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Published since 1994 • Serving Guysborough County and Area • Vol. 21, No. 15 • Wednesday, April 15, 2015 • $1 +HST
Calendar 2 • Editorial 4 • Arts and Culture 12 • Community 16 • Obituaries 17 • Classifieds 19
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Guysborough
court to close
By Helen Murphy
REN TAKES FLIGHT: Representatives from eastern mainland Nova Scotia and Strait area municipalities met
in Antigonish on Wednesday, April 8 to officially launch the Eastern Strait Regional Enterprise Network.
Pictured from left to right: Stephen Feist (Town of Antigonish CAO); Gerald Post (NSERDT); Russell Boucher
(Warden Ant Co.); Miles MacDonald (Councillor MODG); David Clark (Deputy Warden St. Mary’s); and Robert Frost (NS Mun Affairs). Contributed Photo
GUYSBOROUGH – The
provincial government’s
recent announcement
that seven of 12 satellite
courts in Nova Scotia will
close -- including Guysborough, Port Hood and
Baddeck -- is being seen
as more service erosion
in rural communities.
“Many of our satellite
courts are underutilized and have declining
caseloads, and they are
costly to operate,” says
a statement on the Dept.
of Justice website. “They
are located in rented
spaces that do not have
the security features that
a modern justice system
requires.”
The province says
the move is expected
to create efficiencies in
the court system as it
will eliminate travel for
judges and court staff
and sittings will be more
frequent at a nearby justice centre. The transition
is expected to take up to
six months.
In Guysborough, where
there are four sittings
a month, cases will be
moved to Antigonish or
Port Hawkesbury, which
the government says will
mean nearly $72,000 in
savings.
NDP MLA Sterling Belliveau says the closures
are another blow to rural
Continued on page 9
Fisherman’s Harbour
Councillor unhappy with family heading to Disney
unchanged tax rate
with Make-A-Wish
MODG council
Subdivision planned
By Lois Ann Dort
District 8, the former
town of Canso, is not
pleased with the budget.
His main complaint is
that the tax rate for his
area, in the form of an
area rate applied on top
of the base municipal
GUYSBOROUGH – On
Wednesday, April 1
the Municipality of the
District of Guysborough
passed its 2015-2016
budget. Although the
By Lois Ann Dort
Armsworthy made several
attempts to have his
concerns about the tax
rate for his district heard.
Each time he was overruled as a point of order
by the Warden Vernon
Pitts who made it clear,
“You have to compare apples to apples
and councillor Armsworthy is not.”
– Warden Vernon Pitts
tax rates are unchanged
from last year -- the
residential rate stands
at $0.61/$100 of
assessment and the
commercial rate remains
at $2.58/$100 of assessment -- councillor Fin
Armsworthy, representing
rate, is higher than any
other tax rate in the
MODG. He voiced his disapproval of the tax rate
at the regular monthly
council meeting held on
Wednesday, April 8.
During the regular council session
both during council and
after council adjourned
in discussion with the
media, that the appropriate time to discuss
the issue of the tax rate
was during the special
Continued on page 9
FISHERMAN’S HARBOUR
– Brooks Cole is six years
old and a Grade primary
student at St. Mary’s
Education Centre. He has
three older siblings. He
likes the Disney show
Wreck-It Ralph. He’s
like many other kids his
age except for one very
important thing -- he
has a life threatening
illness, a genetic disease
called cystinosis. He was
diagnosed with the rare
condition shortly after
his second birthday and
has lived with the consequences of that diagnoses ever since. Some
of those consequences
involve frequent trips to
Continued on page 7
Brooks Cole. Contributed Photo
STRAIGHT DEALS FROM STRAIT AREA DEALERS
Page 2 • Guysborough Journal • Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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Community Calendar
SATURDAY
APRIL 18
••The Annual General
Meeting of the Goldboro / Isaacs Harbour
Community Development Association will
be held at the Goldboro
Interpretive Centre, 1
p.m. This meeting is
open to all.
••Dance at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch
81 in Guysborough,
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Music by Reggie and
Lisa DeCoste. Admission is $8 per person.
Age 19+ (ID may be requested). All proceeds
go towards maintenance of the legion.
SUNDAY
APRIL 19
••Services for Eastern
Guysborough / Mulgrave Pastoral Charges
are Canso 9 a.m.,
Mulgrave 11:30 a.m.
and Guysborough 1:30
p.m.
••There will be a Spring
Fling Brunch at the
Bayfield Community
Center, Bayfield Beach
Road, from 10:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. On the
menu is quiche and
bacon with side salad,
biscuits and apple crisp
for dessert. Cost is
$10 for adults, $5 for
children ages 5 to 12
and free for children under 5. Take out will be
available. Sponsored by
the Harbour Authority of
Bayfield and St. Mary’s
Church, Bayfield.
••Kitchen Party at the
Guysborough Intervale
Hall, 2 p.m. Local
talent will perform and
a lunch will be served.
Admission is $5 per
person. After the long
winter, it’s time to get
out of the house and
enjoy some music.
Hope to see you there.
••Services for Eastern
Guysborough / Mulgrave Pastoral Charges
are Boylston 9 a.m.
and Bayfield 11 a.m.
SUNDAY
APRIL 19 and 26
THURS. to SAT.
APR. 30 to MAY 2
••St. Mary’s Pastoral
Charge Services are
9:30 a.m. at St. John’s
United Church in
Sherbrooke, 11 a.m.
at Kirk United Church
in Glenelg and 6:30
p.m. at Bethany United
Church in East River.
••The Guysborough
Players present “Reunion at the Bon Ton”
– dinner theatre with
humour and music of
the 1950s and 60s,
and stories of Guysborough’s Bon Ton
Café. Featuring Jackie
Briand, Sam Fitzgerald,
Sheelagh Jones, Bob
LaJoie, Mandy Reid,
Kate Tompkins and
more. Tickets available
at Days Gone By Bakery and Restaurant.
Centre, St. F.X University. Come and enjoy
this indoor fair, featuring children’s games,
nail and face painting,
straw draw, teddy
bear clinic, cake walk,
pirates, science fair,
fudge and bake table,
gardening table, bling,
grandma’s attic and
make-me-an-offer tables, raffles and much
more. Great fun for all
ages. All proceeds go
to St. Martha’s Auxiliary to provide equipment and other patient
needs at St. Martha’s
Hospital. Admission is
$2 per person, free for
children. Free parking.
For more information,
call Sue O’Brien at
902-863-1479.
SATURDAY
MAY 2
SATURDAY
MAY 16
••Arts and Crafts Sale at
Christ Church Hall on
Bridge Avenue, Stellarton, from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Held in support
of Tearmann House,
there will be arts,
crafts, bedding plants,
a bake table, pre-owned
books and more. Light
refreshments will
be served (tea, coffee, sandwiches and
sweets). Please come
and support a very worthy cause, have fun and
maybe even find that
perfect gift for mom on
Mother’s Day. Crafters
who are interested in
booking a free table for
their wares can email
[email protected].
••The Guysborough
Players present an
additional performance
of “Reunion at the Bon
Ton” – dinner theatre
with humour and
music of the 1950s
and 60s, and stories
of Guysborough’s Bon
Ton Café. This performance will take place
at at Seawind Landing
and feature Jackie
Briand, Sam Fitzgerald,
Sheelagh Jones, Bob
LaJoie, Mandy Reid,
Kate Tompkins and
Kyle Delorey. Tickets
available at Seawind
Landing, Charlos Cove.
To make reservations,
call 902-525-2108.
••Chase the Ace at the
Guysborough Legion.
Tickets will be sold
from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
($5 for a strip of five
tickets and five chances to be the winner,
plus a chance at the
jackpot). You can also
join in the 45s Card
Plays, 7 p.m., or enjoy
a game of cribbage,
darts, pool or watch TV
programming. Open bar
and canteen services
available.
SATURDAY
APRIL 25
••The Compass Rose
Quilt Guild annual Tea
and Show will be held
at the Exhibit Center in
Sherbrooke, from 2 to
4 p.m.
••Music + Food + Laughs
= A Good Evening!
Come out and help
support the St. Mary’s
Pastoral Charge with
an evening of entertainment, food and
fellowship at the East
River St. Mary’s Fire
Hall, 7 p.m. Local
entertainment provided
by Elizabeth Greene,
John Cameron, Joy and
Frankie Cumminger,
Kayla Greene, Jenny
Lynn Gunn and Marilyn
and Clay Morrison as
well as a special guest
appearance. Admission
is $8 per person. Refreshments (sandwiches / tea / coffee / pop
/ homemade fudge) will
also be available for
purchase.
SUNDAY
APRIL 26
SUNDAYS
••St. John’s United
Church will be holding
their Turkey Supper at
the St. Mary’s Lion’s
Hall in Sherbrooke from
4:30 to 6 p.m. Cost is
$12 for adults, $6 for
children.
FRI. and SAT.
MAY 8 and 9
••The Guysborough
Players present “Reunion at the Bon Ton”
– dinner theatre with
humour and music of
the 1950s and 60s,
and stories of Guysborough’s Bon Ton Café.
Tickets available at
Days Gone By Bakery
and Restaurant.
SATURDAY
MAY 9
••Mayfest is coming! A
project of St. Martha’s
Regional Hospital
Auxiliary, Mayfest will
be held from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. at Bloomfield
••Hot Breakfast, served
the last Sunday of every month at the Auld’s
Cove Fire Hall from 8
a.m. till noon. Cost is
$7 for adults, $3.50 for
children under 12.
••Services for Canso
Christian Centre, 11
a.m.
••Services for Canso
United Baptist Church,
11 a.m.
••Services for St. James
the Martyr Church in
Halfway Cove, 11 a.m.
closed for Morning Worship Services during
the winter (Sunday,
December 21, 2014
until Sunday, March
29, 2015). Worship
Services will resume on
Sunday, April 5, 2015,
Easter Sunday, 11 a.m.
See you in the spring.
••Dog Social from 1 to
3 p.m. We will meet at
the Guysborough ball
field and go for a walk
along the shore road.
••JAM Club – Jesus And
Me, our charge’s Sunday School program for
children and all ages,
2 p.m. every second
Sunday at Kirk Memorial United Church in
Glenelg. This year’s
theme: Bible Boot
Camp! St. Mary’s Pastoral Charge, the United
Church of Canada. For
more information, call
902-833-2920.
••Cribbage (October
5, 2014 to June 28,
2015) at the Mulgrave
Royal Canadian Legion
Branch 37, 2 p.m. For
more information on
our prizes, bonus pot,
toonie jars and Chase
the Queen – visit us
on Facebook at www.
facebook.com/MulgraveLegion or on Twitter at
www.twitter.com/MulgraveLegion.
••Bingo at Maple Hall in
Heatherton, 2:30 p.m.
••Services for the Abundant Life Centre, 3 p.m.
at the Wesley United
Church in Guysborough.
••Services for All Saints
Anglican Church, 4 p.m.
••Cribbage, 7:30 p.m. at
the Goshen Community
Centre. Bring a partner
and join us for a few
games. First, second
and third prizes will be
awarded and tickets
will be sold on a 50/50
draw (three tickets for
$2). Entry fee is $5
per person. Proceeds
are for the community
centre.
••Services for Holy
Trinity Anglican Church
in Country Harbour
Mines are: the first,
third and fifth Sundays
of the month, 7 p.m.;
the second and fourth
Sundays, 11 a.m.
••Services for the Church
of the Good Shepherd
in Tor Bay, 7 p.m.
MONDAYS
••Sheet Harbour Crib
Card Parties at the
Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 58, 7:30
p.m. Entry fee is $6
per person. For more
information call Tom at
902-654-2211.
••Chase the Ace at the
Whitehead Community
Centre from 7 to 8 p.m.
••League Darts at the
Whitehead Community
Centre, 7:30 p.m.
••Auction 45s Card Plays
at the Country Harbour
Community Centre,
8 p.m. Prizes and a
50/50 draw to be won.
Hope to see you there.
••Card Plays at the Country Harbour Gun Club,
8 p.m.
TUESDAYS
••Auction 45s Card Plays
at the Melrose Seniors’
Club, 1:30 p.m. Prizes
and a 50/50 draw.
Sponsored by the Melrose Seniors’ Club.
••TOPS weight control
programs weekly
meeting, 5:45 p.m at
the St. Francis Harbour
Hall. New members are
welcome. Registration
is $32. For more information, call Beverly at
902-533-3026.
••ECYA’s Chase the Ace
fundraiser takes place
at AJ’s Pub (237 Main
Street, Canso) from
7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are five for $5.
Call Marie at 902-3662559 or email ecya@
ns.sympatico.ca for
more information.
••Baptist Worship Schedule: New Harbour, 11
a.m.; Seal Harbour,
the first and third
Sunday of the month,
2:30 p.m.; Goldboro,
the second and fourth
Sunday of the month,
2:30 p.m.
••The Guysborough
Baptist Church will be
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 • Guysborough Journal • Page 3
Over $100,000 dedicated to wild salmon conservation in NS
St. Mary’s gets $31,000
The Atlantic Salmon
Conservation Foundation
(ASCF) has earmarked
some $103,314 to support seven conservation
projects in Nova Scotia.
St. Mary’s River
Association will receive
$31,314 for salmon habitat enhancement. The
funding will support the
study/design work for
identifying appropriate
sites to be addressed,
the type and design of
structure to be used, and
implementation on one
or two short sections of
the river.
“This is a milestone
year for the Foundation,”
said ASCF Executive
Director, Stephen Chase.
“Not only is this the first
time total funding for
Nova Scotia has topped
the $100,000 mark,
but the Foundation has
also set new records
in terms of both the
total number of projects
receiving grants – 61 –
and the total amount of
funding awarded – some
$1,157,113.”
ASCF supports
conservation efforts for
wild Atlantic salmon in
Eastern Canada – New
Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova
Scotia, Prince Edward
Island and Quebec.
“With the support of
our funding partners, the
Foundation has established itself as a major
granting agency for wild
Atlantic salmon conservation and river conservation in Canada,” said
Chase.
Of the seven grants
awarded in Nova Scotia,
two are on the Eastern
Shore, while the South
Shore, the Antigonish
area, the Sackville River
watershed in Halifax and
Cape Breton each boast
one. The seventh project is a broader study
by Dalhousie University
researchers to develop
mitigation plans for acid
rain in 13 priority watersheds in the province.
This year’s round of
competition attracted 95
applications from conservation, environmental,
and Aboriginal groups,
as well as university
researchers in Atlantic
Canada and Québec.
Nova Scotia submissions
were assessed by the
Foundation’s NS advisory
committee and its central advisory committee.
The Atlantic Salmon
Conservation Foundation is a volunteer,
non-profit, charitable
organization established
with the goal of helping
to achieve healthy and
sustainable wild Atlantic
salmon stocks in Atlantic Canada and Québec.
Funded with an initial
endowment from the
Government of Canada,
plus the proceeds from
partnership arrangements, sponsorships and
donations from generous
supporters, the Foundation has created a trust
fund to promote and
strengthen partnerships
among groups working
to conserve wild Atlantic
salmon. Conservation
projects and program administration are financed
from interest earned by
the trust fund.
St. Mary’s gets update on
resort development
By Lois Ann Dort
SHERBROOKE – St.
Mary’s continues to
meet with Chinese real
estate developer Dongdu
International Group (DDI)
to work on the proposed
residential development
in Marie Joseph. The
luxury development, now
named Atlantic Shores,
will cover 300 acres and
potentially contain 300
residential units. At Monday night’s regular council
meeting councillors were
provided with an update
on the project.
Currently the municipality and the company
are working on developing a waste water
management system for
the project. St. Mary’s
Warden Michael Mosher
said, “The municipality is
working with a planner to
explore options for changes to the planning strategy and land use bylaws
to accommodate the lot
sizes and the municipal
waste water issues that
were discussed with DDI
earlier...They (DDI) are
not asking for anything
out of the ordinary, just
maybe out of the ordinary
for Marie Joseph.”
The project will create
a significant change in
the area when it moves
forward. Marie Joseph
is a small fishing village
with a population of ap-
proximately 75. Mosher
said, “We’re quite interested in the proposal. It
will change the dynamics
of the area quite a bit.”
In other business, St.
Mary’s signed on to the
newly formed Regional
Enterprise Network that
replaces the disbanded
Regional Development
Authority.
St. Mary’s welcomed
their new Chief Administrative Officer Marvin
MacDonald at Monday
night’s regular council
meeting. MacDonald officially took on the position
on April 1. The municipality had operated under
the town clerk system
since 1879.
NEW MONTHLY COLUMN: Sgt. Addie J. MacCallum of the Guysborough District
RCMP will be bringing you information and safety tips, helping to make our
community a safer place for everyone. SEE PAGE 18.
Page 4 • Guysborough Journal • Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Editorial
Preserving the past,
one voice at a time
History is all around us. It is behind every door and
in every name that populates small communities
in rural Nova Scotia. The thing is not to forget what
we already know.
When people come to this region they are
often curious about the place names that dot this
landscape, be it Ecum Secum or Roman Valley.
These names are a link to our past that is often
overlooked and as we are seemingly consumed by
thoughts and plans for the future we tend to forget
the rich heritage that has gotten us this far.
Fortunately there are individuals among us who
are working hard to preserve our past for future
generations. In this issue of The Journal we feature
an article about an upcoming book launch that
captures the locally known but seldom recorded
history of the cooperative movement in Canso led
by Father Jimmy Tompkins. Through the effort of
Renee Albrecth this history was captured by interviewing people who had first-hand knowledge of the
era before the chance to set down such oral history
was lost.
Antiques, artifacts, and history books are one
door to the past but the people around us are
another. The stories that our parents and grandparents have to tell are key to our identity.
Along with the interest and efforts of individuals
like Albretch, there is another opportunity for the
collection of local history in the coming heritage fair
that is held every year in schools across the province. In this newspaper’s coverage of that event
in years past, students have uncovered facets of
local history that cannot be found in any history
book; from the history of the Chedabucto Curling
Club in Boylston to the construction and service of
the most well-known landmark in the Shiretown of
Guysborough—the Post Office on Main Street.
While individuals make great contributions to
the preservation of our local history, locally run museums have been faithfully keeping our past alive
for future generations for many decades. Run by
volunteer boards on shoestring budgets, these organizations are not only storehouses of knowledge,
they also attract visitors from far and wide.
Local history is important. It helps define who
we are as rural Nova Scotians. Support our local
historians and when you have the time, make a few
notes on your own history. Everybody has a story
and everybody’s story is important to our collective
history.
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Letters
Closing local courthouses bad idea
To the Editor,
The provincial government has announced
the closure of three local
Courthouses, Guysborough, Port Hood, and
Baddeck, as part of the
2015-16 budget. This is
going to present some
serious access to justice
difficulties for our region
and is a decision that
should be reversed. With
much greater distances
for people to travel, many
people (including accused
persons, witnesses, and
community members) will
have difficulty participating in our justice system.
It appears that the
changes were ill-considered and certainly no
meaningful local consultation took place prior
to the changes being
announced. No mitigation
plans were presented to
allow (for example) brief
Court appearances by video, nor indeed to offset
in any way the impact this
will have on places such
as Pleasant Bay, Cheticamp, Canso, and other
places that will now be
over two hours away from
a justice centre.
The reasons given for
closing down the Courthouses are open to question. The government has
understated the usage
that these Courthouses
receive (only using figures
for Provincial Court plea
dates, rather than including the additional dates
for Supreme, Family,
and Small Claims Court
matters in their total) and
overstated any relevant
security concerns (there
are none, and in the cases of Guysborough and
Port Hood, recent renovations have taken security
issues into account).
Finally, the claim that
there will be more Court
time available with Judges and staff not having
to travel is simply false.
Court starts at 9:30a.m.
wherever it sits.
The relatively small
savings from these closures will be shouldered
by those who must now
do the travelling to Anti-
gonish and Port Hawkesbury, by restaurants and
other small businesses
in the communities where
Court will no longer be
held, and by the municipalities that rented space
to the Provincial Justice
Department in their existing facilities. The overall
economic benefit of this
decision, if there is one
once those costs are
included, is insignificant
within the context of a
provincial budget.
Justice must not only
be done, but also must
be seen to be done, so
that citizens understand
that they are living in a
society where they can
depend on the rule of
law. As these satellite
Courthouses close,
justice will become
more distant, both as a
practical reality and as a
foundational notion in our
rural communities.
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Front row, left to right: Hannah Aitken, Kameron MacDougall, Ethan Dort, Abbey
Bona, Shelby Landry, Faith Sampson, William Landry, Olivia Langley, Mary Gracie,
and Zoe Sturmy. Second row, left to right: Cassidy Van De Weil, Hayley Puddester, Grant Manegre, Clayton van De Weil, Keira MacDuff, Mason MacDougall,
Cein Kennedy, Kaitlyn Doyle, Julia LeBlanc, Kassie Doyle. Back Row: Vaughn
LeVesconte, Anna Robinson, Merissa Hirschfeld, Delanie Manegre, Matthew
Landry, Sam Hines, Kieran McInnis, Rebecca MacDonald, Gracie Glencross,
Jordyn Bingle, Olivia MacIver, Liam Kennedy, and Noah Pit. Absent from photo:
Marcus Morel, Sophia MacIver, and Olivia Campbell. Contributed Photo
The Port Hawkesbury Antigonish Swim Team- PHAST
hosted a successful Novice level meet, Nova Tech
North 5, on Saturday, April
11 at the SAERC pool
in Port Hawkesbury. The
team dominated the meet
with strong swimming,
new personal best times
and 14 advancement
medals. Receiving their
bronze level medal: Jordyn
Bingle, Ethan Dort, Cein
Kennedy, Julia LeBlanc,
Rebecca MacDonald,
Keira MacDuff, Cassidy
van de Weil, and Clayton
van de Weil. Swimming to
silver level medals: Sam
Hines, Kameron MacDougall, and Kieran McInnis.
Graduating from Nova
Tech to Age Group level
with their gold medal: Delanie Manegre, Noah Pitt,
and Anna Robinson.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 • Guysborough Journal • Page 5
Murphy’s Law
By Helen Murphy
The
Rain wear has become
high fashion. The heavy
duty rubber boots and
waterproof coats that
were once anything but
cool can now command
hundreds of dollars. But
I’m not buying.
I’m not sure how or
when this happened, but
I refuse to pay big bucks
for puddle-proof prowlers. Instead, I’ve been
sticking to my tried and
terrible habit of assuming the weather will simply cooperate with me.
(However I lack a track
record of success to support the assumption.)
The other day could
have been yet another
lesson learned on the
forecasting front, but I
appear to be resistant to
such reasoning. Sure the
weatherman said there’d
be some showers, but
when I was heading out
to work the sky was
quiet and the ground dry.
So I marched out on foot
in an overcoat -- no hood,
no umbrella. Not even a
newspaper or magazine
for temporary protection
from the deluge that was
minutes away.
I was already cutting
it close, giving myself 20
minutes for a walk that
normally takes 25.
So five minutes into
my trip the showers
started. No problem. I’m
tough. I can handle a
little rain, I thought.
Well that little rain
didn’t last long. Soon it
was a downpour, the kind
of downpour that is more
than an umbrella could
handle -- which would
have been a consideration if I had had an
umbrella.
cheap route to foul-weather fashion
I scooted over to a
nearby church to get
shelter under the overhanging roof. I stood
there and waited, watching the rain bounce off
the road and pedestrians
dart here and there to
escape a drenching.
A heavy rain like this
only lasts a few minutes,
I figured. It’ll pass quickly. But “quickly” came
and went with no reprieve. The church bells
rang for 9 a.m. mass.
Thinking I was better off
arriving at work totally
soaked and a little late
than partly soaked and
an hour tardy, I hauled
the shoulders of my coat
up over my head and
made a mad dash to
my next opportunity for
shelter -- city hall.
And so much for my
theory about short downpours. This one showed
no signs of letting up. I
was soaked head to toe.
Out front of city hall I
took refuge in a covered
patio area. There I was
joined by two city hall
security officers who
seemed to be admiring the deluge. (But of
course they were already
at work.)
My brain must not
have been totally water-logged, because a
potential solution came
to mind. And it required
making friends with the
security squad.
“That’s quite the
rain,” I said, displaying a
total lack of imagination.
“Yep,” came the reply
from one, with a simple
nod from the other.
It was now after nine
and this small talk was
clearly going to take
too long. So I cut to the
chase: “I don’t suppose you guys have any
old umbrellas hanging
around in a lost-andfound.”
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“Well,” the first fellow
said after a pause. “I
think there might be an
umbrella there that we’ve
had for a few months. I
guess no one is coming
back for it.”
Bingo.
I followed him to
their office and then I
saw it, sitting all alone
in a box: a circa 1970
little old lady umbrella.
Solidly built, mostly in
a dark green tartan but
with pink horizontal lines
running across here and
there. It had a traditional
j-shaped handle and a
decorative wooden stick
popping out the top. Yep,
no one was coming back
for this thing. But to me,
increasingly late for work
in a continuing downpour,
it was the most beautiful umbrella I had ever
seen.
I profusely thanked
the man and hurried
off with my head finally
protected from the downpour. I knew the coverage was limited however,
as an umbrella can only
do so much in such a
rain. Everything from my
waist down would still
be soaked. But at least
I could make my way to
the office.
And that’s where I
gave my ‘new’ umbrella a
place of pride. You see,
I’ve decided to hang on
to it. Not only did my
second-hand umbrella
rescue me, but given
its unique and totally
outdated design, I figure
this thing could be all
the rage next year.
Op-Ed: New department represents significant change, responds to needs of business
By Business Minister Mark Furey
Doing more of the same
will only produce the
same results. We have
heard this repeatedly
-- from Ray Ivany, from
Laurel Broten, from other
business leaders, and
most importantly, from
Nova Scotians.
Based on Nova
Scotia’s poor economy
over the last 20 years,
it should now be clear
that we cannot afford to
continue doing more of
the same. We must do
things differently, and
not by half measures or
degrees.
Major changes, bold
changes, to the way we
do things are needed if
we are to turn this ship
around.
The One Nova Scotia
Commission said government should provide
leadership and a clear
vision behind which the
entire province could
pursue extraordinary
measures.
To support that work,
the commission said
significant changes
might be needed to how
government is structured
and operates. It said
there was significant
value in reorganizing
business related policy
within a new department
and that programs do
not need expansion, but
rather better coordination and accessibility.
This week, government made one of those
transformative changes
to the way we support
economic development
in this province. We
didn’t do it for the sake
of change, or for the
appearance of progress.
We did it because we
want a different future
for our province.
I am pleased to be
taking the reins of the
new Department of
Business. It was created
with one clear objective:
to make Nova Scotia the
most competitive and
business friendly environment for economic
growth in Canada.
We need our businesses to constantly be
in pursuit of economic
growth, and collectively,
we need to drastically
improve our performance
when it comes to productivity, trade and innova-
tion.
Government can’t do
this alone. That is true.
But it is our job to clear
the way for the private
sector to pursue growth,
and to maintain a policy
and regulatory environment that supports
and attracts business.
It’s our job to remove
obstacles, not create unnecessary red tape and
disincentives that deter
new entrepreneurs.
Instead, we need to
enable business expansion in key sectors and
foster entrepreneurship
and innovation. We need
to create policies that
help increase exports
and trade, and improve
access to venture
capital. And we need to
develop fair, efficient,
effective and predictable
regulations on which
decisions to invest can
be made.
That is the mandate
of the Department of
Business. All government departments and
agencies will follow its
leadership.
ADS AREN’T JUST FOR BUSINESSES!
SEEKING BOARD MEMBERS TO SERVE ON THE
EASTERN STRAIT REGIONAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK (ESREN)
Anniversaries, birthdays, thank you ads and more.
Have a personal ad you’d like to run? No problem!
The ESREN is currently recruiting 8-10 volunteer directors with extensive
business experience to serve on its inaugural Board of Directors. The ESREN
has been established by the Towns of Antigonish and Port Hawkesbury and the
Municipalities of Antigonish, Guysborough and St. Mary’s, as well as the Province
of Nova Scotia, to provide regional leadership on economic development
priorities and support business development in the region.
Ads must be submitted either in digital format or typed / neatly
printed. Handwritten submissions will not be accepted.
To ensure prompt and proper placement, please be sure to include
your name, billing address and phone number.
Email submissions to:
[email protected]
Mail submissions to:
The Guysborough Journal
Box 210, Guysborough, NS B0H 1N0
The ESREN is recruiting a competency-based board of directors to serve 1 to 3 year
terms. Applicants should be driven by the belief that they can make a difference
in the region by leveraging their backgrounds, skills and connections in one or
more of the following areas: business, entrepreneurship, strategic planning,
value-add and technology development, exports, partner and stakeholder
relations, as well as expertise in law, policy governance, accounting, human
resources, economic development, or other relevant fields or expertise.
For additional information or to obtain a recruitment package and application,
please email [email protected] or call Stephen Feist, CAO, Town of
Antigonish, (902) 867-5576.
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Guysborough Academy Student headed to Canada-Wide Science Fair
The 17th Annual Strait
Regional Science Fair
was held on Wednesday,
April 8 at SAERC Auditorium. Students from Guysborough County schools
did well at the fair.
Robert Carter from
Chedabucto Education
Centre / Guysborough
Academy will be one of
four students representing the Strait Region at
the Canada-Wide Science
Fair in Fredericton, New
Brunswick from May
11 – 16. Carter won the
Grand Prize 1st Overall
– Best in Fair with his
project called The Ultraponic Gardening System.
Carter also won the gold
medal in the Innovation
and Information category
at the intermediate level,
the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture
– Agricultural Awareness
Award at the intermediate level, and the St.F.X.
University Biology Prize.
Other prize winners
from Guysborough Coun-
ty schools were Chedabucto Education Centre
/ Guysborough Academy
students Chantelle Avery
and Hannah Peters who
won a bronze medal in
the Environment category at the Junior level
for their project Healthy
water = Healthy plants.
Fanning Education Centre / Canso Academy
student Rheanna Casey
won a silver medal in the
Environment category at
the Junior level for her
project Worm castings
V.S Potting soil, while
Nicole Munroe from
Fanning Education Centre
/ Canso Academy won a
silver medal in the Innovation and Information
category at the Junior
level with the project
called Optical Illusions.
Cole Acker’s project How
Salt Melts Ice from St.
Mary’s Education Centre
/ Academy won a bronze
medal in the Environment
category at the Junior
level.
Strait Regional Science Fair: Clockwise from top--Robert Carter, Chedabucto Education Centre/Guysborough Academy; Chantelle Avery and Hannah Peters, Chedabucto Education Centre/Guysborough Academy,
Rheanna Casey, Fanning Education Centre/Canso Academy; and Cole Acker, St. Mary’s Education Centre /
Academy. Contributed Photos
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THE MUNICIPALITY OF THE DISTRICT OF GUYSBOROUGH
RECREATION DEPARTMENT
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Day Camp Supervisors (2) - directly responsible to Recreation Director in
planning and organizing the Mobile Day Camp Program. This position is for 12
weeks beginning June 1 to August 21. The rate of pay is $12.25 per hour.
Day Camp Leaders (7) - directly responsible to Day Camp Supervisors in assisting
with implementing the Mobile Day Camp Program. This position is for 8 weeks
beginning June 29 to August 21. The rate of pay is $11.25 per hour.
Special Events Coordinator (1) - directly responsible to Recreation Programmer
in planning and organizing special recreational events during the summer
months. This position is 10 weeks beginning June 15 to August 21. The rate of
pay is $11.25 per hour.
The normal hours of operation for the Day Camp Supervisors and Leaders, and
the Special Events Coordinator are 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday;
however, evening and weekend work may be required.
A copy of the job descriptions for the above noted positions is available by
contacting the Municipal Office.
Applications for these positions will be received by the undersigned up to and
including Monday, April 27th, 2015 by 4:30 p.m. Applications should be clearly
marked:
APPLICATIONS - DAY CAMP SUPERVISORS and / or LEADERS
APPLICATIONS - SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR
and may be submitted in person to the Municipal Office or by mailing to the
following address:
Mrs. Angie Tavares
Recreation Director
Municipality of the District of Guysborough
PO Box 79
Guysborough, N.S.
B0H 1N0
[email protected]
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
MUNICIPALITY OF THE DISTRICT OF GUYSBOROUGH
MUNICIPAL BY-ELECTION
DEPUTY RETURNING OFFICERS/POLL CLERKS
The Municipality of the District of Guysborough’s Returning Officer is seeking
approximately 12 qualified individuals for the positions of 6 Deputy Returning
Officers (DRO) and 6 Poll Clerk for the upcoming Municipal By-Election in District 3.
DROs and Poll Clerks will be required for the following:
••Advanced Polling Station located at the Municipal Office in Guysborough on
April 30th and May 5th
••Election Day on May 9th for the following locations:
••Boylston Community Centre
••7 Communities Fire Hall
••St. Francis Harbour Hall
••Mulgrave Fire Hall
Please specify which position, you are applying for and at what location.
••Experience working elections is a definite asset but not mandatory
••Understanding of confidentiality
••Must be responsible and able to make quick decisions
••Willing to travel
••Training is provided if necessary
Please submit a letter expressing your interest and qualifications by mail, in
person or by email.
Deadline: On or before Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 4:30 p.m.
Ashley Cunningham
Municipal Clerk / Returning Officer
Municipality of the District of Guysborough
33 Pleasant Street
PO Box 79
Guysborough, Nova Scotia
B0H 1N0
email: [email protected]
tel: 533-3705 ext. 224
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Municipalities form Eastern Strait
Regional Enterprise Network
Municipal governments in
the Strait area and eastern mainland Nova Scotia
are helping local businesses grow by forming
the province’s fifth regional enterprise network.
The towns of Antigonish and Port Hawkesbury,
and the municipalities of
Antigonish, Guysborough
and St. Mary’s signed an
inter-municipal agreement
on April 8 in Antigonish.
The signing of this agreement marks the formal
establishment of the
Eastern Strait Regional
Enterprise Network.
“Signing this agreement is one step along
the path to regional
economic development.
We look forward to working with our partners to
see what can be accomplished together,” said
Russell Boucher, warden
of the Municipality of the
County of Antigonish.
A partnership between
the provincial government
and municipalities, the
network will take a regional approach to economic
development by creating
an economic strategy,
co-ordinating efforts and
focusing on helping businesses in the region grow.
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of regional business
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leaders will be chosen to
lead the network and set
its strategic direction. The
board will be appointed by
a committee of municipal
and provincial representatives.
“Congratulations to
the municipalities for their
leadership in taking this
positive step forward for
economic development in
this region,” said Michel
Samson, Minister of
Economic and Rural Development and Tourism.
“By working together and
positioning the private
sector to lead economic
growth, communities in
this region will help local
businesses grow and
build a stronger regional
economy.”
An inter-municipal
agreement gives each
partner rights and authority, and outlines the governance for the network.
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Family heads to Disney
Brooks and his siblings Camrynn, Charlize and Blaize and Raja the pug. Contributed
Photo
From page 1
the doctor and lots of
needles. Life isn’t always
easy for Brooks and his
family but thanks to the
Make-A-Wish Foundation
they are all soon going to
enjoy a family vacation
to Disney World, where
Brooks will meet his favourite character Wreck-It
Ralph. Brooks’ mother,
Ashley Jack, spoke to The
Journal on Monday about
Brooks and trip they are
planning for next fall.
“He’s pretty pumped
about it for sure,” said
Jack. Although the family
has never all flown somewhere together before
she is not worried about
travelling so far from
home. She said the other
kids in the family are a
big help with their younger brother.
The condition that
Brooks suffers from is
an uncommon genetic
disorder, cystinosis, that
prevents the kidneys from
flushing out toxins from
the body. This causes
many detrimental effects
on the body, most notably
severe kidney damage.
“He manages quite
well...He is on a slew
of different medicines
and needles daily...He
adjusts to it quite well...It
has been a while that we
have been dealing with it
so we know how things
go now,” she said.
Brooks’ siblings are
close in age and Jack
said they get along very
well and help him with
his daily regime. “Anything they can do to help
him out, to make his life
easier...They are great
with him and encourage
him...They sit up with him
everyday when he gets
his needles and hold his
hand...They are fantastic. We could not ask for
better kids.”
As for being granted
a wish for Brooks, Jack
said that the idea just
popped into her head one
day and she filled out the
application form. “They
got back to me that day,
within hours of submitting the application. They
started the ball rolling...
they got back to us within
a month and told us the
wish was granted. It was
excellent.”
One of the many
hands helping make light
work for the Make-A-Wish
Foundation is Larry’s
River resident Hazel
Richard-McGrath. Richard-McGrath has been
working for the Sheriff’s
Department for over a
decade. Four years ago
the department decided
to join with the Make-AWish Foundation to fundraise to grant wishes for
children who live with serious medical conditions.
Sheriff’s Department
staff hold fundraisers—
charity auctions, battle of
the bands, charity hockey
games -- to support the
wish of a child, chosen by
the Make-A-Wish Foundation, every year. This
is the first year since
the Sheriff’s Department
has partnered with the
Foundation that the child
chosen has been from
Guysborough County.
“When I realized that
the child we were fundraising for this year was
from Guysborough County
I was super excited,” said
Richard-McGrath, noting
that as of this week they
had raised over $10,000
to go towards granting
Brooks’ wish.
“Everybody has been
pitching in and everybody
has been great...The
Municipality of Guysborough and the Municipality
of St. Mary’s has donated
stuff for the auction. I
have had so many people
coming forward to help; it
has been amazing,” she
said.
For Brooks and his
family the vacation will
be a wish come true. The
people who support and
volunteer for the Make-AWish Foundation are the
unheralded heroes in the
lives of these families.
They are making a difference one child at a time.
GUYSBOROUGH JOURNAL OFFICE HOURS
Monday – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tuesday – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thursday – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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National Volunteer Week
Saying thank you to the many volunteers whose contributions
make this world a better place to live in.
See pages 10, 11 and 13 for more messages of gratitude – and profiles for
just a few of our outstanding local volunteers.
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April 12 to 18, 2015
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Councillor unhappy with tax rate
From page 1
meeting on April 1 when
the budget was passed.
At that time Armsworthy
did make it known that
he did not support that
aspect of the budget and
voted against the tax rate
for his area.
Pitts explained after
council adjourned that
District 8 paid more taxes
due to the fact that they
had more services supplied to them in comparison to more rural areas
of the MODG. “If memory
serves me correctly, the
people of Canso get 14
different municipal services; from, water sewer,
police, public works—the
whole nine yards. People
in my area; they receive
four services. There are
discrepancies here...You
have to compare apples
to apples and councillor
Armsworthy is not...We
all have to be fair here.
We can’t be equal but we
can be fair.”
Although the council meeting was tense,
Pitts said that councillor
Armsworthy represented his people very well,
“But he had his day. This
topic was discussed,
debated, voted upon last
week during the budget
and councillor Armsworthy supported certain
aspects of the budget,
others he didn’t. He is
not going to bring this forward to our council table
and discuss it at every
meeting.”
Armsworthy spoke to
the media after council adjourned and said
that his issue with the
budget was the tax rate
for District 8. The additional area rate for the
district is $1.51/$100 of
assessment for residential customers. “We have
one of the highest residential tax rates in the
province...We know that
there is sewer in there
$1.51 but the thing is we
don’t know what else is
in there and that is what
the people are disturbed
in the community about.”
When discussing the
differences among districts in the municipality
Armsworthy said, “They
are saying that we are different. Maybe we never,
and I say never, maybe
we never got the best
deal that we thought. The
provincial government put
a lot of money into Canso
and maybe it is time that
the MODG started treating us fair.”
In other business,
council passed a motion
to buy a parcel of land on
the Old Riverside Road in
the Shiretown of Guysborough for the purpose
of creating a new subdivision. They also passed
a motion to enter into
negotiations with the
provincial government
to acquire Crown land in
the area adjacent to the
property for the same
purpose.
Council also voted to
move forward with a new
bylaw that would partner
the municipality with
Efficiency Nova Scotia in
a program to increase
home energy efficiency
in the municipality. Under
the program 40 homeowners can apply for
loans of up to $10,000
to update their homes
and make them more energy efficient. Any home
is eligible for the program
and applications will be
approved by Efficiency
Nova Scotia. The loans
must be repaid within 10
years but will be available
at a low interest rate provided by the municipality.
The greening of the
MODG continued at council with approval for the
purchase of two electric
vehicle charging stations
for the municipality. The
new stations will augment the one charging
station that is currently
installed in Guysborough
at the Cyril Ward Memorial Library. The proposed
locations for the new
charging stations are
the Goldboro Interpretive
Centre and the Canso
Library.
Court to close
From page 1
Nova Scotia. “Hardly a
day goes by when the McNeil government doesn’t
announce it is cutting
a job in a Nova Scotia
town,” says Belliveau.
“First it closed community services offices,
then it laid off provincial
park workers, then it
closed visitor information
centres and now it is
closing provincial courts,”
Belliveau said in a news
release. “The elimination
of these services and
jobs is making it more
and more difficult for
people to stay in rural
communities.”
Local lawyers share in
the concerns. In a letter
to the editor this week,
Strait Area Bar Society
President Adam Rogers
points out that some rural communities, such as
Canso, will now be more
than two hours away from
a justice centre.
“The relatively small
savings from these closures will be shouldered
by those who must now
do the travelling to Antigonish and Port Hawkesbury, by restaurants and
other small businesses
in the communities where
court will soon no longer
be held, and by the
municipalities that rented
space to the Provincial
Justice Department in
their existing facilities,”
says Rogers. “The overall
economic benefit of this
decision (if there is one
once those costs are
included), is insignificant
within the context of a
provincial budget.”
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NOVA SCOTIA
UTILITY AND REVIEW BOARD
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Canso Electric Light Utility on behalf of the Municipality of the District of
Guysborough has made application to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board
(“Board”) for approval of amendments to its Schedule of Rates for the provision
of electric supply and services to its customers and its Schedule of Regulations
HEARING PROCEDURE:
Hearing Commences: Wednesday, June 10, 2015
1:30 p.m.
Job Developer / Job Coach
(Approximate: 3-month term)
Under the direction of the Executive Director,
the successful candidate will be responsible for:
•• Become knowledgeable on the skills, experience, education, interests, and abilities of each
client so that appropriate employment matches can be found.
•• In consultation with the client and case manager, identify potential barriers to employment or and
develop strategies with the client to overcome those barriers.
•• Form and maintain relationships with employers within the service area. Provide general information on East Novability’s programs and services.
•• Promote the “business case” to hire a person with a disability. Build a network of employers
willing to hire a person with a disability.
•• Promote hiring incentive programs i.e.) START and Opportunities Fund to potential employers
•• Provide a positive and supportive influence for clients through all aspects of the job search.
•• Access and identify employment maintenance needs of newly employed individuals
•• Act as a liaison between the employer and client and as an advocate for the client as needed on
the job site
•• Responsible to maintain accurate case notes, records and reporting these to the Case Manager
/ Executive Director.
•• Other duties as assigned by the Executive Director
Qualifications:
•• Relevant post-secondary education with applicable experience.
•• A self-starter who requires minimal direction
•• Excellent oral and written communication skills
•• Bilingualism would be an asset
•• Knowledge of LAMPSS an asset
•• Excellent team player and the ability to work with diverse clientele are necessities
•• Must possessive a positive and supportive attitude.
•• Flexibility and adaptability in working with a variety of clients, staff members, business leaders,
and stake-holders is crucial for success in the position.
This is a full-time, approximate 3-month term contract position starting April 27, 2015. This position
is commensurate with qualifications and experience, plus mandatory employment benefits.
To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume by 4:00 p.m. Friday, April 17, 2015 to:
Chris Cook, Executive Director, East Novability
609 Church St. Suite 102, Port Hawkesbury, N.S. B9A 2X4
902-625-2361 (fax)
[email protected]
Place:
Fanning Education Centre
129 Tickle Road
Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia
EVERYONE is entitled to attend the hearing and to be heard.
ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK at the hearing but not wishing to cross-examine
witnesses may do so at the hearing. Presentations will follow the order in which
interested parties notify the Board of their intention to appear. Such notification
is to be given to the Board on or before Friday, May 29, 2015.
ANYONE WISHING TO MAKE COMMENTS may do so at the hearing or by
forwarding a letter to the Clerk of the Board at P. 0. Box 1692, Unit “M”, Halifax,
NS B3J 3S3, or by email at: [email protected], or by fax (902) 424-3919 no
later than Friday, May 29, 2015.
ANYONE WISHING TO HAVE FORMAL STANDING to present evidence or crossexamine witnesses should file such intention with the Board by no later than
Friday, April 24, 2015 and a copy of their written evidence by no later than
Wednesday, May 20, 2015.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - Summary of Proposed Rate Changes
a) An average increase of 10% for its domestic customer class.
b) An increase to its small industrial rate by 7.5%.
c) Industrial rate to be removed from the Schedule of Rates.
Upon reviewing the Application, the Board, in its decision, may determine that the
proposed amendments should be as requested, higher, or lower. A copy of the
application may be viewed at the offices of the Board, Summit Place, 1601 Lower
Water Street, 3rd Floor, Halifax, NS. or on the Board’s website at www.nsuarb.
novascotia.ca, Matter No. M06760, and at the Council Chambers, 33 Pleasant
Street, Guysborough, NS.
Document Number: 234605
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National Volu
April 12 to
Elizabeth Connolly
Municipality of the District of Guysborough
Highlight – Elizabeth Connolly focuses most
of her volunteer efforts on the Guysborough
Memorial Hospital. She co-chaired the fundraising committee which resulted in a successful
campaign, raising $700,000 for the expansion
to the hospital. Contributed Photo
In 2004 Elizabeth became a member of the Guysborough Memorial Hospital
Auxiliary and by 2005 she was elected President and remains President to
this day. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Guysborough
Memorial Hospital Foundation. Last spring Elizabeth was one of three cochairs who successfully raised the community portion of fundraising for the
expansion project for the Hospital. In 2005 she became a volunteer and board
member of the Guysborough and Area Food Bank. Elizabeth organizes the
Annual Turkey Drive to purchase turkeys for families in need. She is active
in St. Ann’s Parish, is presently secretary for the Parish Council and serves
on the Cluster Pastoral Council for five parishes in the Guysborough area.
For the past four years Elizabeth has held the position as Coordinator for the
Protocol for Responsible Ministry in these five parishes. She has served on the
Board of Directors for the Guysborough and Area Home Support for ten years
and has also been a member of the Board of Directors for the Guysborough
Adult Learning Association for four years. Thank you Elizabeth, for the many
contributions you have made and continue to make to your community.
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unteer Week
o
18, 2015
Carol MacEachern
Town of Mulgrave
Carol MacEachern with Nova Scotia Lt-Gov. J.J
Grant (left) and Premier Stephen McNeil. Contrib-
uted Photo
Carol has been volunteering for over thirty years.
She started her volunteer activities by helping with
the children’s’ programs at the Fire Hall. Carol is
President of the Ladies Auxiliary and Secretary of
the Aulds Cove Fire Department. She is a Parish
Lector and choir member at the St. Lawrence Parish Church. Carol has volunteered with the Women’s
Shelter, Crime Prevention, and the Big Bike Ride for
Heart & Stroke and for the past three years, the
CNIB. She has been involved with Dance Group, and
the Catholic Women’s League. According to Carol,
volunteerism provides her with enjoyment and satisfaction; meeting new friends, working with children
and the joy of seeing a smile on the face of a senior
are what it is all about. We applaud you for all that
you do for your community.
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Culture
Whittling and Swapping:
Canso’s past brought to light
By Lois Ann Dort
Sometimes we don’t see
the forest for the trees.
Sometimes we don’t understand the importance
of our own history. Sometimes we don’t know
what we have until it is
gone. Fortunately this
is not the case for the
history of Canso and the
cooperative movement
inspired by Father Jimmy
Tompkins—one of the
founding fathers of the
cooperative movement.
The community of
Canso punches well
above its weight in terms
of global history. Some
of the earliest settlers in
the new world came to
the Canso Islands to fish
cod and export the prized
fish to the hungry and
expanding global empires
of Europe. News of the
Titanic disaster reached
the shores of mainland
North America in Hazel
Hill and the story of the
cooperative movement,
often associated with
Antigonish County, was
fostered along this same
coast. Important news
and events have always
shores and friendly
folks captured her heart
several years ago. A
keen community volunteer, Albretch found the
story of Father Tompkins
in Canso one that she
could not let go of once
she was alerted to the
paucity of published
“My father used to say Dr. Tompkins was the
smartest man in North America”
– Sister Peter Claver
rippled out into the world
from this small community and that is part and
parcel of the pride felt by
the people that call this
small community home.
Renee Albretch, a
transplanted Canso
denizen, has been a
booster of her adopted
home since its rocky
material on the subject.
Before time could wind
the thread of the story
too short, Albretch went
to work and captured the
past through interviews
with those who could still
remember stories about
the man who helped
found the cooperative
movement that changed
Festival Antigonish
announces 2015 line-up
Festival Antigonish will
kick off its twenty-eighth
Main Stage season on
July 9 with the aptly titled
Norm Foster comedy,
Opening Night.
“I’m usually a bit leery
of plays about theatre
people,” said Artistic Producer Ed Thomason, in a
media release this week.
“But Norm Foster’s play
is very well-observed. He
nails the vanities and
insecurities, and in Ruth
and Jack Tisdale he’s
also created a pair of
theatregoers whose experience will ring hilariously
true for our audiences.”
The Tisdales celebrate
their twenty-fifth wedding
anniversary with what
becomes an eventful
night out at the Charles
Killian Repertory House.
“Whisper On The Wind”,
a torrid tale set in the
American Deep South,
is about to become the
shortest world premiere
in theatrical history.
Thomason will direct a
cast including Maura Lea
Austin, Francine Deschepper, Michael Ferguson
and Anthony Black.
Outside Mullingar by
John Patrick Shanley joins
the repertoire on July 16.
Pulitzer Prize winner for
Doubt – A Parable and
Oscar winner for Moonstruck, Shanley revisits
his Irish roots in a tale
of neigbouring families,
the Reillys and Muldoons,
locked in a dispute over
a strip of land. Outside
Mullingar features Francine Deschepper, Michael
Ferguson, Maura Lea
Austin and Ed Thomason,
and will be directed by
Sharon Bajer who had a
runaway hit in Festival Antigonish’s 2013 season
with Run For Your Wife.
The third play is Lungs
by British playwright Duncan Macmillan, opening
August 5. It’s the story of
a couple agonizing over
whether or not to have a
baby in a time of global
anxiety, terrorism, erratic
weather and political unrest. Christian Barry will
direct Francine Deschepper and Anthony Black
in this Atlantic Canadian
premiere production of
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the lives of not just the
people of Canso and
Little Dover but of people
around the world.
Albretch was further
prompted to take on
this project when she
attended a course at the
Coady Institute and was
asked by a fellow student
who was from Granada if
the people in the community where Albretch
lived knew their history.
“That question was what
got me thinking. There
is not much showing in
Canso or Little Dover
today about this fantastic
history...There are still
some people here that
would remember him
or at least heard from
their parents about that
time. So I started to hunt
those people down and
interview them.”
Father Tompkins
arrived in Canso in 1923.
It was not where he had
imagined his career
would take him. He had
been forced to leave his
position as an educator
and turn his hand at
being a parish priest for
the first time in his life.
It was not, according to
those that knew him, an
easy transition. There
Tompkins found shatter-
Sister Peter Claver. Contributed Photo
ing poverty and he was
moved to help the people
take control of their own
destinies.
Interviewees for the
book told Albretch about
life during that period.
“I got a great picture of
how they lived and what
mattered to them; a real
history of what this place
used to be and where
we’ve come from.”
One interviewee was
Sister Peter Claver. Born
in Canso 1919 Sister
Claver, then known as
Stella McNeary, reflected
on the importance of
education. “My father
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National Volunteer Week
April 12 to 18, 2015
Ken MacDonald
Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s
Ken MacDonald is the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s Volunteer of the Year. Contributed Photo
Ken has been volunteering with the St. Mary’s
Curling Club for eight years. Every week Ken helps
make the curling ice surface over the regular ice
at the St. Mary’s Recplex. He takes time to assist
with the ice on Sunday afternoons and Monday
mornings to ensure that curlers get to play. Ken
also helps with the weekly Curling Club draws. He
also introduces new curlers to the sport. Ken has
a passion for the sport of curling and does everything he can to ensure that curling flourishes in
St. Mary’s. He is a very dedicated volunteer and
all curlers at the St. Mary’s Curling Club appreciate his effort and thank him for all that he does
for the sport.
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Guysborough Players prepare for spring production
Guysborough Players are
gearing up for their spring
production, Reunion at
the Bon Ton. Performing a
script created by the cast
themselves, the group
is excited by the spring’s
production.
This spring’s show,
again a collaborative
effort by the entire cast,
brings in the remembrances of many Guysborough residents who spent
time in the Bon Ton café
during their youth.
Generously laced
with humour, spiced with
songs you can sing by
heart, and featuring real
stories of real people,
Reunion at the Bon Ton is
true community theatre.
Days Gone By will
again be serving dinner
to make it a full evening
on April 30, May 1, 2, 8,
and 9. Tickets are available now in the bakery.
“This is the first time
we will be touring; we are
really looking forward to
the challenge,” reports
the group’s director, Kate
LEFT: Mandy, Sheelagh and Bob in rehearsal for Reunion at the Bon Ton. RIGHT: The Guysborough Players: Back row: Kate Tompkins,
Mandy Reid, and Sheelagh Jones. Front row: Jackie Briand and Bob LaJoie. Absent: Sam Fitzgerald. Contributed Photos
Tompkins. “We are very
pleased to be visiting
Seawind Landing on May
16.” Seawind Landing
has tickets available for
the entertainment separately from the dinner. If
you wish to make dinner
Past brought to light
reservations, contact
Seawind directly.
The cast features
Jackie Briand, Sam Fitz-
gerald, Sheelagh Jones,
Bob LaJoie, Mandy Reid
and Kate Tompkins. They
will be joined by musi-
cians Kenny Boudreau
and Irvin Rafter, and at
Seawind, also by young
performer Kyle DeLorey.
Festival Antigonish 2015 line-up
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was a fisherman. He
was a great follower of
Dr. Tompkins. My father
used to say Dr. Tompkins
was the smartest man in
North America. In those
days North America was
the world. Dr. Tompkins
of course made a great
impact on the community.
What captured my father
was that Dr. Tompkins
gave the common people
confidence in their own
ability. He empowered
them; he had faith that
the people could help
themselves. He used to
say, ‘No one should be
denied an education. If
the people can’t go to
university, let the university go to them’,” said
Sister Claver.
These and other interviews have been compiled by Albretch in the
new volume Whittling and
Swapping. The official
launch for the book will
be at the Canso Library
on Thursday, April 16 at
6:30pm. Albretch has
had the support of the
community and the Guys-
Gordon Gammie, Francine Deschepper and Geneviève Steele in Run For Your
Wife 2013. Contributed Photo
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Father Jimmy Thompkins. Contributed Photo
borough County Adult
Learning Association. The
preservation of our past
is essential for the future. The lessons learned
through the cooperative
movement can be applied
to the new economy and
help move communities
forward in partnership
with each other.
a play which has already
enjoyed acclaimed hit
runs in Toronto, Washington D.C. and London.
Starting July 23 on the
Festival’s Family Stage,
the Young Company will
present morning shows
of Munsch Upon A Time,
new adaptations by Deb
Patterson of favourite
Robert Munsch stories,
directed by Shelley
Thompson.
Festival Antigonish will
also introduce a new approach to the company’s
outreach activities featuring long-time Festival
leading player, Genevieve
Steele.
“Genevieve’s not in
any of the shows this
summer,” Ed Thomason
explained. “But she’s going to be with us pre-season as our representative
in the community, making
direct contact with our
patrons and encouraging
them to introduce us to
first-time theatre-goers.”
Steele, a regular at
Festival Antigonish for
over a decade, is looking forward to this new
assignment.
“We have to be pro-active in attracting new
patrons,” she said. “I
believe a direct personal
approach, opening a conversation, can produce
direct results. It’s particularly exciting to reach
first-timers, folks who
don’t yet know they’re going to be theatre-lovers.”
Thomason has tasked
Steele with finding five
hundred new patrons.
“It might not seem a
big number, but it’s huge
to us,” Thomason points
out. “It’s almost the
equivalent of three more
full houses. And Genevieve Steele can do it.
She’s steeped in Festival
Antigonish and she’s
irresistible!”
For more information,
contact Jacklyn Geldart,
Interim Theatre Manager,
at [email protected] or
902.867.4539.
@GysboroJournal
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Your IT Guy
by Guy McDowell
Time for a spring cleaning
It’s that time of year
again ... sort of. Time
to open up the windows
and clean out the staleness of winter. Time for
spring cleaning. Might as
well give your computer
a spring cleaning too.
Yes, computers do need
cleaning, physically and
virtually. First, let’s look
at the physical cleaning.
All electronics have
two mortal enemies - liquids and dust. You understand why water would be
bad, but how about dust?
Dust build-up prevents
airflow around the electronics, which is how the
electronics keep cool. If
the insides of your com-
puter get too hot, it will
run poorly, and possibly
even quit altogether. It’s
so easy to prevent too.
All you need is a clean
cloth - preferably microfiber, some canned air,
window cleaner without
ammonia in it, and a dust
mask. You can get these
at most department
stores.
Safety first! Shut your
computer down and unplug it. Do the same with
your monitor. If you have
a laptop, shut it down,
unplug it, and remove
the battery. Cleaning live
electronics is a bad idea.
Put on your dust
mask. Use the canned
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air, with its straw, to blow
in and around the vents
of your computer. The can
will get cold, so do this
in bursts. Repeat this
process until no more
dust comes out of your
computer.
Take your cloth and
wet it so it’s just barely
damp. Now, wipe down
all the outside surfaces
of your computer, paying
extra attention to vents.
Rinse out your cloth
frequently. Turn your keyboard upside down and
shake it out. Wipe down
your keyboard too.
For your computer
screen, take a clean
microfiber cloth and
spray window cleaner on
it. Never spray it directly
on the screen. It can
drip into the insides and
cause damage. Wipe
down the screen, just
like you would a window.
When it’s clean, use a dry
Sherbrooke Village wins DEANS award
Sherbrooke Village
received the CEO (Chief
Experience Opportunity)
award at last Thursday night’s inaugural
Destination Eastern &
Northumberland Shores
Gala Awards dinner at the
NSCC Pictou Campus.
The award, which was
presented to a tourism
sector individual, business or attraction leading
the way as an example of excellence, was
accepted by Executive
Director, Mark Sajatovich
who thanked DEANS,
the tourism industry and
partners on behalf of
the Sherbrooke Village
Restoration Commission,
management and staff.
This marks the third
industry award for the
site over the past year.
Sherbrooke Village has
also received the Trip Advisor Award of Excellence
and the Old Fashioned
Christmas Committee received the Tourism Industry Association of Nova
CLEAN SLATE: CCleaner will help dust off the digital cobwebs in your computer.
Piriform Image
part of the cloth to polish
it softly. Now your screen
will be easier to read.
You’re halfway done.
Let’s clean it virtually
now. My preferred tool
for this is a free program
called CCleaner. You can
download it from www.
piriform.com. There is a
paid version with more
features, but that isn’t really necessary for today.
Once CCleaner is
installed, open it. On
the left side, you’ll see a
bunch of options. Some
of them are already
checked off, some aren’t.
If you’re not sure what
these options mean, just
leave them. Now, click on
the Run Cleaner button.
CCleaner will delete
unnecessary files, freeing
up a lot of space. This
means your computer
has to wade through less
files to find the ones
it does need. Kind of
like not having to walk
through snow anymore al-
lows you to walk quicker.
That’s it! Your computer should be running
better and faster now,
and you can enjoy the
fresh start only a spring
cleaning can bring.
Guy McDowell has over
20 years experience in
Information Technology
and technical trades. He’s
here to help you get the
most out of technology.
He’s your IT guy.
Local student awarded fellowship
Sherbrooke Village Executive Director, Mark Sajatovich accepting CEO Award. Contributed Photo
Scotia’s Crystal Tourism
Award for Outstanding
Community Service.
Thanks was expressed to
the dedicated staff who
deliver a great experience
to visitors year after year.
Miss Hannah Gillis,
Guysborough, has been
awarded the Cansbridge
Fellowship, an internship
program made possible
by the Cansbridge Capital
Corporation. Gillis, a
2013 Loran Scholar, is
currently studying Biomedical Science at the
University of Ottawa and
will travel to Changzhou,
China in May for a ten
week internship.
The Cansbridge Fellowship offers 15 positions annually and looks
for students who think
outside the box, possess
a great deal of passion
and energy, and demonstrate leadership. The
founders of the program
are William Yu and Diana
Liu.
Gillis’s journey begins
in San Francisco on May
7, where she will spend
three days meeting other
Cansbridge Fellows, listening to their experiences and exploring some
well-known firms such as
Google HQ. She will then
travel to Los Angeles for
a few days of vacation
before flying to Asia.
While in China, Gillis
will be living in the International Students apartments on the Changzhou
University campus. She
will be working in No.2
Hospital of Changzhou
under the guidance of Dr.
Hannah Gillis. Contributed Photo
Li Liu and communicating
with students from the
School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering and Life Sciences, while experiencing
the Chinese culture.
Gillis is excited about
traveling to China and
having the opportunity to
make connections and
build lifetime friendships.
She hopes to learn some
basic Mandarin and looks
forward to her work at the
Changzhou Hospital. Gillis believes it will be one
of the most memorable
experiences of her life.
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Community News
Sheet Harbour
and Area
by Janice Christie
Sophie Quinn Hawes
was welcomed into the
world at 7:04 a.m. on
March 31, 2015 weighing
8 lbs 7.3 oz to proud
parents Chauncey and
Candace. First time
grandparents are Stuart
and Bliss Hawes of Spry
Harbour and Sophie is
the eighth grandchild
for Arthur and Lorraine
Broussard of Pomquet,
Nova Scotia. Congratulations to the entire family
on this lovely new arrival!
Volunteer fire fighter
Rosie Barkhouse has
just completed a very
successful fundraising
event in support of the
Burn Unit. Rosie organized a Penny Auction, a
Yard Sale and solicited
sponsors for a Bowl-ARama and was delighted
to raise a grand total
of $3,043.10. She was
awarded the honour of
First Place for being the
top fundraiser and was
presented with a plaque
from the Nova Scotia
Fire Fighter Burn Treatment Association. In
addition, Sheet Harbour
Fire Department was
the recipient of a third
place draw of $500. The
Bowl-A-Rama was held on
April 11. Congratulations,
Rosie, on your commit-
Lincolnville
and Area
by Sheila Pelly
Spring has finally
arrived! Hope you all are
enjoying the sunshine.
The snow is going at a
great speed which I am
sure we all have noticed.
Hopefully we all can get
back on schedule.
Suppose all have put
away the winter boots
and now on with the
runners. Met my friend
this evening and she was
all decked out in spring
colours, stating that she
refused to wear winter
clothes or winter boots
any longer. She deserves
a “high five!”
Hope everyone had
a Happy Easter. It was a
great to have attended
many services during holy
week with family and of
course had the grandchildren attend the mass
with me on Easter Sunday. We have so much for
which to be thankful.
Our prayers for
Charles Ash who is a
patient in St. Martha’s
Regional Hospital.
The Municipality of
Guysborough recently
celebrated their 29th
Volunteer Recognition
Night. Many volunteers
received certificates of
appreciation followed by
a delicious hot beef dinner. Many thanks to the
Municipality of Guysborough.
It is again time to file
your income tax; remember the deadline is April
30.
Charlene Morris,
Halifax, spent the Easter
weekend visiting family
and friends in the area.
She was accompanied
by her mother Florence
Morris.
A fundraising Prize
Bingo was held at the
Guysborough Legion last
ment each and every
year to this endeavour
and a word of acknowledgement is sent out to
everyone who supports
her in these fundraising
activities.
The graduating class
of Duncan MacMillan
High School is having a
Penny Auction on April
25. It will be held in the
Moser River Community
Hall starting at 7 pm.
Each graduate is responsible for donating a prize
valued at $10. If anyone
else would like to donate
a prize, kindly drop it
off to Mrs. Levy at the
school. We always appreciate your support.
At DMHS Eagle
Growth Acknowledgements have been presented to: Cecily Malay,
Gracie Lowe, Ariel Conweekend in aid of Tina
Jordan. There was a great
turnout; many thanks to
all for your support.
Raymond Shepherd,
Halifax, recently visited
with family and friends in
the community.
Birthday wishes to Edward Pelly who celebrated
a birthday on April 12,
Dylan Borden and Taylor
Ash, April 13; Nanette
Reddick and Sonja Reddick, April 16; Libby Byard
and Sabrina Skinner, April
21 and Anita Desmond,
April 25. And again to all
those of whom we are
unaware, “Wishing you all
a Happy Birthday”.
Next Mass will be held
at St. Monica’s Church on
Sunday, April 26. Church
services are held at
Sunnyville and Tracadie
Baptist church every Sunday at 11a.m. Everyone
is welcome.
Gentle thought: “A
man of words and not of
deeds is like a garden full
of weeds”
nors, Gabrielle Russell,
Kelsey Martin, Melissa
Stuart, Hannah Hiltz and
Allie Dewolfe. We are all
very proud of your accomplishments.
Yoga Class--Devon
Query, certified Hatha
Yoga Instructor, will be
teaching yoga into the
fall this year: Yoga Sequences to Develop Core
Strength and to Liberate Your Mind. Classes
include some breath
technique, simple meditation and poses with
longer holds in relaxed
floor poses. This class is
appropriate for beginners
and experienced practitioners who wish to deepen their practice. The
first class will be offered
on Tuesday, June 30 at
ESMH X-ray Lab waiting
area. You may register by
calling LEAPlace at 8852668. All Yoga classes
at 7 pm at ESMH {Sheet
Harbour Hospital} Tuesday, June 30; Tuesdays,
July 7,14,21,28; Tuesdays August 4,11,18,
25; Tuesdays, September
1, 8,15, 22, 29 and Tuesday, October 6. $5 per
class. Call LEAPlace to
register 902 885-2668.
The Chamber of Commerce is preparing for
their annual Banquet and
Silent Auction which will
take place on May 23 at
the Lions Centre. Tickets
at $30 pp will be available at Scotiabank after
May 2. A hot roast beef
dinner will be served with
assorted desserts and
a salad to start. This is
a major fundraiser for
the Chamber and they
appreciate the support of
businesses and individuals in this annual
event. Anyone wishing to
make a donation to the
auction may drop it off
at MacDonald Chisholm
and Trask Insurance.
For more information,
contact Marilyn Munroe
or Janice Christie.
On Sunday, April 26,
there will be a Jamboree at the Sheet Harbour Legion from 2 to
4:30p.m. Admission is
a donation at the door.
Music will be provided by
Roy and Lou Wambolt,
Carl Bezanson-lead, Dan
MacDougall on fiddle and
Gary Brown on drums.
Special guests are Ray
Hill and Doug Bell. Open
to everyone; members
and guests all welcome.
Recycle Frog will return to
the Sheet Harbour Legion
downstairs April 25 and
26 from 9:30a.m. to
4:30p.m.
I have another quick
story for you: A couple of
weeks ago in the midst
of the ice and snow my
sister Sue and I were
trying to get our cars out
of a very bad driveway.
She attempted to back
down and just ended up
stuck and then I did my
best to push her out.
I said to her, “Oh my
God...aren’t there any
Henleys who can successfully back up a car?”
We looked at each other
and in unison both said,
“Mom!” Mom was Helen
Henley and she was an
awesome driver. She also
knew how to get help
when she needed it. She
and I had been driving
home from Manitoba
many years ago and I
was pulling a U-Haul with
a station wagon. I looked
in the rearview mirror on
the Queen’s Way outside
Montreal during rush
hour and saw that the
U-Haul had blown a tire.
I started to cry and mom
just got out of the car
and stood on the side of
the multi-laned highway
with a white klennex...
flagging down help!
Within minutes I looked
up and a truck driver
pulling a flatbed on an
18-wheeler had stopped
way up ahead. He had
stopped to help us and I
never forgot how she did
that. I had just finished
telling Sue the story
when I looked across
the road and could see
an 18-wheeler backing
up.....It was an Armour
truck and out jumped the
driver! “Are you stuck?”
I recognized the driver,
Paul Smith, and was so
relieved when he not
only pushed the first
car out....he went up
the driveway and drove
the second one down
for us. As grateful as I
was to him.... I felt like
Mom had flagged him
down. Paul behaved like
a gentleman that day and
we hope his mom knows
what a great boy she
raised!
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Obituaries
SANGSTER, Irma D. (84)
of Glen Haven Manor,
New Glasgow, formerly
of Linacy, passed away
peacefully on Sunday,
April 5, 2015 as a result
of Alzheimer disease.
Born in New Harbour,
Guysborough Co., she
was a daughter of the
late George Tupper and
Catherine Margaret
(Lowe) Luddington. She
was a graduate of Provincial Normal College
and was a teacher prior
to her marriage. Her
most outstanding career
was that of cherished
wife and mother. Irma
was a member of the
former Calvary Temple
Church (Life Centre),
New Glasgow and was
a foster parent with the
Children’s Aid Society of
Pictou County. Surviving
are her husband of 64
years, Alex; daughters
Shirley (Mark Steinhart),
Leanne Sangster, Patti
(Keith) Cameron; sons
Michael (Tara) Sangster,
Jeff (Angela Cavanagh);
grandchildren Nicole
(Richard Baker), Lauren
Steinhart, Krista Steinhart and Azi Lim, Jake
(Stacey) Arbuckle, Jonah
(Valerie) Arbuckle, Tyler
Arbuckle (Matt Dixon),
Brody Cameron (Joanne
Fex), Emily (Rocco) Agostini, Brendan Sangster,
Trevor Sangster, Maddy
Sangster and Gracie
Sangster; great-grandchildren Jack and Charlie Baker, Kashel Arbuckle, Olivia and Charlie
Arbuckle, Eliot Arbuckle,
Ava Dixon, Isabella Dixon, Luciano Agostini and
Clara Agostini; sisters,
Evelyn Willett, Eileen
Wilson, Jean (Watson)
Sangster, Ina Burke.
In Loving Memory
Cashin
“Dad and Mom”
Francis, July 27, 1918 to February 17, 1994
and
Velda, December 18, 1916 to April 12, 2011
Think of them as living in the hearts of those they touched,
For nothing loved is ever lost, for they were loved so much.
Time may hide the sadness like a smile that hides the tears,
But love and memory hold them close, despite the passing years.
Loved and sadly missed by daughter, Connie
Card of Thanks
Archibald
Funeral services were held for the late Joyce Archibald at Kirk Memorial United
Church, Aspen, Guysborough Co. on March 14, 2015. We, the family, would
like to acknowledge and express our heartfelt thanks to our relatives, friends
and neighbours for their many acts of kindness and support extended during
our recent loss; those who brought food to our homes and sent sympathy
cards and messages; made visits, phone calls and memorial donations;
travelled from far and near to attend the visitation and funeral service;
Debbie Stewart and Rev. Derek Elsworth for their thoughtful funeral service,
prayers, and support; Betty, daughter, for her beautiful tribute; grandchildren
for being pallbearers; organist Don Cameron and choir; Rose Auxiliary and
church members of Glenelg Presbyterian Church and Kirk Memorial United
Church; Guysborough County Homecare and VON staff; staff 4th floor Medical
and Palliative Care Units and Dr. Farrell of the Aberdeen Hospital; Dr. Gregor
MacLean for his ongoing care over the past several years. Thank you to Glenn
Fraser and H. W. Angus Funeral Home staff for their compassionate service.
Thank you to all who offered prayers of support and comfort. Your kindness
will always be remembered. God bless you all!
Sincerely, Brian, Blair, Brent, Brenda, Betty, Blaine and our families
Irma is also survived
and will be missed by
many nieces and nephews. Irma’s many friends
will miss her caring compassionate nature and
readiness to help. Besides her parents, she
was predeceased by her
infant son Timothy and
brother Roland. Funeral
service was held Thursday in the chapel of P. &
K. MacDonald Funeral
Home, New Glasgow
with Rev. Keith Hazzard
presiding. Interment
will be at a later date in
Riverside Cemetery, New
Harbour. Irma requested family flowers only.
Donations may be made
in Irma’s memory to The
Gideon’s International in
Canada or to any charity
of choice. Irma’s family
would like to acknowledge and thank those
who cared for her at
Glen Haven Manor and
Aberdeen Hospital.
VINCENT, Mary “Lydia”,
(87) of Pomquet Point
Road, Antigonish County,
passed away on April
11, 2015, in St. Martha’s Regional Hospital,
Antigonish, with her
family at her side. Born
in Glencoe, Guysborough
County, she was one of
14 children born to the
late Lewis and Margaret Ellen (Quirk) Farrell.
Lydia worked for over 10
years in the housekeeping department at St.F.X.
University. She had also
previously worked at St.
Martha’s Hospital and
Annie Baxter’s Restaurant. For many years,
she provided child care
in her home for children
of her family. Family was
everything to Lydia, and
she took great pride in
her Irish heritage and
her faith. She is survived by her daughters
Effie, and Nellie (Lionel)
Benoit, both of Pomquet; son Leo (Dawn),
Pomquet; grandchildren
Emily, Ottawa; Taylor,
Halifax; Olivia, Pomquet;
step-grandchildren DJ
(Naomi), Hamilton, ON;
Darren (Sylvia), Bedford,
and David, Truro; three
step-great-grandchildren; sister Alice Brophy,
Antigonish; brothers Art,
Clarence (Mary K.), Gus
(Maureen), Floyd (Patsy)
and Hughie (Colleen), all
of Antigonish; and Lewis
(Florence), Marydale;
sisters-in-law Marge
Farrell, Antigonish and
Sr. Theresa Vincent,
Bethany; and many niec-
es and nephews. She
was predeceased by her
husband Joseph, brothers Greg (Helen), James
(Kay), Doug (Mary),
Joe and Findlay; sister,
Marcella (Jim). Funeral
Mass was held on Tuesday at 11a.m. in Ste.
Croix Church, Pomquet,
with Reverend Bill Crispo presiding. Burial at
a later date. Memorial
donations may be made
to the Canadian Cancer
Society or a charity of
choice.
In Memory
Geraldine and Stanley Cashin
In loving memory of our dear loved ones who have
passed and are watching us from above.
Mom / Nanny – March 23, 2001
Dad / Pappa – April 20, 2012
Another year has come and gone without you
both. We continue to meet at the Old Homestead
and feel your presence with us. Our only wish is
that you could be with us in body. We miss you so
much! Please continue to watch over us. We love
you both forever.
Until we meet again!
The Cashin family
Send your memoriams to:
[email protected]
or
[email protected]
Please include your name, address and telephone number
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Community Crime Prevention
By Sgt. Addie J. MacCallum, Guysborough District RCMP
Smart choices can reduce impaired driving
Far too often we have
seen media coverage
about the tragedies
caused by impaired driving. Motor vehicle crashes related to impaired
driving are not accidents.
It is the direct result
when a person makes
the decision to operate a
motor vehicle after they
have been drinking alcohol or doing drugs.
In 2014 Guysborough
District RCMP responded
to 47 occurrences related to impaired driving.
Eleven of these occurrences resulted in criminal charges being laid
against the driver of a vehicle. Another 7 resulted
in the suspension of the
driver’s license for a minimum of 7 days. Many of
these incidents involved
crashes that resulted in
damage to property or
serious injuries.
The thing that makes
these crashes even more
tragic is that drivers have
so many options available to get home and not
drive.
If you plan to go out
and consume alcohol it is
important to plan ahead.
If you don’t drive to the
bar or party, you won’t be
tempted to drive home.
Have a designated driver,
walk, take a taxi or call a
friend. They are all better
choices than having
a criminal record for
impaired driving. If you
really have a hard time
resisting driving, give your
car keys to a spouse or
a friend before you have
anything to drink.
Remember, driving is
a privilege, not a right.
If you suspect someone
is driving impaired, call
911. Working together,
community and police
can reduce the impact of
impaired driving.
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Nova Scotia RCMP recognize
National Public Safety
Telecommunications Week
April 12-18, 2015 is National Public Safety Telecommunications Week,
dedicated to recognizing
the important work of
telecommunicators
across Canada, including
911 operators.
In Nova Scotia, 911
operators answer an average of 650 calls every
day, and of those calls,
over 400 are requests
for ambulance, police
and fire service. 911 operators collect the necessary information and
then quickly dispatch the
required services.
“When you’re facing
an emergency situation, hearing the calm,
professional voice on the
other end of the phone
is reassurance that help
will soon be on its way,”
says S/Sgt. Gavin Nash,
Acting Officer in Charge
of the Nova Scotia RCMP
Operational Communications Centre. “For first
responders on scene,
the 911 operators are
an invaluable resource
and this week is a great
opportunity for us to not
only thank them, but also
remind citizens how to
use 911 properly. It may
be the most important
call a person makes.”
The Nova Scotia
RCMP Operational
Communications Centre
receives close to 150
non-emergency, nuisance
and abandoned calls
daily calls which translates into time that could
be spent handling real
emergencies.
To use the 911
system properly, please
consider the following:
•• Only call 911 if someone’s health, safety,
or property is in jeopardy or if a crime is in
progress.
•• If you call 911 accidentally, stay on the
line and let the operator know.
•• Don’t program 911
into any phone.
•• Lock and store your
cell phone carefully to
prevent 911 “pocket
dials”.
•• Use the non-emergency phone numbers
for your local RCMP
or municipal police
detachment.
Nova Scotia RCMP celebrates
National Volunteer Week
MODG Deputy Warden Janet Peitzsche welcomes guests to the annual Volunteer
Awards Ceremony in Guysborough on Monday, April 13. Lois Ann Dort Photo
Op-Ed: The gift of life: Organ and
Tissue Donation Awareness Week
By Peggy Murray,
transplant recipient from
A little over four years
ago, I got a birthday
present that saved my
life -- and it came from a
complete stranger.
It was Jan. 14, 2011.
I had turned 62 four
days earlier, and I had
been on the transplant
list, waiting for a new
kidney, for about six to
eight months.
Before that, I travelled to Moncton three
times a week for dialysis
for about eight months,
and I’d been on peritoneal dialysis, at home, for
more than two years.
I’ve always been an
energetic person, and
I wasn’t going to let
kidney disease get me
down. I still travelled,
and spent time with my
husband, children and
my two grandsons. Still,
it was taking a toll on
me.
So when I got the
call at 2 a.m. that day
to come to Halifax for
a kidney transplant, my
husband and I didn’t
hesitate. We jumped in
the car and drove, in the
middle of a snowstorm,
to get there.
Later that day, I woke
up with a new kidney
and a new chance at
life. It was a delight, and
it couldn’t have come at
a better time.
It’s hard to explain
the difference that my
transplant made. When
I was first diagnosed
with kidney disease, I
was tired all the time.
I’d have a cup of tea and
go right back to bed.
Housework wasn’t on my
list -- nothing was on my
This week, the Nova Scotia RCMP is recognizing
National Volunteer Week
(April 12-18) and the
various volunteer organizations that contribute
to policing operations in
Nova Scotia.
Created 12 years ago,
National Volunteer Week
is an opportunity for individuals and organizations
to collectively recognize,
celebrate and thank
Canada’s 13.3 million
volunteers.
“Without the help of
our volunteer family, the
RCMP as Nova Scotia’s
Provincial Police would
not have the community
outreach activities that
we do,” says A/Commr.
Brennan. “Volunteers
contribute to the overall
success of our policing
programs and thus the
safety and security of the
Nova Scotia communities
that we serve.”
Brennan adds, “National Volunteer Week is
Amherst
list. I knew something
wasn’t right.
Dialysis gave me
back some of that energy, but those treatments
took hours every week.
That’s time I wanted to
spend with my family
and friends, and volunteering. I’m grateful that
the treatment was available, but I couldn’t have
done it forever. Without
my kidney transplant,
I probably wouldn’t be
here.
Thanks to a generous
stranger who signed an
organ donor card, I’m
able to enjoy my life fully. I hope that by telling
my story, more people
will think about signing
their organ donor cards.
After all, one day you
might need a transplant
yourself.
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an excellent time to reiterate just how important
these volunteers are.”
Each day this week,
the Nova Scotia RCMP
will be highlighting
several of its individual
volunteer organizations
on social media. Citizens
are encouraged to visit
our Facebook page (Royal
Canadian Mounted Police
in Nova Scotia) and Twitter account (@rcmpns)
throughout the week to
learn more.
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St. Mary’s Recreation Update
Night of Glamour in St. Mary’s
St. Mary’s Recreation
in partnership with St.
Mary’s Academy hosted A Night of Glamour
on Tuesday, March 24.
Over the past number of
months, the recreation
department has been
busy collecting gently
used prom dresses from
around the Highland
Region of Antigonish,
Guysborough and Pictou
Counties. These dresses
were made available at
the Glamour event free of
charge to the young girls
who will be attending this
year’s prom. The idea behind the event was to cut
the cost barrier associated with prom and allow
young girls to find their
dream prom dress whose
family may have struggled
to do so otherwise.
In addition to the 61
dresses that were donated, the event also featured a number of local
vendors. These vendors
varied from local businesses, to independent
saleswomen to GASHA.
We wanted to have a representative from all the
different cost areas with
prom such as makeup,
skin care, hair and nails.
SAY YES TO THE DRESS: St. Mary’s teens get dream dresses for this year’s
prom at A Night of Glamour held on Tuesday, March 24. Contributed Photo
Vendors had great ideas
to share with the girls
on how they could save
money in other areas by
preparing at home.
The School Health
Nurse talked about sun
safety and having a “tan
less” prom. The doors to
the municipality’s Fitness
Centre were opened and
information was shared
on how girls can take
care of their bodies in
a healthy way and that
beauty is not associated with a number on a
scale, but how you treat
yourself and live your
everyday life. Every girl
who attended A Night of
Glamour who was looking
for a prom dress, walked
away with a dress free of
cost. There were no conflicts and every girl got
their number one choice.
It was a wonderful night
that was enjoyed by graduating girls, their family
and friends and community members.
St. Mary’s Recreation
would like to thank all of
our partners, supporters,
volunteers and those
who were kind enough
to donate dresses. In
addition, if there are
any families out there
that are struggling to
afford a prom dress for
their daughter – please
find us on Facebook by
searching for St. Mary’s
Recreation and send us
a message. We would
love to connect your
graduating girl with her
dream dress.
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