ends the questions
surrounding the territorial integrity of the
municipality and brings much needed certainty.
“When you’re trying to do long range planning and you never know for certain if your municipality is going to remain whole, that creates
difficulties all in itself,” said Warden Webber.
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A11
Federal budget balances incentive, restraint: MP
Critics argue it does more for those who need it least
By KEITH CORCORAN
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M@NewsmanKeith
While the local MP characterizes the
April 22 federal budget as a prudent financial blueprint balancing incentives
and fiscal restraint, opposition candidates claim the Harper government’s economic outlook does the most for those
who need it least.
South Shore-St. Margarets Conservative MP Gerald Keddy said the budget
is balanced, as promised, without negatively impacting transfer payments to the
provinces, and he disagreed with critics
who say it’s a soft financial document
leading up to an October fixed election
date.
“I don’t think it’s a real blow-out giveaway budget by any stretch of the imagination,” he told LighthouseNOW.
Mr. Keddy talked about, among other
items, how the budget introduces a new,
permanent, non-refundable home accessibility tax credit for seniors and people
with disabilities, and he outlined the document’s support for military veterans,
community infrastructure and how it
highlights a two percentage point cut in
the small business tax rate.
He said “quite a bit” of his wish list
made it into the federal government’s
budget, which was tabled in the House of
Commons last week.
Bernadette Jordan, the Liberal’s candidate in the South Shore riding, suggested
Ottawa could have invested more cash
and moved up the timeline for the promised infrastructure funding. Local roads,
wastewater treatment facilities and
bridges, for example, “need significant
commitment from the federal government to help fund these projects now, not
years down the road,” Ms Jordan said in
a statement provided to LighthouseNOW.
She said the budget did not do enough
to address jobs and income growth, either.
“I listen to the concerns of people in
this riding every day and they want more
job opportunities and stable incomes,”
she said.
“Instead of strengthening those at the
heart of our economy – middle class Canadians – the Conservatives have introduced unfair proposals that will benefit
the rich on the backs of the middle class.”
The riding’s NDP candidate, Alex Godbold, said the Conservatives borrowed
items from his party’s federal leader,
Thomas Mulcair, and from previous NDP
platforms.
“So nice to see small business taxes reduced and the extension of compassionate care benefits,” he said in a statement
to LighthouseNOW.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper “is
stubbornly moving ahead with things
like income splitting and tax breaks
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strengthen pensions or the health care
needs of seniors.”
There was little mention of the Atlantic region, he indicated.
“This is a budget a government should
be ashamed of, not proud of.”
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LighthouseNow Progress Bulletin, Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Former Hebbville resident gets
probation on firearms, drug charges
By KEITH CORCORAN
[email protected]
M@NewsmanKeith
A former Hebbville resident will spend
the next 15 months on probation after
pleading guilty to drug and firearms
charges.
Joseph Thomas Ross, 23, who now lives
and works in Alberta, admitted April 15
in Bridgewater provincial court to possessing and producing marijuana, unsafe
storage of a firearm and unauthorized
possession of a firearm.
The charges are linked to a search of
a Hebbville property in July 2014 during which law enforcement discovered
48 grams of marijuana, including 13
grams in a freezer; six marijuana plants;
a .22-calibre rifle and twelve-gauge shotgun. The guns were discovered behind a
bedroom door, provincial Crown attorney
Michelle MacDonald told the court. The
accused did not have a licence to possess
the guns, court heard.
Mr. Ross was represented in court by
Halifax lawyer Bernard Thibault. Mr.
Thibault said the marijuana was for his
client’s personal use, to relieve pain from
an injury. Mr. Ross now treats the issue
with over-the-counter medication, his
lawyer said.
Terms of Mr. Ross’ probation include
standard provisions such as being of
good behaviour. Judge Paul Scovil said
Mr. Ross also must successfully complete
any counselling or treatment ordered by
a probation officer, such as help for any
substance abuse issues.
Mr. Ross is banned from having any
firearms for 10 years. The guns in question were forfeited to the Crown. He was
also fined an amount close to the $3,100
police seized at the time of the search.
New Elm man uttered threats,
gets conditional discharge
By KEITH CORCORAN
[email protected]
M@NewsmanKeith
Lawyers confirmed that a New Elm
man whose sentencing for uttering
threats had been delayed until it was confirmed whether a 17-year-old criminal file
was connected to him was indeed guilty
of a 1998 assault and he served a period
of probation.
Mervin Donald Mailman, 52, previously raised questions about the assault
file, telling the court in early April he did
not remember the matter or being under
court-ordered conditions. This prompted
Judge Paul Scovil to adjourn the sentencing for uttering threats in case he had to
consider the old file.
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During Bridgewater provincial court
on April 15, the sentencing proceeded
after Crown prosecutor Michelle MacDonald and defence lawyer Cathy Benton
confirmed the existence of Mr. Mailman’s
previous conviction.
Judge Scovil sentenced Mr. Mailman
to a conditional discharge. But Mr. Mailman must first complete six months of
probation, which includes a provision
that he complete any counselling, such as
anger management and violence prevention programming, that may be ordered
by probation services.
The uttering threats charge stems from
an incident in July 2014 when a woman
contacted police after her husband threatened to burn down a New Elm house.
Suzanne
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MLA, Lunenburg
PO Box 136
125A Cornwall Rd.
Blockhouse, NS B0J 1E0
(at Exit 11 in new visitor
information centre)
902-531-3095
[email protected]
NOTICE
TAX SALE NO. 2015-01
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the following property is liable to be sold for
arrears of taxes due to the Town of Bridgewater as described below, and that unless
such taxes with interest and expenses are sooner paid I shall proceed to sell the property by Public Auction, at Council Chambers, Town Hall, 60 Pleasant Street, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia on the 2ND day of June, 2015 at 10:00 in the forenoon: (amounts
shown include taxes, interest, and expenses to April 21, 2015)
1)
Assessment Account#
Assessed To:
Description:
Amount Owing:
10364671
3253043 Nova Scotia Limited
18 Oakland Drive, Lot 11 - A Bridgewater, Dwellings
$23,492.69 (Minimum Bid)
A right of redemption exists on this property for a period of six months.
A more detailed description of the above property may be viewed at the Town of
Bridgewater, Department of Finance & Administration; however, we do not guarantee
the accuracy of the property description. It is advisable to consult with a lawyer before
purchasing a property.
Terms of Sale: The minimum bid amount shall be paid immediately at the time of sale
by cash, money order, bank draft, certified cheque or lawyer’s trust cheque. Failing
immediate payment, the property shall be immediately put up for sale again. The balance of the purchase price, if any, is to be paid within three days of the sale by one of
the same methods as previously noted. Where the balance of the purchase price is
not paid within the three business days, the property shall be advertised and put up
for sale.
Dawn Keizer, MBA, CA
Director of Finance
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Since most of
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open yet, Kevin
Whitehouse, left,
and Peter Carter of
Mahone Bay took
time last week to
take a chance on
dropping their lines
into the “pond”
that the harsh
winter ironically
created on Pond
Street in Mahone
Bay.
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Man gets two years’ probation
in relation to six charges
By KEITH CORCORAN
[email protected]
M@NewsmanKeith
Bridgewater provincial court took
a 10-minute recess during proceedings
on April 13 so a defence lawyer and his
client could iron out the circumstances
of the assault charge the accused was
admitting to.
The question was how the accused’s
mother sustained a scratch in January.
The ambiguity of the accused’s answers
when he was questioned by Judge Paul
Scovil about the assault prompted the
break so that Bridgewater lawyer Michael Power could have an additional
word with Jonathan Robert Purvis.
Mr. Purvis, 21, pleaded guilty to six
charges, including assault. He admitted
to two counts of failing to comply with
the conditions of an undertaking and
single counts of property mischief, failing to attend court and failing to comply
with an appearance notice or promise
to appear.
After the brief break, it was determined that Mr. Purvis’ mother sustained the scratch via an “intentional
application of force” in a “tug-of-war”
situation as the two were arguing. She
received the scratch from either her son
or a gaming console as a result . The
Crown was content with the explanation and the sentencing proceeded.
Judge Scovil sentenced Mr. Purvis to
two years’ probation with conditions in-
cluding that he complete counselling as
directed, such as obtaining assistance
for mental health, substance abuse and
anger management issues. A violence
intervention and prevention program
could also be part of the counselling
directive, the court heard. Mr. Purvis
must also stay away from two named
individuals and properties in Upper LaHave and Hebbville. He was ordered
to pay $747 in restitution for a broken
window.
Judge Scovil deemed the sentence
as fit and appropriate considering the
circumstances.
The offences connected with Mr. Purvis, who resides in the Annapolis Valley,
date back to January 2014, when police
were alerted to an incident in which a
man banged on a window hard enough
to break it. Damage was estimated at
$747, the court heard.
In November 2014, Mr. Purvis, under
the influence of alcohol, was behind
the wheel of a vehicle when police conducted a traffic stop. He was under
court-ordered conditions at the time to
abstain from alcohol, Crown prosecutor
Josh Bryson said.
In March and April of this year, Mr.
Purvis did not attend court as required,
Mr. Bryson said.
Mr. Power told the court that his client had mixed up the appearance dates.
He said that Mr. Purvis accepts responsibility for the offences and is prepared
to make restitution.
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Northfield fire chief retires after almost 40 years
I
t was another active week, with Lunenburg County firefighters answering 44 calls for service from Monday, April
20, to Sunday, April 26. Nineteen of those calls were medicals.
On April 20, at 2:46 a.m., Chester Basin firefighters responded to a single-vehicle accident in Chester Grant.
At 9:15 a.m., Northfield firefighters responded to a truck versus car in Cookville. Oakhill firefighters were also dispatched
to assist.
On April 21, at 9:15 a.m., Chester firefighters responded to a
fire alarm sounding on King Street in Chester.
On April 22, at 6:45 p.m., Lunenburg firefighters responded
to a training exercise at an abandoned building in First Peninsula. The simulated call came in as a structure fire with
entrapment. Many scenarios were practiced. Bridgewater, Mahone Bay and Riverport firefighters also participated.
At 8:39 p.m., Cornwall firefighters responded to a report of a
dog that fell through the ice on a lake in Newburne.
On April 23, at 10:50 a.m., Hebbs
Cross firefighters responded to a twovehicle accident on Highway 103 in
Hebbs Cross.
On April 24, at 9:44 a.m., Chester
firefighters responded to a flooded
basement that was reaching electrical
on King Street in Chester.
That afternoon, at 12:41 p.m., Riverport firefighters responded to a fire
alarm sounding in Rose Bay.
Evan
At 4:38 p.m., Bridgewater firefightDahl
ers responded to a grill on fire on
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North Street in Bridgewater.
At 8:42 p.m., Bridgewater firefighters responded to a fire alarm sounding on Empire Street in Bridgewater.
At 10:50 p.m., Tri District firefighters responded to a car that
hit a pole in Baker Settlement.
On April 25, at 7:04 a.m., Western Shore firefighters responded to a single-vehicle accident in Beech Hill.
On April 26, at 2:45 a.m., New Ross firefighters responded
with a tanker to a mutual-aid call in Kings County for a house
on fire in Welton Landing.
At 5:54 a.m., Dayspring firefighters responded to a vehicle
on fire in Rhodes Corner.
At 11:58 a.m., Bridgewater firefighters responded to a vehicle that lost a wheel on North Street in Bridgewater. There was
reported to be a brake-fluid leak.
At 12:02 p.m., Western Shore firefighters responded to a
report of a brush fire in Martins Point. Chester Basin firefighters were also dispatched to assist. The fire ended up being a
controlled burn.
At 12:29 p.m., New Ross firefighters responded to a singlevehicle accident in Seffernsville.
That evening, at 8:10 p.m., Riverport firefighters were dispatched for a fire alarm sounding in Upper Kingsburg.
In other news, on Saturday, April 25, there was
a gathering and a barbeque held from 1 p.m. to 3
p.m. at the Northfield District fire department for
recently retired fire chief John MacKay. The gathering was well-attended by many firefighters from
neighbouring departments. John served as chief for
10 years in Northfield and was a member for almost
40 years. John’s dedication to the fire service will
not be forgotten.
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LighthouseNOW Progress Bulletin, Wednesday, April 29, 2015 WWW.LIGHTHOUSENOW.CA
The BoBcaT chronicles
Ms Dunn’s Grade 6 Class, Bayview Community School
lifestyle
lifestyle
Video games:
guilty or innocent?
lifestyle
Snakes or not?
Which pet would
you prefer?
By CAMERON MACDONALD and PETER FISK
Video games have been in the media for 70 years.
That’s amazing! Some people aren’t as enthusiastic,
though. Some people even hate video games. But for
all the hate that gets poured on video games, is there
any reason behind it? Or is it just people who think
video games are TV with a controller? Well, there are
some reasons why video games are hated that make
sense, and the biggest reason is violence.
Think of a game like “Call of Duty,” where the objective is to kill people and the player is rewarded for
it. That’s not good.
“Nope,” said Colin Hennigar when asked if “Call of
Duty” would help him in real life.
Some video games are very violent, but does violence on the screen cause violent thoughts? It’s kind
of a mystery. According to a recent survey of 15
Grade-6 kids, even the people who played first-person shooters didn’t find themselves thinking violent
thoughts. However, lots of other, more rigorous studies have ended with different results. Other negative
effects may include social isolation, obesity, bone and
muscle problems or bad language with on-line play.
That’s a lot of bad stuff, but don’t think it’s all bad.
Some games require problem-solving skills and thinking outside the box to solve puzzles. Other games require memorizing controls and following instructions
to progress further in the game. If the game is realistic enough, the player may develop an understanding
of logic. Some other positives include high levels of
thinking, exploration and improved fine-motor and
spatial skills. See, video games aren’t all bad.
Video games may have been in the media for a
while, but only in the last 40 years have they become
controversial. That’s probably another reason for
people hating them. The first big gaming controversy
was in 1976 over “Death Race,” an arcade game that
involved running over stick figures. Gaming controversies haven’t gotten any better either, with popular
franchises such as “Grand Theft Auto,” “Call of Duty”
and “Mortal Kombat” generating massive controversies. However, not all popular video games are
controversial. “Super Mario,” “The Legend of Zelda”
and “Pokémon” are three of the most popular video
game series and they are also mainly controversy free.
These games also posses some of the positive qualities
mentioned above.
So, are video games guilty or innocent? Well, they’re
both. Even if some people hate video games, they’re
not as bad as some people think. The real argument is
really violent games versus non-violent games. Some
games can improve puzzle-solving skills, and some
game’s objectives are to kill people. Video games can
be both one of the best or worst inventions of the past
few decades. So, which one do you choose?
Amber Hatt
with her cat
Sam.
Black and yellow ball python. Photo from upload.wikimedia.org
By NICK BARRY and LOGAN ZWICKER
Some snakes are dangerous, but some snakes are
safe. Here are some things you should consider before
making a snake your pet.
Do you have enough space for a snake? Would you
be OK with feeding a snake? Do you have the time to
look after a snake? They live for quite a long time.
The lifespan for the average snake is 15 years. Twenty
years isn’t uncommon for a well-looked-after snake.
Choosing the right snake is very important. A nice
calm snake is the best type of snake. The world’s kindest snake is the the hairy bush viper — beautiful, yet
weird. They are also very fast and their sense of smell
is great. They’ll smell a mouse from a long distance
away.
The bad thing is they can blend in with their surroundings, even though you might hear them hiss. A
good snake to have as a pet is a ball python. They are
really calm.
Pets Unlimited provided some interesting information about pet snakes. Reptiles always sell well. Ball
pythons and corn snakes are the most commonly sold
snakes. Sometimes they are bred locally in Nova Scotia. Otherwise, they are shipped from across Canada
and the U.S. Pets Unlimited also gave the pros and
cons of owning a snake. The pros include snakes
being the easiest reptiles to care for. They require
weekly feedings and spot cleaning of the cage daily.
The water bowl must also be refreshed daily. Also,
snakes can take care of themselves.
The biggest con is that some customers don’t know
how big a snake can get. Sometimes they can hurt the
owners.
Kylie Knickle
with her dog
Ruby.
By AMBER HATT and KYLIE KNICKLE
House pets — a cat, a dog, a fish or a guinea pig.
What would you prefer?
Pets can be splendid but they are also a lot of responsibility. Cats don’t have to be walked, but there is
a responsibility to change the litter box. Dogs do not
have a litter box to clean, but the poop still needs to be
cleaned out of the yard. Fish don’t have to be taken for
walks, but you can’t cuddle with them. Guinea pigs are
very cute and loving, but you have to clean their cages
every week.
During a recent visit to Tim Hortons, some customers were asked about which house pet they would like.
Everyone who was asked liked cats. Joan Silver, who
owns a cat, said, “They are nice and cuddly.”
Richard Bagley, who has three cats, said, “They are
a nice and friendly pet and they sleep all day.”
Kylie Knickle has a pet dog, Ruby. She said, “When I
get home, Ruby wags her tail so hard her butt wiggles.”
Amber Hatt has a pet cat, Sam. When she gets home
and goes to pet him, he flops on the floor like he’s dead.
news
Arkolonians are amazing
By LILY STREET and COLIN HENNIGAR
The Ark is an adult service centre that provides vocational programs and supported employment for persons
with special challenges. It is a place of both employment
and opportunity for people who may have trouble finding employment in the mainstream community.
Located at 655 King Street in Bridgewater, The Ark is
run by the Lunenburg County Association for the Specially Challenged. It was first established in 1964 and is
now 51 years old.
According to Lynda Evans, The Ark’s co-ordinator,
there are currently 56 participants, who are known as
“Arkolonians.” With a dedicated group of both paid
staff and volunteers, Arkolonians enjoy many activities.
These include woodworking, rag cutting, shredding,
hooked and braided rug making, community gardening
and litter pick-up, retail and cooking. There’s also time
for a little fun with reading, math, exercise and singing
with The Ark’s very own Blue Birds group.
One of the Ark’s more outspoken participants, Linda May Dagley, stated, “The
Ark isn’t just for people who are physically
or mentally handicapped. It’s for people
who are slow at doing different jobs. The
Ark provides employment for us so we
can work at our own pace. That’s why we
always need The Ark.”
The Ark is a great place for many reasons. It gives people with disabilities the
opportunity to grow skills for more independent living. The people of The Ark love
their jobs. Ms Dagley summed it up, stating, “I not only enjoy, I love The Ark. It’s
like my home.”
Although there are many great things
about The Ark, there are also challenges
they may face. When Ms Dagley was asked
From left, Lily Street, Linda May
Dagley and Colin Hennigar.
if she would change anything
about The Ark, she responded by
saying, “I would definitely have an
elevator and I would love to have an
Ark van to take us on outings, like
to the beach.”
The Ark has really grown over
the years. It believes in a philosophy of continuous improvement
and is an important community
resource. Put simply, in the words
of Linda May Dagley, “It’s just a
wonderful place.”
So the next time you’re in the
area, why not drop in and see for
yourself ? The Arkolonians are always happy to have visitors. And
may we also suggest a visit to the
retail section?
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news
news
news
Late spring is
a serious thing
Tomboys or
girly girls
Pave it or grade it?
EMMA GEORGE PHOTO
From left, Cortney Croft, tomboy; Taylor Allen, girly
girl; Jaelynn Zinck, girly girl; and Tori Duffney, tomboy.
Robin found at Bayview Community School.
By BRADEN BOUDREAU and KLAY CLEVELAND
“I can’t wait for spring!”
Those have been very popular words lately.
Snow is causing a lot of problems. Even though it
might be fun for kids, it’s not fun for robins, bugs and
many people.
This snow is causing a late spring, which is bad
for most animals. Some animals eat grass and other
plants, but there is too much snow for plants to grow.
Bugs usually come out in spring. While it might be
spring, it’s still too snowy and cold for them. Therefore, birds don’t have anything to eat either.
There is one animal in particular that is suffering
this spring. The red-breasted robin has arrived too
early this spring. Normally, this is the time that the
robins would come home from down south to make
their nests and hatch their eggs. But this year the
robins have arrived to see nothing but snow and cold
temperatures. Expecting green grass and sunny skies,
the robins are in distress, trying to find food and shelter because of the snow and cold.
Ms Knickle, a teacher at Bayview Community
School, said, “ The robins aren’t used to being in the
cold for so long. Every day so far we’ve had -5 C temperatures. The snow is keeping the robins from getting to the ground and getting their worms.”
Ms Knickle says she helps the robins by putting
tiny pieces of raw hamburger, wet cat food and tiny
pieces of fruit on a flat board on her lawn.
Hopefully, by the time you get this paper the snow
will be gone and the animals will no longer be starving and cold.
Food or Gas
by TORI DUFFNEY and
JAVIN MCDOW
Food prices are going up and
gas prices have dropped. Why
are they not the same?
Gas prices have not dropped
enough for customers to get the
gas then drive to get the food.
Shelley Blanchard, store
manger of Atlantic Superstore in
Bridgewater, explained, “Gas is
used to transport
groceries to the
store and will affect grocery prices.” The U.S. dollar and inflation
rates are factors in the price of gas. Ms Blanchard
also talked about how fruit and vegetable prices will
go up when there is a storm. Meat, in particular, has
gone up lately.
In the fall, Nova Scotians had been enjoying some
of the lowest gas prices in several years. People were
not only happy at the gas station but also for cheaper
home heating. Lately, prices have been rising again.
The Chronicle Herald stated that gas prices in Nova
Scotia increased by 6.4 cents overnight in early February.
Global News also stated that the price of gas increased in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.
Will the price of gas still increase?
Stock up on good food deals when gas is low and
food prices are not so high.
By GEORGIA THOMAS and EMMA GEORGE
Are you a tomboy or a girly girl? Do you really
know?
Do you take forever to do your hair? Do you like
doing your nails and makeup? If so, you’re probably
a girly girl.
Or could you not care less about your hair? Do you
like to get dirty? If so, you’re most likely a tomboy. All
around the world there are girly girls and tomboys.
There are more girly girls than tomboys.
Girly girls think they need to be popular just to fit
in, even though we all know that’s not true. Tomboys
do not care if they fit in or not. On a weekend, a girly
girl would have a sleepover and do nails and makeup.
A tomboy’s weekend would have something to do with
mud and dirt or something messy.
Mr. Breaugh, counsellor at Bayview Community
School gave us his thoughts, “It is important for us to
feel comfortable and happy with ourselves. We should
never allow a label to limit or control how we see others. Human beings are much more than an adjective,
and, often, placing these on a person can be hurtful
and damaging. I would advise students to avoid labelling others by using names such a ‘girly girl’ or ‘tomboy.’ Acceptance and positive encouragement are good
ways to help others to grow up and become healthy,
happy and productive citizens.”
Four people were interviewed from Bayview Community School.
Jaelynn Zinck considers herself a girly girl. “I take
forever to get ready for school,” she said.
Taylor Allen referred to herself as a girly girl, saying, “I pick my clothes out the day before.”
Tori Duffney thinks of herself as a tomboy. “I sometimes get made fun of for being a tomboy.”
Cortney Croft calls herself a tomboy. “I like my
jeans,” she said.
A tomboy does not care what she wears or what
people think of her. A girly girl, on the other hand,
picks her clothes out the day before and definitely
cares about what people think about her.
Always be open for change, like the girls we interviewed.
CONNOR BOND PHOTO.
On the way to Halifax they are making the road wider
and bigger. They have cut down a lot of trees, and
that ruins the forest.
By LIAM YOUDEN and CONNOR BOND
Paved roads or dirt roads — does it really matter?
Well, yes it kind of does. With both types of roads
there can be little and really big problems, but do we
really need paved roads? If you didn’t have paved roads
your car would really be damaged and you would have
to keep buying new cars.
When you build paved roads you destroy wildlife
habitat and trees. Even though you want an easier
way to travel, it destroys something that is really important. Also, paved roads cost a lot of money to build.
Dirt roads can really damage your car. They can pop
tires, scratch your car, even crack your windows. Dirt
roads don’t cost a lot of money to build, and sometimes
they naturally form.
Potholes — everyone hates them. They take a long
time to fix. In Mahone Bay, they are working on fixing a lot of potholes; some are the size of your dinner
table.
Bob Youden is a construction worker and he owns
buildings in Lunenburg, Mahone Bay and Chester.
“Paved roads are certainly more expensive to build;
however, they are much cheaper to maintain and safer
to drive on. Once they are built, they last a lot longer
than dirt roads,” Mr. Youden explained.
Mr. Youden also thinks that dirt roads need a lot of
maintenance and that costs a lot of money year after
year.
“They get potholes, which make driving on them
very bumpy and uncomfortable. In the summer, they
are very dusty, and if you are travelling behind another car or truck the clouds of dust make it difficult to
see and cover your car with dust and plug up the car’s
air filter. When it rains, dirt roads can be quite dangerous, because they get muddy and slippery. When
you are travelling on a dirt road and going around a
turn, your vehicle tends to slip sideways on the loose
gravel of the dirt road. Paved roads are definitely better, safer, more comfortable, lower in maintenance cost
and last a lot longer. I vote for paved roads.”
Even though paved roads are good, everyone loves
dirt roads for their bumpy rides.
Is this story worth the paper it’s printed on?
By ABBY ACOMB and LYDIA NAAS
Paper can be a symbol of wasted
resources if humans are not careful
with it.
Did you know that if you recycle
paper you save trees? Do you want
the next generation to have the experiences of climbing a tree, having
a treehouse, seeing a bird’s nest in a
branch and many other things?
And of course, writing on paper.
So the big question is, what would
you do without paper?
People need paper in their lives. It
helps us remember things. It keeps
us organized and helps keep us safe.
Believe it or not, many safety signs
are posted on paper.
Have you ever lost a pet and put up
a sign? You wouldn’t be able to do that
without paper, would you?
Do you remember trees? Get used
to that question. In the future you
will be asked that a lot if we keep
cutting down trees as much as we do
nowadays for paper and other products.
Leanne Jacobs, a substitute teacher at Bayview Community School,
said, “I use 10 sheets [of paper] a day.”
Mrs. Jacobs hopes that technology
will eventually decrease the number
of trees cut down for paper. “I use
about 100 sheets [of paper for the
class] a day.”
Grade-6 student Tori Duffney
shared, “I use about 17 sheets of paper
a day.” When asked if she thought
technology will change the number
of trees cut down, Tori answered,
“Yes, because you can type on it, but,
no, because you still have to print it.”
This story is in the newspaper.
That shows that no matter what year
it is, humans will still have paper in
the world, even if it’s just a little.
The most important thing we need
is to be responsible, smart and careful in using paper, because the cost
of a piece of paper is more than you
think.
The front side of the land is
cleared because people are cutting down the trees for paper
and other resources, and the
back side has trees, but when
they need wood or space it will
start to look like the front side of
the woods.
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What’s in a name?
‘Smith Road’ mix-up
left wrong span gravelled
terviewed by this newspaper for a story
about the condition of Smith Road. That
would be the one in West Northfield. Lo
and behold, after the story appeared, acThe roads.
tion did occur.
Need more be written?
“A few years back, we were told … that
Every community likely has a list of
we were going to get gravel one spring”
roads that need work, but this story is
However, that spring came and went
about Smith Road in West Northfield,
without any gravel being delivered.
which runs between the Mossman Road
“My dad called and whoever he spoke
and Silver Road. Not the other Smith
with at Transportation said, ‘Well, I have
Road in Midville Branch, between Upper
on record the Smith Road was graveled,
and Lower Branch
all four-point-whatevRoads. That distinction
er kilometers of it,’
is important.
and Dad said ‘Well the
“The Smith Road
Smith Road I’m talkI’m talking about, in
ing about isn’t that
West Northfield, has
long.’” So it ended
been neglected for
up they graveled the
years. I had an article
other Smith Road and
in the paper. There’s a
I guess it’s seen gravpicture there of me by
el now two different
Jonathan Veinotte
a very muddy section
times since that initial
West Northfield resident
and [The Department
article in the paper,”
of] Transportation has
said Mr. Veinotte.
done nothing yet with
Meanwhile, Mr. Veithat place,” said Jonanotte’s Smith Road did
than Veinotte, a West Northfield resident.
get some attention last summer.
Of particular concern to area resi“They did put some gravel on it last
dents, according to Mr. Veinotte, is a comsummer, I’ll say maybe 30 to 40 percent
munity mailbox at the Silver Road end of
of the road, but a few of the worst places
Smith Road.
still remain the same,” said Mr. Veinotte.
“Basically right in front of the comGlen Strang, the new area manager
munity box, you’ll get a car stuck right
for the Department of Transportation,
now.”
couldn’t confirm the story of the mix-up
Five years ago, Mr. Veinotte was infive years ago. But said $17,000 of main-
BY JONATHAN WADDELL
[email protected]
M@LHNOWnews
“Right in front of the
community box,
you’ll get a car stuck
right now.”
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BÉATRICE SCHULER PHOTO
An old wooden beam sticks out of the soft ground on Smith Road in West Northfield
last week.
tenance work was done on Smith Road in
West Northfield last year.
Mr. Strang said it, like many other
roads in Lunenburg County, is being
monitored for when machinery can be
moved into place for the road to be repaired.
“The weather is good now. Most of the
snow is gone and I think the forecast is
pretty good for the next stretch as far as
rain goes. So I would say it’s going to be a
matter of, within a week I’m hoping. But
I mean, that depends on how quickly the
frost disappears,” said Mr. Strang.
Two culverts were replaced last year,
said Mr. Veinotte, one across a driveway
opening and one in the road, but there is
a third culvert that should have been replaced because it appears to have rusted
out.
“So what is going in one end of the
culvert [is] leaking out through the centre, and right down, it’s washed the road
out and it’s down to one lane,” said Mr.
Veinotte.
Mr. Strang promised that culvert will
be repaired, but acknowledged that many
roads need work and that the department
will have its work cut out for it when
the weather allows them to move heavy
equipment in place to begin repairs.
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SECTION B
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015
For
the
birds
Fauxburg man creates
colourful avian abodes
By ROBERT HIRTLE
[email protected]
M@LunenburgNews
I
f you were to say that Lynn Corkum is for the birds,
you’d be hitting the nail right on the head.
Last fall the affable senior took up a hobby that ultimately will provide shelter for a multitude of our fine
feathered friends — making bird houses.
“It was just for something to do, you know, because I
don’t care to watch television,” the Fauxburg resident explains.
Mr. Corkum, who went to sea most of his life, retired
from that profession in 2003, but it took him almost a dozen
years before he got the urge to become creative with wood.
“I had a kit here from many, many years ago. My granddaughter used to be here and that’s where it started, but I
only made two,” he says. “There were some pieces left here
and that’s when I started over again.”
Mr Corkum uses half-inch plywood to create the houses,
which are not only practical from a bird’s perspective, but
colourful to the human eye as well.
“It takes me four or four or five hours to make one. I’m
not a carpenter,” he laughs, adding he gets about three-anda-half units from a single 4x8 sheet of plywood.
“It’s surprising how much it costs to make them,” he
says, pointing to one of the houses. “This one here has five
coats of paint on it and two coats of lacquer. That’s usually
twelve or fourteen bucks a can.”
Mr. Corkum sells each house for $25 and to date has
cranked out about 140, with no intention of slowing down.
“It’s a lot easier than fishing, and it passes the time
away,” he says, adding that despite one miscue, he still has
all of his fingers.
“This one here was pretty ruined for a while,” he says,
holding up the scarred digit. “But he’s coming back.”
“It’s a lot easier than
fishing, and it passes
the time away.”
Lynn Corkum
Artisan
Above: Some of
the bird houses
Lynn Corkum creates need up to
five coats of paint,
which are topped
with two coats of
lacquer.
Left: The basement
of the Corkum
home is awash
with colourful bird
houses awaiting
new owners.
Jerry Jardine created this sign for his friend and neighbour
to help him bolster bird-house sales.
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Club also makes management changes
“I’d like to thank the management
Jeremy Stevens has been announced
as the new head coach of the Western team to have the confidence in me, along
Hurricanes Major Bantam hockey club. with the assistant coaches, to get this
Mr. Stevens played his
team back to where it
minor hockey through
was in previous years.”
the South Shore Minor
The team had 12
Hockey Association and
points in 33 games last
went on to play Junior A
season after going 21-5hockey with the Wood7 in 2013-14.
stock Slammers and
“With hard work
Junior B with the Sackand determination, I
ville Blazers, where he
am confident this can
Jeremy Stevens
won an Atlantic chambe accomplished,” said
New
Hurricanes
coach
pionships.
Mr. Stevens.
“He has been an as“I am excited for
sistant coach for numerthe
journey to begin,
ous years with the Park
starting
in
May
with
the identification
View Panthers … and Bridgewater High
School hockey teams,” said an April 27 camp”.
Jagger Harnish will be returning as
release.
an
assistant coach. He’ll be joined by
Mr. Stevens was also an assistant
coach for the South Shore Mustangs of Sean Wilkie.
Meanwhile, the club announced its
the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey
new management team of general manLeague.
“Its an honour to be named head ager Shawn Woodworth, along with
coach of the Hurricanes,” said Mr. Ste- Kevin Benjamin, Karl Lang, Scotty Bouvens in the release.
dreau, Mr. Wilkie and Dan Maclean.
“I’d like to thank
the management
team to have the
confidence in me.”
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Mustangs lose NSMMHL
coach of the year
Muise cites family, work commitments
Despite the most successful season in professional executive who provided me
franchise history, Brad Muise will not with all the tools and support the playbe returning as head coach and direc- ers and I needed to succeed.
tor of hockey operations for the Char“It’s a fantastic organization that prolie’s Pizza South Shore Mustangs Major vides a great opportunity and exposure
Midget hockey club.
for young hockey playThe announcement
ers to seek out their
was recently made by
hockey ambitions.”
executive president LiMr. Muise said he’s
onel Haughn.
going
to miss that.
Mr.
Muise
was
“I loved every minnamed Nova Scotia
ute of my involvement
Major Midget Hockey
League coach of the
with the team. I’m
Brad Muise
year for 2014-15, but
thankful for the opporFormer coach
recently stepped down
tunity to have coached
due to family and work
here. I believe the team
commitments.
is in good shape next
“It was an agonizing
season, with a solid group of returndecision to leave the Mustangs hockey
program,” said the former coach in a ing players and some talented prospects
available.”
release.
The Mustangs are currently in the
“However, family and work need to
come first. Those are the only reasons process of searching for their next head
why I made this choice. The Mustangs coach and preparing for spring identifiare a very classy organization, [led] by a cation camp.
“It was an agonizing
decision to leave the
Mustangs hockey
program.”
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Brogan Skinner is congratulated by BMO’s Lunenburg Branch Manager Melinda Scott
and Pete Gauvin, BMO Regional Vice President, Nova Scotia South, for winning top
prize in the bank’s “Ready, Set, Goal” contest.
High school student wins
coaching contest
By ROBERT HIRTLE
[email protected]
M@LunenburgNews
Brogan Skinner did pretty darn good
for a first year soccer coach.
A Grade 10 student at Park View Education Centre, Brogan recently learned
that he was the winner of Bank of Montreal’s [BMO] “Ready, Set, Goal,” contest.
“With the contest, teams have the ability to nominate their coaches for an award,
to win $1,000 to go towards their team,”
explained BMO Lunenburg Branch Manager Melinda Scott.
Brogan only began coaching the U-10
∂
West Nova Fuels Soccer club in Lunenburg last summer, also helping out with
the U-8s and U-6s.
“I was offered a summer job for it and I
also knew the club president,” he said of
how he arrived at the coaching position.
“And I’ve been playing soccer for many
years and that also helped me with it.”
While he knew he had been nominated,
Brogan said he didn’t anticipate winning
one of the bigger prizes and was pleased
when he received the news.
“This is more than I expected,” he
laughed. “It’s a real honour and the
money goes to help the club, so that’s real
nice.”
Bowling
Lunenburg Bowling Alley League
Men’s League, April 6: H.S.,
Ross Sharford, 128. H.T., Ross
Sharford, 374. T.H., High 5’s, 1,679.
Ladies’ League, April 7: H.S.,
Val Feener, 131. H.T., Val Feener,
326. 300’s; Jen Green, 305; Audrey Brake, 309;
Mary Wentzell, 300; Rhonda Rhodenizer, 308
Kim Veinotte, 312.
Early Birds, April 15: H.S., Marilyn
Ernst, 124. H.T., Kim Veinotte, 310. H. no
mark, Janet Browne, 94.
Canexel, April 1: M.S., Joey Lantz, 159.
M.T., Doug Murphy, 328. L.S., Val Feener, 154.
L.S., Val Feener, 369.
Money League, April 2: L.S., Charlie,
127. L.T., Charlie, 336. M.S., Tosha, 132. M.T.,
Tosha, 362.
Lucky Strikes, March 27: L.S., Patty
Bond, 117. L.T., Patty Bond, 326. M.S., Scott
Doucette, 148. M.T., Scott Doucette, 392. T.T.,
Try Hards, 1,588.
Mickey Mouse, April 12: M.S., Victoria
Marcot, 114. M.T., Victoria Marcot, 323. L.S.,
Cory Carver, 151. L.T., Cory Carver, 363.
AYB stats: March 28: Tiny Tots: G.S.,
Ella Nodding, 73. G.D., Ella Nodding, 155.
Peewee: G.S., Hannah Nodding, 60. G.T.,
Hannan Nodding, 157. B.S., Zachary Ernst,
74. B.T., Zachary Ernst, 211. Bantam: G.S.,
Alicia Jackson, 103. G.T., Alicia Jackson, 291.
B.S., Nathan Allen, 114. B.T., Nathan Allen,
300. Junior: Dallas Smith, 99. G.T., Dallas
Smith, 275. B.S., Logan Ring, 94. B.T., Logan
Ring, 272. Senior: G.S., Makayla Smith, 103.
Makayla Smith, 273. B.S., Mackenzie Dares,
105. B.T., Mackenzie Dates, 284.
Lutheran Church Bowling League
April
21:
Team Standings: The
Untouchables, 4,332; Wally’s Gang, 4,264; The
Unpredictables, 4,235; Weebles, 4,224.
L.S., Rose Cook, 104. L.T., Jean Schrader,
296. M.S., Brian Conrad, 103. M.T., Arthur
Veinot, 289. L.S., no mark, Gwen Nickerson,
92. M.S., no mark, Wayne Nauss, 87.
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CRANIAL CRUNCHES
Crossword puzzle by Walter Feener
ACROSS
1. Corduroy ridge
5. Letter-shaped girder
10. Decide with a coin
14.Panache
15. African snake
16. Travel on a bicycle
17. Extending relatively far
18. Head of a monastery
19. Grace ending
20.Smooth and connected, in
music
22.One who switches
allegiance
24. Game played with 18 holes
26. Drinking binge
27. One with memory problems
31. Squirm as if in pain
35.Likewise
36. Barber’s accessory
38. Significance of a story
39. Seem ominously close
41. Brilliant success
43. ___ Scotia
44. Valuable quality
46. Atomic number of oxygen
48. Hamster, for one
49.Teeterboard
51. Provitamin A
53. Thick slice
55. It’s used for breathing
56. At a previous time
60. Defeat soundly
64. Subject of study
65. Be beneficial to
67. Game player’s concern
68.Regularly pay money to live
in an apartment
69.Faithful
70.Unwritten
71.Method
72. Ham it up
73.Mobile staircase at an
airport
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2. ___ vera
3. Singer k. d. ___
4. Draw into a conversation
5. Wanting in good manners
6.Organization consisting of
lawyers
7. Send out
8. In regard to
9. Substance inside bones
10.A number that is not a
whole number
11. Long car, for short
12. Plan formed in the mind
13. Shut in
21. Throw lightly
23.Average
25. Ridiculous sham
27.Vertebra which supports the
head
28. Mountain in Alberta
29. Loop with a running knot
30. Acute abdominal pain
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33. Place of safety
34.Overjoy
37. Irreligious individual
40. Sailor’s dining companion
42. Accelerator pedal
45.Narrative
47.Nonsense
50. Sing like a bird
52. Extreme fear
54. Be in flower
56. Country property
57. Cookie with a filling
58. Pull apart
59. Toy on a string
61. Invisible emanation
62. Shut noisily
63. Lend a hand
66. Didn’t move
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In Your CommunItY
4-H ROYALTY
The 2015 South Shore
4-H hostess is Hayley
Frail of Queens County
and 4-H host is Murray
Clements of Lunenburg
County. They will compete at the Nova Scotia
hostess and host competition during the Nova
Scotia 4-H weekend in
Truro on May 1 and 2.
Kiwanis celebrates 100 years
Kiwanis International this year is
celebrating 100 years of serving the children of the world and the local Bridgewater Kiwanis Club has joined in on the
celebration.
Since January 2015, each month a different project has been presented to the
members, which include collecting at
least 100 charitable items such as cans
of soup, mittens, hats or scarves, rolls
of paper towels or 100 eyeglasses and
hearing aids. Each monthly goal has
been surpassed.
Finally, each month a freewill cash
donation was made by the members
with the promise that the club would
match the total donations. This month’s
donation was for the Health Services
Foundation to with the creation of a
“Journey Room” within the regional
hospital where cancer patients can relax
in comfort.
SPEAKERS ADVANCE TO REGIONALS
On April 18, 4-H members gathered at in Bridgewater to compete in speaking contests and demonstrations. The winners advanced to the South Shore Rally on April 25.
Members who advanced included, from back left, Kaitlin Nowe, Hill ‘n’ Dale 4-H Club,
senior speaker; Taylor Rhuland, Hill ‘n’ Dale 4-H Club, junior speaker; Leanne Zinck and
Kaitlyn Zinck, Branch LaHave 4-H Club, senior team demonstration; Mary Raymond,
Two Bays 4-H Club, intermediate speaker; Mary Margaret Raymond, Two Bays 4-H
Club, junior single demonstration. In the middle is Simon Raymond, Two Bays 4-H
Club, entertainment. Front row left are Grace and Anne Barry, Hill ‘n’ Dale 4-H Club,
junior team demonstration; Shaelynn Banks, Hill ‘n’ Dale 4-H Club, junior introducer;
Mary Theresa Raymond, Two Bays 4-H Club, cloverbud hand-drawn poster; and Brooklyn Spidle, Hill ‘n’ Dale 4-H Club, junior thanker.
Members learn about
time-lapse photography
PROVINCIAL REPS
On April 25, 4-H members from Lunenburg, Queens and Shelburne Counties
gathered in Bridgewater to compete in speeches and demonstrations. A number of
members advanced to the Nova Scotia 4-H weekend competition on May 1 and 2 in
Truro. Pictured from back left are Zander Munroe, first junior demonstration winner
from Shelburne County; Katherine Martin and Katie Peacock, first senior team
demonstration from Shelburne County; Mary Raymond, first intermediate speaker
from Lunenburg County; and Kaitlyn Nowe, first senior speaker from Lunenburg
County. From front left are Brooklyn Spidle, first junior thanker from Lunenburg
County; Shaelyn Banks, first junior introducer, Lunenburg County; Grace Barry and
Anna Barry, first junior double demonstration from Lunenburg County.
Harbour View Haven happenings
April has been a busy month at Harbour View Haven. On April 15, the annual volunteer appreciation luncheon was
held at the Central United church hall in
Lunenburg. The event was attended by
nearly 100 people, including dedicated
volunteers, the board of directors and
management. Six of those who attended
the luncheon were resident volunteers
who are very valuable to the ongoing
programs within the facility. Harbour
View Haven is blessed with a wonderful
group of dedicated volunteers whose
continued support brightens the lives
of residents and staff. Staff are always
looking for ways to increase the volunteer group.
Volunteer services co-ordinator Lisa
Craig and board member Peggy Vickers
were at the Lunenburg Farmers’ market
community booth recruiting volunteers
on April 23, following volunteer appre-
ciation week.
The organization was very pleased
with its first family council meeting. On
April 16, 22 family members of residents
met in the facility’s conference room.
Family council chair Ruth Anne Whicher began the meeting with a review of
the family council terms of reference.
As part of the council’s meeting format,
Tim McAuley, administrator, provided
a short information session on provincial licencing procedures. He provided
insight into the licencing standards
and the expected services provided at
the facility and he proudly announced
a very successful licencing inspection
completed in March 2015. The meeting
concluded with an open-floor discussion
about possible topics for upcoming meetings. The next family council meeting is
scheduled for June 18 at 7 p.m.
Longer days and warmer temperatures brought more of our club members
out from hibernation last Tuesday to
hear club member Trevor Awalt give
a presentation on time-lapse photography. Mr. Awalt has only been active with
photography for a few years, but he has
mastered countless techniques and has
enthusiastically shared some of them
with us in the past.
Time-lapse photography involves some
special equipment, and there are lots
of things to think about when putting
a show together. Short setups spanning
hours can be created by taking photos
of moving clouds, longer setups spanning days can be used to show a growing
flower and even longer setups spanning
months can condense a building project
into a show that lasts only tens of seconds. Our minds were boggled with lots
of samples of formulas and calculations,
but, thankfully, Mr. Awalt created notes
for us so we didn’t have to depend on
our memories. Mr. Awalt’s presentation
ended with a seriously cute time-lapse
video of a squirrel collecting seeds set to
the tune “Taking Care of Business.”
After a quick break for socializing, we
watched our new member competition.
Three club members who joined this
year each submitted six photographs for
judging. Nancy Grant, Janice Kenefick
and Don Barnes showed a wide variety
of subjects for the club to enjoy. Judging
was done by previous winners of the new
member trophy – Dave Collins, James
Campbell and Gary Smith. The winner of
this year’s trophy was Don Barnes.
Certificates were also given out to
Karen Parnell Herrick, the winner of
our silent essay competition, and John
Burnett, who won the treasure hunt competition. Trophies for all our competitions will be awarded at our year-end
dinner in May.
To wrap up the evening, the club enjoyed a show of digital slides from our
recent field trip to the Maplewood maple
syrup farm. Many thanks to Rex Veinot
for hosting the club late in March.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday,
April 28, at 7:15 p.m. at the MARC. Kas
Stone will be presenting “Digital Manipulation: The Great Reality Debate,” which
will likely stir up some lively conversations. We invite all photography lovers
to visit before we break for the summer.
Amateur or professional, everyone is welcome.
Hill ’n’ Dale 4-H Club grabs opportunities
The 4-H program offers many positive opportunities. Leaders and members
from the Hill ’n’ Dale 4-H Club are grabbing opportunities and taking part in all
the good events they can.
Recently, leader Kathryn Freeman and
members Seth Freeman, Leah Rhodenizer, Serena Meaney and Shelby Crouse all
went to the provincial 4-H leader-member
conference in Debert.
This month, the cake decorating and
dairy project members bagged groceries
at No Frills grocery store in Bridgewater.
They raised money for their upcoming
project activities.
Some members of the club have competed at the county public speaking rally
and have moved on to the South Shore re-
gional rally. Members competed in speech
and demonstration competitions.
Club leader Allie Veinot is organizing
a fundraiser, and all the money raised
is going to breast cancer research. Her
event, bingo bowling, will take place on
May 9 at the Bridgewater bowling alley.
The cost is $15 per person. For more information, or if you would like to organize a
team, contact Allie at 902-685-5062.
Some of the club’s older members
will be graduating high school this year.
There are many 4-H scholarships available for these members to apply for. For
more information on how to apply, visit
http://www.4-h-canada.ca.
The next general meeting will be held
on Saturday, May 16.
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New Germany runner achieves PB at Boston Marathon
Janis Power makes emotional run in cold, wet conditions
By JOSH GRAHAM
[email protected]
M@LHNOWnews
It was a wet and windy morning at
the start the 2015 Boston Marathon, with
the temperature hovering around five
degrees Celsius. The conditions were
so inhospitable, in fact, that hundreds
were treated for hypothermia in medical
tents at the finish line and 36 were sent
to hospital.
However, once Janis Power set off
with 27,000 others to pace the 26.22 miles
from Hopkinton Green to downtown Boston, all the New Germany runner felt
was warmth and energy.
She said it was all overwhelming.
“There was a tremendous positive
feeling in the air. Everyone was happy.
Even talking [about it], I get kind of
emotional. It was an out-of-this-world
emotional experience. So many people
wanting the same thing [and] rooting for
each other.”
Janis Power placed 317th out of 1,234
starters in her age category at the 2015
Boston Marathon.
Ms Power, who just turned 50, had a
finishing time of 3:48:45 – a personal best
– and she placed 317th out of 1,234 starters in her category of females aged 50 to
54. In other words, in the top 26 per cent.
Ms Power said she has been a runner
for “as far back as I can remember,” but
has had to overcome some serious physical challenges to be one.
“I have a birth defect where a section
of my vertebra is attached to my right
hip. I had been unable to sit or lie down
without being in tremendous pain, and
standing straight was not possible.”
By the age of 30, she had to have back
surgery, and becoming a serious longdistance runner seemed unlikely.
Even so, she took up road racing in
2010, starting with the half distance at
the Bluenose Marathon and going on to
run two more half-marathons that year.
The following year, she did her first
full-distance marathon, hopeful that she
could qualify for Boston on her first attempt, which in her age category meant
completing the distance in less than four
hours. She missed the cutoff by 14 minutes.
A month later, she tried again, knocking 10 minutes off her time. Now just
four minutes away from qualifying, she
made a third attempt that year, but by
that point she was struggling with a
knee injury she could no longer ignore.
In May 2012, she couldn’t battle through
it any longer and had to have surgery to
remove the meniscus in her right knee.
That might have been the end of her
dream.
“The surgeon told me I couldn’t run
long distances,” Ms Power said. Still, she
wasn’t ready to give up. “I got depressed
for two days, then decided that he didn’t
know me. I put my shoes on and got back
out there.”
She credits Jason Lomond, a Bridgewater exercise physiologist, for the program brought her back to full strength.
But her attitude certainly helped, too.
“I’m a stubborn person, so even if I
was hurting I wouldn’t give up.”
She stuck with it, and at the Ottawa
Marathon last May she broke through,
achieving a time of three hours, 52 minutes, leaving eight minutes to spare.
Qualification in hand, her fifth fulldistance marathon would be in Boston.
In choosing her race-day attire, she
wanted to make sure her friends and
family could pick her out of the crowd.
“I painted ‘New Germany, Canada,’ on
the front of my shirt and painted a Nova
Scotia flag on the back.”
Along the route, she heard chants
of, “Go New Germany! Go Canada, go!”
and said she got goosebumps and yelled,
“‘Yes, Canada!’ I’m not a loud, outgoing
person, but I was taking it all in. It was
so incredible.”
After what it took to get there, the race
turned out to be an emotional experience.
Her partner, Greg Selig, and her
daughter were waiting at the 14-kilometre mark, where she took a very short
break to pose for a photo, but she almost
missed them.
“I had to take a few steps back to find
them. I started to feel the emotions, and
I thought, ‘I have a lot of running left to
do, so I can’t go to that place yet.’”
She kept it together and kept up her
pace, but when she crested the top of the
famous Heartbreak Hill there was a sign
that read “It’s all downhill from here,”
and more emotions took hold. “It’s at the
top of this grand hill, the most emotional
part of the run. I could feel it all over
my body. I started crying and actually
sobbed.”
Meanwhile, the conditions had been
challenging throughout.
“It poured at some points, the wind
against us,” Ms Power said, and at the
finish area runners who had kept their
body temperature up through physical
activity now stopped abruptly. For some,
it was a dangerous situation.
“I got over the finish line,” Ms Power
said. “Afterwards, you have to keep
going, to keep walking. Lined up along
the street are volunteers with medals
upon medals to put around everyone’s
neck. You keep going and get shuttled
through. People are not just handing the
heat blankets to you, they’re literally
dressing you with them. At that point,
I immediately was frozen as soon as I
stopped running.”
Ms Power is especially grateful to
friends in New Germany who raised
$1,000 in a penny auction to help her
attend and to friends and family who
helped her achieve her goal.
“It was a changing event in my life,”
she said, “I can’t compare anything to
it.”
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Arnold Knickle
was named
Canada’s favourite
crossing guard in
2012 and spends
most of his day
at Bridgewater
Elementary School
handing out high
fives or waving to
cars.
10
Things
By EMMA SMITH
[email protected]
M@emmaLHNow
Ten things you didn’t know about ...
Arnold Knickle, award-winning crossing guard at Bridgewater Elementary School
1. Has a rescue cat named Molly who’s glued to his side
whenever he’s around.
2. Has worked as a crossing guard at Bridgewater Elementary School since 2001, but took two years off to work at
Tim Hortons.
3. Was adopted when he was two years old and has two full
brothers, a step brother and three step sisters.
4. Doesn’t have a driver’s licence but bikes everywhere
and often to Western Shore, where he visits his 87-yearold father.
5. Has never left Nova Scotia or been on a plane but he’ll
do both this summer when he flies to Georgia. He just
got his first passport.
6. When he was named Canada’s favourite crossing guard
in 2012, he received two letters from people in Ontario
wishing him well and sending him money, but there was
no return address on either.
7. Loves to bake, especially molasses cookies, and volunteers as a cook at the Bridgewater Legion.
8. Knows what it’s like to be bullied and says he hates to
see kids get picked on. In the past, he’s been involved
with the school’s anti-bullying committee.
9. Turned 50 on April 10 and was given three birthday
cakes that day.
10. Calls the elementary students “my kids” and says
they’re what keep him coming to work every day.
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From one coast
to the other
Lorne and Janet Johanson combine careers
with running busy B&B
By DAVE STEPHENS
[email protected]
M@DaveStephensNS
This is the first in a series of profiles of
people who, like LighthouseNOW’s News
Director Dave Stephens, have chosen to
move to the South Shore to continue their
careers or begin new ventures.
There were enough snowstorms in
Nova Scotia last month to make people
flee the province, but it was a snowstorm
in March eight years ago that led Lorne
and Janet Johanson to settle in Lunenburg, in part to run a bed and breakfast.
Mr. Johanson frequently travelled the
country from their BC home, delivering
four-day workshops on water distribution
and treatment and waste-water collection
and treatment. He would often
extend his visits by a few days
to explore the cities and surrounding communities, and
on a couple of occasions Mrs.
Johanson accompanied him.
“Over a two-year period, we
decided we were ready for a
change from Vancouver,” said
Mr. Johanson. “We thought about Saint
John, New Brunswick, but then we found
out it was foggy there during the summer.
We wanted to do a B&B and also thought
about Victoria, but Janet was from there,
and it was a bit of ‘been there, done that,’
so we decided on Lunenburg.”
There was some serendipity in that.
They’d arranged to see six potential B&Bs
in town over the course of a weekend and
didn’t like any of them. Then the snowstorm hit and delayed their return to Vancouver. Mrs. Johanson found an on-line
listing for another B&B that was for sale,
and they were immediately sold on it.
They opened Alicion Bed and Breakfast,
one of the highest-rated B&Bs in town,
less than two weeks after moving in.
Mrs. Johanson had visited Nova Scotia
several times before and always felt as if
she’d live here one day.
“We’re so lucky to live in a country
that’s so large and so diverse. Just because I’m from Vancouver Island doesn’t
mean I have to live there forever. Why not
live on the opposite side? In a nutshell, it
was one more opportunity to have some
adventure.”
Being near the ocean was important to
both of them, and they spend a lot of time
on or near the water.
“We had friends visit from Alberta who
said to us ‘You see [the ocean] every day.’
And I said, ‘Yes, we do,’ and I never take
it for granted. When I walk down Brook
Street to come home every day, I see the
ocean and think, ‘We’re very lucky.’”
Work for Mrs. Johanson, aside from
running the B&B year-round, is working
part-time in administrative support at
Fishermen’s Memorial Hospital, which
is similar to the kind of work she was
doing at a Vancouver hospital before they
moved east. Mr. Johanson continues to
offer his workshops outside of the tourism season.
He got into the B&B business almost by
accident, by renting out rooms in Vancouver house during Expo ’86. “I didn’t have
to give the guests breakfast, but I did anyway, because I couldn’t turn people out of
my house without a muffin and a coffee at
the very least. They were great. They left
me gifts, they washed dishes, made their
beds, so I had that fond memory.” Nowadays, engaging with his guests at Alicion
after they’ve had their coffee cups refilled
is one of the things he likes best about
running a B&B.
Mrs. Johanson worked on cruise ships
for a while, so she was no stranger to the
hospitality industry either. “In a way,
it’s so similar, because it’s interacting
with people from all over the world. It’s
a natural transition for me to host tourists.” That said, she’s grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the community
through her work at the hospital as well.
Almost immediately after arriving
here, Mr. Johanson got involved in the
business community, including the Nova
Scotia Bed and Breakfasts Association
and the Lunenburg Board of Trade,
where he served as president for two
years. It was on his watch that the board
produced the captivating “Live Well in
Lunenburg” video that encourages others to move here and expand the local
economy.
“It’s one thing to be successful in business yourself,” said Mr. Johanson, “but if
there are things we can do to
enhance the economic landscape so that other people are
successful too, ultimately that
works in your favour.”
He says when he joined the
board of trade the focus was
almost entirely on tourism.
“We didn’t want Lunenburg
to become a Disneyland. We want it to be
diverse. This is an ideal community for
lifestyle, and so many people can work
out of their homes these days, have a
small business here, that it just seemed
to make sense. At least five couples have
told me that [the video] was instrumental
in bringing them here.”
Mrs. Johanson says the past eight
years have just flown by for them. Run-
COME
by
CHOICE
DAVE STEPHENS PHOTO
Lorne and Janet Johanson relax in their Lunenburg home.
ning a B&B while working outside the
home has been intense but different every
day, which keeps life interesting. She’s
generally happy having settled here.
“We miss our friends. It’s a little tough
from time to time not having that interaction. But, other than that, I don’t have any
regrets.”
Mr. Johanson acknowledges he’s had
mixed feelings about moving from one
coast to the other.
“You come to a community and you
invest your life savings in preserving
a home because you love the heritage
and you’d expect to feel more welcome
here. So I guess the one sticking point
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is that we were not as welcomed here
as one would hope. It took me back and
was upsetting, for a while. But we have
made some very good friends here, and
they also come from away. CBC – come by
choice. I like that phrase, and we’ve come
by choice.”
“Who knows where the next chapter
will be,” added Janet. “Right now we’re
here in Lunenburg, but it could be in
another part of Canada. We don’t know.”
If you’ve “come by choice” to the South
Shore to continue your career or start a
new venture and would like to tell your
story, please contact Dave Stephens at
[email protected].
YEAR ROUND
LEAF & YARD WASTE COLLECTION
Residents of the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, Town of
Bridgewater and Town of Mahone Bay may place bundles of small
tree limbs and bagged leaves for collection year round. Please note
the Green Week waste collection limits in the Towns and regular
bi-weekly collection limit in the Municipality of Lunenburg:
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All limbs must be BUNDLED and TIED for collection
Bundles cannot weigh more than 55 lbs
All limbs must be cut to 3 feet in length or shorter
Individual limbs must be 2 inches or less in diameter
Town of Bridgewater & Mahone Bay, Green Week limit:
 5 bundles will be collected, if a green cart is placed curbside
 6 bundles will be collected, if a green cart is not placed
curbside
Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, every two weeks:
 3 bundles will be collected, if a green cart is placed curbside
 4 bundles will be collected, if a green cart is not placed
curbside
Please forward your requests in writing
by May 22, 2015 to:
General Manager, Kevin Benjamin
at [email protected]
www.lclc.ca
Leaf and yard waste collections are scheduled on specific
dates in the Town of Bridgewater and the Town of Mahone Bay
during spring and fall. Check your Town solid waste collection
calendar. The total collection limit during these clean ups is 2 cubic
metres (1 metre x 1 metre x 2 metres).
For more information call (902) 543-2991 or visit
www.communityrecycling.ca.
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Topher Wurts
takes a photo
with his son
Kirby at Boy
Scout Camp
Horseshoe.
EARTH DAY
KIDS
A group of four
and five year olds
from Small World
Learning Centre
endured the rain on
April 23 to pick up
litter in honour of
Earth Day. The kids
said tossed coffee
cups were the biggest part of their
haul, but all agreed
the rainy day trek
was worth it to
help the planet.
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KELSEY POWER
PHOTO
Legacy of the Gelling-Godard family
Seasonal Chester resident
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develops autism app
Technology to allow users to rate,
review places for autism friendliness
By KELSEY POWER
[email protected]
M@kelseyLHNow
A Chester summer resident
who’s also the father of a boy with
autism is helping the world become
a more accessible place for those on
the spectrum of the disorder.
“We recognized there wasn’t a lot
out there to help with the practical
day-to-day problems that the autistic population has, and there’s five
million families in North America
that are living with autism, and
that’s growing at one in 68 births,
and it seems to be accelerating,”
said Topher Wurts, whose own
youngest son, Kirby, now 13, was
diagnosed with the disorder when
he was two years old. “We’ve been
raising him and sort of living that
experience, and, as I thought about
it, I realized we could apply mobile and on-line software and tools
and technology to help people with
this.”
This resulted in Mr. Wurts creating Autism Village, a project to
provide on-line tools to autism families and autistic adults. The organization’s first goal was to create an
app for the iPhone similar to Yelp
or TripAdvisor to help families or
individuals find, add, rate and review places on the basis of autism
friendliness.
“The way it works out now,
families gather or the autism community meets, and it’s kind of a
water-cooler conversation, so ‘Do
you know a dentist?’ ‘Do you know
a doctor?’ ‘Do you know a good
restaurant that may be gluten or
caffeine free or a museum that
has early opening hours with dim
lights?’ or that sort of thing,” said
Mr. Wurts. “And so it’s all word of
mouth right now, and what the app
seeks to do is to take that word of
mouth and make it readily available to more people, which you can
imagine would be helpful in your
own neighbourhood, but super
helpful if you’re away from home.”
He started funding his idea
through foundations, families and
angel donors but launched it on the
crowdfunding website Kickstarter
on March 6, to see how the idea
would resonate with the public.
“The result of that is Autism Village is the most successful autismrelated crowdfunding effort ever,”
he said. Autism Village hit its target of $38,500, enough to make the
iPhone app, in 11 days. Following
this, the campaign started working
on stretch goals to create apps for
Android phones, iPads and Android
tablets, in that order, each costing
around an additional $25,000 to
fund.
“We did hit the Android phone
goal, so that’s fully funded, and
we’re about $1,200 towards the iPad
goal,” he said. The campaign ended
at 4 p.m. on April 20, having raised
$75,393 with the help of 1,236 backers. They will be the first to get to
test the app. The organization will
continue to raise money for the
iPad and Android tablet apps, just
not through Kickstarter. He hopes
the phone apps will be released
this summer. At the moment, the
Autism Village website is gathering rating and review data to be
included in the app’s launch.
“We’ve had a lot of feedback from
future users, in particular autistic
adults who are higher functioning
and the importance of a service like
this for them to identify prospective employers where they could
be more or less successful based
on others’ experiences. We weren’t
expecting that, but that came out
as part of it,” said Mr. Wurts. “The
amount of sharing and positive
reviews and encouragement we’ve
seen has been humbling.”
The organization also hopes to
launch an on-line training program
through which businesses and their
employees can learn how to become
more autism friendly.
Rev. Gelling’s daughter, Sarah Elizabeth
ev. William Edward Gelling arrived
(1861 to 1959), married Cyprian Frederick
in Bridgewater circa 1881 to serve the
Godard (1853 to 1930). Cyprian’s father and
Anglican parish of Holy Trinity. This
mother, Cyprian E. and Henrietta, are also
calling lasted for 30 years. Rev. Gelling was
born in the Isle of Man, an island in the Irish buried in Bridgewater. Their places of birth
are listed as New Brunswick. Sarah and
Sea, in 1831. He received his early education
Cyprian F. had three children. First they
at King William’s College there and later
welcomed Alice Maude on August 3, 1884,
attended St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. By
followed by Laura on November 27, 1885. Arthe 1860s, he was an ordained minister, and
thur Edward was born August
he served two parishes prior
24, 1891.
to being sent to Bridgewater.
With the outbreak of the
His first parish was at Beaver
Great War, Arthur, who by
Harbour as curate, and later he
then had become a bank clerk
went to Main-à-Dieu in Cape
with the Bank of Montreal,
Breton. These were followed by
enlisted. In 1921, the Bank of
a parish in Guysborough and
Montreal published a book enthen in Bridgewater.
titled “Memorial of the Great
Rev. Gelling and his wife,
War: 1914-1918.” In that book,
Sarah Elizabeth Brading,
Arthur is remembered and the
raised several children born
details of his service to King
at different locations while he
Peter C.
and country noted. Arthur
served parishes in Nova Scotia.
OiCkle
was born in New York state
Sarah was the only daughter
of Rev. James Brading. Her
A walk through our past and moved to Digby at the
age of 10. In 1915, he enlisted
mother had resided with them
as a private in the 55th New
for a while and she died at
Brunswick and Prince Edward
their home.
Island Canadian Infantry. Due to his banking
Louis Clarke Gelling, son of Rev. and Mrs.
experience, the publication states, he was asGelling, played a significant role in the early
signed to the pay office.
introduction of electricity to the community.
Arthur asked for transfer to a combat unit,
By an act of incorporation on May 19, 1891,
and underwent training as a machine-gunLouis, along with his father the Rev. Wilner. Following training, he was posted to the
liam E. Gelling, William Duff and Nepean
25th Battalion and saw action at Vimy Ridge.
C. Owen, all of Bridgewater, and Edwin T.
He was severely wounded at Vimy Ridge on
Freeman of Halifax, formed the Bridgewater
April 9, 1917, and died in England on July
Electric Light, Water and Power Company.
12, 1917. Letters home suggest that his sister,
Nepean Owen, listing himself as a “gentleman,” married Rev. Gelling’s daughter Annie Alice Maude, was present at his death and
burial at Brookwood, England.
S. She was 27 and he was 47. This company
Alice Maude was born in Passaic, New
played a vital role in bringing electricity and
Jersey, August 3, 1884, and enlisted as a nursother services to the community
ing sister during the Great War at the age of
Louis Clarke Gelling was first married
32. She survived the war and died at Halifax
to Mary L. Robertson of New Germany. The
on August 1, 1960. His sister Laura, who
marriage record states that he was born in
never married either, died August 1929.
Guysborough and lists his occupation as
In Brookside Cemetery, a Godard stone
electrician. Mrs. Gelling died on May 31,
was placed. On it are the names of C.F. and
1899, at the age of 29, and he remarried MarS.E. and their three children. Unfortunately,
garet DeWolf Spurr, daughter of James and
the stone is in danger of toppling over, as it
Annie of Liverpool. Margaret died July 21,
1914. Both his wives are buried in the Gelling now has a significant tilt. On the stone is a
beautiful military medallion, and when the
plot at Brookside. Louis Gelling also served
stone eventually topples the recorded inforas fire chief from 1903 to 1908.
mation will no longer be visible.
Harriett Evans Gelling, daughter of Rev.
The records of families who settled in this
and Mrs. Gelling, married George Alfred
region of Nova Scotia show the diversity that
Dudley, a bank agent. George was born in
has made this county a rich and vibrant part
Middleton and died on September 2, 1918, He
of our history. People travelled from many
served in the Canadian Infantry, 85th Batparts of the world, contributed to life here
talion, and is buried at Dury Mill, British
and left their legacy in a small or large way.
cemetery, Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Harriett lived
Peter C. Oickle is chair of the Bridgewato the age of 94, leaving daughters Mrs. G. E.
ter heritage advisory committee and of the
Tobin of Rhode Island, Mrs. E. L. Washburn
Bridgewater museum commission, and he
of Somerville and Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Jones
also sits on the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia
of Weymouth. Sister Mrs. C. F. Godard of
board. You may contact him at
Bridgewater and brother Louis C. Gelling of
[email protected].
Oklahoma are listed as well.
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noted that her husband put up the squirhis family farm. Lise Bell heard one of
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Brook along Highway 3 on
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the outskirts of Liverpool.
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turned, as had a mallard
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swallow, some cliff swallows
finches and evening grosand at least two barn swalbeaks. On a drive nearby she
lows.
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Meanwhile, Pat Gladgray jay.
man took a walk out to Fort
John Robart reported a
Point and spotted an osprey
James
greater yellowlegs at Lower
there. John Robart noticed
Rose Bay and I found one at
Hirtle
one of these birds on the
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Bird Notes
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bird outing, a wood duck at
Kevin Lantz counted four
Oxner’s Beach was a pleasat Lilydale. With regards to
ant surprise for me. Doug
great blue herons, Deborah
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Rogers had five at the Indian Point salt
bald eagles feeding on a deer carcass fromarsh, Frank MacAulay of Bayport
zen on the ice in Indian Path.
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I ran my first of three owl monitoring
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routes
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at the Back Oler Farm Marsh, along with
It
was
a
week later than usual and there
one behind the fire department in Riverwas
still
a foot to two feet of snow alongport and another in Lower Rose Bay.
side the road and off the road in many
American woodcocks continue to be
places. I was pleased to get one northern
seen. David Bryant spotted one near the
saw-whet owl, three barred owls and a
entrance to the Medical Arts Building in
great horned owl.
Bridgewater, Fran Aldercotte of LaHave
Across the province, many yellow-belobserved one, Glenn Rhodenizer saw
lied
sapsuckers arrived as did a number
one in the middle of the road on Second
of piping plovers. Other birds of note
Peninsula and Lise Bell of Bush Island
were a laughing gull located by Debbie
had one. Terry Danks of Chester Basin
Roberts at Yarmouth, a vesper sparrow
also reported one off Middle River Road
and a snowy egret found by Johnny
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with her.
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‘Be the Peace’ project has successful final public forum
By KELSEY POWER
[email protected]
M@kelseyLHNow
Stepping into the Lunenburg fire hall
on April 18, you would have heard stories
rarely told in public, let alone on the
South Shore. But the fact these personal
stories of abuse, inadequacy and empowerment were being shared openly showcases the strides the group hosting the
event has made over the past three years.
It was the final public forum for “Be
the Peace,” a three-year project funded
by Status of Women Canada to develop
and co-ordinate a community response
to violence against women in Lunenburg
County.
“We did this day as a report to the community because we realized many people
have been involved in different aspects
of it, but nobody really sees the whole
picture except us,” said Sue Bookchin,
one of the project’s co-ordinators. “We
wanted to share that from the viewpoints
of the people involved and we wanted to
just try and celebrate the things that have
been accomplished even though there’s so
many things we didn’t get to.”
Both Ms Bookchin and her fellow cocoordinator Helen Lanthier had worked
with the Second Story Women’s Centre
before they were hired on contract for
three-year and year-and-a-half periods
to work on this project. Although abuse
against women has not been eradicated,
conversations have started, initiatives
have been introduced and change is underway. As one presenter that day described their efforts, ‘Women working
part time haven’t overturned the system
KELSEY POWER PHOTO
Sue Bookchin, a co-ordinator of the “Be the Peace” project shows off a puzzle piece
the ‘Gather the Men,’ group made to represent themselves during the project’s final
forum April 18 while Armand Degrenier makes a speech.
but their impact has been huge.”
“The idea was to bring as many people
as possible together in the community
to collaborate on ways of addressing the
issue of violence against women,” said
Ms Lanthier. “What we’re trying to do
today is bring all of that together to bring
all of the puzzle pieces together to create
one big picture of what the project was
about.”
Groups involved with the project designed puzzle pieces to visually represent
their contribution, and these eventually were combined to form a whole pic-
ture in the centre of the meeting circle.
The project started out with 12 working
groups, and from these three areas of
focus formed: youth, schools and parents;
men, women and people; and justice, police and community.
“We had a particular mandate to engage men and boys, because when we
wrote the proposal, it was clear to us
that this was not a women’s issue, and
unless we have men and boys involved
nothing was ever going to change,” said
Ms Bookchin. Communication barriers
between genders had to be broken down,
and inequity of wealth and power in the
relationship between genders had to be
addressed.
“We recognize our liberation is certainly tied with the liberation and the
freedom and safety of women,” said Armand Degrenier, representing one working group called Gather the Men, which
has been meeting for over three years
and focusing on this issue. “There have
been moments during that time when the
raw, tender heart of sadness was brought
forth, and many of you are probably fully
aware many men are not akin to that
kind of expression. To be able to support
one another in that process has been
transforming.” This group plans to meet
in Chester Basin on May 23 to discuss its
next steps.”
Sexual assault services for the area are
one positive spinoff resulting from the
project. “People are quite blown away by
the co-operation that is happening here
and the real actual change,” said Stacey
Godsoe, one of the co-ordinators working on this particular arm of the project,
who has one more year to finish related
work. “There is actual change happening
in policy, in protocol, in training, so there
will be a model for sexual assault services
in Lunenburg and Queens in the very
near future, which is pretty incredible.”
An inter-agency hub involving many
of the same organizations was also created, as well as a community dispute resolution centre to help people solve their
conflicts peacefully through mediators
and other restorative practices.
The two co-ordinators have a report
they will present at three conferences,
and they are also generating a chapter for
a book related to the Canadian Domestic
Violence Conference they are presenting
in June. Both plan on continuing to work
on a volunteer basis with the Second
Story Women’s Centre, as they want to
see their project succeed.
“We have interviewed a number of
people that have been involved with the
project, and the things they tell us about
the difference we’ve made, it just blows
our minds,” said Ms Bookchin. “We’ve
just learned so much about this whole
territory.”
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The cost of carrying out a structural
analysis on each of the 25 buildings owned
by the Town of Lunenburg would run just
over $100,000.
Town engineer Marc Belliveau was
asked to come up with the estimate when
such an analysis was included in the
town’s municipal climate change action
plan.
There is a question as to whether some
of the structures would need to be reinforced in light of projected heavier snow
loads during future winters.
The estimate was provided by John
Richardson of BMR Structural Engineering and the analysis would identify any
structural deficiencies as well as provide
costs for any required upgrades.
In his report to council, Mr. Belliveau
recommended that the analysis be carried
out over four years at a cost of approximately $25,000 per year.
The slope of the roofs and the age and
use of the building were considered in
determining priorities.
During discussion, several councillors
questioned the numbers and the validity
of such an expenditure.
“I think this is just good money chasing
bad,” Councillor Peter Mosher said.
Council ultimately agreed to look at
having an ongoing town building review,
possibly incorporating this in the budget
process for 2016-17, and for additional reference.
B11
artsk entertainment
New First Nations-run art gallery opens doors this summer
By EMMA SMITH
[email protected]
M@emmaLHNow
In the corner of Liverpool’s old town
hall, a decade-long dream is coming true.
The walls are still bare and the paint
not yet dry, but by the end of April a new
First Nations-run art gallery will move
into the historic building.
Sipuke’l Gallery, which officially opens
in June, is owned and operated by Acadia
First Nation and will showcase Mi’kmaq
painters, sculptors and crafters.
Cultural officer Judy Boutilier says it’s
the only one of its kind in Nova Scotia, a
rare opportunity for Mi’kmaq artists to
connect and share their stories.
“You go in the other galleries and they
have a space for Mi’kmaq artists,” she
said. “They do not call the shots because
they do not own it.”
Sipuke’l means “beside the river,” and
although the building is a block from the
Mersey River and from its original location, the sentiment is there.
“We might have to go upstairs to see
the river, but our heart was always with
the water,” said Ms Boutilier, who’s been
trying to find a space since 2004.
When Region of Queens mayor Christopher Clarke met with her about a year
ago, she knew the historic building was
the perfect spot.
Built in 1902, the structure still houses
Astor Theatre, one of Canada’s oldest
movie theatres, but the once-vibrant arts
hub has waned in recent years.
Mayor Clarke is on a mission to turn
that around.
“We visualize it not as just an art gallery but really as becoming an art venue,
a cultural centre on Main Street,” said
Mayor Clarke, adding that the Mersey
Arts Society and the Queens Arts Council
will share space upstairs.
The green-trimmed building with a
bronze statue out front is prime real es-
Popular comedian to perform
Lorne Elliott coming to Pearl Theatre
The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society will present Canadian comedian Lorne Elliott at the Pearl Theatre,
Lunenburg, on May 9.
For more than 30 years, Mr. Elliott
has been crossing the globe entertaining and astounding his fans.
Starting his career on the East Coast
of Canada as a folk musician, he kept
writing fiction as well as songs, monologues and one-liners. As a result, audiences are treated to a truly unique show
of comedy and music, totally original
and entertaining with a side of foolish
and uplifting.
Mr. Elliott is perhaps best known
for “Madly Off in all Directions,” his
own CBC Radio comedy series that was
taped in concerts all across Canada and
was greatly followed by enthusiastic
audiences for 11 years.
His current CBC project is titled
“Chasing the Big Silly.”
Mr. Elliott regularly tours his oneman show “The Collected Mistakes”
in theatres, universities and comedy
clubs all around North America and
has made regular appearances at the
Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal
since it started in 1986.
His material is always timely and
filled with his keen observations on
what is trending today.
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“Acadia First Nation
wants to write its own
story, and this is a way
of doing it.”
Judy Boutilier loves the
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Local artists Bucky Mooers and Ed
tate in the heart of town.
“Ten years ago, we would have never Benham will also show their work in the
been invited to have a space on Main gallery, along with Ontario-based painter
Street in Liverpool,” said Ms Boutilier. Jennifer Horst.
“I think it’s quite an honour to be
“We’re at a place where we fit in places we
asked,” said Mr. Mooers, who’s been carvnever felt we belonged before.”
Renowned Mi’kmaq artist Leonard ing deer and moose antlers for the last
Paul says the gallery will encourage decade.
He can spend up to
young artists.
300 hours on one piece,
“You know that sayand what he doesn’t
ing from the movie
use in the sculpture he
‘Field of Dreams,’ ‘If
carves into doorknobs,
you build it they will
knives and earrings.
come?’” said Mr. Paul
“I’ve always enjoyed
on the phone from his
hunting, so gathering
home studio in Pictou
the antlers was someLanding. “I think what
Judy Boutilier
thing you always done
Judy is doing could be
Cultural officer, Acadia First Nation
anyways,” he said.
an impetus or a goal
“Now I’ve got a lot. I
for a budding artist to
have quite a household
be in that gallery.”
of them.”
He’s working on a
Along with contemporary and tradidozen pieces that will premier at Sipuke’l
Gallery this summer. Influenced by the tional art pieces, the gallery will also
baroque masters, the paintings feature showcase part of a collection of ancient
ornate landscapes and images from Mi’kmaq artifacts.
Acadia First Nation signed the lease on
Mi’kmaq legends, mixing realism and
April 15, and an official opening is schedfantasy.
Mr. Paul recently moved back to Nova uled for Aboriginal Day on June 21.
In the meantime, Ms Boutilier is workScotia from Calgary, and last year he
spoke at an indigenous arts symposium. ing on a business plan to make sure the
He says finding space for artists to come gallery is viable in the long run. She’s
seen too many cultural and arts centres,
together is critical.
“A lot of the artists today feel like dreams likes this, come and go. She wants
they’re alone,” he said. “In Shubenacadie, the artists and their stories to stay.
“For us, it’s an opportunity to keep our
I was talking to one fellow, and he didn’t
know about other artists in Eskasoni or culture alive, our traditions, by sharing
We’koqma’q. … There’s no fellowship, it,” said Ms Boutilier. “Acadia First Nabut when we get together, boy, we have a tion wants to write its own story, and this
is a way of doing it.”
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Country stars perform for big crowd at LCLC
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ammy Kershaw
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major concert to
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About 1,150 people
attended the April 26
show, which also featured
Georgette Jones, the
daughter of country legends Tammy Wynette and
George Jones, along with
Brian Mallery and the Possum Boys.
Above: Sammy Kershaw acknowledges the crowd
during the show.
Right: Sammy Kershaw and Georgette Jones perform
a duet.
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Below: Georgette Jones and Brian Mallery sing to pay
tribute to her parents, Tammy Wynette and George
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Toddlers find music in Chester
A new program brings children and parents
together to hear live music
By JONATHAN WADDELL
[email protected]
M@LHNOWnews
Dawn Harwood-Jones admits to
having a secret agenda.
“I want people to love music,”
said the Chester local.
Renowned for her involvement
with musical endeavours in the
area, she will tell you that children’s
brains develop better when introduced to patterns presented in poetry and music.
So she has come up with yet another way to introduce music into
the lives of children in the Chester
area. Every Monday, toddlers gather
for Tuneful Tots in the main hall
of the parish hall at St. Stephen’s
Anglican Church in Chester as local
musicians play and the toddlers – or
“aliens,” as Ms Harwood-Jones affectionately calls them – dance and
run around.
The idea came from seeing a child
at the Coldest Day fundraiser in
Tuck Hall, the main room in the
Chester dancing as Old Man LuParish Centre, is excellent, said Ms
edecke plucked his banjo. That reHarwood-Jones, because “there are
minded Ms Harwood-Jones of reno obstacles.” Especially this winsearch she had seen about brain
ter, small children have fewer opdevelopment in children.
portunities to run around outside.
Patterns presented in poetry or
On Monday afternoons Tuck Hall
music help a child’s brain develop,
is filled with music from the Musical
she learned, as she was developFriends group and
ing and producing
Band Camp, at which
a video for the Read
school-aged children
to Me project with
get to sing and play
South Shore Regioninstruments. Many
al Libraries. The
local musicians, like
video went on to win
Jamie Junger, paran award at a festival
Dawn Harwood-Jones
ticipate in the Muin New York.
Tuneful Tots program organizer
sical Friends group
There is a school
and stay the extra
of thought that lishalf hour for Tunetening to Mozart is
ful Tots. Next month,
important to childOld Man Luedecke will be the musihood cognitive development, and
cian at Tuneful Tots.
music and math have been linked
Ms Harwood-Jones credits the
for some time. The Tuneful Tots
St. Stephen’s Anglican Church outprogram is built on that notion and
reach committee for its support and
designed to give children a chance
the financial backing of the Anglito get out and play, dance and run
can Foundation of Canada.
around.
“I want people to
love music.”
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John Burke and his grandchild Isaac McAlpine are pictured during a recent Tuneful Tots program session. Also
pictured is Kathy Hiltz.
Student excellence featured
By ROBERT HIRTLE
[email protected]
M@LunenburgNews
An Education Week tradition that has
declined in popularity across the province
continued to thrive at the Bridgewater
Mall last week.
The mall hosted an eclectic display of
works created by students representing all
schools in Lunenburg County from grades
ROBERT HIRTLE PHOTO
From left, teacher Sandra Himmelman
is joined by students Victoria Foley
and Aisha Nilsson and Marc Breaugh,
vice-president of public relations for
the Lunenburg local of the Nova Scotia
Teachers’ Union, beside the Hebbville
Academy display created by Students
for Social Justice.
primary through 12.
“We have representation here from all
19 schools,” said Marc Breaugh, vice-president of public relations for the Lunenburg local of the Nova Scotia Teachers’
Union (NSTU). “We have artwork, we have
science fair, we have heritage fair, we have
some display boards that indicate some
of the services that are available in the
Lunenburg County schools.”
Those include such services as school
counsellors, psychologists and the RCH
program, which stands for Race Relations, Cross Cultural Understandings and
Human Rights.
“So there’s quite a bit of variety here.
We have an excellent mural from our high
school program in Bridgewater, the art
program. We’ve got work from the [International Baccalaureate] program and art
program at Park View [Education Centre],
so that’s really the older and very, very
talented students. Then we’ve got a bunch
of interesting projects on different aspects
of the community.”
The annual five-day show, which is now
in its 20th year, is organized by the Lunenburg local of the NSTU each spring to
honour Education Week.
On weekdays, when school is in session, members of the retired teachers
organization of the Lunenburg local
were in attendance to serve as display
ambassadors.
“And we’ve managed to get teachers to
come and be ambassadors for the displays
after school,” Mr. Breaugh said, adding
that such displays were a provincewide
initiative back in the 1980s and 1990s but
that has seemingly fallen by the wayside.
“I believe we are the last local to be
doing a public display of student work,”
he said.
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British comic brings travelling show to Lunenburg
By ROBERT HIRTLE
[email protected]
M@LunenburgNews
James Mullinger had made a name for himself as a stand-up
comic in his native England, so naturally you’d think he would feel
like he pretty much had it made, career-wise.
Think again.
Last year, he packed up everything and moved his family to
Canada, where he was a virtual unknown, to start all over again.
“I moved here last February, Honestly, it was for a better quality
of life,” he explained. “My wife is from New Brunswick. We had
lived together in England for 15 years, had our second child, and
it just got to the stage that we’d kind of done London. London is
a great place to be when you’re in your twenties, but when you’re
Marquee
in your thirties and you’ve got kids, why live in the people and then four months later I was playing a
most expensive city in the world?”
campground in Shediac to 40. So the show was very
As a stand-up comedian, much of Mr. Mullinger’s much about that disparity.”
life is spent on the road, and he first believed that
For the series’ second season, it was decided to
coming to Canada was going to mean long treks pick towns that tend not to have much live comback to his native country, where
edy, such as Gander and Bay
he is well-known, to perform.
Roberts in Newfoundland, Yar“The amazing and wonderful
mouth and, of course, Lunenthing is how much work I’ve been
burg.
getting here, to the extent that
“We ended it here, basically
I’ve cancelled shows in London
because everyone told us this
because I had nicer, closer gigs
was the most picturesque, the
within the Maritimes,” he said.
most beautiful,” he explained.
“It wasn’t a career move. I didn’t
“So this is the last stop on the
think my career would take off
tour and the last part of the
in New Brunswick, but, weirdly,
series.”
James Mullinger
that’s what happened.”
Joining Mr. Mullinger on
Comedian
One method Mr. Mullinger is
this
year’s tour was a quartet
using to spread his talents around
of
his
favourite Atlantic Caelectronically is taping his live
nadian comics, which included
shows and replaying them on-line
Jon Forward, Darren Elmore,
on Bell Aliant’s Community One channel under the
Glen
K.
Amo
and
Catherine
Robertson.
series title “Blimey! An Englishman in Atlantic
“I pretty much used most of my material in the
Canada.”
That series is what brought him to Lunenburg, first season, so now basically I will go out and do my
where he performed before a packed house at the set. Then, after 25 or 30 minutes, I will start talking
to the crowd about Lunenburg … and that turns up
Knot Pub on April 22.
“We did a season last year and the premise was, the funniest stuff,” he said. “That’s basically what
as you can imagine, I just moved here and was doing we use, that improvised banter with the audience.”
For more information on Mr. Mullinger visit
a lot of weird gigs,” he said. “You know, I was in
London doing a gig at the Apollo in front of 4,000 http://www.jamesmullinger.com.
“I didn’t think my
career would take off
in New Brunswick, but,
weirdly, that’s what
happened.”
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Artist Sue Robinson featured
The featured artist in the Mahone Nursing Home’s Mini Art
Gallery for the month of May is Sue Robinson.
Born and educated in Montreal and Switzerland, Ms Robinson now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and continues to improve
her art through classes in the Annapolis Valley, Lunenburg,
Rhode Island and New York state.
She has been working with oils, watercolours, coloured
pencils and acrylics for over 20 years, is represented in several
galleries and enjoys the painting nature, flowers and Maritime
scenes.
The show runs through May 29 at the Mahone Nursing Home,
640 Main Street, Mahone Bay.
n
New exhibit at Peer Gallery
Peer Gallery in Lunenburg opens its 14th season with a special exhibit of works by Susan Hudson and Barbara McLean.
“Drawnout” will feature a series of drawings by Ms Hudson
that focuses on vegetation and the environment as well as works
by Ms McLean that meld drawing and painting into an engaging
hybrid.
The exhibit opens with a public reception that will be held
May 2 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the gallery’s Lincoln Street location.
For more information, visit http://www.peer-gallery.com.
n
Two art movies will be shown at the Fisheries Museum
“Kinngait: Riding Light Into the World” — 60 minutes. Set in
the Canadian Arctic, this is an intimate, first-hand account of
how the tiny, isolated Inuit community of Cape Dorset became
the internationally celebrated art capital of the North. Produced by David Craig of Nova Scotia, Site Media Inc.
“Freedom on the Fence” — 40 minutes. A documentary about
the history of Polish posters and their significance to the social, political and cultural life of Poland. The film examines
the period from the Second World War through the fall of Communism and captures the paradox of how this unique art form
flourished within a Communist regime.
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May Day recipes
M
ay Day has been a holiday to welcome
spring across many cultures for millennia. In ancient Rome, where flowers were
blooming by May, people celebrated by paying
tribute to Flora, the goddess of beauty. In England,
May Day traditions included maypoles made from
birch trees, and a young woman in each village
would be named queen of May.
In Sweden, where snowbanks might still be
creeping away, each village built a bonfire and
burned Old Man Winter in effigy. When I was a
child, May Day in my town was a day to pick wildflowers, leave them on people’s doorsteps, ring the
doorbell and run away. This was almost always
well-received, until the time I accidentally picked
most of a neighbour’s garden! Although many
people have let their May Day traditions fall by the
wayside, a few favourite dishes remain here and
there.
Hasty Pudding
This May Day dessert is an Irish tradition dating back centuries.
Ingredients
1 cup packed brown
sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsps butter
1 cup boiling water
ElisabEth
1/2 cup white sugar
bailEy
3/4 cup all-purpose
flour
Betty's Bite
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup chopped
nuts, any kind
1/2 cup raisins
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a nine-inch square
baking dish and set aside.
Combine brown sugar, vanilla extract, butter
and boiling water in a mixing bowl. Add milk and
set aside.
Meanwhile, whisk white sugar, flour and baking
powder together in a clean mixing bowl. Add nuts
and raisins and stir.
Transfer wet mixture to prepared baking dish.
Drop dry mixture on top by spoonfuls.
Bake for 30 minutes. Serve warm.
May Mushrooms with Goat Cheese
This dish is based on Celtic traditions of harvesting mushrooms and making dairy products in
early May.
Ingredients
2 tbsps olive oil
2 cups bite-size mushroom pieces (any kind or
a blend)
1/2 tsp salt
1 large garlic clove, minced or pressed
2 tbsps chopped fresh chives
3/4 cup goat cheese
2 cups baby spinach
1/4tsp chopped fresh herbs (parsley, tarragon,
cilantro or a combination)
2 tbsp white wine
Directions
Preheat oven to 400°F. Lightly butter a baking
dish and set aside.
Heat olive oil in a pan over medium-high heat
and add mushroom pieces and salt. Sauté, stirring
often, until mushrooms are browned, about five
minutes. Turn heat to low, add garlic and chives
and sauté another two minutes.
Combine mushroom mixture with goat cheese,
baby spinach, herbs and wine in the prepared baking dish.
Bake until mixture is heated through and
cheese browns, seven to 10 minutes. Serve warm
with baguette slices.
May Day Pie
And now for something completely different —
a pie famous in the American state of Kentucky to
be served for the derby at the beginning of May.
Ingredients
1 prepared pie crust, store-bought or homemade
2 eggs
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup melted butter
1/4 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup bourbon
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, pecans,
hazelnuts, peanuts or a combination)
TOWN OF LUNENBURG
Directions
Position a rack in the centre of the
LEisURE FaiR – May 30, 2015
oven and preheat to 350°F. Arrange pie
crust in a pie plate and set aside.
The Town of Lunenburg is sponsoring our second Leisure
Beat eggs in a mixing bowl, then add
Fair at the Lunenburg Arena on Saturday, May 30, 2015
flour, white sugar and brown sugar. Comfrom 10:00 am - 3:00 p.m. The purpose of the fair is to give
bine thoroughly, then add melted butter,
groups/organizations that sponsor leisure/recreation activities
corn syrup and bourbon and combine
in this region an opportunity to inform the public as to what
again. Add chocolate chips and nuts and
it is they do and how people can become involved in that
stir until just blended, then transfer mixactivity. Booth space with a table and chairs is free of charge.
ture to prepared pie pan.
Groups/organizations that wish to be included should contact
Bake until pie is firm and golden,
the Recreation Director, Mr. Robin Scott at 902-634-4006 or
about an hour. Serve warm or cool.
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 
 
    
   
     
  
  
    

  
   
 
  
 


        
  
      
       
 
  
  
 
      


 
     
 
 
 
+++     
  

  
  
         
       
    
  
         
  

  
              
  

  





   
 







  
 

+      
        
         
 
          
 
                
 

      
 

  
 
 

 
  

    

   
    
  

     
WEEKDAY DAYTIME
7:30
8:00
8:30
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



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


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





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












10:30
 
   
  
  
   
 

   
  
 
   
 
          
  

 



    
    

   
 
   



      
 
 
        
 
 
   
   
   
             
                     
         
 

   

    
 
 

       
   
   
   
 
   
    
    
  
 

    
          

  

   

 
      
    
 
 
 
   
     
  
  
    

  
 
  
 
  
 
+++      
  
    
  
  
  
       
  
      
 
      

    
     
 
 
 
+++    
   

  
  
       
       
    
  
        
       
  


          
  

  





   
   


   
  
   
++++     
        
    
  
          
 
 
                
 

       
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   
   
   
  

   
      
  

 

       
    
    

   
     



    
    
 
        

 
 
   
               
    
 
 
 
 
  
      


++   
   

    
 
  
    
       
   
    
  
    
    
  
  

    +++      
 

   
  
++       
   
    
  
++        
   
     
  
  
    

   
 
  
 
  
 

 
           
 
    
       
  


 
      

+++    
     
 
   +++        
  

  
  
 
++       
       
    
  
         
 
     
  

    +++  
     
  

  





   
 







    

      
        
     
  
 
  
     
 
                
 

 
         
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 
   
  
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    
   
    
  


    
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         

   
 
  
  
 
 
 
   
    
       


  
  

   
         


      
   
    
         
  
  
       
 
  
  
 
 


 
 
    
  
  
  
   
   
 
 
 
 
        
     

  
                
 
 
   
  
 
       
 
 
   
   
 
 
 
  
 

 
  

 
 
  
  

  
  
  


  
     
 
   

      


       
        




   
 

  



     

  
 



 

    
 

 
    
 

   
  
  
 
  
       
   
    
    
   

 
 
 
 
  



 

 

 
 



   

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  

 
    
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

 



    
    

 
 





 
 



 
     
 
      
  


               


  
   
        



       
 


   
    
   
 

 


    
       
   






  

    



  



 
 
  
  
   
 
 

  
   
 
 
 
    
       
   
 
 
 
 

 
  
      
 
          


  
  




 





    
  
 
      
      
  
 






  

  






  
       
    
  
 
4:00
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APRIL 29 TO MAY 5
5:00
5:30
6:00
  
 
 


   
 
   
   
  
 
 


 
    
   


 
 
     



 
  
 


   
 


 



  
 
 



   
 

   



   


 
 
   
  
  


 
  


 


 




 


 









   


   
  
   
  


  

 
 

 

   






 

 


 
 








 

 
 
 
  
 


 
B16
LighthouseNow Progress Bulletin, Wednesday, April 29, 2015 SATURDAY DAYTIME
7:30
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11:00
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Noon
12:30
1:00
1:30
2:00
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3:30
4:00
4:30
5:00
5:30
MAY 2
6:00
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
Noon
12:30
1:00
1:30
2:00
2:30
3:00
3:30
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5:00
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MAY 3
6:00
10:00
10:30
11:00
MAY 3
11:30
   
        
          
     

   



































       

           
   

      
             
 
 
 
 


   
      
 



             




  
 

   
  


      
  


 
     +++         
 
 
  
 
      
     
   
   
  
    
     
     
      
    
 
 
 
+++        
          
       
 
                
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
  
 
  
  
   
 
          
    
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

   




     
 
 
 
 
 
 













 +++      
++      
  


  
  
     

    
  

  


                          

       ++    
   
   
  



 
       
      ++        
 
 
 
++       
   
  
  

   
   
          
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
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 
  
      

   
++      
  
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            




    
    
 


   
       
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         
 
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   
        
   
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  ++       
  
++            
    
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 
     
++         
++       
  
        
      
       
    
  
 
      
          
 
          
   
 
    

        
  
++     
  
    
  
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    
   



 
++       ++     
++     
 
  
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                    


     
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 
         
  
  
    
    
  
  
 
 
  
  
        
   
         
  
 
   
  
 
 
 

      
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     
   
 
 
   
 
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
 
 
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       +++      
+++      

  
    
  
  
 
          

       
 
 
       ++      
   

 

 ++      
         
  
 
 
 
 
 

    
              
++               
   
  
  
   
  
  
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 
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  

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
     
   
   
++     
++       
++    
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                          
             
  
     
 
  
 

        
 
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  
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             

      
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  

    
  
    
  
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      
++      
++    
  
        


             


   
   
  
                   
++     
    
    

        
  
  
  
    
  







  
  
+++    
++      
++    

  







  


    

+      
 
+      
    
 +++          
   

   




 
 
 
 
 

   
 
 
 
 

        
  

     
                          

     
 
                      

    
               
            
 
 
        
 
       

     
  
 

  

  
  
    

 
   
    
SATURDAY EVENING
6:30
7:00
7:30
  
   
     



































8:00
8:30
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
MAY 2
11:30
 
      

 
     
 
       
         
  
   

 

  

   +++      
 
                  
          
  

   
    
               
   

 


      
 

 
 
     
   
 
   ++      

 
   
  
 
       

 

 ++      
   
   ++      
++    

++            ++       
       
  
     
   

 
  
 

   

         
      
 
 
 
     
        

      

 
     
     ++       
++       

 
 
     ++    
           
   
   
   
  
  
 
 

    
    
    +  


 
      +++     
   





 
 
  ++++       
 
  
    
 

  
   
  
     
     
    
 
           

 
           +++        
  

     


   
 
 

SUNDAY EVENING
6:30
7:00
7:30
  
  
 



































8:00
8:30
9:00
9:30
     
     
   
 
      
    
 
 
     
  


     
     
     

   
   
  
  

      
     
 
       
   
  
   
 
 
 
   
   
  
   
  ++          


   
 
 
    
 
 
   
             
    
 
+++       
 
       
 
  

++              


 
    

    
 ++    
    
  
++     
    
   
  
  
  
      
     
 

   
  
++      
                   
    
      
   
 
                 
 
+       

  
  

    
   
   
           
   
     
 
       

    

  
    


    

++      

  



    

       
 
    

    


 
 
 
  
     
 
  
    
 
 
 
           
 

       
 
 
 

    
        
 
     

      
team of super heroes band
together to help protect the
world from Loki and his
army. (PG)
MOVIES
Wednesday 04/29
Friday 05/01
Evening
8:00 (SPACE) “Mama” (Horror,
2013) Jessica Chastain,
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. A
man must raise his young
nieces after they were
abandoned in the forest for
five years. (14+)
9:00 (SHOW) “Defendor”
(Comedy,2009) Woody
Harrelson, Kat Dennings.
An average but delusional
man sets out to protect
innocent citizens from
criminals. (14+)
10:00 (BRAVO) “Away From Her”
(Drama,2007) Julie Christie,
Olympia Dukakis. A loving,
elderly couple enjoy a
peaceful life together until
the woman becomes ill. (PG)
(SPACE) “Warm Bodies”
(Comedy,2013) Nicholas
Hoult, Teresa Palmer. Julie
finds herself in a strange new
series of events when she is
saved by a zombie. (PG)
(APTN) “Lethal Weapon”
(Action,1987) Mel Gibson,
Danny Glover. An unstable
police officer is partnered
with a veteran detective to
battle drug dealers. (18+)
1:00 (SPACE) “Mama” (Horror,
2013) Jessica Chastain,
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. A
man must raise his young
nieces after they were
abandoned in the forest for
five years. (14+)
(VIS) “Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof” (Drama,1958)
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul
Newman. A former football
player struggles with
alcohol, his alienated wife
and his dying father. (PG)
Thursday 04/30
Evening
8:00 (TOON) “Hulk Vs.”
(Animated,2009) Voices
of Mark Acheson, Michael
Adamthwaite. The Hulk
takes on Wolverine and then
takes on the Mighty God of
Thunder Thor. (PG)
9:00 (CH) “Valkyrie” (War,2008)
Tom Cruise, Kenneth
Branagh. German officers
plan to assassinate Hitler,
believing they have to save
Germany from him. (14+)
(SHOW) “Black Rain”
(Drama,2008) Sara Canning,
Sean Carey. A scientist
moves to the wilderness and
tries to discover who caused
a chemical rainfall. (14+)
10:00 (SPACE) “Killer Bees”
(Action,2002) C. Thomas
Howell, Fiona Loewi. A
truck accident causes the
sudden release of deadly
killer bees in a small town.
11:00 (SHOW) “The Avengers”
(Action,2012) Robert
Downey Jr., Chris Evans. A
army. (PG)
MONDAY EVENING
6:30
7:00
7:30
  
   
  



































Evening
army. (PG)
9:00 (FOX) “Taken” (Thriller,
2008) Liam Neeson, Famke
Janssen. A retired agent
does everything he can to
get his daughter back from
traffickers. (14+)
(FAM) “Penelope” (Fantasy,
2006) Christina Ricci, James
McAvoy. A young heiress
born with the face of a pig
must find true love to break
the curse. (14+)
10:00 (TOON) “The Mask”
(Comedy,1994) Jim Carrey,
Cameron Diaz. A bank clerk
finds an ancient mask that
turns him into a smoothtalking superhero. (14+)
(WTN) “The Sisterhood
of the Traveling Pants
2” (Comedy/Drama,2008)
Amber Tamblyn, Alexis
Bledel. Four friends continue
sharing a special pair of
jeans even though they are
separated. (PG)
(LIFE) “War of the
Worlds” (Action,2005) Tom
Cruise, Dakota Fanning. A
man struggles to protect his
children when aliens invade
Earth wanting to destroy it.
(14+)
(SPACE) “Harry Potter and
the Philosopher’s Stone”
(Fantasy,2001) Daniel
Radcliffe, Emma Watson.
Upon learning that he has
magical powers, a boy
enrolls in a boarding school
for wizards. (PG)
11:00 (CMT) “Pure Country”
(Drama,1992) George Strait,
Isabel Glasser. A successful
country singer returns to his
roots to rediscover himself
and his music. (PG)
(SHOW) “Green Lantern”
(Action,2011) Ryan
Reynolds, Blake Lively.
When a man finds a magic
ring, he joins a group
charged with creating
interspatial peace. (PG)
(OWN) “As Good as It
Gets” (Comedy,1997) Jack
Nicholson, Helen Hunt.
An obsessive recluse’s life
changes when he meets a
waitress and befriends his
neighbour. (14+)
(FAM) “The Cheetah Girls”
(Musical,2003) Raven ,
Adrienne Bailon. An allgirl singing group face the
challenges of growing up
and getting discovered. (G)
12:30 (WTN) “The Sisterhood
of the Traveling Pants
2” (Comedy/Drama,2008)
Amber Tamblyn, Alexis
Bledel. Four friends continue
sharing a special pair of
jeans even though they are
separated. (PG)
1:00 (TOON) “The Mask”
(Comedy,1994) Jim Carrey,
Cameron Diaz. A bank clerk
8:00
8:30
9:00
9:30
finds an ancient mask that
turns him into a smoothtalking superhero. (14+)
2:00 (CMT) “Pure Country”
(Drama,1992) George Strait,
Isabel Glasser. A successful
country singer returns to his
roots to rediscover himself
and his music. (PG)
Saturday 05/02
Evening
4:30 (CH) “The Big Lift”
(Drama,1950) Montgomery
Clift, Paul Douglas. A pair
of American pilots helps
break the Russian blockade
of the German capital in
1947. (G)
(WTN) “The Women”
(Comedy,2008) Meg Ryan,
Annette Bening. A rich
woman leans on her friends
for support after discovering
her husband is cheating.
5:00 (TBS) “The Spy Next
Door” (Action,2010) Jackie
Chan, Amber Valletta. A
retired CIA spy takes on
the job of watching his
girlfriend’s three children.
5:30 (SHOW) “Wrath of the
Titans” (Action,2011) Sam
Worthington, Liam Neeson.
When the ancient Titans are
unleashed, Perseus braves
the underworld to stop them.
6:00 (CITV) “Three Weeks,
Three Kids” (Family,2011)
Anna Chlumsky, Warren
Christie. A woman’s life is
turned right side up when
she must take care of her
sister’s kids. (PG)
6:45 (SPACE) “Harry Potter and
the Philosopher’s Stone”
(Fantasy,2001) Daniel
Radcliffe, Emma Watson.
Upon learning that he has
magical powers, a boy
enrolls in a boarding school
for wizards. (PG)
7:00 (WTN) “He’s Just Not That
Into You” (Comedy,2009)
Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer
Connelly. Men and
woman mix their signals
and misinterpret the true
intentions of the opposite
sex. (14+)
7:30 (SHOW) “Green Lantern”
(Action,2011) Ryan
Reynolds, Blake Lively.
When a man finds a magic
ring, he joins a group
charged with creating
interspatial peace. (PG)
8:00 (ATV) “Wedding Planner
Mystery” (Mystery,2014)
Erica Durance, Andrew
Walker. An event planner
attempts to clear her name
when she is framed. (14+)
(TOON) “Cats and Dogs”
(Comedy,2001) Voices of
Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth
Perkins. A cat bent on world
domination escalates the
ongoing war between felines
and canines. (PG)
9:00 (ABC) “Shrek the Third”
(Animated,2007) Mike
Myers, Eddie Murphy. Shrek
sets out to find a teenaged
prince who can assume the
throne in his place. (PG)
10:00 (HIST) “Charlie Wilson’s
War” (Drama,2007)
Tom Hanks, Amy Adams.
Influenced by a socialite and
a CIA agent, a congressman
gets involved with
10:00
10:30
11:00
MAY 4
11:30
    
  

   
 
 
 
   
      
  

 


     
    

      
  



        

 
        
     
  
 +++      
+++          

    
 
      
  
         

  
  
   

       
  
 
 
   
   
    
++      
    
    
  
  

     
  
     

  

    

    
    
 
  
    
   
     
  
  
    

   

 
 
  
     
  
     
  
        
       
      
 
 
      

 
 
     
 
 
 
    
 

  
  


  
  
       
    
  
         
 
 
  
             
  

  





   
 
    


 
  
 


 
        
          
 
  
     
 
 
  
    
    
  

              
  

  
 
       
 

   



 
 
    
  

  
   
Afghanistan. (14+)
(TOON) “Barbershop”
(Comedy,2002) Ice Cube,
Cedric the Entertainer. An
eccentric assortment of
characters share their stories
in a barbershop in Chicago.
(WTN) “New Year’s Eve”
(Romance,2011) Sarah
Jessica Parker, Jessica
Biel. The happenings of
New Yorkers intertwine as
everyone prepares for New
Year’s Eve. (PG)
(BRAVO) “Garage Sale
Mystery: All That Glitters”
(Mystery,2014) Lori
Loughlin, Andrew Dunbar. A
mystery-solving shop owner
realizes a murderer is after
something in her storage
unit. (PG)
(SHOW) “Wrath of the
When the ancient Titans are
unleashed, Perseus braves
the underworld to stop them.
(LIFE) “Grease” (Musical,
1978) John Travolta, Olivia
Newton-John. A leatherjacketed boy and a goodytwo-shoes girl fall in and out
of love in the 1950s. (PG)
(TBS) “You Again”
(Comedy,2010) Kristen Bell,
Odette Yustman. A girl sets
out to expose the woman her
brother is about to marry for
who she really is. (14+)
(STAR) “To Be Fat Like
Me” (Drama,2007) Kaley
Cuoco, Caroline Rhea. A
student goes undercover at
her high school wearing a fat
suit and hidden camera. (PG)
11:00 (FAM) “StarStruck”
(Musical,2010) Danielle
Campbell, Brandon Smith.
A girl becomes good friends
with a star while visiting her
grandparents in Los Angeles.
11:30 (SPACE) “Repo Men” (SciFi,2010) Jude Law, Forest
Whitaker. In a future where
artificial organs can be
bought on credit, they can
also be repossessed. (18+)
12:00 (BRAVO) “Green Zone”
(Action,2010) Yigal Naor,
Said Faraj. A U.S. Army
officer goes rogue as he
searches for weapons of
mass destruction. (18+)
(SHOW) “Clash of the
Zeus’ son attempts to stop
the Underworld and its
minions from bringing evil
to Earth. (14+)
12:05 (ATV) “Bandits”
(Comedy,2001) Bruce Willis,
Billy Bob Thornton. Two con
men devise a clever ploy to
rob banks to quickly make
themselves rich. (14+)
12:30 (WTN) “New Year’s Eve”
Year’s Eve. (PG)
(LIFE) “Footloose”
(Comedy/Drama,2011)
Kenny Wormald, Julianne
Hough. A city kid moves to a
small town that has outlawed
dancing and rock ‘n’ roll
music. (PG)
1:00 (TOON) “Barbershop”
(Comedy,2002) Ice Cube,
Cedric the Entertainer. An
TUESDAY EVENING
6:30
7:00
7:30
  
   
  



































eccentric assortment of
characters share their stories
in a barbershop in Chicago.
(COM) “Bikini Spring
Break” (Comedy,2012)
Rachel Alig, Virginia
Petrucci. College students
break out of their shells
when their bus breaks down
in Ft. Lauderdale. (18+)
(STAR) “To Be Fat Like
Me” (Drama,2007) Kaley
Cuoco, Caroline Rhea. A
student goes undercover at
her high school wearing a fat
suit and hidden camera. (PG)
Sunday 05/03
Evening
4:30 (LIFE) “Footloose”
(Comedy/Drama,2011)
Kenny Wormald, Julianne
Hough. A city kid moves to a
small town that has outlawed
dancing and rock ‘n’ roll
music. (PG)
5:00 (CBC) “A Cinderella Story”
(Comedy,2004) Hilary Duff,
Chad Michael Murray. A
young girl who is exploited
by her stepmother sets out to
meet her ‘prince’ at a dance.
(BRAVO) “Maid in
Manhattan” (Comedy
,2002) Jennifer Lopez,
Ralph Fiennes. A senatorial
candidate falls for a hotel
maid who is posing as a
Manhattan socialite.
(TBS) “EuroTrip”
(Comedy,2004) Scott
Mechlowicz, Jessica Boehrs.
A teenager travels to
Germany with his friends in
order to meet his gorgeous
online tutor. (18+)
5:30 (WTN) “New Year’s Eve”
Year’s Eve. (PG)
6:00 (SPACE) “A Good Day to
Die Hard” (Action,2013)
Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney.
John McClane and his son
Jack battle against a nuclear
weapons heist while in
Russia. (18+)
7:00 (CMT) “Bad News Bears”
(Comedy,2005) Billy Bob
Thornton, Greg Kinnear. A
former pro baseball player is
recruited to coach a failing
little league baseball team.
(SHOW) “Murder in My
House” (Thriller,2006)
Barbara Niven, Gary
Hudson. A retired prosecutor
and his daughter learn that
a murder was committed in
their new home. (14+)
9:00 (CH) “Leatherheads”
(Comedy,2008) George
Clooney, Renée Zellweger.
A football player recruits a
college player to his team
to bring excitement to the
game. (PG)
10:00 (WTN) “Vanity Fair”
(Drama,2004) Reese
Witherspoon, Gabriel Byrne.
A strong-willed woman is
determined to break away
from her poverty-stricken
background. (PG)
(BRAVO) “Trance”
(Mystery,2013) James
McAvoy, Vincent Cassel. An
art auctioneer tries to recover
a lost painting with the help
8:00
8:30
9:00
9:30
B17
of a hypnotherapist. (18+)
(TBS) “National Treasure:
Book of Secrets”
(Adventure,2007) Nicolas
Cage, Jon Voight. A historian
must prove his greatgrandfather wasn’t involved
in the Lincoln assassination.
11:00 (TOON) “The Lord of the
Rings: The Return of the
King” (Fantasy,2003) Viggo
Mortensen, Elijah Wood.
A king’s heir must unite
fractured armies in order to
save mankind from a great
evil. (14+)
12:00 (SPACE) “A Good Day to
Die Hard” (Action,2013)
Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney.
John McClane and his son
Jack battle against a nuclear
weapons heist while in
Russia. (18+)
12:15 (BRAVO) “Extraordinary
Measures” (Drama,2010)
Harrison Ford, Brendan
Fraser. A couple desperately
searches for a researcher
who can help their sick,
young children. (14+)
1:00 (COM) “American Pie”
(Comedy,1999) Chris Klein,
Natasha Lyonne. A group of
high-school seniors enter a
pact to lose their virginity
before graduation. (14+)
Monday 05/04
Evening
9:00 (SHOW) “Restless Virgins”
(Drama,2013) Vanessa
Marano, Max Lloyd-Jones.
A student discovers a sex
tape made by her classmates
and releases it to the public.
10:00 (CH) “Lions for Lambs”
(Drama,2007) Robert
Redford, Meryl Streep. Two
determined students, inspired
by their professor, join the
battle in Afghanistan. (18+)
Tuesday 05/05
Evening
9:00 (SHOW) “Demons From
Her Past” (Suspense,2007)
Alexandra Paul, Cynthia
Gibb. A wrongly convicted
woman dedicates herself to
revealing the truth behind
the crime. (14+)
10:00 (CH) “A Prairie Home
Companion” (Drama,2006)
Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep.
Take a look at what goes on
backstage during the last
broadcast of America’s radio
show. (14+)
(BRAVO) “Garage Sale
Mystery: The Deadly
Room” (Mystery,2015)
Lori Loughlin, Steve Bacic.
A shop owner begins
investigating her friend’s
death, putting her own life at
risk. (G)
11:00 (TOON) “Fanboys”
(Comedy,2008) Sam
Huntington, Jay Baruchel.
Sci-fi fans wanting to see
‘Star Wars Episode I’ before
anyone else try stealing a
copy. (14+)
1:00 (VIS) “Driving Miss
Daisy” (Drama,1989)
Jessica Tandy, Morgan
Freeman. An elderly lady
shares her life and develops
a special relationship with
her chauffeur. (PG)
10:00
10:30
11:00
MAY 5
11:30
   
      
   
               
      
  

 


        
    

  
      



    
    
 
        
 
    
 ++       
++++         
     
               
    
           

   

     
 
     
         
   
    
++       
    
    
  
 

    
   
     

  

    +++  
     
    
 
  
  
   
     
  
  
    

       
   
 
     
      
        
 
      
  
      
      
  
 
      

 


     
 
 
    ++     
 

  
  
   
  
       
    
  
             
  
  


          
  

  





   
 
  

   
  
 
 
 
 
        
    
   
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  
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COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY
TEAS
BREAKFASTS
notices
BINGOS
Annual Middle LaHave
Cemetery meeting May
5, 7:30 p.m. Home of
Marion Corkum, Middle
LaHave.
May Day Extravaganza,
Saturday, May 9, 10-1,
West
Northfield
Elementary School.Penny
Auction (closes 12 p.m.),
Live Auction (starts 12
p.m.), jail, games of
chance, surprise wall,
plinko, duck pond, face
painting, cookie decorating, mini golf, cake walk,
BBQ,
crafts,
books,
toonie toss and Stand
the
Bottle
game.
Information 541-8220
Schizophrenia Road to
Recovery Walk, Saturday,
May 2, 12:30 p.m. beside
RBC,
King
St.
Bridgewater. Call 902527-1692, 902-543-5418
Saturday, May 9, Daffodil
Luncheon, Wesley United
Church, Petite Riviere, 11
a.m.- 2 p.m. Soups,
chowders, variety of desserts, roll and beverage.
Adults $10, children $5,
under 5 free. Bake table
and
silent
auction.
Sponsored by UCW
Country Breakfast. May
2, 7:30-10:30 a.m.,
Chester Basin Fire Hall.
Various menu selections.
6-hour Defensive
Driving Course
in BriDgewater
COSMIC
BINGO
Breakfast, Pinehurst Hall,
Saturday, May 2, 7 - 11
a.m., $8 adult, 5 - 12 $4,
under 5 free.
- exit the graduated licence
- redeem points back on your licence (up
to 4 points)
- improve your driving skills
Next course date is
Sat., May 16 @ Park View Education Centre,
Bridgewater. Class runs from
9 am - 4 pm
To book your seat, call Barry Crozier's
Defensive Driving School • 902-521-5240
$100.00 Cash (taxes & materials included).
Canadian Dory Racing
Association, May 5, 7
p.m., Lunenburg Fire
Hall. Annual general
meeting,
information
and registration.
Creek Hill Cemetery
Meeting, May 6, 7 p.m.,
1414 Highway 331,
Pleasantville.
Friends of Nature AGM
with Elizabeth May, St.
Stephen’s
Community
Hall, Chester, May 3, 7
p.m.
If you drink, that’s your
business. If you want to
stop, that’s ours! Call AA
1-888-853-7222,
(902)530-0001
Meeting for Lake Centre/New Cumberland hall,
May 4, 7 p.m. Everyone
welcome.
Pleasantville Cemetery
Meeting
at
the
Pleasantville Fire Hall,
May 5, 7 p.m. All members welcome
Tuesday, May 5, Hillside
Pines Auxiliary regular
meeting, 2 p.m., Hillside
Pines. New members
welcome.
COMMUNITY
Benefit Variety Show,
Bridgewater
Legion,
Sunday, May 3, 2-5 p.m.
Baked goods auction,
donations appreciated.
Proceeds to help Nick
Evans with medical
treatment.
902-6348025
Penny Auction, Saturday,
May 2, West Dublin Hall,
10 a.m.- 1 p.m. Bake
Table, Canteen. Proceeds
for the hall.
Spring Craft Sale, May 9,
10 a.m.- 2 p.m. New
Germany Legion, Varner
Road. All local craftspeople.
Light snacks
available. Contact 902644-2320.
May Fest Penny Auction.
Chester Basin Legion
#88, May 2 and 3, 9
a.m.- 3 p.m. Awesome
prizes. $1000 of the proceeds will be donated to
the Veteran’s Memorial
Bursary.
Stan Carew at LaHave
fire hall, Sunday, May 3,
7 p.m. Get your tickets to
hear songs and stories
from the host of CBC
Radio’s
Weekend
Mornings. Tickets $15/
person. Stacey 902-6883141 or Ginny 902-6882713
Penny Auction, Book
Sale, Bake Table and
50/50. May 9, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Lunenburg
County YMCA (75 High
Street), NSCC gymnasium. All proceeds to
support YMCA King
Street Youth Centre
Gospel Concert with
Kinfolk, Friday, May 8, 7
p.m. St. Matthew’s
Lutheran Church, Rose
Bay. Freewill offering.
Refreshments to follow.
Penny Auction, New
Germany New Horizons
Seniors Club, 4978 #10
Highway, New Germany,
Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m
- 2 p.m. Great canteen.
Chili, chowder, soup,
Sloppy Joes, homemade
pie, fudge and hot dogs.
Info: 902-543-3548
Pie and Ice Cream Sale,
Friday, May 8, 6 p.m.
Northwest
United
Baptist Church. Bake and
Craft Table.
Royal Canadian Sea
Cadet
Corps
#39
Neptune, Bottle Drive,
Town of Lunenburg,
Spectacle Lakes, Blue
Rocks and surrounding
areas, May 9. For early
pickup Brenda 902-7664047
Meet Elizabeth May @
Friends of Nature
61st Annual General Meeting
7 pm
Sunday, May 3, 2015
St. Stephen’s Community Centre,
Regent St., Chester, NS
CHURCH
The
Gospel
Lights,
Chelsea
Christian
Fellowship
Church,
Sunday, May 3, 3 p.m.
Everyone welcome.
DANCES
CANCELLED - Dance,
Petite Riviere fire department, May 9, 9- 1. Band:
Twist of Fate. $10/ person. Tickets: Cobbler
Corner, 902-543-3199,
Petite Corner Store, 902693-2124.
Karaoke.
May
9,
Lunenburg Legion, 9
p.m.- 1 a.m. Music by DJ
D’lite. Advance tickets
available at the bar.
Remaining tickets sold at
the door. $7/ person, 19+
welcome
May 9, Saturday, Dance,
Italy Cross, Middlewood
and District fire hall, 9
p.m.- 1 a.m. Music by
the band Top Knotch.
Canteen facilities. Tickets
$8/ person. 19 years and
over. 902-543-9806, 902543-2729. Proceeds for
fire department.
Guest Speaker: Elizabeth May
Leader of the Green Party of Canada
Everyone is welcome to attend. Come and meet
Elizabeth May. Refreshments will be served
For more information: www.friends-of-nature.ca
Local food banks
need your support!
WANT TO
KNOW
WHAT'S
GOING
ON?
Spring Luncheon, West
Side United Church,
Pentz, 11:30 a.m.- 1
p.m., April 30. Adults $9,
children $3. Takeout
order 688-1340, 6882631
tournaments
Crib Tournament. Forties
Community Centre, 1787
Forties Road, New Ross,
May 3. Doors open @
12:00 noon. Registration
by 12:30 p.m. Play starts
@ 1 p.m. $20.00/ team.
Canteen available. For
Information call 6892147
VARIETY SHOWS
Acoustic Country Music
Jam, Saturday, May 2, 7
p.m., Pleasantville fire
hall. Admission $2.
Lunch donations appreciated. Everyone welcome. Proceeds for the
hall. Information 902543-4260
Gospel Variety Show,
Royal Canadian Legion
Liverpool, Sunday, May
3, 1 p.m. Featuring: Paul
and Judy Robar; Ron
Muise
and
Friends;
Melinda Naugler &
Friends; Bill Martin & Old
Country. Canteen. 50-50.
Admission $5.
Variety Concert, Sunday,
May 3, Anglican Church
Hall, New Germany, 1:30
p.m. Debbie and Jeff
Beck, Julia Wright and
Carroll Crouse, Mountain
Soul and Southwind. $5.
Canteen.
Variety
Show,
Blockhouse Fire hall,
May 3, 2 p.m. Doors
open at 12:30 p.m. Mike
and Friends, Larry and
Tina, Junior and Friends,
Kitchen Country. Emcee:
Seldon Trimper. Proceeds
for hall. 50/50, canteen.
Admission $6. For more
info: 902-624-9294
Church Mother’s Day
Fundraising Breakfast,
Saturday, May 9, 7 - 11
a.m.,
St.
Martin’s
Anglican Church hall,
Martin’s
River.
Scrambled eggs, hash
browns, baked beans,
pancakes, bacon, sausage, toasted English
muffins, toast, tea, coffee, juice. Take-outs
available. Adults $8, children 5- 12 $4, under 5
free.
Proceeds
St.
Martin’s Church.
SUPPERS
April 29, Wednesday,
Ham, baked beans and
scalloped potatoes supper.
Italy
Cross,
Middlewood and District
fire hall. 4- 6:30 p.m.
Take-outs available, pick
up only. Adults $10; children (5-12) $5. Proceeds
for ladies auxiliary.
Casserole and Salad
Supper will be held
Saturday, May 2 at
Springfield Fire Hall,
4:30- 6 p.m. Adults $9,
ages 6- 12 $5, ages 5
and under free. Proceeds
for Springfield United
Baptist Church
May 3, Sunday, Fish &
Chip Supper, Italy Cross,
fire hall. Take-outs available 1-3 p.m. Supper 3-6
p.m. 2 piece fish & chips
$10; 1 piece fish & chips
$7. Assorted cakes for
dessert. Proceeds for fire
department.
Turkey Dinner, pie for
dessert, Saturday, May 9,
4:30- 6:30 p.m., Trinity
United, Rose Bay, Adults
$12, children $6, under 5
free. Take-outs call 902766-4752 or 902-7664938.
NOTICES
BREAKFASTS
Breakfast, Hebbs Cross
Fire Department, May 9,
7- 11 a.m. Homemade
baked beans, eggs, hash
browns, bacon, sausage,
toast, tea, coffee, juice.
May
2,
Saturday,
Breakfast, Italy Cross,
fire hall, 7-11 a.m. Adults
$8, children (5-12) $3.50.
Proceeds for fire department.
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$8 adults, $3.50 children
For May, $1.00 of each breakfast sold will
go to St. Vincent de Paul Society
Saturday, May 2nd
starting at 8 pm
Mahone Bay
Fire Department
BINGO
Every
Thursday &
Sunday –
7:10 pm
Doors Open
5:30 pm
LEGAL
IN THE MATTER OF:
The Companies Act, Chapter 81
of the Revised Statutes of Nova
Scotia, 1989, as amended;
-andIN THE MATTER OF:
An Application by DTH
ELECTRICAL TRAINING
LTD. for Leave to Surrender its
Certificate of Incorporation;
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT DTH
ELECTRICAL TRAINING LTD. will make an
application to the Registrar of Joint Stock
Companies for Leave to Surrender its Certificate
of Incorporation.
DATED at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, this 16th
day of April, A.D., 2015.
_____________________________
J.C. Reddy
Power, Dempsey, Leefe & Reddy
84 Dufferin Street
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia B4V 2G3
Phone (902) 543-7815
Fax (902) 543-3196
[email protected]
184 Kinburn St.
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MUNICIPAL JOINT SERVICES BOARD
LUNENBURG REGION
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Legal Services
The Municipal Joint Services Board (MJSB) is issuing a
request for proposal (RFP) from a solicitor or a firm
interested in providing legal advice and services for the
MJSB. Electronic copies of the RFP may be obtained from
Stephanie Smits - Supervisor - Outreach & Communications
after 8:00 am on Wednesday, April 28, 2015.
All submissions must be received by 3:00 pm local time on
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 in a sealed envelope and clearly
marked “RFP # 2015- 001 Legal Services” with the name and
address of the proponent.
Submissions may be mailed to:
Municipal Joint Services Board, Stephanie Smits - Supervisor
Outreach & Communications, 131 North Street, PO Box 209,
Bridgewater, NS B4V 2W8
Submissions may be delivered by courier or in person to:
Municipal Joint Services Board, Lunenburg Regional
Community Recycling Centre, 908 Mullock Road, Whynott’s
Settlement, NS
Enquiries regarding the RFP may be directed to:
Siew Secord, Chief Operating Officer
Municipal Joint Services Board
908 Mullock Road, Whynott’s Settlement, NS
(902) 543-2991 [email protected]
tenders
MUNICIPALITY OF THE DISTRICT
OF LUNENBURG
TENDER
Sealed tenders will be received by the undersigned up to 2:00 p.m.,
local time, May 12th, 15 for the following:
#2015-01-001 Municipal Public Road
General Maintenance
Tenders will be publicly opened in the council chambers at 210
Aberdeen Rd., Bridgewater, N.S. at 2:00 p.m., local time on the
closing date. All tenders must be submitted in a sealed envelope
clearly marked with the tender name and number. Specifications
and/or particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.
The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg reserves the right to
reject any or all tenders, not necessarily accept the lowest tender,
or to accept any tender which it may consider to be in its best interest. The Municipality also reserves the right to waive formality,
informality or technicality in any tender.
V.E. Oakley, CPPB
Purchasing Coordinator
Municipality of the District of Lunenburg
210 Aberdeen Rd.
Bridgewater, N.S. B4V 4G8
Tel: (902) 541-1324
APTS.
APTS.
LAND FOR SALE
1- 2 bedroom apartments in Bridgewater,
centrally located with
balconies.
Available
immediately.
Rent
includes fridge, stove
and parking. Rent incentives. 902-543-6088.
For Rent: 1 bedroom
apartment
Cornwallis
Street, Lunenburg. No
pets. Phone Aubrey
Zinck, Sr. 902-624-8265
Wooded lot, secluded 81/2 acres, 1 miles
wooded private road
access, near Lunenburg.
902-644-2792, 902-5273418
Beautiful bachelor apartment, located on lake, 4
km from Bridgewater.
Fully furnished. Includes
heat, lights and parking.
References
required.
$775. 902-543-4703
Blockhouse.
Newly
renovated one bedroom, fridge and stove
included. 902-624-9792
Bridgewater, 68 Elm
Street. Two bedroom
with balcony completely
renovated,
$750.
Includes heat, hot and
cold water, parking, coin
laundry.
No
pets.
Available June 1. 902527-1539
Bridgewater. Luxurious, 2
bedroom apartment, in
LaHave View Estates at
74 Aberdeen Road. Rent
$1175 month includes
heat, hot and cold water,
5 appliances, balcony,
underground
parking
and storage. Available
June 1. 902-527-1539.
Bridgewater. One bedroom apartment includes
appliances, hot and cold
water, parking. Clean,
well-maintained security
building. $465 monthly
(no pets, non smokers).
902-543-3568, 902-5431025
Dufferin
Street,
Bridgewater, 2 bedroom first floor apartment $570 monthly
plus utilities. No pets.
Call 543-6262
Maple
Street,
Bridgewater,
bachelor
apartment for rent at
$390 monthly, plus utilities. No pets. Call 902543-6262.
HOMES/RENT
2 bedroom house, close
to
three
beaches.
References required. No
pets. 902-688-2662 evenings
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
WANTED
YARD SALES
PETS/SUPPLIES
4 electric motors; tailgate sander; 10 interesting ancient rocks, others
for walkways, etc. 902644-2792, 902-527-3418
Organic and non-organic
Nova Scotia apple juice
for sale. 5 and 10 litre
boxes. $11- $23. Small
quantity of Spice apple
juice available, West
LaHave Juice Yard, 2142
Highway 331. 902-6932102
Paying highest prices for
gold and silver coins,
paper money, stamps,
pocket watches, war
medals, scrap gold and
silver. 275-7785
May Fest Yard Sale,
Martins River Fire Hall
will be held on May 2
and 3. We have started
collecting items. If you
need pickup call: Percy
902-624-9221, Stewie
902-624-9857, Gordon
902-627-2326 or drop
off at Hiltz’s Garage or
fire hall. For table rentals
call Percy 902-624-9221.
Japanese Koi fish for
your aquarium or land
pond, various sizes and
colours, $3 - $10. 902624-9102
DINNER SETTING for 8
with 6 pieces each; Royal
Albert
TRANQUILITY;
plus butter dish, covered
vegetable dish, large
platter and gravy boat.
$700. 902-543-6700
Double stainless steel
sink, dressers, bedroom
sets, air conditioner, love
chair, MDF/ wood moulding, steel door. 627-1986
DSL or Cable high-speed
internet service, add
Digital home phone
service
$14.95/mth
includes all features
and
free
long
distance service. No
credit
or
deposits.
yourcitywide.com
1-800-600-5667
King 10” 3 hp 220V
cabinet tablesaw on
portable
base
with
extensions; $1,000 or
best offer. Call James
624-9165 after 6 p.m.
Quality firewood, delivered and building lots
near lakes. G. Falkenham
and Sons Ltd. Phone/fax
902-644-2792
Will buy old photographs,
magazines,
sportscards, postcards,
toys, matchbooks, comics, fishing tackle, cigarette cards. 902-5431050.
SAWMILLS from only
$4,397 - MAKE MONEY
& SAVE MONEY with
your own bandmill - Cut
lumber any dimension. In
stock ready to ship. FREE
Info
&
DVD:
www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-5666899 Ext:400OT.
Will buy small aluminum
boat, motor and trailer.
Will purchase separately.
902-543-1050
FLEA MARKETS
Utility trailer 10x6 box
with tailgate. Crank
tongue stand, $1,200.
902-543-4703
Flea Market, Michelin
Social Club, May 9, 9-1.
Admission $1. For tables
902-543-5018
YARD SALES
ANTIQUES
Family Moving Sale. May
2, 9 - 1 p.m., 222 Kissing
Bridge Rd., First Penisula.
Park in front, and walk to
the back.
Rhodenizer
Antique Auctions
Buying Antiques &
Collectibles, one item
or complete estate
contents or will sell your
items on commission.
Judy Rhodenizer
902-543-5194
May
Fest
begins
Thursday, April 30, to
Sunday, May 3, at 544
Highway 329, Fox Point.
Bicycles, toys, seasonal
items, strollers, lamps
and much much more.
COMMERCIAL
Bridgewater. 599 King
St., King’s Court. 900 sq.
ft., second floor retail or
office space, $695 plus
utilities. Also 1,300 sq. ft.
space, $895 plus utilities.
902-527-1539
BUSINESS
GREAT
CANADIAN
DOLLAR STORE franchise
opportunities.
With
stores from coast to
we’ve
been
coast,
“Working Together for
Success”® since 1993.
Call us today 506-8494123; www.dollarstores.
com.
Two bedroom with loft
on
LaHave
Street,
Bridgewater. Fridge and
stove, $750 month plus
utilities. 902-543-3247.
1-866-447-5116
Lifetime Roofing Systems
Offer Expires
May 31, 2015
business
Moving Yard Sale, 130
Highway 208, New
Germany. Saturday, May
2, 8 a.m. Rain date
Sunday, May 3. Furniture,
dishes, girls clothing, etc.
Yard Sale. Saturday, May
2 and Sunday, May 3, 42
Falkland St., Lunenburg.
8
a.m.2
p.m.
Salesmen’s samples: new
sports bags, performance
Ts, polos, fleeces, soft
shells, work wear plus
other general items.
®
FARM EQUIP.
1984 Belarus 405 diesel
farm tractor, air cooled,
power steering, includes
front end hydraulic plow,
rear manure bucket,
cross chains. $6,700.
902-543-4703
MOVING
CANE’S
MOVING.
Professional, reliable and
very careful residential
and office moving service. Local and long distance. 902-521-8596
Stubbs Moving. Local
and
long
distance.
Ontario, Alberta, BC,
return, insured, great
rates. 902-521-2693
TRAINING
M E D I C A L
TRANSCRIPTIONISTS are
in huge demand! Train
with the leading Medical
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[email protected].
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inexpensive
advertising
that’s read
every week.
Call
902-543-2457
Professional
Dog
Grooming by Shirley
Place. 902-624-8718
Complaints of animal
mistreatment should be
reported to SPCA at 1888-703-7722. For any
other concerns regarding
animals call 766-4787.
CARS
2003 Subaru Outback,
AWD, 4 cylinder, 5 speed
transmission,
trailer
hitch, runs great. $7,200.
902-543-4703
91B Water Street
Yarmouth, NS
Ph: 902-742-9100
Toll Free: 1-844-492-9875
New two bedroom cottage under construction,
2 acre lot, Sherbooke
Lake access. 902-6442792 or 902-527-3418
Why
Three bedroom house, 3
acre lot, large deck,
walkout
basement,
Church Lake access. 902644-2792,
902-5273418.
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LAND FOR SALE
50 acres, borders on two
paved highways. 25
acres field, remainder
wooded. Phone/fax 902644-2792 or 902-5273418.
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Location: Chester
Position Title: Part-time Seamstress
Department: Environmental Services
Responsible To: Director of Support
Services
Qualifications:
• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Proven ability
• Two to three years’ experience in sewing
and clothing alterations
Closing date for applications:
Friday, May 8, 2015 by 4:00 pm
Forward resumes and covering letter to:
Shoreham Village Senior Citizens Association
50 Shoreham Village Crescent, RR #1
Chester, Nova Scotia B0J 1J0
Fax: (902) 275-2586
Email: [email protected]
THANKS
PONHOOK LODGE CAMPGROUND
I would like to take this
time to thank everyone
who helped my husband,
Mervyn Meisner celebrate his 80th birthday
at his home on April 11.
Special thanks to the
entertainers, everyone
who brought food, or
helped in anyway. Thank
you very much. Mervyn
and Betty Meisner.
Ponhook Lodge Campground prides itself on being one of the most modern
camping facilities, offering the best camping experiences available.
Ponhook fills job openings with persons who are capable of becoming part of
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• Product sales combined with excellent ethics
• Camping knowledge and attitude
• Food preparation (small and large settings)
• Swimming and other programs/activities
All applicants must provide Ponhook with the most extensive résumé including
but not limited to
• education including trade schools and apprenticeships
• First aid, CPR or other emergency medical certificates if held
• Two verifiable personal references that are not a relative
• Work history
• Camping experience if any
• Experience in water safety and boating
• Your hobbies and interests
• Sports that you participate in
• Why are you interested in working for Ponhook
• Ponhook jobs are in a smoke free environment
• Proper dress code and appeal
• Mature attitudes are encouraged
• Full & Part time positions available for the 2015 camping season
Employees are the backbone of success, and Ponhook strives to make each
employee part of an experience Ponhook has to offer.
Please send your résumé to:
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P.O. Box 205, Greenfield, NS B0T 1E0 or
email to: [email protected]
I would like to thank all
the nurses and staff for
their excellent care while
I was a resident of
Harbour View Haven
Nursing
Home,
Lunenburg.
Lowell
Faulkenham.
The family of the late
George Hamm would
like to thank family and
friends for cards, donations, visits, food and
phone calls during our
recent loss of a wonderful husband and father.
Your kindness and support will never be forgotten. God bless you all.
Family of the late George
Hamm.
We would like to thank
our family for the open
house for our 50th wedding anniversary. Thank
you to family and friends
for attending and for the
gifts and wonderful
cards and best wishes.
Owen and Olive Turner.
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Congratulations to Herbie and Donna Eagle of Newcombville on their 50th anniversary. They were married on May 5, 1965, in Bridgewater, NS. Please join them
at an open house at the Newcombville Fire hall on May 2, from 7 to 9 p.m. Best
wishes only.
MEMORIAMS
MEMORIAMS
MEMORIAMS
GARBER, Charlotte M.:
In loving memory of our
mother from Hemford,
who died on May 1,
1985.
Many a day her name is
spoken
And many an hour she is
in our thoughts,
She has gone from our
home
But not from our hearts.
Loved and remembered
by daughters, Gertrude
and Gayle, and their
families.
CORKUM: In loving
memory of Beverley John
Corkum.
Dear Dad,
Your nature was loving
and giving
Your heart was made of
pure gold,
And to us who truly love
you
Your memory will never
grow old.
Always loved and
remembered, Rose and
family.
JOUDREY: In loving
memory of Margaret,
who passed away May 4,
2004.
Remembering you is
easy
We do it every day,
Life has gone on without
you
But it will never be the
same.
Sadly missed by son
Linden and family.
www.lighthousenow.ca COOK: In memory of
Madge Cook, who
passed away May 5,
2013.
Two years have gone,
730 days
730 days that we’ve
longed for you,
Missed you, silently
cried for you
Each and every day,
we love you more.
Time does heal, and
may show on the outside
But on the inside, the
hurt is still there,
Time doesn’t take the
pain away
It will always be there.
You are missed so
much each and every
day,
We struggle to understand why God took
you away.
Missed by your loving
family.
JOHNSON: In loving
memory of our parents,
Elizabeth and Phinney
Johnson;
daughter,
Shelly; sister, Susan;
brother, Brian; and sisterin-law, Lynda.
Those happy hours we
once enjoyed
How sweet the memory
still,
But death has left a
loneliness
That time can never fill.
It only takes a little
space
To say how much we
miss you,
But it will take the rest
of our lives
To forget the day we lost
you.
Always loved and
deeply missed by Pearl,
Danny, June, John, and
Ron.
MEMORIAMS
MEMORIAMS
RUSSELL: In loving memory of Sandra Gail, who
passed away April 29,
1989.
Those we love remain
with us
For love itself lives on,
And cherished memories
never fade
Because a loved one’s
gone.
Those we love can never
be
More than a thought
apart,
For as long as there is
memory
They’ll always live on in
our hearts.
Deep in our hearts your
memory is kept
To love, to treasure and
never forget.
Forever in our hearts
and sadly missed by
sons, Jason and Mitchell;
granddaughter, Gracie;
Mom and Dad; sister,
Cindy; brothers, Tim and
Randy.
CORKUM: In loving
memory of my husband,
Bev J. Corkum, who
passed away on May 2,
2013.
My heart still breaks,
My tears they fall,
At the mention of your
name.
I miss your hugs and
kisses
Your sweet and smiling
face,
You sitting at the table
No one can take your
place.
These are the memories
you left with me.
Miss you every day, wife
Dawn.
MURPHY: In loving memory of our dear father,
Harris Dean Murphy,
who left us April 29,
2012.
I can’t believe it’s
already been three years
since you were taken
away,
Seasons change and
time passes by, but my
thoughts are still with
you,
Your soft spoken words
and comical, sparkling
personality will never be
forgotten,
A great father is one
who is strong when it’s
called for, but kind and
caring when it matters
most, and you’ve always
been that example for
me,
You’re missed and loved
everyday, even though
you’re no longer here to
realize it...each time I
look up at the night sky
and see the Big Dipper
which we used to enjoy
together, you’re remembered with joy and admiration.
Forever in our hearts.
Love daughter, Jessica
and son-in-law, Donnie
Harnish.
GARBER: In loving memory of my dear husband,
Norman, who passed
away April 28, 2002.
Today’s the anniversary
Of the day that I lost
you,
And for a time it felt as
though
My life had ended too.
But loss has taught me
many things
And now I face each day,
With hope and happy
memories
To help me on my way.
And though I’m full of
sadness
That you’re no longer
here,
Your
influence
still
guides me
And I still feel you near.
What we shared will
never die
It lives within my heart,
Bringing strength and
comfort
While we are apart.
I will always miss you
and I will never forget
you. Love, wife Viola.
obituaries
Jean Ruby Countway
Countway, Jean Ruby, age 93, of
Chester Basin, passed away peacefully on April 20, 2015, in her home
with her daughter, Jewel, by her side.
Born in Blandford, she was a daughter of the late Chauncey and Lavinia
(Rafuse) Publicover.
Jean was known by many as a very
hard worker and generous individual.
At a young age, Jean began her hard
labours working in the woods on
Aspotogan Mountain with her dad
when her brother, Paul, went overseas to fight in WWII. Jean was a
‘Jack of All Trades’, but her biggest
accomplishment was being alongside
her husband, Eric, running the family
barrel and trucking business known
as Moyle I. Oxner Ltd. Many people
have shared stories about seeing
Jean driving truckloads of barrels or
Christmas trees. A time when it was
rare to see a woman doing what was
considered a ‘man’s job’. When Jean
wasn’t busy helping with the business, she was knitting, crocheting or
tatting, and during her later years
enjoyed the weeknights playing
bingo. Jean’s hands were never idle.
She is survived by her son, Richard
(Dorothy) Countway, Chester Basin;
and daughter, Jewel CountwayMarch, Chester Basin; sisters, Joan
Jewers, Shoreham Village; MaryEllen (Bruce) Kolsky, Florida; grandsons, Tony
Countway, Halifax, and Cody March, Chester Basin; granddaughters, Ashley
March (Fraser), Calgary, and Jaime Countway (Andrew); great-grandchildren,
Alexyn and Gavin; many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Eric K. Countway; brother, Paul Publicover; sister, Phyllis Moore.
Graveside service was held at the Lakeview Cemetery, Chester Basin, Saturday,
April 25, officiated by Rev. Peter Rafuse. Donations can be made to the Chester
Basin Volunteer Fire Department. Condolences may be sent to the family at:
http://www.davisfuneralhome.ca.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Jean Ruby Countway would like to thank everyone for the
love and support shown to us during the loss of our loved one. A special thankyou goes out to the wonderful girls from the Lunenburg County Home Support,
the Chester Basin Volunteer Fire Department for providing lunch after the service,
Peter Gillis of Davis Funeral Home, and Rev. Peter Rafuse. Also, not to forget
those that provided kindness and help to Mom during the past years at bingo. A
big thank you! Keep on truckin’ Mom! Warm regards, Richard, Jewel and family.
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Donald Fancy
A Celebration of Life will be held on May 2, 2015, at 1 p.m. in the indoor riding
area at Donald’s farm, 12 Zwicker Lane in Lapland. It will be a potluck celebration for all family and friends.
George Albert Zwicker
ANSWERS
April 29, 2015
ZWICKER, George Albert - Age 99,
passed away peacefully, Tuesday,
April 7, 2015, at home in New
Germany. Born on August 20, 1915,
in New Germany, the son of the late
Twining and Carrie (Parker) Zwicker.
He was predeceased by his wife,
Evelyn (Lantz); sisters, Joan and Lila;
and brother, Edward.
He is survived by his four children,
David, Barry (Deborah), Kenneth
(Shelley) and Gail (Barry); eight
grandchildren, Kelley (Sean), Kevin
(Amy), Jennifer (James), James
(Jennifer), Nicholas (Denise), Graham
(Jennifer), Vicki (Ben) and Jason (Donna); 12 great-grandchildren, William,
Timothy, Vivian, Xavier, Ben, Jakob, Lucas, Lena, Maria, Elias, Emmett, Arlo and
Delia; sister, Doris (Bill); and his cat friend, Cindy.
He attended Mt. Allison Academy and obtained a Commercial Certificate in
1935. He and his brother, Edward, bought Edward Zwicker & Sons in 1945 from
their father and uncles. They dissolved the “old” company and began Zwicker
Bros. Limited and continued the production of wooden boxes used mostly by the
commercial fishing industry as well as orange and egg crates and apple boxes.
The business continued to be a substantial source of local employment that
helped sustain the community until it ceased operations around 1970.
George loved being in the woods, either walking, fishing or snowmobiling. He
had been actively involved in his church, Epworth United, as Treasurer, and on
the Board of Session. He will be remembered for his leadership, sense of responsibility, wit and sense of humor and ingenuity. He was a hard-worker who cared
deeply for his family.
The family would like very much to thank Mary Harnish for caring and being a
good friend to him for over 20 years. Thanks as well to Lunenburg County Home
Support caregivers.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Sweeny’s Funeral Home, New
Germany. There was no visitation at the funeral home by request. Funeral service
was held at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, April 12, at Epworth United Church, New
Germany, Pastor Bethe Benjamin-Cameron officiating. Interment will be at a later
date. Family flowers only. Memorial donations may be made to SHAID Tree
Animal Shelter, Canadian Diabetes Association, the Canadian Red Cross or the
charity of choice. On-line condolences may be made by visiting http://
www.sweenysfuneralhome.com
or
by
messaging
[email protected].
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to our family and friends who
provided support and comfort during our recent loss. Your messages of sympathy
through cards, phone calls, emails, visits and memorial donations are greatly
appreciated.
David, Barry, Ken, Gail and their families.
Doris Maxine Conrad
CONRAD, Doris Maxine - 82, of
Bridgewater, passed away April 20,
2015, in South Shore Regional
Hospital, Bridgewater.
Born in West Northfield, she was the
daughter of the late Wesley and Leda
Oickle.
She is survived by her children,
Debbie Jodrey (Dalton), Virginia
Caldwell (Martin Barr), Christopher
Conrad, Corinne Crouse (Darrell),
Michael Conrad, Nancy Conrad
(Corey Whynot); nine grandchildren,
nine great-grandchildren; and sisters,
Grace Bruhm, Sylvia Thimot, Betty
Conrad, Alice Conrad and Linda
Steeves. She was predeceased by her brothers, Clyde, Fred and Paul Oickle.
No visitation or service by request. A private family service will be held at a later
date.
The family asks that donations be made to a charity of your choice.
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Alma Maxine MacDonald
It is with great sadness that the family of Alma Maxine MacDonald, 54, of
Lunenburg, announces her passing on Friday, April 24, 2015, at home, surrounded by her family.
Born in Summerside, PEI, Alma was a daughter of Olaf (Lucy) MacDonald,
Summerside, and Ruby (Cedric) Hatt, Western Shore.
Alma was a hard and dedicated worker, beginning with the Lunenburg Inn then
followed by the Topmast Motel where she worked alongside her sister, Darlene.
She was very proud and supportive of her children and took great joy in all their
accomplishments. Her grandchildren were especially close to her heart and they
will miss her greatly.
Alma is survived by her daughter, Tammy Wentzell, Lunenburg; sons, Daniel
(Terri) MacDonald, Back Centre; Steven MacDonald, Lunenburg; sisters, Donna
“Darlene” (Michael) Duffney, Lunenburg; Michelle (Stephen) Hatt, Ontario;
brothers, Thane (Wilma), Lunenburg; William (Geneva), Yarmouth; Michael,
Ontario; and Basil (Lisa), Bridgewater. Alma was also a proud and loving grandmother to Ashley, Alexis, Rhylie and Brogan. Alma was predeceased by her
infant sister, Brenda.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Dana L. Sweeny Funeral
Home, 11213 Hwy. 3, Lunenburg. In keeping with Alma’s wishes, a family service
will take place at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations made to the family would be greatly
appreciated. http://www.sweenyfuneralhome.ca.
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Message in a bottle crosses the Atlantic
By ROBERT HIRTLE
[email protected]
M@LunenburgNews
Capt. Sean Bearcaw has put messages in bottles and
dropped them into the sea for a long, long time.
For that reason, he readily agreed to teach a workshop
on the subject to a group of youths when he was working
in Lunenburg in the summer of 2013.
One member of that gathering was Maddie Greek of
Bayport, who was seven years old at the time.
“It was something Sean always did,
wherever he went,” said Maddie’s father,
Jody Greek. “He started doing it when he
was a kid and kept a record of all the ones
that showed up.”
Along with her name and mailing address, Maddie’s bottle contained a little
something extra, a keepsake to remind
Maddie
whomever found it of the sender.
“I put a letter in it and I drew a picture,”
she explained. “It had grass and a sun, and
there was a big rainbow in the back of it.”
When Capt. Bearcaw left Lunenburg, he headed for the
Caribbean as the captain of an American sailing vessel
and he took all the corked wine bottles, with messages, that
were made at the workshop with him.
On February 3, 2014, somewhere in the Caribbean between St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Vieques, Puerto
Rico, he dropped the bottles over the side of the ship one
by one. He watched as they drifted away and wondered, as
usual, if any would ever be found.
Earlier this month, he learned that at least one of them
had been.
On April 20, Mr. Greek went to the mailbox to pick up the
mail and found an unusual letter inside.
“I said, ‘Where the heck is this from?’ It was in with a
bunch of other mail and I knew it wasn’t a local thing. I
didn’t recognize the stamp,” he recalled.
After her father took the letter to the house, Maddie
opened it and couldn’t believe what she found. Her message
in a bottle had been discovered, 14 months after it was released at sea, on a beach along the Atlantic coast of France.
The letter, which was mailed April 10, began, “Hi Maddie: We picked up your bottle from the beach a few days ago.
“It was very exciting to have a bottle with a message
in it. We live just across the Atlantic in
France. Luckily for you, we also live in
London so we speak English.”
The note was written by Christophe
Allicar, who went on to explain that his
family was vacationing when they made
the discovery.
Greek
“Your drawing is beautiful. We framed it
in the living room next to your bottle,” Mr.
Allicar wrote. “Please give us more details
about you. How old are you, when did you
send the bottle? We are going to send you specialties of
our region in France. Hope you are going to like it. Thank
you so much for having the idea of sending a bottle at sea.
It lightened up our holidays, it was very amusing, and we
hope to hear from you soon.”
Maddie and her parents are already planning to collect
some Lunenburg County items to send to the Allicars to reciprocate their generosity and help cement what seems to
be developing into an unexpected long-distance friendship.
And it’s all thanks to a message in a bottle.
“To be quite honest, I had forgotten all about it,” Maddie
said with a laugh.
“To be quite honest,
I had forgotten all
about it.”
–––––––––
ROBERT HIRTLE PHOTO
Maddie Greek shows off the letter she received
from the Allicar family, who found her message in
a bottle on a beach in France.
RELIGION DIRECTORY
ST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH
LUNENBURG
HERITAGE, FAITH, VISION SINCE 1753
Sunday, May 3: 5th Easter
Holy Eucharist 8:30 am
Holy Eucharist 10:30 am
Sunday School Classes 10:30 am Parish Hall
Mother’s Day Brunch Saturday, May 9, 11:30 am Parish Hall
All women & girls of the Parish
Services for
May 3,
2015
Holy Eucharist every Wednesday at 10:00 am
Archdeacon Michael H. Mitchell, Parish Office 634-4994 / www.stjohnslunenburg.org
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
25 Phoenix Street, Bridgewater, 543-4106
[email protected]
ANGLICAN PARISHES OF PETITE RIVIERE & NEW DUBLIN
SUNDAY, MAY 3
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2015
8:45 a.m. Celebration & Praise (Communion)
8:45 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Worship (Radio Broadcast)
3:00 p.m. Communion Service @ Hillside Pines
Wednesday, April 29
“May the Peace of Christ Jesus be
1:00 pm Adult Choir
with you today and always”
5:30 pm Community Café
is being held at the old Baptist Church
on King St. until further notice.
Pastor Paul Jensen – Organist: David G. Zwicker
EMMANUEL PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE
Hirtle Rd., Middlewood
Pastor: Rev. Fred Carr 902-354-4828
2:30 p.m. Worship
CALVARY TEMPLE (P.A.O.C.)
510 Main St., Mahone Bay 902-624-8253
Sunday, May 3, 2015
11:00 a.m. Pastor Bill Wozney
7:00 pm Hymn Sing
Wednesday prayer and bible study
ALL WELCOME!
Anglican Parish of
Bridgewater & The Conqueralls
Sunday, May 3, 2015
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Family Service
8 am – Holy Eucharist (BCP)
10 am – Holy Eucharist (BAS)
Service at St. James at 10:30 am Conquerall Mills
Parish Office: 902.543.3440 | email: [email protected]
Facebook: Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Bridgewater, NS
Phone: (902) 634-8589 www.prnd.ca
Fourth Sunday After Easter – Rev. Oliver Osmond
9:00 a.m.
St. Michael’s, Petite Riviere Holy Communion
11:00 a.m. St. James’, LaHave
Holy Communion
All services according to the Book of Common Prayer
"O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness"
Central United Church
136 Cumberland St., Lunenburg
Reverend Grace Caines-Corkum
634-4035
Bridgewater United Church
87 Hillcrest Street, Bridgewater, 543-4833
www.bridgewaterunited.ca
[email protected]
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 6:00 am Youth Group
Sunday, May 3, 2015 – 5th of Easter
Food Bank Sunday
9:45 am Choir
11:00 am Worship and Sunday School
12:00 pm Youth Singers’ Practice
Minister: Rev. David E. Campbell
Organist and Choir Director: Wendy Fraser
Church Office open weekday mornings, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Zion Evangelical
Lutheran Church
Pastor Rick Pryce
Corner of Cornwallis and Fox Street, Lunenburg
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2015
9:00 am Sunday School; 11:00 am Holy Communion
TUESDAY - Quilters Group at 9:00 am
Jr. Chor at 6:15 pm, Sr. Choir at 7:00 pm
10:30 a.m. Service
Sunday School during service
~ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE ~ WE WELCOME YOU ~
Everyone Welcome
Canada’s Oldest Lutheran Congregation Celebrating 241 Years!
“A worshiping, loving &
welcoming community,
joyfully sharing God’s
gifts”
St. John'S EvangElical
luthEran church
Pastor Adam Snook
89 Edgewater Street, Mahone Bay
624-9660
www.stjohnsmahonebay.ca
Celebrating 150 years ~ 1864 - 2014
Worship Services - Sundays 11 a.m.
Bible Study - Tuesday 3 pm
(Sept. to June)
Choir Practice - Thursday 6:30 pm
(Sept. to June)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 - Bible Study at Zion - 7:00 pm
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
Old Town Lunenburg
Team Ministry with
The Rev. Dr. Laurence Mawhinney and Marion Mawhinney
David Findlay - Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2015
Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School meets at the same time
Meditation: “Prayer in the Twenty-First Century”
Visitors are always welcome.
B23
GRWS School roof work has another hiccup
By JONATHAN WADDELL
[email protected]
M@LHNOWnews
The struggles continue with the renovation of the
former Gold River Western Shore Elementary School, as
issues with the roof continue to hamper the Municipality of Chester’s (MODC) efforts to turn the building into
office space for municipal staff.
The building currently has a flat roof, and a plan to
create a pitched roof would require the installation of
a sprinkler system in the attic, which could cost an additional $40,000. According to Tammy Wilson, chief administrative officer of the MODC, the municipality was
made aware of this only recently by the project engineer,
SNC Lavalin.
“With the roofing system, the pitched roofing system,
we became aware after this was put on the [committee]
agenda as an item that the roof system, the attic, needs
to be sprinklered,” Ms Wilson informed the municipality’s committee of the whole at its April 23 meeting.
A tender for the work closed earlier this month, with
only one response received.
A sprinkler system for the attic is not in the roof
project’s budget and would require a separate tender, Ms
Wilson confirmed in an interview.
“The cost for a sprinkler system is obviously going
to be added to that. We’re told that could be $38,000 to
$40,000. So it’s causing us to look at the roof option and
re-evaluate what approach we take,” Ms Wilson told the
committee.
The overall project budget was originally pegged at
$781,557.
Matthew Davidson, director of engineering and public works for the MODC, had been slated to present before the committee at its April 23 meeting. That item was
deferred, as staff is now investigating the other options.
Ms Wilson explained to the committee that all options
are being explored.
News of this latest development silenced the chamber.
There was none of the usual banter and discussion
that often characterizes committee-of-the-whole
meetings, which are less formal than council
meetings.
This is the second time the municipality has
tried to have work on the roof completed.
Earth Day
Challenge
2015
The initial tender, set to be awarded in January 2015,
attracted only three bids, none of which were from local
businesses and the cheapest of which came in $54,300
over budget. Having the work done during the winter
was said to be the cause of the increased amounts. As a
result, councillors decided it would be better to reissue
the tender when the weather might be better for doing
roof work.
If the work had proceeded, it would have wiped out
the $57,000 contingency built into the project-funding
envelope, which was another rationale for retendering.
In addition, the three bidders on the original tender
were from outside of the municipality, and councillors
thought that local bidders may be more inclined to pursue the contract in better weather.
Asbestos abatement work inside the school began in
the winter and is ongoing. Fall rains and the leaking
roof caused more damage inside, resulting in more
internal work than originally planned. However,
Ms Wilson said that to her knowledge no further
damage from water penetration after the winter
has occurred.
WEDNESDAY
MAY 13
The glorious sun will soon melt the snow,
To reveal all the litter that people did throw.
To make sure our landscape is a sight to see
It’s going to take the whole community.
Against the winter and snow we take our
revenge
And participate in the Earth Day Challenge.
Grab a friend, co-worker or do it alone,
Pick a park, a trail or a road near your home.
It will take lots of teamwork, but it needs to
get done,
Although make no mistake, it will also be
fun!
So register to help, it's Lunenburg County
wide,
To show our community beauty and pride.
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