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Bridgewater facing $1 million deficitCouncil ponders possible

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BRIDGEWATER — How will Bridgewater deal with its looming budget shortfall?

That’s the million dollar question.“This year’s budget is not finding two staplers to cut.

It’s finding significant dollars to cut,” said Mayor David Walker regarding preliminary figures which suggested council is facing a deficit of over $1 million in 2014-15.

“We could keep everything everybody wants and just raise the tax rate,” said the mayor, before adding signifi-cant tax hikes were simply not sustainable.

The matter was raised during debate about paying over $17,000 to keep the outdoor pool open this season.

“I don’t want to have to be the conscience of council, but I’m telling you, we have some tough decisions to make and this might be one of the smaller ones,” said Deputy Mayor Bill McInnis.

“We’re going to have the same decision to make on the arena and I understand the deficit on that is consider-ably larger.”

The deputy mayor said he would love to support the outdoor pool, but wasn’t confident that’s feasible.

“I’m not voting for the motion unless someone can convince me that we’re going to be able to cut something from our budget to support this, because I don’t know where it’s coming from.”

Parole arrest leads to charges

By LISA [email protected]

BRIDGEWATER — Police have laid more than 30 charges against a Conquerall Bank man and say more may be pending after they seized a cache of guns and prescription pills late last month.

Sean Andrew Ivany, 27, was arrested on a parole violation warrant March 21. His parole

has since been revoked and he remains in jail awaiting a future court appearance on new charg-es. Those allegations stem from the search of his home on the Cove Road where police seized weapons, drugs and more than $5,000 in cash.

The pills include 164 hydro-morphone tablets in two dosages — 30 and 24 milligrams — which police say have a local street value of as high as $7,500.

“These are fairly potent pills,” Bridgewater Police Chief John Collyer said at a March 25 news conference where police showed off the seizures.

“Obviously, here in Bridge-water, we have a problem with prescription drug abuse,” he added. “From our point of view, this is a win-win — to take that much prescription drugs off the street and, obviously, seizing that much cash and taking these

weapons off the street, is very important in disrupting the or-ganized nature of drug traffick-ing activities here.”

Officers also found three .22-calibre handguns — two re-volvers and a pistol, a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun, a second 12-gauge shotgun, a .44-calibre rifle with a scope, a compound bow and a set of brass knuckles.

Five of the six guns were loaded when police located them

in the home. At least two have since been confirmed as stolen weapons, one from a Bridgewa-ter address.

While it isn’t illegal, police also seized an unusual piece of equipment — a cocaine press — which they say is a first for Lunenburg County.

That device is used to cut pure cocaine with additives to increase profits.

Police seize guns, pills, cocaine press from man’s home

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Province settles lawsuit with Roué familyBy ROBERT [email protected]

LUNENBURG — The province has settled a legal dispute with the family of the late William J. Roué, designer of the original Bluenose.

The Roué family had taken the prov-ince to court alleging that Mr. Roué’s copyright and moral rights had been infringed upon when designers involved in the reconstruction of Bluenose II used his drawings in designing the hull for the project, which has been ongoing for the past four years.

“It is clear that the Bluenose II and her legacy belong to the people of Nova Scotia and that William J. Roué has

played an important part as the origi-nal designer of Bluenose,” Tony Ince, Minister of Communities, Culture and Heritage, said in a press release. “I am pleased that a settlement has been reached, so that we can continue to move forward in a positive manner.”

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the Roué family will re-lease the province; the Lunenburg Ship-yard Alliance, builders of Bluenose II; Lengkeek Vessel Engineering, design-ers of Bluenose II; and project manag-ers MHPM, from any and all claims relating to the Bluenose II restoration project or future activities relating to Bluenose II.

Neither the province, nor the Roué

family acknowledge or admit liability.In full and final settlement, the prov-

ince will pay the Roué family $300,000, which includes legal fees.

The province and the Roué family will take steps to have the proceedings dismissed by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.

The press release said the vessel, which was re-launched in September of 2012 but has not sailed, is expected to be back in service this summer.

Mr. Ince announced last December that the province would conduct a re-view of the project to determine why its completion has been delayed, as well as its costs. To date no word of those find-ings has been released.

The province has reached a settlement with the family of the late William J. Roué, designer of the original Bluenose, over copyright and moral rights issues.

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Town ready to call tenders to widen Station Lane


LUNENBURG — Officials in Lunen-burg are ready to call tenders to widen Station Lane, but one councillor isn’t convinced it’s the solution for traffic problems there.

At a meeting March 25, Councillor Peter Mosher suggested he’d like to see the town consider other options for han-dling the congestion.

“We’re going to spend a lot of money and I would just like to have total con-fidence that it’s the right design,” he said.

The town has been pondering chang-es in the area for more than a year, but the need has become more immediate since a fast food outlet opened at 1 Falk-land Street a few weeks ago.

Access to the restaurant’s drive-thru is off Station Lane, which is also the exit route for fire trucks.

An engineering firm has drafted plans to widen the street to three lanes, with the centre lane serving as a stack-ing lane for cars entering the drive-thru. The town has also added eight angled parking spaces on the west side of the design.

But Councillor Mosher suggested he’d like to see the drive-thru access re-routed, perhaps bringing vehicles from Medway Street, to eliminate left-hand turns from Station Road.

“You can only stage two, maybe three cars there anyway, so it’s still con-gested, no matter what you do,” he said. “I don’t like that design. I was hoping somebody could come up with a better plan.

“That really isn’t the most efficient method of bringing people through that drive-thru.”

Mayor Rachel Bailey pointed out that Councillor Mosher’s idea could be dealt with later.

“What you’re suggesting wouldn’t change the physical construction of the widening of that street. You’re talking about arrows and lines and so on,” she said.

“I don’t want to hold up the tendering process.”

Councillor John McGee concurred.“I’d like to see us go ahead with this

plan and then we still have time to change the painting of the roads later on,” he said.

Council agreed to proceed with the tendering process while having staff explore Councillor Mosher’s idea.

CorrectionA story in the March 19 Active Living

section of this newspaper incorrectly identified Eric Himmelman as Harry Himmelman. We apologize for the error.

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n Failed breathalyser. Blowing breathalyser readings of 100 and 90 mil-ligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood will cost a Dayspring man $1,300 and his licence for a year. Frederick Rob-ert Sarty, 40, was stopped February 22. He pleaded guilty to a charge of failing the breathalyser March 26.n Break-in admitted. A Bridgewater woman will spend a year on probation after pleading guilty to a charge of break and enter and two counts of drug posses-sion. It’s part of a suspended sentence that Megan Ann Polson, 20, received March 26. She was part of a break-in at a Waterloo home on March 13, 2013, and was then found in possession of mari-juana and morphine in Bridgewater a month later. While on probation, she was ordered to stay clear of drugs and take counselling as directed.n Stole groceries. Stealing from a Bridgewater grocery store has landed a 47-year-old man on probation for a year. Travis Robert Moynan of Bridgewater was caught shoplifting at the No Frills store on December 7. He was ordered to stay away from that location for a year as of his March 26 court date.n Caught with marijuana. Get-ting caught with marijuana has netted a Lunenburg man a $230 fine and a year on probation. Terrance Clifford Creaser, 46, pleaded guilty to a possession charge March 26 and was ordered to stay clear of drugs. He was found with the marijua-na on April 9 of last year in Lunenburg.

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He said now is the time for taxpay-ers to let their council know how to proceed.

“I have a great concern with the town budget that’s coming up and I would suggest that the residents of the town … have a clue about some of the decisions we’re gong to have to make.”

A recent survey posted on the town’s

website asked people which services they’d like to see expanded if they were prepared to pay increased property taxes and, if there was a reduction in town services to keep property taxes low, what services could be reduced.

The survey also asked where savings could be found if the town had to reduce spending.

Council plans to approve its budget by the end of April.

“Basically, it’s used for pressing pow-dered cocaine into bricks or kis,” ex-plained RCMP Cpl. David Ferguson, with the South Shore street squad. “That’s how they end up making their money because they can turn one ki into two kis by adding the cutting agent to it.

“Anybody that would have a cocaine press … you’re usually dealing with your higher level of dealers then,” he added.

Police say the press swabbed positive for cocaine residue.

“That’s our first time that we’ve seen one here on the South Shore. I don’t even think that it’s a common seizure out of metro,” RCMP Sgt. Derek Smith said. “And by any measure, taking six firearms off the streets is a huge seizure for any police agency.”

Police say Mr. Ivany lived alone at the home on Cove Road.

They don’t expect to make more ar-rests, but believe they interrupted a sig-nificant operation. The investigation is continuing.

“This guy is connected to other peo-ple,” Sgt. Smith said. “I think it would be foolhardy to think that he was working single-handedly. There’s other players here.”

Chief Collyer indicated he’s particu-larly pleased that officers seized so many

pills given the ongoing local problem with prescription drug abuse which re-sulted in three, high-profile deaths in recent years.

“I consider it a victory. Each one of those pills that’s not on the street is not going to be a pill that a young person is going to get a hold of. One of those pills is powerful enough that, if mixed with alcohol or some other substance, it could take a life,” the chief said.

“In the provincial scheme of things or the national scheme of things, this is not a huge seizure by any measure, but for Lunenburg County and for Bridgewater this is significant,” he added.

Mr. Ivany has been charged with pos-sessing hydromorphone for the purpose of trafficking and a string of weapons offences.

Those include six counts each of pos-sessing firearms contrary to a court order and careless use of a firearm, seven counts of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, five counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm, four counts of possessing a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition, and two counts of tampering with a serial number on a firearm.

He was on parole from a prison term relating to a string of break-ins in the Halifax and Truro areas.

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Bridgewater Police Chief John Collyer shows a set of brass knuckles seized during a March 21 search at a Conquerall Bank home. Sean Andrew Ivany, 27, faces more than 30 charges after police seized weapons, prescription drugs, cash and drug-related items there. RCMP Sgt. Derek Smith is also shown at last week’s news conference on the case.

Paper and staff win national awards

COUNTY — The Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin and its staff have been recognized nationally for outstanding community journalism.

Newspapers Canada announced the winners of this year’s competition last week, including five top finishes for Lighthouse Media Group.

The first two came in the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards.

The paper took third place for the best holiday edition in the 4,000 to 12,999 cir-culation class for its Christmas issue, fea-turing themed stories from throughout Lunenburg County. Those were written by reporter Paula Levy. The special sec-tion also contained ads sold and designed by Lighthouse sales reps and graphic designers.

Assistant editor Lisa Brown placed third in best news story competition in the same circulation class for her cover-age of Bridgewater’s prescription drug problem.

Newspapers Canada also announced the winners of its 2014 Great Idea Awards last week. The Lunenburg County Prog-ress Bulletin captured three top finishes in that competition.

The paper took first place for its promo-tional campaign in the 4,000 to 24,999 cir-culation class. The “Let Them Eat Cake” promotion was based around the idea that Lighthouse Media Group produces 52 best sellers each year, an accomplishment that was celebrated each Wednesday with staff delivering cakes to readers, adver-tisers and people featured in the paper, everyone from students to nursing home residents to business employees.

The Progress Bulletin captured second place in the young reader engagement initiative category for the “In The News Media Literacy Program.” Spearheaded by education coordinator Tim Reeves-Horton, this is the feature that regu-larly brings readers stories written by students throughout the county. Those pages are the culmination of the program which goes into classrooms teaching chil-dren about the value and production of newspapers.

Finally, the paper placed third in the newspaper marketing and promotion competition. “This is what we do” was a series of ads highlighting the paper’s contributions to the community.

Woman found guiltyin knife slashingBy LISA BROWN

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COUNTY — A former New Ross woman will return to court in June to face sentencing after she was found guilty of slashing her neighbour with a filleting knife.

Judge Gregory Lenehan convicted Catherine Lorraine Sweet, 50, of aggra-vated assault and carrying a knife for a dangerous purpose when she appeared in Bridgewater provincial court March 27.

He stayed an additional charge of as-sault with a weapon, saying the Crown had proven the allegation but it was contained within the more serious ag-gravated assault charge.

Calling Ms Sweet’s explanation of events on June 18 of last year “incredu-lous,” Judge Lenehan said it was clear she was the aggressor and intended to wound her upstairs neighbour.

At a trial earlier this year, Cora Lee Hazlett testified she returned home from work that afternoon and was con-fronted by her angry downstairs neigh-bour. After what the judge described as “a barrage of insults,” Ms Hazlett went upstairs and told her boyfriend and his visiting friend what had happened.

About 15 minutes later, she left her apartment to visit a friend. After turn-ing her car and heading down the drive-way, she said she heard Ms Sweet yelling and shouting, so she got out and went to try to find out what the issue was.

Ms Hazlett testified she’d only spoken to Ms Sweet on two prior occasions and they’d never had any problems.

However, that afternoon Ms Sweet told her she was going to “gut [her] from head to toe” and disappeared into her apartment. Ms Hazlett was speaking with her boyfriend, who had responded to the commotion, when Ms Sweet came

back swinging a knife.When Ms Hazlett put up her arms

to defend herself, she suffered several small cuts to her fingers and a major slash to her forearm.

That required plastic surgery to re-pair six tendons and a severed nerve. She still doesn’t have full use of her hand and wrist.

Ms Hazlett’s boyfriend and his friend gave similar accounts of the knife at-tack.

An RCMP officer later seized a knife with a sharp, 20-centimetre blade from Ms Sweet’s kitchen sink.

But when Ms Sweet took the stand in her own defence in February, she claimed she didn’t intend to cut her neighbour. She claimed she raised the knife on reflex after seeing Ms Hazlett lift her arm.

Judge Lenehan didn’t believe her. He said Ms Sweet had no reason to feel threatened or intimidated by the other woman, but chose to arm herself with a dangerous weapon.

“The preponderance of evidence leads me to conclude that Ms Sweet was spoiling for a fight. She was highly agi-tated,” Judge Lenehan said.

He added that Ms Sweet “had been stewing all day” over a foul odour in her bathroom which she attributed to her upstairs neighbours. She’d consumed several beer that afternoon.

After injuring her neighbour, she told the couple’s visiting friend to, “Go ahead, call the cops,” and waited in her porch for police to arrive.

Judge Lenehan found that “complete lack of regret, surprise or astonishment at causing the injury to Ms Hazlett … consistent with satisfaction with having achieved one’s purpose for arming one-self with a razor-sharp knife.”

Ms Sweet is due to return to court on June 12.

Man ordered to pay back Community Services


COUNTY — A Western Shore man has been ordered to repay more than $12,000 he defrauded from the Depart-ment of Community Services.

That’s part of the sentence Wayne Richard Sawler received March 24 in Bridgewater provincial court.

He admitted receiving benefits from the province between January 1 and December 31, 2010, while also getting in-come from Workers’ Compensation and Employment Insurance.

Crown attorney Leigh Anne Bryson

told the court the fraud was discovered when Mr. Sawler’s income tax return was audited. He then went to the RCMP in 2012 and admitted what he’d done.

Court records indicate the total wrongly received was $12,800. By last week’s court appearance, Mr. Sawler had reduced the amount owing to $11,941. 11.

Judge Jim Burrill placed Mr. Sawler, 39, on a nine-month conditional sen-tence with a curfew, ordering him to take counselling.

That will be followed by two years on probation when Mr. Sawler must continue counselling and repay the out-standing debt.

Admits defrauding province of more than $12,000

Bridgewater facing $1 million deficit

Parole arrest leads to charges

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Two pipes in the engine room of the Cape Rouge appear to have caused the sinking of the trawler in the LaHave River last month. The Canadian Coast Guard hopes to be done its work by Friday, says senior response officer Keith Laidlaw.

Broken pipescaused boat to sink

Coast Guard hopes to finish work by FridayBy LUKE KENNY

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BRIDGEWATER — Two broken pipes that have been patched in the engine room of the Cape Rouge appear to have been the problem with the trawler that has been stuck in the LaHave River for the last month, an official from the Cana-dian Coast Guard said.

There is no other water entering the ship and it is sitting upright and stable, senior response officer Keith Laidlaw said.

Officials expected to begin pumping the rest of the oil and water out of the ship on Monday morning.

“What we plan on doing is having a tanker down here and at least one vacu-um truck, maybe two, and start steam-cleaning and sucking the oily water out of the vessel,” Mr. Laidlaw said. “It is a mess in there. The ship was tipped over on its side so it’s going to take awhile, but I would hope to be done and out of here by Friday.”

The owner is responsible for moving the ship after it is cleaned out.

Due to the current in the river, small amounts of oil sheen have been lost ever

since the ship went down.“We’ve had Transport Canada 950 over

flights whenever they’re available to fly up and down the river,” Mr. Laidlaw said. “We’ve had reports from them from any-where of .4 of a litre over a fairly signifi-cant size area, which is not much oil, to the day of the pumping the plane detected a 28-litre sheen in the river … but we con-tained most of it. A bit of sheen got away, but it was too late to recover.”

The storm that hit the Maritimes last week didn’t affect the ship at all, he said, adding that five guys were working during the storm Wednesday night and Thursday.

“We had two-hour watches on. Every two hours either our response officers or divers were around checking on the ship, checking the lines and checking the bilge.”

Local businesses have been very sup-portive of the Coast Guard, Mr. Laidlaw said.

“We got snowplowing done here right away, we’ve got porta-potties on site right away, we’ve had salting of the jetty and stuff. Every business has been very coop-erative with us and very helpful, as well as a lot of the locals.”

Businesses to getfriendly reminder

about sidewalk signsBy LISA BROWN

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LUNENBURG — Officials in Lunen-burg are getting ready to take a bite out of sandwich boards.

Concerns about creeping sidewalk signs has led town council to decide to issue a rule reminder to downtown businesses.

The letter, which is to be written “in plain language,” will be hand-delivered by town staff in the coming weeks. It will outline the regulations and invite business operators to a future meeting of the planning advisory committee for discussion.

Council passed the motion March 25 on the recommendation of that com-mittee.

“The intent is, once everybody is clear on what the rules are, then we’ll start enforcing them,” Councillor John McGee said.

He told council some businesses are putting out multiple signs, while others are placing them in the middle of the sidewalk making it difficult for pedes-trians to pass by.

“It’s becoming a problem,” he said.Councillor Peter Mosher questioned

the need for the reminder.“Is the public finding this a nui-

sance?” he asked. “We discuss about economic development and promoting business. This is a way these folks ad-vertise what’s happening in their stores and restaurants.”

He voted against the motion, which passed without his support.

Cocaine dealer sent to prisonCrown says man was

‘entrenched’ in local drug tradeBy LISA BROWN

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COUNTY — A Lunenburg man who was “entrenched” in the local drug trade back in 2010 was sent to prison March 28 for trafficking in cocaine.

Ashton Robert Ryley Peel, 29, was sentenced to serve two years and two months in the federal system on charges of possessing cocaine and marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, possessing oxycodone and magic mushrooms, hav-ing a prohibited weapon and possessing stolen property.

“You’re going to jail today, you know that, and it’s important that the com-munity knows you’re going to jail too,” Judge Jim Burrill told Mr. Peel in Bridgewa-ter provincial court.

“Because anyone that involves them-selves in the trafficking of cocaine, ex-cept in the most unusual circumstances or exceptional circumstances, will find themselves ending up in prison.”

Police searched the Pelham Street home where Mr. Peel lived with his girlfriend, Shaylene Cathlin Mossman, and their two-year-old child on October 29, 2010.

Officers seized a total of 26 grams of cocaine, 243 grams of marijuana, 18 grams of magic mushrooms and five oxycodone tablets.

Most of the coke, some of the mari-juana and one gram of the magic mush-rooms were wrapped in one-gram bag-gies. The pills were also individually wrapped.

Police seized scales, foil, empty bag-gies, $795 cash in small denominations, bear spray, a set of brass knuckles, five iPods and three cell phones.

In court last week, federal prosecu-tor Josh Bryson said police recovered thousands of text messages from those phones clearly referring to drug trans-actions, including some suggesting trades for iPods.

“Clearly Mr. Peel was up and run-ning. This was not just an overnight venture. He was clearly entrenched in the cocaine trade,” Mr. Bryson said

Defence lawyer Alan Ferrier told the court his client has turned his life around since that 2010 arrest. He’s been

employed full-time as a fisherman and, knowing that he’s been facing a prison term, he’s worked hard to provide his family with the financial support they’ll need while he’s gone.

“Mr. Peel’s come a long way from … where he was at,” Mr. Ferrier said. “This case ended their involvement in the drug world. They went off the map. They were not known on the street any-more.”

Questioned by Judge Burrill about a comment in Mr. Peel’s pre-sentence re-

port suggesting he only stopped using cocaine in January, Mr. Ferrier said his client continued to struggle with addiction issues but stopped sell-ing in 2010.

Judge Burrill told Mr. Peel he should under-stand the perils of cocaine use.

“Cocaine, as you likely know

first hand, is a drug that can ruin lives and cause great strain and stress on families,” the judge said. “It results in them eventually not being there for the people that love them, the people that depend upon them.

“It’s important that people know that’s what you risk when you involve yourself with drug trafficking. You risk ruining your life and the lives of those around you,” he added.

Mr. Peel received two years on the cocaine charge with concurrent time on the other drug counts. He received an additional month for having the brass knuckles and a month on top of that for having a bunch of stolen traffic signs which police found in the basement.

He’s banned from having firearms for 10 years.

Judge Burrill told him that sentence is at the bottom end of the scale because of the strides he’s made since 2010.

“You’re getting the best deal that could possibly be available to you in all of the circumstances,” the judge said.

Ms Mossman, 27, pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine after she claimed 21 grams police found on a bookshelf as hers for personal use.

Judge Burrill fined her $500 and placed her on probation for a year with orders to stay clear of drugs and take substance abuse counselling.

“It’s important that people know that’s what you risk when you involve yourself with drug

trafficking. You risk ruining your life and the lives of those

around you.”Judge Jim Burrill

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Pillowcase Banditjailed seven years for break-ins


COUNTY — One of three Halifax men charged in connection with a string of break-ins around the province, including here in Lunenburg County, was sentenced to serve seven years in prison last week.

Corey Mitchell Jollimore was given 260 days’ credit for time served on remand since his arrest. He was banned from having firearms for the rest of his life and must submit a DNA sample for the national criminal data bank.

The 23 year old was sentenced March 28 in Halifax provincial court after plead-ing guilty to a string of crimes back in February.

Those included 30 house break-ins in Halifax, Lunenburg, Colchester and Hants counties between November 2012 and April 2013, along with five business break-ins in the Halifax area.

He also pleaded guilty breaking into

a parking garage, stealing vehicles and possessing a firearm for the purpose of trafficking.

He was one of three men police arrest-ed last year who allegedly called them-selves the Pillowcase Bandits because they used pillowcases to remove their stolen property.

Two brothers — Ryan Jefferies Marri-ott, 29, and Jason Patrick Marriott, 26 — have elected trial in the Supreme Court. They are slated to be back in Halifax provincial court this month to set dates for a preliminary hearing.

A fourth man — 29-year-old Matthew Wayne Atkinson of Dartmouth — has pleaded guilty to possessing stolen prop-erty in connection with break-ins here in Lunenburg County. He’s scheduled to be sentenced in May.

Properties targeted here are in Mar-riotts Cove, Newcombville, Bakers Settle-ment, Upper Branch, Chelsea, Waterloo and Scarsdale.








LUNENBURG — Parking enforcement in Lunen-burg is about to get a little strict-er.

The town has decided to hire a Corps of Commissionaires bylaw enforcement officer to begin May 1.

The person will work eight hours per week through the end of October, then work four hours a week in November, at a total cost of about $7,000.

The shifts will be split and staggered by time of day and days of the week on a weekly basis.

Staff recommended the move, suggesting the increase in park-ing meter revenues would likely more than offset the cost.

The expectation is that the commissionaire will begin by enforcing parking issues. Other regulatory matters, such as animal con-trol and unsightly premises violations, could be added to the duties later if the need arises.

However, at a council meeting March 25, Councillor Thom Barclay suggested the town should instead hire a full-time bylaw enforcement officer.

He said that person could perform ad-ditional enforcement duties from the out-set and more parking enforcement would pay for the position.

According to a staff report, parking revenues exceeded $69,000 in 2008-09 when the town had enforcement. That dropped to about $45,000 in 2013-14.

Public works employees also spend three to six hours a week collecting park-ing meter money. Councillor Barclay suggested a full-time bylaw enforcement officer could do that and free up other workers.

“I’m not sure this is the direction that we should be going,” he said. “If we were to hire a bylaw enforcement indi-vidual … it’s my belief that we would find enough efficiencies within the town’s current operating structure that that in-dividual would more than pay for them-selves.”

Councillor Barclay was the only dis-

senting voice on the motion.Several other elected officials spoke in favour of

the move, including Councillor John McGee.“I think it’s probably a really good opportu-

nity for us to put our foot in the water and get a taste for whether we’d like to have en-forcement again,” he said.

Mayor Rachel Bailey also spoke in favour of the proposal saying it’s a means to deal with parking enforcement which has been neglected for some time.

“This is a way that we can look at handling it in a manage-able way that has no long-term negative impact,” she said. “It’s clean-cut … and yet it can be very specific about what we’re asking them to do.”

Council agreed to try hiring a commission-aire for this year and review the decision in November.

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Reliable Cab co-owner Darrell Watson has asked Bridgewater council to take responsibility for the damage potholes are doing to his vehicles.

By STACEY [email protected]

BRIDGEWATER — The co-owner of a Bridgewa-ter taxi company says he simply cannot afford to continue paying for damages caused by potholes on the town’s streets.

“I would like some accountability from the mayor and the council,” said Darrell Watson of Reliable Cab during a March 24 meeting.

He said his seven-year-old business typically spends between $1,500 and $1,600 annually on ve-hicle maintenance during January and February, yet through the same period this year, it paid close to $7,000 for front-end repairs alone.

“And it’s due to the state of the roads in Bridgewa-ter. The streets here are pathetic.”

Mr. Watson, who also goes by Pete, said one of his drivers hit a pothole on Jubilee Road this winter and the resulting damage required the car to be towed, then $400 plus labour to repair, after which he noti-fied town staff to request the pothole be fixed.

“One week ago, I lost another front end of a car

on the same spot. It cost me $490 plus towing to get it fixed.”

He said it is clear to him the town is not taking the issue seriously enough, nor fixing the potholes properly.

“I’m very frustrated.”Mayor David Walker said Bridgewater is not

unique and that this is a particularly bad spring for roads across Nova Scotia.

However, he asked senior staff for a report on how it is addressing the issue to determine whether or not changes are necessary to its process for fixing potholes.

“That’s a process we’ve used over the past number of years and it’s worked relatively well until this year. I would suggest to you there are probably a lot of municipalities that are having the same concerns raised to them.”

Meanwhile, he said Mr.Watson’s receipts could be handled through an insurance adjuster.

“There is a process in place to deal with the claims that are put in by individuals for damage on our roads.”

‘The streets here are pathetic’

Lunenburg increasing parking patrolsTown opts to hire commissionaires to watch meters

“I think it’s probably a really good opportunity for us to put our foot in

the water and get a taste for whether we’d like to

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Thursday April 10, 2014

6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Culinary Arts Farm Market Expo

Join us for an evening of culinary

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celebrate our local farmers. Interact with our students, meet the

producers, experience new recipes and enjoy our celebration of

Nova Scotia’s offerings.

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Tickets $35.00 Advance purchase is required. To purchase tickets: Denise Printz, Main Office 75 High Street, Bridgewater Email: [email protected] Phone: (902) 543-4739

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Yes We CareA community seminar on Restorative Practices,

funded by Justice Canada

What are Restorative Practices?What are the benefits to our community?

What might they look like in Lunenburg County?

Featured speakers:Dale McFee, Deputy Minister, Corrections and Polic-ing, Ministry of Justice, Saskatchewan. Mr.McFee will be speaking on the “community hub” model of community safety.Danny Graham, Nova Scotia’s Chief Negotiator in the Made in Nova Scotia Process – the comprehensive rights reconciliation process amongst the Mi’kmaq, the Prov-ince and Canada. He was also founding chair of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice program.

April 10 & 11, 10 am – 4 pm both daysBridgewater Fire Hall

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.Please phone 543.3665 or e-mail [email protected]

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Protesters gathered outside of South Shore-St. Margarets MP Gerald Keddy’s office March 25 in solidarity with other protests across the country in opposition to the Fair Elections Act, a bill that will see federal voting regulations changed.

Fair Elections Act not fair, protesters say

By LUKE [email protected]

BRIDGEWATER — Protesters gath-ered in front of Conservative MP Gerald Keddy’s office in Bridgewater March 25 in solidarity with other protests against the Fair Elections Act at MP offices across the country.

Bill C-23 has been heavily criticized since being introduced in the House of Commons.

Linda Loth was at the protest repre-senting the South Shore chapters of the Council of Canadians and Fair Vote Canada. She hopes Canadians will realize how significant this bill is and what an impact it could have on their rights as voters.

“Many experts are saying it’s going to dis-enfranchise quite a number of people be-cause they’ll have diffi-culty coming up with the proper identification at polling stations.”

She said it drastically cuts the power of Elections Canada and does not give it powers it needs to compel testimony when doing investigations.

“The other thing is funding. The bill contains a clause that seems like there is no democratic reason to include it. It would favour the party who has raised the most money, which is the Conserva-tives. It’s extremely partisan and sneaky.”

This so-called Fair Elections Act is backwards in terms of democracy, said

protester Keith Lanthier.“We have to have elections where ev-

eryone can vote,” he said.Elections Canada is world-renowned

for running fair elections, he said, adding the message from the Conservatives is that Elections Canada is not doing a very good job.

“The voter fraud they claim to have happened hasn’t happened. There are ir-regularities as there is in all elections, but not one case of voter fraud. They’re solving a problem that doesn’t exist.”

The South Shore-St. Margarets MP respectful-ly disagrees with the pro-testers. Although there were no cases of voter fraud in the last election, it is a concern for the gov-ernment.

“All parties agreed that there were a number of irregularities in the last election,” Mr. Keddy said.

This bill will eliminate vouching at polling sta-tions, but will make it

easier to vote with the inclusion of an extra advanced poll and 39 pieces of iden-tification that can be used, he said.

“I don’t think that’s inconceivable that someone coming to an election poll to vote should have to prove who they are and present identification,” Mr. Keddy said.

“Vouching without a secure I.D. is not an acceptable system when elections are decided, in many cases, by a couple hun-dred votes and there are several hundred vouched ballots in those polls.”

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COUNTY — It’s that time of year again when voting has begun to choose the worst roads in Atlantic Canada.

Last year, the Forties Road in New Ross made the CAA list of the top 10 worst roads in the region.

CAA launched this year’s poll last week.

All roads in Nova Scotia, New Bruns-wick, Prince Edward Island, Newfound-land and Labrador are eligible.

CAA says the campaign puts a focus on troublesome and dangerous road con-ditions, and encourages governments to take action on repairs.

Voting is a chance for people to tangi-bly demonstrate that they care enough to take notice and cast their ballots.

Drivers and non-drivers are invited to submit their votes on-line at http://www.atlantic.caa.ca/worstroads, or via the Worst Roads app on the CAA At-lantic Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CAA.Atlantic.

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BRIDGEWATER — Organizers of a big rig event planned for Bridgewater this summer have made some changes to their original proposal.

South Shore in Motion has informed council it is no longer requesting Dufferin Street be closed for the event.

“We have decided to relocate to Exhibition Drive as there are no residences or adjoining streets to control traffic around,” said March 17 correspondence from chairmen Darren Wentzell and Charles Horstman.

In addition, they have changed the title of the event to the “Big Rig Hill Climb,” because “the words ‘Drag Racing’ were too graphic and presented a different image than is reality.”

The Big Rig Hill Climb is tentatively planned for August 9. The concept calls for the closure of Exhibition Drive between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Regardless, the town’s chief administrative officer said the event cannot be approved until insurance issues are ironed out.

“Until council receives an assurance that they’ll have cover-age for insurance, it’s pretty hard for them to go any further,”

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The following Fire and Emergency Service Providers of Lunenburg Municipality invites the public to attend their Annual Rate Payers Meeting.

This meeting will provide you with the needed information in order to VOTE on your fire tax rate for 2014/15. Fire Departments are now required to provide their budget documents at least one week in advance of their scheduled meeting, therefore please contact the name next to your fire service provider to find out if any changes are proposed to your fire rate

and where you can get a copy of the proposed budget.In order to vote at your ratepayer meeting your name must appear on your tax bill notice and you must be a ratepayer

within the fire district area the meeting is being held.

Public Notice2014 ANNUAL MEETING

Fire & Emergency Service ProvidersThe following Fire and Emergency Service Providers of Lunenburg Municipality invites

the public to attend their Annual Meeting.There will be a review of the fire departments previous year’s operations and budgets and they will

be announcing their 2014 – 2015 fire tax rates.

Wileville Fire Department 4-April-14 7:00 pm Joe Melanson 543-7347 Fire Hall Joe MelansonPetite Riviere Volunteer Fire Dept. 10-Apr-14 7:00 pm Johnathan Harmon 688-2180 Fire Hall Johnathan HarmonPleasantville & District Fire Dept. 15-Apr-14 7:00 pm Tony Allen 527-0392 Fire Hall April 8th, 7-9pm at Fire Hall or Tony AllenWalden Volunteer Fire Dept. 16-Apr-14 7:00 pm Richard Hiltz 644-3460 Fire Hall Richard HiltzNorthfield District Fire Dept. 21-Apr-14 7:00 pm John Mackay 543-9691 Fire Hall April 8th, John MackayItaly Cross/Middlewood & District Fire Dept. 21-Apr-14 7:30 pm Ronald Whynot 543-9806 Fire Hall Judy Jensen, 543-9333 17722 Hwy 103Indian Point Volunteer Fire Dept. 23-Apr-14 8:00 pm Tom Lockwood 624-0720 Fire Hall Tom LockwoodTri District Fire Rescue. 6-May-14 7:00 pm Paul Hayes 543-5763 Station 1 Paul Hayes NewcombvilleCornwall & District Fire Dept. 6-May-14 7:00 pm Steve Patterson 624-8636 Fire Hall Steve PattersonLapland & District Fire Dept. 6-May-14 8:00 pm Eugene Herman 543-2893 Fire Hall Eugene HermanConquerall Bank Fire Dept. 7-May-14 7:30 pm Keith Himmelman 543-2043 Fire Hall Keith HimmelmanBlockhouse & District Fire Dept. 9-May-14 7:00 pm Paula MacDonald 527-8276 Fire Hall Paula MacDonaldHebbs Cross Fire Dept. 12-May-14 6:30 pm Donald Llewellyn 212-0230 Fire Hall Sheldon MacLeod 497-9407Midville & District Fire Dept. 12-May-14 6:30 pm Graham Campbell 543-1017 Fire Hall Mar. 5th - 724 King St. (Marsh Adjustment)Oakhill & District Fire Dept. 13-May-14 7:00 pm John Robart 543-9814 Fire Hall John Robart, [email protected] Fire Department 15-May-14 7:00 pm Chris Kennedy 527-1279 Fire Hall www.hebbvillefire.orgHemford & District Volunteer Fire Dept. 17-May-14 7:00 pm Gordon Hunter 644-3065 Fire Hall Arthur Jensen, 644-3022Maders Cove Fire Protection Commission 21-May-14 7:00 pm Shelli Stevens 624-6200 Mahone Bay Shelli Stevens Centre, Rm 203New Germany Volunteer Fire Dept. 21-May-14 8:00 pm Blair Lantz 644-2079 Fire Hall May 2nd, Rex Walters, 644-3651Lahave Fire Department 22-May-14 7:30 pm Jon Mulock 688-1107 Fire Hall Jon Mulock 50 Schoolhouse Rd.Big Tancook Island Emergency Response 14-Jun-14 2:30 pm Dexter Rodenhiser 980-0412 Tancook Fran Levy, 228-2120 Recreation Centre

FIRE SERVICE PROVIDER NAME DATE OF TIME OF CONTACT PHONE MEETING BUDGET CONTACT MEETING MEETING PERSON NUMBER LOCATION OR AVAILABILITY

FIRE SERVICE PROVIDER NAME DATE OF TIME OF CONTACT PHONE MEETING BUDGET CONTACT MEETING MEETING PERSON NUMBER LOCATION OR AVAILABILITY

Dayspring & District Volunteer Fire Dept. 5-May-14 7:00 pm Earl Lantz 543-1544 Fire Hall Frank Fawson, 543-9166United Communities Fire Dept. 6-May-14 7:00 pm Wayne Smith 677-2492 Fire Hall Steve Teal, 935-2100Riverport & District Fire Protection Commission 6-May-14 8:00 pm Craig Cook 764-2111 Fire Hall Norman Mossman, 766-4677Martins River Fire Commission/ 22-May-14 8:00 pm Gary Langille 624-8095 Fire Hall Debby Langille, 627-2549District 1 & 2 Fire Protection Commission NOT AVAILABLE at time of press release - Please Contact Wilfred Stevens at 634-4236 for further details

If you have any questions regarding these meetings, please contact the person listed within your fire department/commission, or April Whynot-Lohnes, Municipal Clerk, Municipality of the District of

Lunenburg, at 541-1323 or email [email protected]

MUNICIPALITY OF THE DISTRICT OF LUNENBURG

Public Notice2014 ANNUAL RATE PAYER MEETINGS

Fire & Emergency Service Providers

Municipality of the District of LunenburgThe Council for the District of Lunenburg has scheduled 7 community

meetings throughout the region to hear from residents. You are welcome to attend any of the scheduled meetings and there are 6 meetings remaining.

The locations have alternated from 2013, so each district will host a community meeting every two years.

Come join Mayor Downe and Councillors in a relaxed, open style meeting and hear what new initiatives are scheduled for 2014. The doors open at 6:30 pm

with the meetings starting at 7:00 pm.

Come have your say!

“Your Government, Your Ideas”Community Meeting Calendar 2014

For information please call April Whynot-Lohnes, 541-1323, or email: [email protected]

Council Dist. Location Date District 5 West Northfield Community Centre April 7, 2014 District 8 Tri-District Fire Dept. Hall - Newcombville April 10, 2014 District 1 Lunenburg Fire Dept. April 14, 2014 District 12 United Communities Fire Hall April 28, 2014 District 6 Parkdale-Maplewood Community Hall May 5, 2014 District 1 Big Tancook Recreation Centre June 18, 2014

Town of BridgewaTer

noTice of amendmenT To a developmenT agreemenT

Take notice that on Monday, March 24, 2014, Council of the Town of Bridgewater passed a resolution approving a “non-substantial” amendment to the development agreement with Olde Town Golf Course (2009) Limited, dated June 21, 2013, resulting in the replacement of Schedule B1 (development layout); Schedule B2 (phasing plan); Schedule D (landscaping plan); Part 1 (permitted use terms); Part 3 (site access terms); Part 8 (landscaping & buffering terms); and Part 16 (signage terms).

In accordance with Sections 247 and 249 of the Municipal Government Act, an aggrieved person, the Provincial Director of Planning, or the Council of an adjacent municipality may appeal Council’s decision to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board. Notice of appeal may be served on the Board wtihin fourteen (14) days of the date of this advertisement.

Inquiries respecting appeal procedures can be made to the Clerk of the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board by contacting the Clerk of the Board at PO Box 1692, Unit “M”, Suite 300, 1601 Lower Water Street, Halifax, N.S. B3J 3S3, (Phone) 424-4448, (Fax) 424-3919, (E-mail) [email protected]

A copy of the amended development agreement may be obtained from the Bridgewater Planning Department located at 60 Pleasant St., office hours 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, or by contacting the Director of Planning at 541.4368 e-mail: [email protected]

312 Dufferin Street, Bridgewater

Organizers change proposed site of big rig event

Organizers of South Shore in Motion are now proposing the clo-sure of nearby Exhibition Drive for a day to allow them to plan a big rig event.

said Ken Smith.He said once the town’s insurers sign

off on the organizers’ coverage, the event will be expected to come forward to coun-cil for approval.

The Big Rig Hill Climb is part of the 10-year-old South Shore in Motion festi-val, which is held annually at the Big Ex grounds. The festival typically includes truck pulls, show ‘n’ shines, lawn trac-tor racing and off-highway vehicle chal-lenges.




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BRIDGEWATER — The new owner of the Tops’l Tavern hopes to bring the well-known bar back to life — this time with a new look, a new name and a new image.

“We hope to clean it up,” says Sharon Saulnier of Liverpool.

“Over time, I think it got a bit of a rougher image and we’re hoping to clean it up and have it more of a place where everybody can come, have a good time, [and] feel safe,” she says.

The well-known establishment on King Street will be renamed King’s Cor-ner.

Ms Saulnier and her partner, Mike Habib, have some big plans for the place, some of which include a new dance floor, a new layout, a paint job and you can say adios to that grey carpet.

Ms Saulnier and Mr. Habib definitely aren’t strangers to flipping bars.

“We bought the Liverpool Bowling Centre and totally did a renovation job

there and turned the bar right around,” says Mr. Habib, who is originally from Lang-don, Alberta.

“We actually made it a very comfortable area for couples and we’re planning on doing the same thing here.”

Mr. Habib will over-see security and the day-to-day operations of the business.

Joe Naugler, who worked at the Liver-

pool Bowling Centre, will be the general manager, and he and his wife, Janet, will oversee kitchen duties.

“I used to party here was I was 19,” says Mr. Naugler. “Right now, not a whole lot has changed since then, so we’re just going to spruce it up. It’s going to be great. People are going to love the changes.”

They hope to have upwards of about 20 employees.

“We haven’t done anything formal in the way of hiring as of yet,” says Ms Saulnier. “But we’re definitely looking at the existing employees before we look elsewhere.”

The team plans to revamp the restau-rant portion of the establishment and have a menu that includes pub fare, as well as fresh seafood.

Mr. Habib says they hope to cater to all crowds and also make the bar a place that can host bigger shows.

“We found a lot of problems with the dance floor area …. The stage wasn’t big enough,” he says. “We’ve ripped out the old dance floor. We’re putting in a separate stand-alone bar there, so that people can get served at two different areas.”

So far, some of the planned entertain-ment includes DJ Rollie O’Brien and DJ Mutts from 101.3 The Bounce.

More entertainment also means ex-tending bar hours to 2 a.m. They plan to continue to have the VLT room, and will add televisions throughout the bar and restaurant, as well as more pool tables.

Safety is another priority for the team.

“Security is a big thing here. We just definitely want people to come in, right from the door, feel happy, comfort-able, non-threatening, know that when

they’re in here, they’re going to be safe and comfortable,” says Ms Saulnier.

“That’s our goal. That’s what we did in Liverpool.”

They plan to have a limo and two small buses that can take people home at the end of the night.

“We will not tolerate drinking and driving. The reason we’ve been success-ful in Liverpool was because we took the initiative to stop it. We didn’t have a lot of cabs late-night so people couldn’t get home. Now we make sure they get home,” says Mr. Habib.

They’re also looking at the possibil-ity of including a front patio and roof-top patio.

“If the council allows us, we want to actually put a patio out here, as well as a smoking section so that when the people go out to smoke, they’re not trampling through the front door,” says Mr. Habib.

And just in case you were wondering — they don’t plan to make it a strip club.

“We do carry a licence to have strip-pers — we’re not ruling out having male dancers just come in maybe once every four months for the women — but no, we’re not interested in changing this into a strip club,” says Mr. Habib.

The business deal closes at the end of April and, in the meantime, they’re getting started on renovations. Once the licence to serve alcohol is approved, they hope have a soft opening within a week. The official opening is tentatively scheduled for May 1.

Mr. Habib says the overall hope for the business is to bring it back to where it was 20 years ago.

“Where people came down, it was bumping and everybody was having a good time.”

Back in business

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Sharon Saulnier of Liverpool is the new owner of the former Tops’l Tavern. Renovations are cur-rently under way at the establishment, which will soon be known as King’s Corner. Ms Saulnier is pictured here refurbishing the 60-year-old lights to include in the restaurant.

Former Tops’l Tavern gets a new look

NOTICE

Consultative Process for Approval Under the Environment Act

This is to advise that Zutphen Resources Inc. is proposing to operate a stationary ready-mix concrete plant in accordance with the Environment Act and the Activities Designation Regulations. Proposed Location: PID 60666773, New Russell, Lunenburg Co., NS Proposed Description: Stationary Ready-Mix Concrete Plant Purpose of Activity: to produce concrete for the South Canoe Wind

Power Project Deadline for submission of comments to the proponent: May 5, 2014 For Additional Information, please contact: Project Coordinator: Peter Archibald Zutphen Resources Inc.

10442 Southwest Mabou Port Hood, Nova Scotia, B0E 2W0 Phone: (902) 945-2300

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LCLC expected to run $600,000-plus deficit

By LEENA ALI and STACEY [email protected]

COUNTY — The Lunenburg County Lifestyle Centre is projected to run a deficit of over $600,000 annually for the foreseeable future and municipal leaders say they’re not surprised.

“There’s never been a question that they’ll always be in the red in regards to running a recreational centre,” said Municipality of Lunen-burg Mayor Don Downe following a March 25 presentation on the facil-ity’s 2014-15 projected operating budget.

“Recreation is an expense. Every recreation department will tell you … you don’t make money on recreation. We had never anticipated that the lifestyle centre would be anything other than having a subsidy to keep it going. That’s been said publicly before I ever got involved with it and it was stated by our public consultations.”

One night earlier, Bridgewater Mayor David Walker voiced similar sentiments.

“We’ve been in the arena business since 1949, I believe, and … I can’t remember any year where we operated a surplus, so providing some recreation services does involve, not a cost, but an investment in the community.”

Last year at this time, lifestyle centre general manager Kevin Benja-min projected operating the facility would cost the two municipalities a combined total of about $550,000 in 2013-14 and that the operating deficit would decrease to less than $400,000 over each of the following two years.

Now, between 2014-15 and 2016-17, those deficits are projected to be in excess of $600,000 annually.

However, Mr. Benjamin said he does plan to decrease future deficits and that will be accomplished through a strategic planning process.

“We want to increase our revenues. We are not satisfied where they are. We want to grow them,” he said during the March 24 town council meeting.

“But in order for us to grow that, we’ve got to also identify where our gaps are, but we haven’t experienced a full year of operations yet, so we’re not sure.”

The facility’s arena opened last fall, the library opened early in the new year and the aquatic centre is expected to open this month.

The lifestyle centre was funded through the federal, provincial and municipal governments, and is operated by the Lunenburg County Multi-Purpose Corporation on behalf of the town and Municipality of Lunenburg.

Mayors say that is not unexpected

The Town of Bridge-water has gone $150,000 over its snow removal budget this year, but some of that may be offset by a reserve budget, says the town’s director of finance, Dawn Keizer.

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Town over budget on snow removalBy LUKE KENNY

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BRIDGEWATER — After this winter, it should come as no surprise that the Town of Bridgewater has exceeded its snow removal budget.

Prior to last week’s storm that incapacitated the Maritime provinces, the town had already exceeded its snow removal budget by $150,000, That number has clearly risen since then.

But there is some relief to make that deficit smaller, the town’s director of finance, Dawn Keizer, said.

“We have a snow clearing reserve that has $87,600 in it. The town is projecting an over-all surplus, so there will be savings in other departments that will allow us to absorb the remainder of the coverage.”

Next year’s budget is under consideration at this point, so more snow removal cash will be considered during the budget process.

“It’s really difficult to predict a snow re-moval budget. I don’t think anybody could have predicted this winter. It has been a really rough winter,” Ms Keizer said. “Budgets are based on an average winter, so you try and do the best you can, but it’s very difficult to budget for it

because we can’t control the weather.”The money in that reserve comes from past

winters when the town didn’t spend the entire snow removal budget.

“What happens is, when you have a good winter and you don’t spend your whole budget, then the difference goes into reserve so that, when you have a bad winter, you can draw on that,” she said.

Depending on how the overall position of the town ends up, the snow removal reserve could be depleted.

“If there are enough savings in other depart-ments, we may not have to draw on the whole reserve. It will depend overall on how the town ends up,” Ms Keizer said.

When the town did third-quarter projections this year, they were expecting savings in other areas, such as the transfer tax, police, fire and planning, she said.

“It just depends on how all those pan out, because when you do projections it’s just your best estimate at the time and the year is not over yet.”

Service levels in other areas wouldn’t be reduced to compensate for snow removal in the town unless a decision was made by coun-cil.





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Bridgewater outdoor pool to remain open in 2014


BRIDGEWATER — The Bridgewater outdoor pool will stay open for at least one more season and, if a group of com-munity volunteers get their wish, it will remain open for many more years to come.

“We are very pleased that council voted to give us that opportunity for 2014 so that we can look at potentially helping set up a non-profit organization … to ensure long-term sustainability of this facility,” said Bridgewater Barracudas swim club president Blair Lipsett following a March 24 town council meeting.

The future of the pool had become increasingly uncertain in recent months with the impending opening of a new indoor aquatic centre across town at the Lunenburg County Lifestyle Centre (LCLC). As a result, a committee, includ-ing town staff, councillors and commu-nity members, was formed to make rec-ommendations for dealing with the issue.

“The committee strongly feels that one summer of evaluation is required to de-termine if keeping the outdoor pool open is a viable option in future years,” said the group’s March 24 report.

“This option will provide the Town of Bridgewater with the opportunity to determine if there is enough interest and great enough revenues to justify keeping the facility open. If the goal is to try and keep the Bridgewater outdoor pool open in the future, [this option] will give us a fighting chance.”

That plan was ultimately endorsed by council.

“When I was out campaigning, almost two years ago now, that was one of the is-sues that a lot of people brought forward to me,” said Councillor Sandra Mailman.

“They wanted to make sure the kids in the south end of Bridgewater had a place to go.”

However, Mayor David Walker and Deputy Mayor Bill McInnis did not sup-port the motion due to budget concerns.

“If we approve this, we’re probably going to have to wind up cutting some-thing else,” said the deputy mayor.

The recommendation to keep the pool open came with an estimated price tag of close to $18,000. The 42-year-old facil-ity has had a deficit of close to $40,000 each of the past two seasons, but the

committee has proposed measures to re-duce costs in 2014 while extending public swims, increasing the number of special events and adding a shuffleboard court.

“The focus will be on ‘funning up’ the pool with the aim of reducing staffing expenses,” said the report.

Although the facility is still expected to require over $60,000 worth of capital repairs in the coming years, Mr. Lipsett said his club is confident it can come up with a long-term solution to lease the pool and keep it viable once data, statistics and information is collected based upon the upcoming season.

“It is very important to the commu-nity as a whole and we will do our best to make sure it continues to be enjoyed for a long time to come.”

The pool had well over 10,000 visits to public swims over the past two years and 116 registered members of the Barracu-das used it as a nearly daily practice site. There were also more than 40 families within walking distance of it last season who were subsidized through the PRO Kids program and a Bridgewater Elemen-tary School survey determined about two-thirds of its students used the facility.

However, data from the committee de-termined swimming lesson registrations had declined steadily over the past 10 years from 342 to 210 participants. There-fore, those lessons will not be offered this season.

Other options considered but not rec-ommended by the committee included removing the pool and using the area for another type of sport or recreation facil-ity, or turning the site into a family water park of some sort.

“The Hants Aquatic Centre (pool) run by the Town of Windsor and the Victoria Park Pool (Truro) are wonderful exam-ples of pool facilities in Nova Scotia that have successfully remodelled their aging pool facilities.”

Regardless, Mr. Lipsett hopes the com-munity will rally behind the volunteers who hope to keep the existing facility open long-term.

“The public can help by taking advan-tage of the outdoor pool this summer and supporting it as best they can. Things will be different there this year as many ser-vices have moved to the LCLC, but once the final schedule is released, we hope that people within our region come out to support both swimming facilities.”

Lauren Dessureault competed in the 10th annual Kids of Steel triathlon at the Bridgewater outdoor pool in 2012. Town council recently decided to keep the facility open for at least the 2014 season.

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Parent asks town to fund walking guardBy LISA BROWN

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LUNENBURG — A Lunenburg mother is asking the town to fund a walking guard to keep young children safe as they travel to and from Bluenose Academy.

Melissa Risser pitched her idea to town council March 25, suggesting children’s safety should be a top priority for every-one.

“I really hope that we won’t have to see things be reactive rather than proactive, because I would hate to see one of these children injured on that stretch of very dangerous road,” she said.

Ms Risser explained her child is one of a half-dozen young students who, starting in September, will have to travel from a child-care provider on Centennial Avenue to the school through a busy commercial

district.She told council the South Shore Re-

gional School Board has refused to pro-vide a bus stop for the students on Cen-tennial Avenue.

While there are sidewalks along the route, the mother said there are no cross-ing guards to assist the youngsters across busy Victoria Road. Even if there were, she suggested that isn’t the answer.

“As much as we want to see a crossing guard go in, I don’t think that’s going to officially solve the problem for us,” Ms Risser said. “I don’t think it’s safe for a group of five year olds to twirl and flick out the front doors of Bluenose Academy all the way to Centennial Avenue with a crossing guard at the Irving. I think there needs to be more support than that.”

Ms Risser said the parents she was representing would be more comfortable

with a walking guard assisting the chil-dren to and from school each day.

“I know that we haven’t done things like that before, but we’re in a town where we’ve got new people moving into this town specifically because they see the benefits of raising children here,” she said.

Ms Risser suggested such a program might draw more young families to Lunenburg. It could provide part-time employment or even foster volunteer community spirit.

“We’ve got this great new school,” she said. “Let’s put in the supports that it needs.”

Council deferred discussion on the proposal until staff obtain additional in-formation on the school board’s bussing policy.

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At a recent meeting of town council, Melissa Risser suggests Lunenburg fund a walking guard to help young children get safely to and from school.

Schools surveying parentsBy STACEY [email protected]

COUNTY —Parents are being asked to tell schools how they’re doing.

“It’s an opportunity for their school community and the board to hear their collective voices on things like student engagement, school safety and just-in-time items like bullying and whether or not they feel the school and system is supporting the needs of their children,” said South Shore Regional School Board co-ordinator of technology Jim Dexter.

Schools have long surveyed students and sometimes parents, but this year there is an increased emphasis on hear-ing what families have to say.

“The new part is the combined, con-certed effort to essentially do all parent surveys at the same time, by the same means and to come in under the same sort of board-wide promotion.”

Mr. Dexter said the results will be used to implement formal school-based im-provement plans.

For example, surveys could show par-ents feel a particular school is not com-municating well enough with its families.

“That’s something schools should and can take action on.”

The Tell Them From Me surveys are designed to be completed anonymously on-line.

“People should feel they can answer openly and honestly,” Mr. Dexter said.

The overall results are expected to be shared with the school board and its pub-lic health partners to help shape policy direction.

“We are really excited about this initia-tive for a number of reasons,” said Trish Smith, the school board’s director of com-munications.

“We want to connect with our com-munities and hear from them. This is just one way our schools will be able to gather valuable data from their families.”

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It’s time to fix our roadsThe CAA has launched its

annual worst roads in At-lantic Canada contest and

we’d suggest it’s time for people in Lunenburg County to start vot-ing.

The campaign gives people a chance to say which roads are the worst to drive on in the region. Every road in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador is open to comment.

Voting is now open on-line at http://www.atlantic.caa.ca/wor-stroads, or via the Worst Roads app on the CAA Atlantic Face-book page at www.facebook.com/CAA.Atlantic.

Voting continues until April 25. A list of Atlantic Canada’s worst roads will be published after the campaign closes.

According to the CAA, the idea is to focus attention on potentially dangerous roads and “to actively encourage municipalities and other jurisdictions to take action and make repairs.”

We can only hope.There are roads in this county

that are in deplorable condition.While we recognize that this

has been a rough winter for road-ways that has led to a prolifera-tion of potholes seemingly every-where, on every roadway in every corner of this county, we would also suggest that is only part of the problem.

Many of our roads have been neglected for too long. Repairs that might have been fairly minor a decade or two ago, have esca-lated to large-scale projects. And large-scale projects cost big bucks.

In rural areas, pavement edges have crumbled and grass grows up in cracks in the roads in warmer weather. Potholes like craters litter the lanes in some places and often seem to be where drivers least expect them just around a corner.

The towns are little better, sometimes worse, where heavy traffic has broken down surfaces leaving crumbled, broken messes. Some of those routes have been patched and patched again, but sooner or later the patching has to stop and real repairs have to be undertaken.

We know roadwork is expen-sive, particularly if it is done properly by tearing up the old, preparing the track and laying down new pavement. Such proj-ects cost hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars.

But really, what’s the option? The longer these bad roads are left to deteriorate, the more the required repairs intensify. The price of roadwork isn’t suddenly going to drop. As with everything else, the costs will rise.

It’s time to get started. It’s time for governments at all levels to dig deep and start finding some

cash to make our travel ways bet-ter and safer.

Our towns need to make street repairs a priority and they need to lobby the other levels of gov-ernment for help to fix thorough-fares. Our municipalities must do the same. They have to assess their roads, figure out the priori-ties and demand that the worst get fixed.

And next year, they must do the same. And the year after that. And the year after that.

This province’s economy relies heavily on tourism. Many busi-nesses and households survive largely on money spent here by visitors.

How long will people continue to visit our towns and villages if they have to bump over bad roads, possibly even worry about their safety as they try to enjoy our sights and take in our activities? We would suggest it won’t last forever. Word will spread about the lamentable condition of our streets and highways. People will begin to say, “Don’t go there be-cause the roads are terrible.” Is that what we want?

It’s time to take action. Govern-ments need to make our roads a priority and we need to do what-ever we can to push them in that direction, even if it’s as simple as voting in a CAA campaign.

– Lisa Brown

The following is a op-ed piece from Service Nova Scotia and Mu-nicipal Relations Minister Mark Furey.

Building a stronger Nova Scotia demands a unity of purpose.

We will succeed only if we work together in a spirit of trust and cooperation. This was the conclu-sion of the One Nova Scotia re-port, released last month by Ray Ivany and his Commission on Building Our New Economy.

Nova Scotia’s municipalities are not an afterthought in building a stronger Nova Scotia. In partner-ship with government, business and the academic and non-profit sectors, they will lead the change.

Our towns, regional munici-palities and counties are trying to deliver services against a back-drop of increasing costs, shrink-ing populations and declining tax revenues. Several municipal coun-cils face the unenviable choice between slashing programs and services, or raising taxes.

One town is showing tremen-dous courage in facing this chal-

lenge head on. The Town of Sprin-ghill has applied for dissolution after 125 years of history. The Mu-nicipality of Cumberland County has responded and agree they are stronger together than apart.

I have asked John Leefe, a re-spected long-time former mayor and cabinet minister, to work with Springhill and Cumberland Coun-ty on a smooth transition to one municipality by April 1, 2015. Mr. Leefe is uniquely able to lead the change, having served three terms as mayor of the Region of Queens Municipality. It was formed when the Town of Liverpool and Queens County came together in 1996 in a union that has been an undeniable success.

There is a lesson in the Queens experience and what is being un-dertaken in Cumberland County — elected officials can put aside their personal interests for the good of their communities. As Mr. Leefe said, this is “a selfless and courageous act.”

My message to our municipal leaders has been clear and consis-

tent — we will not impose amalga-mation on our towns and counties. The people of Nova Scotia expect leadership from the councillors and mayors they have democrati-cally elected. I firmly believe that municipal leaders possess the wis-dom to make the right choices and the strength to make tough calls. They need no force or coercion from the provincial government.

After meeting with over 30 mu-nicipalities, I believe that in many communities there is a desire to work together to take on the chal-lenge of municipal reform. More could follow the lead of Springhill and Cumberland by taking bold action that will strengthen their communities.

Our government will be there to support them. That is why, ef-fective April 1, we are creating a Department of Municipal Affairs. Its prime purpose is to build rela-tionships with our municipalities based on trust and respect.

Just as Mr. Ivany recommended.

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Questions need to be askedabout professional services

Regarding the recent story “Council looks at tendering for services,” I think Councillors Hayden and McGee make valid points on

several fronts. There are many advantages to retain-ing an organization which has become familiar with and knowledgeable about the town’s operations, as suggested by Councillor McGee. On the other hand, familiarity can, at times, lead to some level of com-placency. This is not always the case, but it’s some-thing to remain vigilant about. Although fresh eyes can be an advantage, as Councillor Hayden seems to mention, with perhaps an anticipated injection of new vigor and eagerness, the problem is a danger of the lack of comprehension needed to understand the complexities of running our town.

In any case, I may share thoughts with some citi-zens that the process of issuing a tender/request for proposal (RFP) in regards to the professional ser-vices provided to the town must be commonplace at least every three to five years, as Councillor McGee suggests. Those of us who deal with municipalities from a business perspective understand that issuing an RFP is standard procedure. When I engage this process through various government organizations I wish to do business with, the RFP clearly states the expectation of the client — the Town of Lunenburg in this case — including a demand to demonstrate a full understanding of the town’s needs and what other clients I serve with similar complexities.

We should beconcerned about

cell towers

Mike Touesnard is quite right to be con-cerned about his beehives 500 metres away from the proposed cell tower site in Centre.

The European Beekeeper Association is very sure that the high frequency waves cause the honeybees to become disorientated so they can’t find their way back to the hive. So sure, that they have filed a law-suit against the wireless industry claiming damages for the destruction of the honeybees by one to two-thirds in Europe.

In the early 1990s, because of the alarming rise in childhood leukemia, the World Health Organization (WHO) brought together the International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC) to study the biological effects of electromagnetic radiation from wireless technology. In 2011, the WHO issued a precautionary warning classifying the radiation emissions as pos-sibly carcinogenic.

In the public consultation process, why send the comments to Eastlink when it should be to the fed-eral government. Only the private landowner can say yes or no. Until the safety code is updated to include the biological effects of electromagnetic radiation from wireless technology, the federal government will continue to override municipal bylaws when an “impasse” is reached, stating that the requirements of the outdated safety code have been met.

On April 1, the report on the Review of Safety Code 6: Potential Health Risks of Radiofrequency Fields will be released to the public. For more infor-mation on the report, go to http://www.c4st.org.

JANET CARROLLLunenburg

Hold the bus

I would like to congratulate the various councils that have decided not to implement a fixed route bus system.

A review of the Citizens For Public Transit Soci-ety’s operations and business plan “Making Connec-tions” reveals among other things:

Accessibility — A fixed route system will serve only a tiny fraction of our citizens. If you don’t live on the major route connecting Mahone Bay, Lunen-burg, and Bridgewater, the bus will not be available to you. Even if you live along one of those routes, but you are not within walking distance of a bus stop, you will need transportation to get to the bus.

Cost — The financial projections for the transit system forecast the accumulated losses over five years of operation to be $1,372,692. The projected rid-ership at the end of the five-year period is 110. That is projected ridership of 110 out of a population of about 35,000 after five years. To attract the ridership of 110 over five years will cost taxpayers a total of $1.372 million — a cost of $12,479 per projected rider. It may be more practical to buy each projected rider a compact car and ask them to give someone a ride to work.

The solution of using dial-a-bus transportation, perhaps augmented by subsidized taxi fares, is a practical and affordable solution.

JOHN HARLEYUpper Branch

Local paper offers advantages

I did not get a letter in to compliment the paper on its March 19 edition with special sections. These exemplify the advantages of a local paper in in-

forming on local businesses, especially for seniors. I have mislaid detailed notes I made last week, but I appreciated my local paper more than ever with the special sections.

MARY HUMPHRIESLunenburg

Service cost, although important, usually appears well down the list after the show of competency. This works to minimize the concern of losing valuable continuity. More and more I see a separate clause ap-pearing in the RFP that includes a demand for a ser-vice level agreement (SLA). This indicates a signifi-cant financial penalty clause should our company not meet the agreed upon demands and conditions of the RFP. After a thorough scrutiny of our ability, includ-ing several recommendations from current clients, we may be given the contract. We will then repeat the process every three to five years to retain the busi-ness. As a final stage in this process, and although it may seen self-evident, I would recommend that con-sideration be given to an annual, independent audit of the work preformed. It could be money well spent.

DAVID PENNEYLunenburg

Fix the potholes

I would like to sincerely thank the Marriotts Cove depot of the Nova Scotia Department of Trans-portation and Infrastructure Renewal for the

wonderful job they have done this winter scraping the snow off of Highway 3 between Chester Basin and Chester. When the road gets scraped right down to the pavement, the packed-down snow does a masterful job of filling in the hundreds of potholes along that stretch, making it almost a smooth ride. But if I may make a suggestion, once that’s done just put sand down, okay? You see, when you put salt down it melts all the snow in the potholes and bingo — we’re right back to the same crappy road surface we travel on as a matter of course.

I have made inquiries through our local MLAs office and am told, according to the Department of Transportation, that stretch of highway is “up for capital consideration.” What that means, of course, is that it is not on the list of priority roads to be repaired and will probably not receive any attention until after the next provincial election in 2017.

In light of the foregoing, I was most pleased to read the article in last week’s paper concerning the poor condition of roads in the Chester and Chester Basin area under the headline, “Transportation de-partment stops greasing squeaky wheels.” It seems the Transportation department’s Steve MacIsaac and acting area manager Glen Strang are no longer going to respond to complaints from “those who squeaked the loudest,” but rather are going to “focus more on underlying issues of roads.”

Well then, I won’t bother gathering a petition signed by the hundreds of people in my commu-nity who agree with me about the condition of this stretch of road, as I wouldn’t want to be seen as “squeaking too loudly.” So I will stick to the under-lying issue so it will be easy for the Department of Transportation to focus on — the road between Chester Basin and Chester is in deplorable condi-tion, with hundreds of potholes and dozens of large ruts that are a safety risk to drivers, detrimental to vehicle well-being and an absolute eyesore to the tourist traffic visiting our otherwise beautiful area.

Simple enough issue to understand? So fix the road this year. Got it?

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COUNTY — The day before Tami Cush-ing left Cuba to board AirTransat flight TS749 to return to Halifax, she heard rumours about a snowstorm heading to the Maritimes.

“A lot of us didn’t know if it wasn’t going to be real or an exaggerated storm,” the Bridgewater resident said in an inter-view last week.

A day later, those rumours proved to be true and a near crash caused a different airplane to flood the national headlines.

The pilot came on the intercom to speak to passengers about the landing conditions as the direct flight from Cuba made its first approach to the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport around 8 p.m. on March 26.

“We have the all-clear to land. We’re going to be landing in Halifax shortly,” she recalled him saying.

As the plane descended through the clouds, you couldn’t see anything, Ms Cushing said.

“All of a sudden, you hear the wheels go down and assume you’re going to land. The next thing you know we were pulled out of the landing really fast and going back in the sky.”

“We have enough fuel to fly around and see if we can come down. We’re in contact with the ground to see if we can land,” the pilot said after the first aborted landing.

The plane circled around for roughly 15 minutes before the pilot addressed the cabin again, saying they were diverting to Montreal.

There, passengers disembarked and went to a waiting area. They were fed and kept informed that it was going to be perhaps two hours before they would fly. Later, the pilot came out and spoke to the passengers again.

“We are going to attempt to land again in Halifax. An Air Canada plane has successfully landed in the last hour, the winds have died and it’s much better there now.”

Looking back, Ms Cushing is not con-vinced.

“Apparently not, unless it had been re-ally, really bad before that,” she said.

After waiting for about three hours in Montreal, passengers got back on the plane and were told it would take just over an hour to get back to Halifax. As the plane started to descend again, Ms Cush-ing said she heard the wheels go down.

“We were almost down and the plane was just rocking. I’ve never felt anything quite like it. It was really turbulent. If

someone who didn’t enjoy flying or that was their first flight, they would probably never fly again,” she said.

As the plane rocked back and forth, the pilot swiftly banked to the right and aborted the landing for a second time.

“My first thought was, ‘We’re going to have to fly back to Montreal and do this all over again. We’re going to be flying back and forth to Montreal until this storm stops,’” Ms Cushing recalled.

The pilot spoke again, telling passen-gers the plane would have to circle for 20 minutes while snowplows cleared a dif-ferent runway.

“The winds weren’t so bad, so obvious-ly the pilot knew what he was doing. He got the nose going directly into the wind. We came down with a clunk …. I thought ‘Oh my God, the wheels just flew off,’” Ms Cushing said.

Once the plane was on the ground in the swirling blizzard, she said she could feel it blowing in the wind.

“I had my eyes closed, I was clenching my seat with white knuckles and trying to go to my happy place on the beach be-cause that’s how I cope with it.”

After a gruelling emotional roller coaster that lasted for hours, the plane had touched down in Halifax around 3 a.m., but then passengers had nowhere to go. The airport hotels were completely booked because people had come in on Tuesday to be there for Thursday flights.

“So we hung out in the airport until it got light enough that we could see if we could drive,” Ms Cushing said.

She said there were people who were frightened and shaken on the plane, and people who were angry at AirTransat and felt that the plane shouldn’t have returned. However, Ms Cushing said she would fly with the airline again.

“It would have been nicer if they left us in Cuba for another night just to avoid this whole foolishness, but the poor peo-ple trying to get down to where they’re going on Thursday wouldn’t have been as happy. You understand they have sched-ules to keep and, if it’s safe, they’re going to do what they can do to get you home.

“They took good care of us …. It wasn’t like they didn’t care. I would absolutely fly with them again.”

The thought of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 even crossed her mind during the ordeal, she said.

“You can’t know about all that and not think about it when you’re sitting on a plane that’s shaking and rattling and, at one point, looked like it was going to land on its side. At least they would have found us because we would have been on land.”

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COUNTY — Effective next school year, students from a controversial “grey area” in Pine Grove will no longer be bused to Park View Education Centre.

“As of September, 2014 students who reside in this area will no longer receive transportation to and from Park View Education Centre and will be required to attend [New Germany Rural High School] unless there has been an approved trans-fer,” said a news release from the South Shore Regional School Board last week.

The motion was originally approved by the board in June, 2011.

“This area formally known as the ‘Pine Grove Grey Area’ was grandfathered at

the time for current Park View students to allow the students who were registered at Park View Education Centre to con-tinue their schooling there until 2013,” explained the release.

A map of the area in question is avail-able on the school board website.

The original decision caused a great deal of consternation in the community after the elected board of the day voted to eliminate a “grey area” from parts of Pine Grove, Bruhm Road and Lower Branch, where families had tradition-ally been given their choice between the two high schools instead of having clear catchment zones like most other school boundaries in the region.

“The parents are upset beyond all means with you guys,” said Councillor Sandra Statton at an October, 2011, Mu-nicipality of Lunenburg committee meet-ing attended by school board officials.

Previous director of operations Barry Butler said at the time the decision meant some students would have to travel up to an extra 35 kilometres each day compared to sending them to nearby Park View.

Meanwhile, earlier this year, another municipal councillor raised similar frus-trations about seemingly illogical school catchment areas.

“I don’t ever remember an actual

school review that changed significantly the boundaries of our school systems,” said Lunenburg Municipal Councillor Carolyn Bolivar-Getson, during the pub-lic meeting at Park View Education Cen-tre regarding possible changes to the school review process.

She noted electoral boundaries are re-viewed on a regular basis and the same thing should happen with school catch-ment areas.

“Our schools were built back in the early 60s — most of them that we’re talk-ing about here tonight — and those school populations have shifted, demographics have changed and our focal points have changed. We need to maintain this infra-structure, but we may need to maintain it in a different way.”

Following the meeting, superintendent Geoff Cainen said boundary reviews could be a logical part of a comprehensive facilities master plan he’s been encourag-ing the governing board to endorse in its 2014-15 budget.

“I don’t think you can simply say, ‘we’re going to develop some sort of master plan and just look at the buildings,’ without saying, ‘where are the families that feed this building, are there suitable boundar-ies, do they work and what would happen if we moved them around a little bit?’”

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BRIDGEWATER — Bridgewater’s mayor is proposing a room tax for the town and other nearby municipalities.

“I’m a firm believer that a room levy is long overdue in our region,” said David Walker during a recent council debate about attracting major events and meetings to the area.

“But it has to be regional in nature. It can’t be one community and not the others.”

However, he said local industries which would benefit from increased tourism would have to support the tax.

“In talking to some hotels and hotel owners, there does not seem to be the faith in municipal government that we will actually use the money for what it’s intended for,” said Mr. Walker.

“We are going to have to demon-strate, if there’s a room levy or some revenue coming in, that it is ear-marked for bringing more people into the community. I certainly am sup-portive of moving in this direction.”

At the same time, a group of repre-sentatives from local municipalities,

industries and economic development associations is moving forward with plans for Events Lunenburg County, which would focus on attracting major events and meetings to the area.

The mayor said a room levy to sup-port such initiatives is not unusual in many other regions.

The Town of Yarmouth and the Municipality of Yarmouth have by-laws which require a room levy of $2 per night to be collected by hotel and motel operators with 20 rooms or more on rooms that are rented, according to that town’s website.

“The amounts collected are set aside in a special fund to assist with incremental marketing of Yarmouth & Acadian Shores,” said the website. “It is administered by the Town of Yarmouth and is overseen by the room levy committee.”

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For Peter Barss, finding a red wooden biplane on a trip to Value Village turned out to be much more than a nice gift for his grandsons. Instead, it inspired a one-

of-kind gift that you’ll probably never find at a thrift shop.After fixing up the old plane and giving it a fresh coat of

red paint, he came across an old beat up trunk.“It looked like a treasure trunk at first and I thought

well, okay, I’ll fix that up and fill it with non-digital, mostly retro toys and include the red airplane, so that would be the present,” he says.

The gift for two-year-old Abe and one-year-old Isaac just kept getting bigger.

Mr. Barss, who is an author and photographer, wrote a story inspired by the toys in the box. He then Photoshopped images of each toy into photographs of areas such as antique shops and his grandson’s backyard, bringing the story to life.

He wrote “The Adventures of Edward and Mabel Mouse,” a 62-page story with 31 photos, most of which he spent three to five days editing in Photoshop.

“A story evolved about the mice living and working in a cheese shop in Paris,” he says.

When the owner, Marcel, retires to the countryside to care for a cow, the mice then travel the world.

“They’re reluctant to go at first, but then they do and Marcel gives them a little bit of money and a van delivery truck. They head off to explore the world, [and] along the way they meet a frog — Jeremy Fisher.”

In the treasure trunk, there is the Beatrix Potter book about Jeremy Fisher. He’s also painted on the outside juggling eggs and there’s a stuffed version on the inside. Edward and Mabel mouse, who are also in the toy box, end up trading their delivery truck for Jeremy Fisher’s red biplane.

In Mr. Barss’ story, Jeremy Fisher takes up juggling eggs and almost gets eaten by a trout.

After traveling the world, Edward and Mabel mouse end up in his grandson’s backyard and decide to move in, giving the kids all of the toys they found on their adventure.

To top it off, Mr. Barss painted the entire trunk with pictures of the characters, creating a three-part gift for his grandsons.

“I’ve painted interior and exterior walls, but this is the first representational painting I’ve ever done. I just kept applying paint until it looked the way I wanted it to look. The toy chest is more a product of persistence than it is of talent,” he says.

Many of the toys he bought were from antique stores and are quite old. He believes that while the digital revolution has opened up a world of exciting possibilities, we’ve also lost some things.

“I think that as well as gaining things … one of the things that we’ve lost is playing with old toys,” says Mr. Barss.

Mr. Barss hopes the three-part gift for his grandsons will spark their imaginations.

“There’s a story here, but there’s plenty of material for them to make up other stories …. They’re both smart little boys with lots of imagination.”

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Mr. Barss used Photoshop to include all of toys in the toy box in the story as well.

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Peter Barss hand-painted this trea-sure trunk. All of the pictures correlate with the toys inside and the characters in his book.

Peter Barss writes book for his grandsons

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Author and photographer Peter Barss of West Dublin created a three-part gift for his grandsons, which includes a book, a hand-painted toy box and plenty of toys inside.


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• Foods with folate — Folate is a B vitamin that can reduce a person’s risk of developing several cancers, including those of the colon, rectum and breast. Those who are fond of a healthy break-fast to begin their day may already be getting healthy doses of folate, which can be found in eggs, fortified break-fast cereals, orange juice, and strawber-ries, among other foods. If toast is your breakfast of choice, opt for whole wheat

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• Grapes — Studies have shown that resveratrol, a key ingredient in grapes, may prevent the type of damage that triggers the production of cancerous cells. Though scientists are not yet com-fortable saying grapes, or beverages such as grape juice and wine, can reduce cancer risk, they believe that the antioxi-dant and anti-inflammatory properties of grapes make them a healthy option.

• Tomatoes — Tomatoes are widely be-loved and perhaps that love affair stems from the tomato’s role in fighting cancer. Though the reasons are unknown, toma-toes have been linked to lowering men’s risk for prostate cancer. One such study, a 1995 study from researchers at the Harvard Medical School, found that men who ate 10 or more servings of toma-toes per week reduced their risk of de-veloping aggressive prostate tumors by nearly 50 percent. Later research from the author of the 1995 study found that processed tomatoes, such as those found in tomato paste and tomato sauce, were even more effective at reducing cancer risk than fresh tomatoes. Tomatoes have also been linked to lowering a person’s risk for lung and stomach cancers.

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BRIDGEWATER — When it comes to physical and sexual violence against women, it is no longer acceptable for men who aren’t perpetrators of such crimes to be bystanders with this strug-gle.

That was the focus of Jackson Katz’ multi-media presentation March 25 in front of an assembly of students at Bridgewater Junior Senior High.

“It needs to be an issue that men are active on and educated about,” Mr. Katz said.

He was invited to the province by Minister Responsible for the Status of Women Joanne Bernard as a part of the launch of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Nova Scotia this April.

Mr. Katz is a pioneer of gender vio-lence prevention and critical media lit-eracy. He is the co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) and lectures internationally on violence, media and masculinities.

MVP has been implemented by the U.S. military and is the most widely used sexual and domestic violence pre-vention program in North American college and professional athletics.

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“So we scrambled to raise the funds to get him here and brought him down this morning,” Ms Bookchin said.

It was fabulous to have him here,Ms Lanthier said.

“The message he made was so clear to the students in the audience. Those are the impacts on them when it comes to how to act as a boyfriend or a girl-friend.”

Men standing up for women’s rights is no different than heterosexuals stand-ing up for the rights of homosexuals or white people standing up for the rights of black people or aboriginals, Mr. Katz said.

“There are a lot of influential and powerful men who haven’t taken this up as part of their responsibility.”

The biggest impediment is getting men to understand this is an expec-tation of leadership, not a volunteer activity.

”If you’re going to be a leader in Ca-nadian society in the 21st century, these are huge problems and huge issues,” he said. “We can’t let it continue to be seen as just a women’s issue that only women are concerned with, and only women leaders need to be educated about and active on.”

Mary O’Hara was a student in theaudience and thought it was an impor-tant message that young people don’t

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which route to take, but I think informa-tion like this helps us to get a better idea of what we need to do,” she said.

Dylan Wile, another student, said men and boys have to be aware of it because most are passive about what’s actually going on.

“Men should partner up with women and make aware that all men should act this way and treat women just as equal, because they truly are,” he said.

One of the ways that men can be-come more thoughtful and introspective about this is just to sit back and listen and have conversations with girls and women, Mr. Katz said.

“Ask them if they walk around in fear or are disrespected because they’re a woman and how it makes them feel.”

Media plays an important role in shaping social norms and it’s really im-portant that young people are given the opportunity to examine media critically in the classroom, he said.

“Generally in North America, we have been failing to engage thought-ful discussion about the media culture young people are immersed in. Media literacy, to me, needs to be part of the educational system K to 12.”

Parents also need to be educated and start thinking about what media is doing and what the role of the media is, he said.

“What are the stories being told, how is power represented and how are gen-der norms produced and reproduced in media?

“I hope both kids and adults see the role and value in being more critical participants in society,” Mr. Katz said.

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Finding a career that involves doing something that you love is indeed a bless-ing.

No one knows that more than Chester native Niki Jabbour.

Ms Jabbour, who now lives in Tantal-lon but still spends lots of time during the summer months in the neighbourhood she grew up in, is set to launch her second book “Groundbreaking Food Gardens - 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden.”

“I started in the Chester vegetable gar-den my parents had every year. It wasn’t that big, probably 15 by 25 feet, but every summer my mother and I would plant potatoes and yellow beans, carrots and beets,” she recalls. “My sister and I ate a lot of vegetables, so we looked so forward every year to the harvest of the home-grown vegetables because they tasted so much better.”

By the time she was in her teens, she and her sibling had taken over the plot “and I kind of made that vegetable gar-den my own.

“I never looked back. You know, I love growing food. I’m always looking for new varieties and different things to grow,” she says, adding that now, in her own backyard, she has a garden that covers about 2,000 square feet.

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Possessing a love for gardening is one thing, but making a living at is yet an-other.

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For several years, she wrote a gar-dening column which was published lo-cally and for the past eight years she has hosted her own radio show on the subject, The Weekend Gardener, which airs every Sunday at 11 a.m. on News 95.7 in Halifax.

Ms Jabbour’s first book, “The Year round Vegetable Gardener,” was released in 2012 and registered 56,000 printed cop-ies.

Her latest effort embraces a broader scope of gardening that took her two and a half years to complete.

“I basically stalked some of my favou-rite gardeners from America, Canada and the U.K. to find out how they did things, how they grow food — vegetables, fruit and herbs — their favourite varieties and plans, and what they do to be more successful,” she says. “It took a lot of re-search, but it was a lot of fun.”

Between her radio program, promot-ing her books, and numerous public speaking engagements, Ms Jabbour says she expects that this summer will be a very busy one.

“It’s an odd career, I know, but I have to say I love it,” she laughs. “I’m very lucky to do what I do and get to play in the gar-den all the time. It’s wonderful.”

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Mahone Bay to host heritage recognition awards

BY LEENA [email protected]

The Mahone Bay Founders Society is once again preparing to honour those who have made efforts to conserve the town’s heritage.

The third annual heritage dinner is being held on April 12 at the Mahone Bay Legion. Each year, groups, indi-viduals or projects are awarded for their contributions.

The recognition is based on criteria such a advocacy, restoration and adap-tive reuse, innovative techniques, pub-lications, public media or educational programs. A youth award is also pre-sented each year.

The founders society, which operates the Mahone Bay Settlers Museum, puts out a call for nominations and a commit-tee selects the awards.

“The first year we selected the Ma-hone Bay Centre because it was a group of people that saved the old school and they have restored it. They’ve also adapted it for a modern usage, keeping the heritage component of the building intact,” says museum volunteer Sherry Hobson, adding that the Mahone Bay Centre has become the hub of the com-munity.

Last year, the award was presented to Joan Foran who spent many years at the visitor’s information centre in Mahone Bay, researching and writing about the town.

One of this year’s recipients is Amos

Pewter, for 40 years of a traditional craft. The retail shop is located in a building that was formerly used for boatbuilding.

“They keep it pristine and it’s won-derful. They respect and maintain the integrity of an old building,” says Mrs. Hobson.

The Mahone Bay Quilters Guild is also being honoured this year for group community service and a traditional craft.

“This is a group that started in the early 90s. Four women said ‘let’s do this,’” says Mrs. Hobson.

Now there are more than 100 mem-bers that belong to the guild.

The youth award is going to Curtis Raymond of Mahone Bay for his heri-tage fair project on blacksmiths in the town. His project has also been selected to go to the regional heritage fair.

“The partnership with the people in town, in him doing his research, has been beautiful,” says Mrs. Hobson

About 140 people are expected to at-tend the heritage dinner. Ben Verburgh of Indian Point will speak about the his-tory of model boatbuilding.

Coincidentally, all of this year’s awards relate to work that’s done by hand.

“It’s the blacksmithing, it’s the quilt-ing and it’s the pewter,” says Mrs. Hob-son.

“Sometimes it’s good just to raise the visibility of things that happen, that you don’t even realize are happening. It just brings it to the forefront.”

Cooking up a stormBy ROBERT [email protected]

Students enrolled in the Culinary Arts program at Nova Scotia Commu-nity College Lunenburg Campus will have their opportunity to shine April 10 at the 2014 Farm Market Expo.

“This is the Culinary Arts class year end event,” says Eric Matuchet, who serves as co-instructor of the program with Raimer Fuhlendorf. “Usually we have a theme every year and this year it’s the Nova Scotia Farm Market. So any kind of Nova Scotia produce — meat, poultry, fish and some fruit and vegetables that we can get this time of year — will be promoted.”

The expo, which includes both first and second year students of the course, will feature five different buffets.

“Every booth will have two appetiz-ers, three main courses, a vegetarian dish,” Mr. Matuchet explains. “So it’s like a mini-table hote or a mini menu on each booth.”

The dinner is going to be a stand-up affair so guests will mingle from

booth to booth to get a taste of the vari-ous foods that are being offered.

“So you browse around and try dif-ferent dishes. They’re bite-sized like a little amuse bouche or hors d’oeuvre. And we’ll have wine too,” he says. “The culinary students will know what’s in the dishes, but they will not necessarily know how, say, the lamb is grown.”

For that reason, there will also be local producers on hand to explain how the ingredients are grown and the tech-nical part of that process.

Money raised from admission fees to the expo, which runs from 6 to 9 p.m., will be put in the Culinary Arts program’s scholarship fund to assist students entering the course next year.

“We emphasize that every year be-cause that’s what it’s all about,” Mr. Matuchet explains. “For the second year students, it’s a mark for their practical, so they have to shine. So it’s a second year event with the first year kind of being the mentees and being there to help.”

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Tunicates, or sea squirts, are just one of several invasive species which are adversely af-fecting fisheries along the Nova Scotia coast.

Documentary looks atinvasive species

By ROBERT [email protected]

It’s a problem that coastal residents cannot ignore.

Atlantic waters are being plagued by a variety of invasive species that are threatening local ecosystems and putting thousands of jobs in jeopardy.

Such non-native creatures as sea squirts, oyster thief and green crabs may not sound dangerous, but their rapidly increasing numbers are wreak-ing havoc with some local fisheries.

The issue is the subject of a docu-mentary called “Invasive Species” which will air on CBC television’s Land & Sea April 6 at noon.

The half-hour program will ex-plore several aquatic invaders that are wreaking havoc in the Maritimes – tunicates and the European green crab — and will introduce viewers to several fishermen who are developing innovative ways to keep their industry alive, as well as the biologists who are using scientific means to develop a plan of attack against these destruc-tive invaders.

Fishermen and scientists are work-ing together to combat these sub-sea invaders, but it’s an up-hill battle. Some species have arrived recently via ocean going ships, but others have been here for generations.

Many of these early unwelcome visitors didn’t pose a serious threat since our cold winters kept their popu-lations under control. But as ocean temperatures have increased during

42nd Annual BridgewaterMusic Festival ready to play

The Bridgewater Music Festival is tuned up, fully rehearsed and ready to take centre stage April 5 to 11.

The 42nd annual festival opens April 5 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at 1 p.m. with the ever popular musical theatre classes, followed by senior provincial classes. The evening session at 6 p.m. will feature both art and folk songs.

Continuing at St. Paul’s on Sunday at 1:30pm, choral and solo pieces will be performed in both sacred and art song categories. Solo classes will continue in the evening session at 6:30 p.m.

Bridgewater Elementary School will be the centre of activity all day on April 7 and on Tuesday morning also. Several of our local area schools will be represented as classes are held for school choirs, duets and solos across a wide range of musical genres.

On Tuesday afternoon, April 8, at 1 p.m., the remainder of the folk song class-es will take place at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, bringing to a close the vocal por-tion of our festival.

We are delighted to welcome Paula Rockwell as our vocal/choral adjudicator this year. Since returning to Nova Scotia after completing her graduate studies at the University of Toronto, Ms Rockwell has been steeped in musical projects, performances and music festivals here in her home province, across Canada and the United States. As well as teaching a variety of music courses at her alma mater Acadia University, Paula creates productions for Acadia’s Singing Theatre Ensemble, has been featured on several recordings and appeared in many ac-claimed productions across Canada.

Our piano classes start on April 9 at the

Bridgewater United Church, with morn-ing sessions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9 a.m., afternoon sessions on Wednesday and Thursday at 1 p.m. and an evening session on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Classes will be conducted both competi-tively and non-competitively, from pre-grade level to Grade 10, and in a variety of genres such as Canadian, jazz, baroque, contemporary, romantic and classical.

We’re pleased to welcome Hannah Parks to the Bridgewater Music Festival as our piano adjudicator. Ms Parks is a Haligonian, holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Acadia University, a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the University of Ottawa, as well as an ARCT piano performance diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In addition to having taught piano to all ages in both private and group settings for the past 13 years, she also has significant experience as a collabora-tive pianist with a variety of groups and organizations as both a soloist and as a chamber musician.

The instrumental and band classes are hosted alternately by the Bridgewater and Lunenburg festivals. This year, the Lunenburg & District Music Festival will be presenting these classes, and we offer our warmest thanks and best wishes to them for doing so in 2014.

The Festival Finale Concert showcas-ing some of the highlights of the festival will be held on April 16 at Bridgewater Elementary School starting at 7 p.m.

For more information regarding spe-cific classes and times, 2014 programs are available at Town’s End Strings & Things or at the door of any of the venues.

Waldorf school competing fornew outdoor classroom

The South Shore Waldorf School is one of 10 finalists in the running for a new outdoor classroom.

The school is competing with others across Canada in the Majesta Trees of Knowledge Competition. Voting begins April 7.

To kick off the competition, the school will host a rally and an environmen-

tal stewardship awards ceremony at 64 School Road in Blockhouse on April 7 from 9 to 11 a.m.

The ceremony is a way for the school to honour the good stewards in the com-munity — “people who have made a dif-ference by advocating or accomplishing something environmentally significant.”

the past few decades, species like the tu-nicate, more commonly known as the sea squirt, have gotten out of control.

In most cases, these foreign invaders have no natural enemies so they can have a devastating effect on native species, their habitats, and entire ecosystems. The economic fallout from these invaders can be just as serious, with entire fisheries being shut down as a result.

The film was written and directed by Halifax filmmaker Rachel Bower, and cre-ated and produced by Edward Peill from Halifax-based Tell Tale Productions Inc.

“Invasive Species can create serious problems for marine ecosystems and for the fisheries and aquaculture industries,” Ms Bower says. “What struck me about this story is how people from all walks of life – fishermen, scientists, government officials and community members – are working together to find a solution to this problem.”

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New exhibit opens at Mahone Nursing Home gallery

The Mini Art Gallery in the Mahone Nursing Home is hosting a new exhibit from featured artist Susan Beavan.

Ms Beavan started her studies at NSCAD in 2002, after retiring from a suc-cessful and lengthy career in television production in Ontario. She graduated with a BFA (Diversified) in May of 2011, having specialized in painting, drawing

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The apple of your eyeIt’s a tough time of year for fruit if

you’re trying to eat local. There are plen-ty of root vegetables and greens, and, of course, there’s a great selection of meat, fish, cheese and baked goods at the markets. But there’s not much for fruit besides apples and even a well-stored apple is not quite the gem in April that it was in October. Still, a great variety of Nova Scotia-grown apples are widely available, as well as excellent cider. Both taste particularly great in desserts. Here are a couple of my favourites:

Upside-Down Apple Walnut CakeIngredients:• 3 cups peeled, cored, and finely

chopped apples, any variety• 1 cup butter, divided• 2/3 cup brown sugar, lightly packed• 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder• ½ cup white sugar• 1 teaspoon cinnamon• ½ teaspoon salt• 1 teaspoon allspice• 2 teaspoons vanilla• 2 large eggs• 3/4 cup sour cream or plain yogurtDirections:Preheat oven to 375°F.Combine ½ cup of the butter, chopped

apples, brown sugar and walnuts in a cast iron pan and sauté over low heat, stirring frequently, until apples are cooked and sugar is caramelized, about 30 minutes.

In the meantime, combine flour, bak-ing powder, white sugar, cinnamon, salt and allspice in a mixing bowl and whisk together.

In a second mixing bowl, combine other ½ cup of butter, vanilla, eggs, and sour cream or yogurt, and cream togeth-er well. Add dry ingredients to this mix-ture and stir until an even batter forms.

Pour batter over the apple and walnut mixture in the cast iron pan and transfer the pan to the oven. Bake until cake is golden brown and a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 30 min-utes. Cool on a rack.

Apple Pie Ice Cream with Caramel Ribbon

Ingredients:• 2 ½ cups apple cider• 1 teaspoon vanilla• 4 cinnamon sticks

• 2 cups heavy cream• ½ cup milk• 6 egg yolks• ½ cup white sugar• ½ cup caramel sauceDirections:Heat apple cider in a saucepan over

high heat. Reduce the cider to 3/4 to 1 cup, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Add vanilla, stir and set aside.

Place the cinnamon sticks in a closed plastic bag and smash into small piec-es with a hammer. Combine cinnamon pieces with heavy cream in a sauce-pan. Bring mixture to a simmer over medium-low heat and simmer, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes. Remove pan from heat, cover, and set aside to steep for one hour.

After an hour, strain cinnamon pieces out of the cream. Return strained cream

to a clean pan. Whisk in yolks and sugar. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently and scraping the bottom of the pan, until custard thickens, about 10 minutes.

Remove custard from heat and whisk to combine with milk and reduced apple cider. Refrigerate mixture overnight, then process in an ice cream maker ac-cording to manufacturer’s instructions. Just before removing from machine, pour caramel sauce into the machine in a slow stream to form a ribbon. Remove to a container and freeze until hard, 2 to 3 hours.

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St. Matthew’s Passionto be

performedBy ROBERT [email protected]

Musique Royale will present a per-formance of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion by the University of King’s Col-lege Chapel Choir, under the direction of Grammy Award-winning musician Paul Halley, at St. John’s Anglican Church, Lunenburg, April 5 at 4 p.m.

St. Matthew’s Passion is a dramatic telling of the story of Christ’s Passion using the narrative from the gospel of St. Matthew and additional texts written by Bach’s librettist, Picander.

The story is told by the Evangelist — St. Matthew — a part which will be sung by English-German tenor Rufus Müller, considered to be one of the world’s lead-ing interpreters of the role.

The double choir alternates between the voices of the worked-up crowd and the voice of the inner reflection on the meaning of the Passion.

The performances will also feature the professional chamber orchestra En-semble Regale, led by Baroque master David Greenberg and featuring players from Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and New York.

Also performing will be the boy sopra-nos of Capella Regalis Men & Boys Choir as well as a line-up of stellar soloists from across North America, including preemi-nent Canadian countertenor Daniel Tay-lor, baritone Tyler Duncan in the role of Pilate, baritone Dion Mazerolle as Jesus, soprano Hélene Brunet, mezzo-soprano Sarah Myatt and tenor Marc Molomot.

Mr. Halley and the University of King’s Chapel Choir have been producing a Bach masterwork each spring since 2010, how-ever this production is the largest to date due to the number of performers required.

“When considering taking on a project of this magnitude and magnificence, one has two choices — either do it superbly or don’t do it at all,” Mr. Halley says. “There can be no middle ground. If this magiste-rial work is to really speak to people, it has to be presented with the utmost integ-rity and quality.

“By the grace of God and with the sup-port of the King’s community and Mu-sique Royale, we are privileged to be able to offer this profoundly moving work to our audiences in the reasonable hope that we will be transported from this temporal into the eternal,” he says. “If we do our part, the divinely inspired music of J.S. Bach will afford us that glimpse of heav-en on earth that saves and sustains us.”

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Salutationsfrom the South Pacific

By JOHN KINLEY

The Picton Castle set sail from Tahiti and arrived in Cook’s Bay in Moorea about five hours later. It was a real-ly short jaunt, however it was enough time for people to get seasick and then quickly recover. The sea was still roll-ing with some large three-metre swell, but a lot of the people in the know say the turmoil of the monsoons will soon be at its end and the seas will eventually clear up.

Moorea was much more low key com-pared to the busy Tahitian metropolis of Papeete. Approximately 18,000 people call Moorea home and all live on the coast, leaving the inland a virtual wild jungle. Many of the island’s population commute by either the plane or the ferry to work on Tahiti.

Cook’s Bay is a deep bay with the vil-lage of Paopao on one side, following a road with restaurants and shops right around to the other side where the Ta-hitian Juice factory employ’s hundreds. Interestingly enough, Captain Cook had never actually landed in the bay, but rather the next bay over — OpunohuOp Bay.

On our day off, we ended up renting a small Hyundai Getz for cheap and driving the whole 67 kilometres around the island. We stopped at some beaches, went swimming and then found a great pizza place where we had lunch. We drove inland to the Belvedere Lookout, which is touted to be one of the best vis-tas in all of French Polynesia. The look-out gazes out over both bays, some ruins and the mountain separating Cook’s and Opunohu bays.

A little restaurant provided Wi-Fi capability that allowed connection to home and an eccentric owner hosted it. He joked with everyone who came into the place. If someone asked for water, he would grab the glass in front of them, walk over to the fish tank, dip it in and then present it as if it was completely normal behavior.

Our time in Moorea was short and it was probably for the best as Cook’s bay was almost designed as a perfect wind tunnel. We would constantly have high winds and even have gusts reaching over 80 knots. Moorea was also the place where we said goodbye to a couple of crew members due to medical and per-sonal reasons. It was a bit of a shock to the rest of the crew who had gotten used to their presence.

We set sail for Huahine after three days in Moorea. It was going to be an-other short trip, just overnight. Sure

enough, when we woke in the morning, there was our new destination. Instead of docking or anchoring, we lashed onto a mooring for cruise ships that enter the teal waters of the lagoon. This wasn’t as easy an endeavor as we would have hoped, as we slowly started spinning around the mooring and eventually got our line tangled on our propeller. We had to do some interesting maneuvering to get the mooring lines dislodged.

Huahine is a stunning island. It’s not as isolated as Nuku Hiva, as rugged as Moorea or as populated as Tahiti. It boasts some of the best diving and snorkeling in the South Pacific and it hasn’t let us down. We had planned to do some training with our longboat, Monomoy. We ended up rowing back and forth from the village to the ship a few times, swapping turns being in charge of the boat.

We still have a couple days here in our last French Polynesian destination before we leave for legendary Raroton-ga. As the Picton Castle is registered in the Cook Islands, the crew is expecting a warm welcome in that place.

Community garden networkannounces expansion plans


BRIDGEWATER — The Bridgewater Community Garden Network is growing again.

The non-profit community group has announced a four-part expansion plan for the upcoming season.

As part of the initiative, the network intends to procure and install a small greenhouse at its main site, the Hodge Podge Community Garden at the corner of Aberdeen and Elm streets.

“It will be used in our education pro-grams and will allow gardeners the op-portunity to tend plants from seed to har-vest,” said a recent report to town council from the group.

There are also plans to add a new pol-linator garden.

“In addition to attracting bees and butterflies to the town, [the garden will] educate citizens on the value of pollina-tors and the fragile position the world is in. We will make maximum use of native plants and select varieties to ensure flow-ers for as much of the year as possible.”

Meanwhile, the network intends to build on its incredible edible Bridgewa-ter (IEB) projects to spread exposure to locally-grown food.

“There are currently five community organizations that we helped get started and now operate on their own. Our goal is to add three new IEB Gardens each year.”

Finally, the group wants to purchase and plant more fruit and nut trees to ex-pand its edible trees Bridgewater initia-tive and map the tree locations.

Last year, they planted 33 fruit and nut trees — including almond, hazelnut, pecan, heart nut, walnut, cherry, peach, Asian pear, pear, plum, mulberry, paw paw and Saskatoon — at Aberdeen Green, Shipyards Landing, Woodland Gardens and the Brookside Cemetery.

The 2014 plans are based on receiving approval for a TD Friends of the Environ-ment Foundation grant.

“Without the grant, we will only be able to add two or three IEB Gardens and maintain the trees and gardens we have.”

The Bridgewater Community Gardens Network was established in 2010 and is managed by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture. Town staff and community members have worked col-laboratively to develop the group and a volunteer steering committee oversees and co-ordinates its activities.

More than two dozen volunteers estab-lished the original Hodge Podge Commu-nity Garden in 2010, and many of the sup-plies and materials for it were donated.

“Hodge Podge Gardens is a place for citizens to have their own garden in a public space. It is a place to grow food and flowers, learn skills, meet new friends, exercise, get fresh air and enjoy a natural space,” says the town’s website.

“There are 20 raised beds at the gar-den, with some room to expand in the fu-ture. All 20 beds are now in use, and have been assigned to individuals, families and community groups.”

To volunteer or get involved, phone 543-2274 or e-mail [email protected].

John Kinley

Volunteers established a new community garden on the grounds of the South Shore Re-gional Hospital in Bridgewater last year.




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BY JUDI HILTZ

I apologize to all of my readers who have missed the East Dalhousie news, but I have been having computer prob-lems. Following is the news for the whole month of March.

March 5 was my husband, Lee’s, birth-day. His brother, Pat and Anne came to help us celebrate and, of course, for a game or two of 45s. We let the boys win, as it was Lee’s birthday, but it won’t be as easy the next time. That will most likely be March 17, as that will be Pat’s birthday, and we will be helping him celebrate.

On March 10, Lee and I were invit-ed to supper with Gary and Dorothy Henderson. After a wonderful meal, the guys wanted to beat us in a game of “Big Mama.” I must say they were close

Church hosts old-fashioned socialIn an effort to bring back some old-

fashioned community spirit, St. James Lutheran Church hosted a community potluck on March 22 at the Branch La-Have community hall.

Several displays of pictures from years gone by were available for view-ing and new people to the community were introduced. Arthur Young, acting as spokesperson for the community, wel-comed everyone and invited Pastor Cath-arine House to lead us in prayer before

the abundant meal.Amid salads, sandwiches, cold cuts

and vegetable trays, everyone mingled and talked, renewing old friendships and meeting new neighbours. A solo presen-tation by little Rayah Manuel-Conrad, who recently moved to our area, was an unexpected treat for all. Everyone returned home wrapped in the warmth of friendship and filled with good whole-some homemade food.

BEST DESIGNKing Lion Gary Langille, Mahone Bay Area Lions Club, and Haile Nauss, the second-place winner of the Lions provincial peace poster contest, displaying Haile’s poster.

Notes from the Bridgewater Photographic Society

The Bridgewater Photographic Society met on March 25.

We opened the meeting with a presen-tation on panoramic photography given by one of our club members, Richard Novossiltzeff. Richard has combined his interest in panoramic photography with his love of old churches to produce some beautiful and breathtaking photographs. It takes him one and a half hours to get the shots he wants and then it’s back to the computer to stitch them together. The final effect is a virtual tour, where the viewer feels as if they are standing in the centre of the church and turning in a complete circle. He then produces a panoramic view of the walls and ceiling showing all the decorative arches.

Richard has also produced landscapes which are up to three feet long with remarkable detail. He gave us a practi-cal demonstration with his camera and tripod as to how he took the pictures and will download the technical information to our website for viewing.

Our next presentation was by Sara Harley, also a club member and club pres-

ident, who was photographer of the year in 2013.

Sara began by saying that she does not have an extensive knowledge of the technical side of her craft, nor does she do a lot of post production work on her photos. She has taken courses in creative photography which shows in her work. Sara showed us some of her favourite shots and told us the stories behind them. She said she takes photographs to record memories of her journey through life and of the things she likes, such as shadows and reflections. She ended her presenta-tion with last year’s sight and sound com-petition entry which was on humming-birds. The photos were exquisite. Sara used her camera, tripod, hummingbird feeder and lots of patience.

The field trip to Petite Riviere and LaHave was well attended and enjoyable.

We had two entries for the treasure hunt competition. The winner will be an-nounced at our closing supper.

Our next meeting will be held on April 8, when Barry Burgess will be presenting “Water Falls of Nova Scotia.”

The winnersWinners of the Riverport and

District Community Centre 100 Club for the March 24 draw: Patti Stephenson, Judy and Dexter Herritt, Don Wambolt, and Danny and Val Tanner.

games, but the gals came out on top. It was a good evening with friends.

Lee and Judi Hiltz accompanied their daughter Natasha to the Halifax Metro Centre to watch the South Shore Ice Sharks play hockey there. Then the whole team had tickets to watch the last regular season game of the Mooseheads. It was a good Saturday.

There was a very big turn out at the Forties Community Centre for the corned beef and cabbage supper Sun-day. It was nice to see Keith and Rose Tupper from Scotts Bay, Calvin and Hilda Hiltz from Western Shore, and Alison Lutz from Lake Paul with her daughter, Sharon.

This week’s card party was can-celled due to the weather, but last week’s winners were: men’s 1st – Frank Mueller, 2nd – Alton Spidle, ladies 1st – Audrey Fancy, 2nd – Ruby Bezanson, ½ take – Viola Blackadar, traveller – Frank Mueller, door prize – Pearl Foster.

On March 21, Lee and Judi Hiltz vis-ited with Ced and Carolyn Veinotte to help them celebrate his 80th birthday. Also, there in the evening were Doran and Susan Veinotte, New Ross. We had a few games of cards, which we let the boys win due to Ced’s birthday.

Hill n’ Dale 4-H members keeping busy

The March 15 general meeting start-ed off with good news. Leader Lisa Cook is feeling well again and appar-ently made good use of the fruit basket we sent.

Hill n’ Dale Club had a lot of fun at the Winter Carnival in February, taking first place in the woodsman competition and receiving a trophy.

Our club speaking rally was held Feb-ruary 29 and March 1 with 32 completed communication projects. Congratula-tions to members and for our entertain-ment skit advancing to the Lunenburg County Rally on March 29.

Seth Freeman participated in the Kevin Grant Memorial Tour to the An-napolis Valley during March break. Here’s a fact he learned — more than half the world’s farmers are women.

The chocolate bar campaign is in full

swing. Members will be selling choco-late bars as a fundraiser for 4-H.

We have 10 members participating at Bowl for Kids Sake on March 29.

On March 16, members went to Ski Martock for the day, where they enjoyed skiing and snow boarding. A big thank you to Lisa Cook who made all the preparations for the trip.

During the meeting, junior leader Miranda Cook lead us in a brown paper bag social mixer. What a fun way to get to know other members in your club.

Here are some upcoming April activi-ties: April 26 — Adopt a Highway; April 28 — some of our members will again visit Harbourview Haven in Lunenburg with their animals to share an evening with the residents. Our next meeting will be April 12.

Why the Legion?It will not come as breaking news to

anyone that a dollar today doesn’t buy what it did in 1927 or 1945. The Bridge-water Legion Branch #24 is in the same shape financially as any other club in town which is surviving on the dues of its membership. So, why join the Legion?

Why would anyone new to our town, a person with a community spirit, an inter-est in people and in having a good time, choose the Legion? Why would any young adult with a little spare change and an interest in pool choose the Legion? Why would any couple with young children and a free evening once every two or three weeks choose the Legion? Why would any middle-aged, recently single person looking for somewhere to go on a Saturday night choose the Legion? Why would any senior, looking for the compa-ny of folks with similar interests, choose the Legion?

There are several reasons why and on April 26, from 1 to 5 p.m., Bridgewater Branch #24 on Churchill Street will host an open house to showcase some of the reasons. Everyone is most welcome to attend.

Everyone’s time today is valuable — bills are mounting up, children are al-ready taking a huge chunk of what little spare time parents have (as they should), pension income is extremely tight and transportation is always an issue. There are many reasons why someone would stop right here and say, “I just don’t have time for this.” But the Legion would like people to consider doing the following three things before making that decision.

Take five minutes before April 26 and stop by Veterans’ Memorial Park at the

corner of Victoria Road and York Street. Go to the cenotaph and stand beside the names of those in the community who fought for our freedom and who did not come home to their families.

Take five minutes before April 26 and stop by Branch #24, where a collage of Afghanistan veterans is on display. Spend just two minutes in the silent presence of the pictures of the 158 Canadian men and women who gave their lives in this far away conflict. Please take time to remem-ber their families left behind.

Take five minutes before April 26 and stop by Veterans’ Memorial Bridge — known to most as the new bridge — and have a look at the flowing LaHave River and possibly an ice cake or two. Reflect on how much it means to be able to live in a country where people have the freedom to do anything they want to do, short of the illegal. Then consider what all of our service men and women in uniform have sacrificed over the years to provide that freedom, those who came home and those who did not, what their families have sacrificed while others were driving back and forth over Veterans’ Memo-rial Bridge on their way to school, work, church, soccer practice, a hockey game or the grocery store.

The Legion is reminding people to never forget the sacrifice those in uni-form have made in the past, make today and will continue to make in the future. The open house will provide an oppor-tunity for people to see that the Legion offers something for everyone of all ages. It also provides a chance to give back and needs all skills from carpentry to peeling spuds to music.

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Pictured are members of the Chester Curling Club boy’s team which will represent Nova Scotia at the 2014 Optimist international curling championship in British Columbia this week, from left: Coach Roger Rowsell, Spencer DeMone, Jacob Rowsell, Brett Dorey and Adam Cocks.

Pictured are members of the Chester Curling Club girl’s team which will represent Nova Scotia at the 2014 Optimist international curling championship in British Columbia this week, from left: Taylour Stevens, Rachel Crouse, Coach Randy Cocks, Megan Brown and Cassie Cocks.


A pair of Simms Settlement siblings have skipped their teams all the way to the Optimist international under-18 curl-ing championships in Langley, British Columbia, this week.

Adam Cocks earned the right to rep-resent Nova Scotia by reaching the pro-vincial final in Bridgewater earlier this season, while his sister, Cassie, won pro-vincials but declined the right to attend the Atlantic championships and instead will go to BC with her older brother from April 2 to 6.

“Both events would have been a great experience,” said Cassie.

“I still have a few years to try for an-other chance to represent at Atlantics, but this will be the only year that I will be able to qualify for the International Op-timist. Nova Scotia only represents once every four years. It will be very special for Adam and I to both be Nova Scotia representatives at this event.”

Adam’s foursome includes Brett Dorey, Jacob Rowsell and Spencer DeMone.

“Our team has gotten a lot stronger over the last year because we have been building our team chemistry,” said the 16-year-old Chester Curling Club skip.

Siblings both skipped teams to U18 championships

Chester rinks qualify for Optimist international

Keith Getson scored 18 goals in 29 regular-season games with the Charlie's Pizza South Shore Mustangs in 2013-14.

Getson named a rookie all starMustangs forward preparing for “Q” draft


Keith Getson capped his first year of major midget hock-ey with a spot on the league’s rookie all-star team last week.

“It’s fast and physical hockey, that’s for sure. One of my goals for the season was to improve my 200-foot game and by the end of the season I was getting recognition for that,” said the Charlie's Pizza South Shore Mustangs freshman.

“It feels awesome to be recognized for the hard work I put into this season.”

The Bridgewater native is currently training five days a week in preparation for being drafted in May and, hope-fully, making the jump to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League next season.

“Keith earns everything that comes his way. His hard work in the gym to be a better athlete has paid off,” said his coach, Brad Muise.

“His work ethic in practice and in game competition is hard to match. He is a driven young man who is clear about what he wants and is willing to put in the work in order to get there.”

His coach said Keith is also a mature leader on the team, despite playing the entire season as a 15 year old, and is an excellent teammate.

A former Nova Scotia minor league baseball player of

the year, in 2012-13 with the Western Hurricanes, he set major bantam records with 50 goals and 81 points in just 29 games, including a remarkable 10-point game versus Cole Harbour.

This past season with the Mustangs, the 6’ forward led all league rookies in goals per game with 18 in 29 games.

“The report on Keith from coaches and scouts is that he is a power forward that is difficult to contain because of his quick hands, powerful stride and nose for the net. His attack speed through the neutral zone and attacking lanes from the corners or off the half wall is very scary to defenders,” said Mr. Muise.

“His puck protection skills on the walls down low along with his work at both ends of the ice and battle level make him a very complete player. We moved him from his natural center position to the left wing and he showed how quick he can adapt to whatever situation without impacting his offensive power game. These experiences and roles make him more well-rounded for the next step in his hockey ambitions.”

After playing injured for much of December and Janu-ary and then finally sitting out the final five regular-season games to heal, Keith took his game to another level in the playoffs, leading the team with 14 points in 11 games.

“He came back in the playoffs healthy and fired up and dominated in many situations.”

“We need to continue to do the little things which will help us stay focused when we are playing some of the very strong teams from around Canada and the other countries.”

He said they’re all excited about the trip.

“It is a great honour to represent Nova Scotia. I have no doubt that my team-mates and I will play as well as we can and, if we do that, we will definitely get some bounces along the way.”

Cassie curls with Megan Brown, Ra-chel Crouse and Taylour Stevens.

“Our team has many strengths. The one that I feel is most important is our friendship and how well we get along on and off the ice. I couldn’t ask for three more dedicated girls to curl with,” said the 15 year old.

“This is our first big out-of-province event. The key to our success will be stay-

ing focused and having fun at the same time …. It will be an amazing opportunity to step out on the ice in our Nova Scotia jackets. It also will be great to get to play Team Japan, the United States teams and the other teams from Canada.”

Despite the success they’ve achieved, her team is young, including one girl who’s only 13 years old.

“I am a little nervous, but we will play our best and try to make Nova Scotia proud …. This will also be a chance for us to learn from some of the best teams out there.”

Cassie said she never could have reached this point in her curling career without the support of the Chester-area community and that of her mother and father.

“My family has made curling a prior-ity in our house. My dad has always been there to coach either Adam or I, and my

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will be back next yearBy LUKE KENNY

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Rumours have arisen about the future viability of the Chester Minor Hockey Association, including that it may be folding, that TASA is taking over and that Hockey Nova Scotia is forcing Ches-ter to amalgamate with South Shore.

None of these rumours are true, asso-ciation president Terry Ferguson says.

“I think there are some people in Chester minor hockey that are spread-ing rumours and trying to make things happen,” Mr. Ferguson said. “They’re not happy with the status quo and, if they could find a way to fold CMHA or amalgamate with another association, they think things will be a whole lot bet-ter for them.”

Chester does have a problem fielding enough teams and keeping teams with the same level of skills, he said.

“Whenever you get a disparity like that, it causes friction. If you get a coach that really wants to win, he’s going to play his best players and they might wind up playing more than some of the weaker who might be there just for fun.”

Some players aren’t interested in practicing three times a week and hav-ing to sit on the bench because of the disparity in skill, he added.

“They just want to go out and play hockey, whereas you have a couple A and AA calibre players who are very competitive and all they want to do is win.”

Some people want their kids to con-tinue on a path to AA or AAA and that’s

not something that Chester can offer, Mr. Ferguson said.

“If one of our kids from Chester is one of the best players in any particular division, then Bridgewater will tend to select them for their AAA team.”

If they’re not in the top two or three kids, Bridgewater tends to select their own kids, he said.

“I think we sent 12 or 13 kids over to the Atom AAA tryouts this year and all of them came back except two goal-ies. We thrashed South Shore’s Atom A team all year. It seems to me, if it were fair, we probably would have seen a couple more kids from Chester end up on that AAA team. It’s been like that forever.”

The biggest issue in hockey this year is not the future of the association, but the amount of unreasonable and vocal people in the stands, Mr. Ferguson said.

“It’s been an awful year for dealing with outbursts in the stands and people yelling at refs and yelling at kids and yelling at coaches. It’s disheartening to say the least.”

In an effort to find new ways to re-duce the small association challenges, CMHA’s executive appointed a special committee to look at how other associa-tions in the province offer hockey pro-grams. The committee hopes to find and present options to the membership at a special meeting.

Registration continues to be stable and Mr. Ferguson said he’s not worried about the future of CMHA.

“There will be hockey in Chester for a long time.”

WORLD CLASSBluenose Athletics shot putter Sarah Mitton is pictured here training at the HB Studios Sports Centre for this sum-mer’s World Junior Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

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March 25: Team Standings: Miss-A-Lots, 2,264; Big Dippers, 2,162; Thunder Cats, 2,138; Dominoes, 2,071.

L.S., Darlene Crouse, 115. L.T., Rose

Cook, 310. M.S., Arthur Veinot, 112. M.T., Arthur Veinot, 323. L.S., no mark, Darlene Crouse, 87. M.S., no mark, Wally Corkum, 90.

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Lunenburg Bowling Alley LeagueMen’s League, March 3: H.S., Floyd

Shaford, 137. H.T., Ross Shaford, 372. T.H., Skunks, 1,708.

Ladies’ League, March 14: H.S., Kim Veinotte and Valerie Feener, 120. H.T., Heather Lantz, 321.

Early Birds, March 19: H.S., Kim Veinotte, 134. H.T., Kim Veinotte, 343. H. no mark, Nancy Barkhouse, 90.

Money League, March 13: L.S., Courtney Tremere, 149. L.T., Courtney Tremere, 369. M.S., Tom Baasner, 124. M.T., Tom Baasner, 324.

Lucky Strikes, February 28: L.S., Mary Ann Corkum, 119. L.T., Courtney Tremere, 317. M.S., Henry Hirtle, 140. M.T., Mark Hubley, 347. T.T., Good Try, 1,560.

Mickey Mouse, March 16: L.S., Marie Feener, 137. L.T., Marie Feener, 380. M.S., Cory “Wow he was there” Carver, 130. M.T., Cory Carver, 372.

AYB stats: March 15: Tiny Tots: G.S., Ella Nodding, 68. G.T., Ella Nodding, 136. Peewee: G.S., Joscelyn Veinot Lohnes, 92. G.T., Summer Hoskins, 239. B.S., Logan Hoskins, 78. B.T., Logan Hoskins, 175. Bantam: G.S., Grace Lantz, 110. G.T., Grace Lantz, 297. B.S., Tyler Wellman, 93. B.T., Nathan Allen, 255. Junior: G.S., Caitlyn Doucette, 117. G.T., Mackenzie LeBlanc, 298. B.S., Ethan Ring, 107. B.T., Ethan Ring, 298. Senior: G.S., Makayla Smith, 100. G.T., Makayla Smith, 270. B.S., Mackenzie Dares, 102. B.T., Mackenzie Dares, 282.

∂ Youth Bowling, Bowl-More LanesResults for March 22:

Bumper: H.S., Austyn Mosher, 67. Peewee: H.S., Brooklyn Myra, 83. H.T., Brooklyn Myra, 211.

Bantam: H.S., Hailey Deyotte, 109; Tyler Deyotte, 97; Hunter Loughead, 95. H.D., Allison Grant, 178; Hunter Loughead, 173; Caitlin Grant, 154. H.T., Tyler Deyotte, 264; Hailey Deyotte, 258; Jacob McIsaac, 232. Junior: H.S., Riley Bollivar, 110; Colby Redmond, 106; Bailey Grant, 78. H.D., Olivia Grace Wall, 137. H.T., Riley Bollivar, 284; Colby Redmond, 261; Bailey Grant, 226. Senior: H.S., Kelsey Crouse, 94. H.T., Kelsey Crouse, 255.

Results for March 24: Bumper: H.S.,

Josee Daniels, 77; Alex Meisner, 67. H.D., Josee Daniels, 149. Peewee: H.S., Zoe Haughn, 79; Bailey Oickle, 72; Brooklyn Rafuse, 69. H.D., Zoe Haughn, 143; Ashley Hannam, 102. Bantam: H.S., Conner Benoit, 131; Terry Hannam, 81; Sara Reid, 77. H.D., Dakota Thompson, 139; Sara Reid, 138; Isabella Meisner, 89. H.T., Conner Benoit, 328; Terry Hannam, 213; Rayann Daniels, 204. Junior: H.S., Seamus Daniels, 102; Conner Ferguson, 101; Hayley Moors, 90. H.T., Seamus Daniels, 288; Conner Ferguson, 278; Hayley Moors, 261. Senior: H.S., Dylan Conrad, 101; Sydney Naugler, 98; Cody Frank, 96. H.T.; Cody Frank, 267; Dylan Conrad, 257; Sydney Naugler, 256.

JUST FOR KICKSMarli Doucette participates in the South Shore District Soccer Associa-tion’s under-10 girls soccer academy training session on March 19 at the HB Studios Sports Centre.

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ICE SHARKS HOST PROVINCIALSThe host South Shore Ice Sharks finished second at the provincial PeeWee A hockey cham-pionships from March 21 to 23. Pictured is Nick Landry.



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The Bridgewater Vikings won the boys NSSAF curling championship March 22 at Lake-shore Curling Club in Lower Sackville. From left, are Kyle Barrie, Trevor Crouse, Ben Conrad and Morgan Bishop.

The Park View Panthers won the girls NSSAF curling championship March 22 at Lakeshore Curling Club in Lower Sackville. From left, are Jenna Mosher, Megan Bustin, Cicely Smith, Brooke DeMone and coach Peter Mosher.

The Park View Panthers won the mixed NSSAF curling championship March 22 at Lake-shore Curling Club in Lower Sackville. From left, are Mary Fay, Jacob Rowsell, Ashley Fran-cis, Spencer DeMone and coach Ken Smith.

Local teams sweep curling provincials


It was a clean sweep for the South Shore at the NSSAF curling champion-ships March 20 to 22 at the Lakeshore Curling Club in Lower Sackville.

Bridgewater Junior Senior High took home the boys’ title while Park View Edu-cation Centre walked away with titles in the mixed and girls’ divisions.

It was an exciting weekend and they’re very happy to have won, Park View girls’ coach Peter Mosher said.

“The team we beat to win the cham-pionship [Halifax West], we had to face them three times. We won in the original play and it was a hard fought game. And they had to beat us twice to win,” he said.

The next game Park View lost in an extra end so they had to face them again in the final.

“It was one of those games where we felt like you were losing bad even though the score was really close,” Mr. Mosher said.

“In the sixth end, we were making this

finesse draw through a port to tie things up. The rock picked and it raised one of theirs in and gave them two. So we’re down three with only two ends to play and I think best case scenario we score two in the seventh and steal one in the eighth to force an extra end.

“As it turned out, we got our deuce in the seventh end and we played an awe-some eighth end. It was just incredible. We forced the other skip to draw against, she missed and we stole the game in the final end. It was really nice,” the coach said.

Mr. Mosher has been coaching with these girls since some of them were eight and nine years old, so he was really happy to see them come together and win.

“It was sort of like their last time playing together too, so they were really happy. It was a good weekend.”

It was nice to see Bridgewater and Park View sweep the titles, the coach said.

“They’re all friends and all curling comrades. It was nice to have us all to-gether and a local audience cheering us on.”

Zack Zinck, 2013 Baseball Nova Scotia player of the year, gets ready to swing at a pitch in a game last sum-mer. Bridgewater Baseball Association will be fielding AAA teams at all levels this year, so players like Zack will be able to compete at the highest level in their hometown.

Bridgewater baseball player taking a swing at AAABy LUKE KENNY

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Young baseball players on the South Shore will now have the ability to play at the highest level in the province.

Bridgewater Baseball Association’s high performance program, which includes 11 under, 13 under, 15 under and 18 under divisions, will have teams competing at the AAA level across the province this summer.

Bridgewater baseball is looked at as a leader in high perfor-mance, association president Dennis Woodworth said.

“It’s bringing a lot of attention to Bridgewater itself to have that kind of talent in such a small community,” he said.

Everybody that plays a sport wants to judge their own ability at the highest level, Mr. Woodworth said.

“It’s very challenging where we’re from to play baseball at that level, so we’re very fortunate to have this opportunity.”

It such a great experience for the kids and it will give them ex-posure to be selected for provincial teams, he added.

“It’s very rare you get selected for a provincial team if you’re not playing at the highest level. Because we’ve made the commit-ment to do this, we’ve given a lot of kids some great opportuni-ties.”

Bridgewater baseball will use the South Shore Ice Sharks model in hockey to bring in the top talent across the South Shore for an opportunity to play AAA baseball, Mr. Woodworth said.

“You need to have a platform or a place to compete at the high-est level, and that’s why Bridgewater is making the effort to do it.”

Players who have an interest in playing AAA baseball across the South Shore can contact Bridgewater Baseball Association via e-mail at [email protected] or [email protected].







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LUNENBURG — If resident support is any indication, Lunenburg’s community garden is going to be a hit before it even gets in the ground.

Dozens of people packed a town coun-cil meeting March 25 to applaud a pitch for a new garden on the grounds of the Lunen-burg Academy.

Michelle Engel and Andrew Maize explained the scope of the plan — a 50-by-50-foot area featuring boxed plots at three dif-ferent heights for ac-cessibility.

They hope to in-clude benches and pic-nic tables to “create a real hub for people to connect,” Mr. Maize said.

Because the site requires six hours of direct sunlight each day, along with ac-cess to water and proximity to parking, the group is asking for a location near Unity Lane.

“A community garden will strengthen community engagement with and appre-ciation of the Lunenburg Academy site,” Mr. Maize said. “We feel it’s vital for com-munities to build spaces together because people feel pride in these projects and they feel an ownership in them and it helps foster a really vibrant and resilient community.”

The project co-chairs also suggested the community garden will provide learning opportunities for people of all ages.

“We think there’s huge value in people learning about where their food comes from and having the opportunity to grow food,” Ms Engel said.

The plan is to rent the plots for $40 per season on a rotational basis.

The group’s concept in-cludes a three-phase finan-cial plan with a fundraising strategy.

If the garden needs to move in future, Mr. Maize said the site would be com-pletely reversible.

The Lunenburg Commu-nity Network is the legal and administrative home for the project, which is being organized by a steer-ing committee of eight peo-ple.

The group asked town council for three things —

written support for the concept, approval of the use of the site for five years and a commitment to work together to access water for the garden.

Several councillors expressed support for the project.

“I want to applaud you for putting so much work into what I would consider an extremely valuable use of space,” Coun-cillor Thom Barclay said. “It’s just a great concept for bringing people together.”

Council passed a motion approving the project in principle pending any issues brought forward by a staff review of the proposal.

“We think there’s huge value in people learning about where their food comes from and having the oppor-tunity to grow food.”

Michelle EngelProject co-chair

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THE PASSIONOn April 13 at 7 p.m., the senior choir of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Mahone Bay, will present “No Stone Could Hold Him,” a cantata with narration and songs about the passion of Jesus, his crucifixion and death. The cantata will also be presented at St. John’s Anglican Church, Lunenburg, on April 9 at noon as part of the Lenten Music and Meditations Series. Choir members include, from left, director - accompanist Jane Kristenson, Ran Schuey, Gale Lohnes and Wendy Keddy. Not pictured is violinist Mar-git Coltvet who will also serve as accompanist.





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By PAULA [email protected]

Taxi drivers Pete Watson and Lisa Green had just returned to Bridgewater from a 2007 whirl-wind road trip that led them across Canada. They arrived back in town with no money and no jobs. Before they left, they were working as taxi drivers, but driving their 18-year-old daughter to Vancouver so she could start college was their top priority.

“Our daughter comes first,” said Mr. Watson.In order to be free from work obligations, Mr.

Watson quit his taxi job before they left and Ms Green quit on the way back. When their daughter was safe and settled in British Columbia, they began their return to Nova Scotia.

The couple had made it as far as New Bruns-wick when their credit card was declined after putting gas in their tank. They negotiated with the gas attendant to make the payment later and headed towards home. This time they made it as far as Halifax. Luckily a friend, who happened to be in the city at the time, came through with the $20 needed to get home.

“We took everything we had to get our daugh-ter to college,” said Mr. Watson. “But we have no regrets about that.”

Now, completely broke, the unemployed taxi drivers furiously began looking for work.

“In the meantime, we thought, ‘We’ve got a car, let’s start our own cab company,’” recalled Ms Green.

They were already licenced taxi drivers in Bridgewater. They borrowed $1,000 from Ms Green’s father to purchase a taxi owner’s licence, inspect the car and buy commercial cab insur-ance. And just like that, they were in business.

It was a Friday afternoon in 2007 when Mr. Watson wired up their newly purchased roof light with the name “Reliable Cab.” That eve-ning, he parked outside a local bar waiting for his first fare.

“I got maybe three calls that night,” he laughed. “But as soon as people found out I was out there, I could have used five drivers that Sat-urday night.”

Business was on a steady incline as more and more people were getting to know that Lisa and “Uncle Pete,” now affectionately known as “Reliable Pete,” were back in the taxi business.

During the early days, the couple only passed each other in the hallway to and from work. It became clear after three months that they needed a third driver. Six months later, a fourth driver was added. Today, they have seven drivers.

Employing seven drivers, however, doesn’t mean Reliable Cab is rolling in money. Mr. Watson explained the taxi business is a difficult industry to make ends meet. Commercial insur-ance, car repairs and gas are large bills that have to be paid regularly. In order to be as efficient as possible, lo-gistics are an important aspect of the job and turn-over in clients is crucial. Even though you need a lot of fares to run a successful taxi business, Mr. Watson and Ms Green and their drivers never forget to give their clients

the individual attention and service they deserve.

To ensure the travelling public continues to call on Reliable Cab, they simply connect with their cli-ents. The drivers do the same and ensure each and every client feels comfortable and safe. Whether it’s with few laughs on the way to get groceries or a quiet ride home, the

drivers are required to be respectful and aware of the clients’ wants.

“It’s not all about the money. Granted, the bottom line is we have to make a living and pay the bills, but we’re not out to be millionaires …. As long as our drivers make enough money to pay their bills and we pay our bills … that’s good enough,” said Mr. Watson.

Just because Reliable Cab isn’t making them mil-lionaires doesn’t mean the couple can’t find ways to be generous. Recently Mr. Watson picked up a fare and, during the ride, he learned the lady was having a diffi-cult time financially while her husband was in hospital. Being a member of the local Kinsmen, he approached his fellow club members who agreed to donate money for groceries. In addition, Mr. Watson gave the lady free rides so she could visit her husband in hospital any time she wanted.

There’s also another story of a Reliable Cab driver who picked up a client so she wouldn’t be stranded in a snowstorm.

It’s that kind of generosity and dedication that has earned Reliable Cab and its drivers a good reputation. Mr. Watson and Ms Green are proud to run their busi-ness, and their lives, with generosity.

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Reliable Cab owners and drivers Pete Watson and Lisa Green went into business seven years ago because they were jobless and broke. Little did they know that bold move would result in a rewarding business that not only caters to clients’ needs, but enables them to be generous.

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Maggie Li, right, and her daughter, Sophia, of Bridge-water. Ms Li and her husband, Michael Yu, immigrated to Nova Scotia from China in 2011.

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COUNTY — The South Shore now has its own multicultural association, aiming to promote diversity and social inclusion in our communities.

“Our intention really is to be that warm social environment,” says Anne Fownes, co-chair of the South Shore Mul-ticultural Association.

The newly formed group is a part-nership between South Shore Health and Welcoming Communities. Planning began in November and the group al-ready has a board of eight people, made up of long-term residents and newcom-ers, along with upwards of 50 members.

The goal is to create a comfortable en-vironment where anyone in the commu-nity can find friendship and learn about other cultures.

Ms Fownes used to work with the Lunenburg-Queens Regional Develop-ment Agency as an immigration and settlement officer. She was helping to develop an immigration strategy for the region, one that would incorporate all parts of an immigrant’s journey, includ-ing settlement and integration.

She explained that, traditionally, many may think of employment or business start-up assistance, as well as language assistance, as some of the primary com-ponents of integration.

“But the social connection, not only for the primary applicant but for the spouse and for the children, are also a very, very important part of that process,” she says.

“If you don’t feel that you’re welcomed and fit into a community, you’re not mak-ing those connections and making those friendships — it can be very lonely.”

Particularly in rural areas, she says, if people aren’t making connections they’re more likely to leave.

“You may not find a lot of mem-bers from your own particular cultural group,” she explains, adding that many may move on to urban areas, where those larger groups exist.

Back in 2012, 87 newcomers settled in Lunenburg County and three in Queens County.

The South Shore Multicultural Asso-ciation is making social connections a priority and aims to host at least one event per month.

“These are going to be activity-based events, not a newcomer reception model,” says Ms Fownes.

The association wants to create an at-mosphere where people are doing things, meeting people and enjoying lots of food and music.

Last month, the group hosted its first

event with more than 65 people in atten-dance, enjoying foods from many differ-ent countries, along with salsa dancing and activities for kids.

“Already, as a result of that small event, we’ve had a smaller group form, sort of a play group and coffee group where moms and kids are getting together,” says Ms Fownes.

“That’s really one of our objectives … not only that we’re holding events, but people are making those networks them-selves.”

The association is also partnering with the Town of Bridgewater to host the very first multicultural festival on the South Shore, in conjunction with the Canada Day celebrations on King Street, this summer.

“It’s going to be a performance-based event. There will be music, dance, prob-ably some cultural activities and exhibits as well. A mix of professional and ama-teur performers — as many locally-based performers as we can source.”

The next event will be a bowling party at Bowl-More Lanes in Bridgewater on April 6, from 3 to 5 p.m.

The organization hopes to plan many other events including an India night — featuring Indian food, Bollywood movies and dancing — as well as beach picnic days, outside activities and skating par-ties.

“Basically, anything you do to involve yourself and your family and friends and have a healthy lifestyle,” says Ms Fownes.

“Our aim is to make it as accessible to everyone as possible.”

To learn more about the South Shore Multicultural Association visit the Face-book page at http://on.fb.me/1kcHoVS.

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Pictured here are Lisa Li and her son, John-ny, at the first potluck planned by the South Shore Multicultural Association. They immi-grated to Nova Scotia from China in 2012.

From left, Jorel Pentz, Jaime Zapa-tero, Trin Hazra and co-chair Amrita Nag are members of the newly formed South Shore Multicultural Association.

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I’m going to write about the snowy owl invasion that we had while some of these birds are still being seen in

Nova Scotia. The abundance of snowy owl sightings during this winter in the U.S. and Canada was linked directly to a spike in the lemming population. The lemming population spikes about every four years in the Arctic and last summer it rose to one of the high-est levels ever on Canada’s Bylot Island in the Nunavut territory. Snowy owl pairs flocked to that location in the spring to raise their chicks. During a study, a nest with four eggs was looked at and was found to have 70 dead lemmings placed there by the male. This is a large number, as usually two or three is normal. With such a great food source, litters of six to eight happened. Some even raised as many as 11 young. With most nests, all young fledged. The young owls were strong and fat from gorging on the lemmings and this allowed them to fly as far as 4,800 kilometres to the Atlantic coast, fanning out from New England to New York and even to Washington and Jacksonville, Florida. Some made it to the Great Lakes and several went as far south as North Carolina and Bermuda.

Bruce MacTavish in Newfoundland saw more than 75 of these owls from a single observation point and counted 206 snowy owls on a drive down a single road. By mid-December, over 300 snowy owls had been seen on the southern Avalon Peninsula. Snowy owls were also spotted far offshore on oil rigs and boats. On the downside, with most of the owls wandering from their Arctic habitat and being juveniles, they did not last long. Like most bird species, snowy owls have a 60 to 70 percent mortality rate in their first year.

Mary Nickerson has eight woodpeck-ers back. One is a dirty rusty colour, like-ly the result of resin deposits from going in and out of a hole in a tree as a winter roost. A lady phoned from Chester to let me know that a northern mockingbird is still there. Steven Hiltz spotted a merlin flitting and fluttering at the four-way stop in Lilydale. Steven also reported the

return of a common merganser to the lake by his house in Back Centre and he heard a red-winged blackbird sing-ing. While out for a walk in First South, Charlene MacDonald was pleased to see some red-winged blackbirds and she cap-tured a photo of a rusty blackbird trav-

elling with them. Charlene also has a northern cardinal pair and purple finches as regular attendees. Crystal Lohnes heard the male northern cardinal singing and back on territory along Dufferin Street in Bridgewa-ter. I’ve heard dark-eyed jun-cos singing on territory in Bridgewater and elsewhere in my travels. Migrants are starting to filter back through, and I spotted two common grackles at Front Centre and a killdeer at Back Harbour, Lunenburg.

The first report of an American wood-cock back came from a Halifax location. This bird was winnowing (diving from a great height producing a noise made by the wind going through the wings) trying to attract a mate. Across the prov-ince, Richard Stern had an immature northern shrike at Canning, as well as a glaucous gull. Jamie Simson had a flock of common grackles back at Hantsport and a number of other people have also reported their return. Keith Lowe had brant at several locations along the East-ern Shore. This is an uncommon sight-ing as they are rarely observed there. Keith also spotted a turkey vulture over Rainbow Haven. While out and about, Hans Toom located a brown thrasher that had overwintered at Duncans Cove. At Sandy Cove, nice sightings for him were common and thick-billed murres and dovekies. He also reported a Bar-row’s goldeneye there. A northern shrike and a northern mockingbird visited him at Portuguese Cove. Billy Digout saw a black vulture near the Hammonds Plains Road. Clyde Stoddart found a killdeer at Daniels Head on Cape Sable Island and he saw a single harlequin duck at Bacarro.

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If I could build any home I could dream up, it would have a few small rooms in which to cook, sleep

and wash. These spaces wouldn’t be the focal point, but they’d be necessary to keep a body healthy. My dream house would also contain one enormous library where I could keep the books I love, and read and write.

Since I don’t have a library or even a den in which to store books, I’m forced to limit the amount of books I can own. Over the weekend I was remind-ed of this limited space while spring-cleaning. I pulled a box from a closet and found it filled with genealogy and history books that couldn’t fit onto the three bookshelves I own. Once again I dreamt of that house with small rooms and one big library.

Fortunately, today’s technology al-lows us to possess thousands of books without the need for a large physical room. We need only know where to find digital copies of old books on-line, so we can read them, download them or refer to them when needed. An enor-mous library of books can be at your fingertips and take up no more room than one small book — if you store them on an external hard drive.

One site that continues to grow its digital library each day is Archive.org (https://archive.org). To find their cache of books, click on the texts link on the home page. You’ll see that this site contains 6,020,449 texts (as of this writing). Visitors can browse titles or take advantage of an advanced search engine.

When I searched with keywords “Al-exander” and “McDonald,” 34 results appeared. One of those was for the “In the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1881” document. It dealt with matters of “the estate of John R. Murray, an insolvent, and Alexander McDonald,

claimant, and James G. Foster, assign-ee of said insolvent, contestant.”

Once inside a document, the same or different keyword can be entered in the search engine specific to that file. An orange arrow will ap-pear for each occurrence. In the case of the “McDon-ald” search, the arrows highlighted a few dozen locations within the publi-cation where this surname occurred. Hovering the cur-sor over the arrow allowed me to see the text in which the name appeared, provid-ing details to help deter-mine if it was relevant or not.

Visitors can zoom in and out on the text, read the book one page at a time, view two pages at once or see many pages in thumbnail-size images. There’s also the option of viewing the pages in full screen.

Entering the keyword ‘genealogy’ into the search box produces 1,399 results, including “The Genealogy and Historical Sketch of the Stouffer Family.” Many other family-specific publications are also available. Visitors can go directly to the genealogy section (https://archive.org/details/genealogy) where they’ll find links to more than 84,000 items. This includes books, cen-sus records, historical and biographi-cal material, and parish records.

More than three million people take advantage of this site each day. The database is free for everyone to read, download and print. It can be viewed on a computer screen or in various for-mats for eReaders and tablets, such as EPUB and Kindle format.

Diane Lynn McGyver Tibert, au-thor of “Fowl Summer Nights,” is a freelance writer based in central Nova Scotia. Visit her Roots to the Past blog (https://rootstothepast.wordpress.com) to learn more about her genealogy writ-ing.

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KINESIOLOGISTPhysiotherapy Assistant and

Program Development Start Date: May 1st, 2014

On Track Physiotherapy is looking for a qualified, motivated

Kinesiologist to contribute to our sport and orthopaedic

physiotherapy clinic and HB Studios Sports Centre.

Please e-mail all applications to [email protected]

or fax to 902-530-3457 Attn. Darlene Sanford

On TrackPHYSIOTHERAPY

Mon.-Sat. 9am-5pm

Stewart Hebb’s Greenhouses

Opening Mon., April 7th

206 Conquerall Mills Rd., Hebbville

902-543-3536

Offering a large variety of annuals, perennials, & vegetable

& herb transplants.ALSO HANGING BASKETS

AT GREAT PRICES!

Happy Retirement, Bubby, all the best!from Lucy & Rae

SOUTH SHORE’S BEST

Saturday, April 5th

9 a.m. to 12 NoonLunenburg Community Centre

21D Green Street

Tables are $10 eachCall 521-8140

You never know what you’ll find at the Rotary Flea Market!

It’s time to sell items that you just don’t use anymore!!

We never met a kid whose potential we couldn’t see.

The YMCA is a safe, welcoming place where we nurture every kid to reach their full potential.

That’s at the heart of everything we do.

Full day and after school licensed childcare spaces are available at the Lunenburg County YMCA.

For more information, please call Candy Lohnes at 543-6399 or

email [email protected]

Licensed Child Care Spaces Available

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FARM MARKETIndian Garden

Located across from the Tastee Freez in Hebbville on Indian Garden Farms

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HOUSE FOR RENT!

2 Bedroom Duplex, One Level 1,240 sq. ft

Glen Allan Dr.Close to hospital/shopping, outside deck.

Fridge, stove, dishwaster, washer/dryer and

microwave included. Summer and Winter

maintenance provided. Non-smoking.

Small pets allowed. Suitable for retired or

professional clientele.$1,150 per month +heat/utilities

(heat/utilities approx. $95 - $125 per month)

Personal & credit references required.

Available end of July. Call 543-6518

Office Space for Rent in

Bridgewater197 sq. ft.

& 122 sq. ft.543-8171

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

FOR SALEDen Mart Limited

2234 Hwy. 10West NorthfieldGrocery Store &

RestaurantEnquiries:

[email protected] or 543-5755

Rhodenizer Antique Auctions

Buying Antiques & Collectibles, one item

or complete estate contents or will sell your

items on commission.Judy Rhodenizer 543-5194

QualityFirewoodCut, Split & Delivered

Serving satisfied customers for 9 years902.689.2364

We buy & sell furniture by piece or lot.

Main St. Mahone Bay624-8284

MoM’s Buy & sell

HAL JOHNSONGENERAL CONTRACTING

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G.W. Tree Removal

REMOVALTOPPING • PRUNING

60 ft. Bucket Truck

Wood ChipperFully Insured,

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Serving all of Lunenburg County

GARRY WHYNOT902-677-2038

AL-MARTax Services

One Price

$34.75 +HSTAny Income Tax Return

Registered E-Filerwith Canada Revenue

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Refunds in 7-10 days

29 years in the business

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Live-in caregiver for anelderly person availablein Bridgewater and sur-rounding areas. PhoneConnie 688-2643

Missing in Italy Crosssince March 15: Blizzard,a white, long-hair malecat with grey markingson his head and tail.Please call 530-5976

Two bedroom, newlyrenovated mini home.$575 monthly. 37 RonStreet, Bridgewater. 527-9034

Bridgewater, room andboard in private home,close to NSCC, eve-rything included. 543-1617

GREAT CANADIANDOLLAR STORE franchiseopportunities. Withstores from coast tocoast, we’ve been“Working Together forSuccess”® since 1993.Call us today 506-849-4123; www.dollarstores.com.

Chocolate brown rocker/-recliner Lazy-Boy chair,three years old, excellentcondition, $300 negotia-ble. 683-2374

DISCONNECTED HOMEPHONE? DSL or Cablehigh-speed internet.Long distance service.Bundle phone & internet.No credit or deposits.Get reconnected 1-800-600-5667 www.gotocwc.com

Full-size washingmachine, $175; full-sizedryer, $100. 634-3738

Lawn tractors and gaspowered push mowers,garden tillers, reasonablypriced. 634-3738

SAWMILLS FROM ONLY$4,897 - MAKE MONEY& SAVE MONEY withyour own bandmill - Cutlumber any dimension. Instock ready to ship. FREEInfo & DVD:www.NorwoodSawmills.-com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT

Steel Buildings/MetalBuildings 60 % OFF!20X28, 30X40, 40X62,45X90, 50X120, 60X150,80X100 sell for balanceowed! Call 1-800 457-2206 www.c rowns tee lbu i l d i ng -s.ca

Complaints of animalmistreatment should bereported to SPCA at 1-888-703-7722. For anyother concerns regardinganimals call 766-4787.

Top quality hardwood,cut, split and delivered.Ph/fax 644-2792 or 527-3418. Gilbert or Clark

Top quality fi rewood,cut, split and delivered.100% hardwood.Phone Vicki 543-6150.

Hardwood for sale.4’x4’x8’ cords, junked,split and delivered. 624-6209

Hardwood cut (in June2013), split and deliv-ered. Call after 5 p.m.624-8804

Hardwood 4x 4x 8, cutsplit and delivered. Call 685-3272 or 523-4461

Wanted to buy - woodstumpage or paymentupfront (20+ acres). Millslips provided. In thewoods business approxi-mately 35 years. Phone685-2191

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Paying highest prices forgold and silver coins,paper money, stamps,pocket watches, warmedals, scrap gold andsilver. 275-7785

FIREARMS. All typeswanted, estates, collec-tions, single items, mili-tary. We handle allpaperwork and transpor-tation. Licensed Dealer.1 . 8 6 6 . 9 6 0 . 0 0 4 5www.dollars4guns.com.

Buying pre-1970 includ-ing pre-war, sports cards,sports coins, pins, pen-nants, autographs,hockey marbles. Toys.624-6251

Console piano andbench, Sherlock-Manning, 40.5”.Excellent condition,appraised. 688-2751,519-485-4196

Skilled handyman avail-able for everything fromgeneral repairs, remod-eling and maintenance,to building custom fur-niture and cabinets. 35years experience, freeestimates. Call Larry at521-3857

Levy’s Roofi ng andCarpentry. Quality work-manship! Free esti-mates! Grant jobs. WCB/Insured. 277-1655 and277-1312

Home Maintenance:Carpentry, laminate andhardwood fl ooring,painting, minor electri-cal/ plumbing repairs.521-0649, [email protected]

Carpenter, 35+ yearsexperience. Get yourrenovations done now.Additions, decks, hard-wood/ laminate fl oors,new windows, doors.Free estimates. Call GaryMossman, 298-9046

Available for JUNKREMOVAL, brush/ treelimb disposal, light mov-ing, deliveries, etc.Chainsaw work. 543-6648

All types of sewing &alterations. Bridal &Prom. Drapes, Blinds, Slipcovers. Fabric avail-able. 25 yrs. experience.Phone 543-5678

Cookvilla seniors’ homehas a room available,also doing respite care.Call Carol 543-0308

A Pig Roast for any occa-sion, please call Mike at521-0801 for availabilityand pricing.

Stubbs Moving. Localand long distance.Ontario, Alberta, BC,return, insured, greatrates. 521-2693

Retired administrator,writer and researcherseeking challenge. Replyto: Box 3, LighthouseMedia Group, 353 YorkStreet, Bridgewater, B4V3K2.

W.L. Oickle. Footing,foundations, slabs andfl oors. 543-0056 or 521-0564

BTIW - Prep and paintingexterior/ interior, drywallrepairs. Home detailing.Brian 543-7489

Zinck’s Drywall & Taping.Over 18 yearsexperience. Qualitywork. Free estimates.527-1498

Quality child care, 17years experience inearly childhood edu-cation. Receipts,Mishelle, 530-2304

CANE’S MOVING.Professional, reliable andvery careful residentialand offi ce moving serv-ice. Local and long dis-tance. 521-8596

Will take all scrap metal.212-1545

Rafuse’s Roofi ng.Reasonable prices.Phone Paul Rafuse. 530-2361, 529-0920

For Sale: Quality HorseHay. Delivery Available,521-6096.

1951 Ferguson farm trac-tor with front mountsnow plow, real goodcondition, $3200 obo.624-6209

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We invite you to share in the

celebration of her 90th Birthday April 12, 2014,

2 to 4 p.m. in the

Springfield Baptist Church

Vestry.Best wishes only,

please

Open House for Frances Crouse

Special birthday greetings are being extended to Billy Rhodenizer who turns

80 years old on April 11. An open house in celebration of this

milestone will take place on Sunday, April 6, at St. Paul’s Lutheran

Church hall from 2 to 4 p.m. Please stop by to wish Billy a Happy Birthday.

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SUMMER TOUR GUIDE POSITION 2014St. John’s Anglican Church, Lunenburg, a National Historic Site, is currently accepting resumes for summer positions for Heritage Interpretive Summer Tour Guides. One position begins in mid-May and the others in late June. Candidates must be students re-turning to full time studies in the fall of 2014. Applicant must be outgoing, enthusiastic, team player and self starter with excellent communication skills. A keen interest in history and the ability to speak French and/or German would be an asset. Guide duties will include but not be limited to: providing tours of the church, assisting with organizing church archival materials, assisting with special events, promotion/selling retail items, maintenance of worksite and acting as an ambassador for St. John’s and the town of Lunenburg. Please submit cover letter and resume to:

St. John’s Anglican Church PO Box 238, Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0

Attn: Jane Ritcey or email: [email protected]

MUNICIPALITY OF THE DISTRICT OF CHESTEREMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTBuilding and Development Summer Student Position

The Building and Development Summer Student position is a full time summer term position that provides administrative and technical support to the Community Development Department. The Student will also provide research and administrative support to the Senior Planner and other members of the Community Development Department as required from May to August, 2014.Qualifications – must be currently enrolled in a Full Time College or University program in Planning, GIS/Civic Addressing or Office Administration. Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office Suite is required. Experience with graphic design and publishing software and/or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) would be an asset.Qualified interested individuals may obtain a complete job description by contacting the undersigned or visiting the website at www.chester.ca.Closing Date & Applications – Submit resume along with references no later than 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, 2014 to the undersigned:Pamela Myra, Municipal ClerkMunicipality of the District of Chester151 King Street, P.O. Box 369Chester NS B0J [email protected] FaxAlthough we thank all applicants, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

PROFESSIONALSales Representative

Do you work well in a team environment?Do you possess excellent communication skills?

Are you a person who strives for success?

We have a position that’s perfect for you!At Mosher Motors we’ve established a 35-year reputation of honesty, integrity and outstanding customer service - before and after the sale. As one of the fastest growing dealerships in our region, we’re adding sales professionals to help expand our market penetration and to help maintain our extremely loyal customer base.

WE OFFER• one of the best commission packages in the industry• medical plan• ongoing training

Thank you for your interest. Qualified individuals are invited to drop off their résumé in person to Robert Dye of Mosher Motors

or forward their resumé in strict confidence to:Robert Dye, Mosher Motors Ltd.

P.O. Box 219, Bridgewater, NS B4V 2W8Email: [email protected]

No phone calls pleaseEqual opportunity employer

ENERGYNOW HIRING

with industrial experience for

immediate placement on an industrial project in

$2/hr retention and $2/hr completion bonuses

14/7 shift rotation, 10 hr days, night shifts available, +$3/hr for nights. Living out allowance of

$145 per day worked and travel allowance for those who qualify

We offer paid benefits, pension plan, RRSPs.

Other Details: Pre-access A&D test and CSTS-09 required.

9744-45th Ave. Edmonton, AB T6E 5C5

Kramer Ltd, in Saskatchewan

has the following exciting

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Journeyman Mechanics

Electrician

Operations Supervisors

APPLY to [email protected]

applicants will be contacted

for an interview in your area.

BRIDGEWATER PHARMASAVEFull-time experienced

Home Healthcare Practitioner

required at busy Bridgewater Pharmacy.Please send résumés to [email protected]

Only considered candidates will be contacted.

No telephone calls please.L I V E W E L L W I T H

Rissers Social House and the Lunenburg Arms Hotel and Spa are currently accepting applications for the following positions:

• Line Cooks• Experienced Wait staff• Dishwashers• Housekeeping Attendants• Front Desk Agents• Restaurant Supervisor

Please forward your resume to:Attention: Jeff Green

[email protected]: (902) 640-4041

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May consider 3rd or 4th year apprentice.

Please forward resume toBox 2, 353 York St.,

Bridgewater B4V 3K2

SMITH: Sean and Cathy (Wamboldt) Smith, Kentville, would like to announce the arrival of a son, Trent Sean Smith, born March 7, 2014 at Valley Regional, weighing 9 lb, 2 oz. Trent is well loved by his proud brother, Shay and sister, Cate. Welcome to the fam-ily, Trent!

Luke AulenbackOn April 6

our little man willbe 9 years old

already.Love, Grandpa

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FINANCE CLERK SUMMER TERMThe Town of Lunenburg requires a summer term Finance Clerk for Finance office cashier, secretarial and clerical duties. Customer service experience, proficiency in handling customer payments, Grade 12 equivalency and NSCC or related accounting and bookkeeping training, Word Perfect, MS Word, MS Excel and computerized accounting software are required. Please submit your résumé and two employment reference letters by April 25 to Elana Wentzell, Finance and Accounting Director, Town of Lunenburg, PO Box 129, Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0, (902) 634-4416 fax/ [email protected]

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Robert Charles “Bob” CuttellIt is with great sadness that the family of Robert Charles “Bob” Cuttell, age 79, of Lunenburg, announces his passing on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at the South Shore Regional Hospital, Bridgewater. Born in Toronto, Bob was the son of John Proctor (Jack) Cuttell and Gladys Pruden Cuttell. His is survived by his wife, formerly Shirley Gaulton; son Michael and his family, Olga (wife), Rodion (Grandson), and Alisa (Granddaughter); brother Donald; and Shirley’s extended family (to whom he was a brother). Bob committed all his working life to the administration and communications departments of the IBM Company, stationed in both Toronto and Winnipeg. Bob was a Boy Scout leader for six years; served as the President of his district home-owners association (Mississauga, Ont.); served on the Lunenburg Development Community Board; and was a member of both the Lunenburg Curling and Golf clubs. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Dana L. Sweeny Funeral Home, 11213 Hwy. 3, Lunenburg, where a celebration of Bob’s life will be held on Friday, April 4, at 11 a.m. Internment will be at Hillcrest Cemetery, Lunenburg. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Lung Association of Nova Scotia or to a charity, or church, of your choosing. http://www.sweenyfuneralhome.ca.

Oswald Moil FaulkenhamFAULKENHAM, Oswald Moil, 1932-2014. It is with heavy hearts, the family of Oswald Moil Faulkenham, 81, of Middle Cornwall, announces his passing on Saturday, March 22, 2014, at the South Shore Regional Hospital, Bridgewater. Born in Upper Cornwall, he was the son of Irene (Naas) Faulkenham, Dykeland Home, Windsor, and the late Clyde Faulkenham. Oswald worked as a carpenter most of his life, and was a member of Local ‘83 Carpenters Union. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, gardening, as well as the daily trips he took

across his fields on his three-wheeler. Oswald was a loving, hardworking and car-ing man, who loved to share his knowledge with others, especially his grandchil-dren. He is survived by his loving wife, Hope Pauline (Nauss); children, Vernon (Glenda), Veronica (Dean Gaul), Sherman (Krista), all of Middle Cornwall; Sharon (Nathan) Moynan, Union Square. He will be greatly missed by his nine grandchil-dren and three great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his younger brother, Vernon (Carol) Faulkenham, Kentville. He was predeceased by his older brother, Elwood (Shirley) Faulkenham (Halifax). The family would like to thank Dr. Heather Robertson, as well as the nurses and staff of South Shore Regional Hospital; Victorian Order of Nurses Palliative Care (Louise Blackie); Lunenburg County Home Support, and Jim, from Family First Medical, New Minas. Thanks also to friends and neighbours for their loving sup-port and to the Mahone Funeral Home. A time of visiting and remembering of Oswalds’ life was held 7 - 9 p.m., Monday, March 31, 2014, at Mahone Funeral Home, Mahone Bay. Donations may be made to Victorian Order of Nurses Palliative Care, South Shore Regional Hospital or to a charity of your choice. Arrangements entrusted to the care of Mahone Funeral Home, PO Box 200, 32 Parish St., Mahone Bay, NS B0J 2E0 (902) 624-8241. Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting: http://www.mahonefuneral.ca

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Doris Beatrice Louise “Sis” Rafuse

RAFUSE, Doris Beatrice Louise “Sis” - Age 85, of Martin’s Point, passed away peacefully in Fishermen’s Memorial Hospital on February 20, 2014, with family at her bedside after a courageous five year journey with cancer. She was a 50 year mem-ber of the Canadian Cancer Society having served as President of the Mahone Bay Unit for a number of years. She was a daughter of the late Beatrice and Newton Mosher. She is survived by her only daughter, Louise (Gerald) Bremner Sr., Chester; grand-son, Gerald Jr., Hubbards; and his

wife Paula; and only great-grandson, Brandon “Angel,” the joy of her life. She is also survived by brother, Percy (Alice) Mosher, Indian Point; sisters, Nora MacLean, Hubbards; Una Beaver, Halifax; sister-in-law, Noreen Mosher, Western Shore; several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Granville; brothers, Maxwell (Second World War), George and sister, Jean Cook. A graveside service was held on February 24 in the Pentecostal Cemetery, Western Shore, Rev. Peter Rafuse officiating. Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or charity of your choice. Arrangements were under the direction of Davis Funeral Home.

CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks to everyone for the memorial donations, flowers, cards, phone calls, visits and food. Special thanks to the Doctors and Nurses of FMH, VRH, SSRH and EHS for their excellent care, Peter and Ellen Gillis of Davis Funeral Home for their guidance and Rev. Peter Rafuse for his kind words and support. Your thoughtfulness and compassion will never be forgotten.

Sincerely, Louise, Gerald Sr., Gerald Jr., Paula and Brandon

Beatrice Lorena FancyIt is with great sadness that the fam-ily of Beatrice Lorena Fancy, 85, announce her passing on March 19, 2014, at the South Shore Regional Hospital, Bridgewater NS. Born in Oakhill, Lunenburg County, NS, on May 22, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Amy (Feener) Rodenhiser. Mom is survived by her five children, Janette (Earl-deceased) Croft, Kitchener ON; Barbara (James) Stanley, Midland, NB; Michael (Nikki) Croft, Kingston, NS; Jerome Croft, Bridgewater, NS; John Fancy, Italy Cross, NS. Sisters, Marjorie (Charles)

Welton, Kingston, NS; Florence (George-deceased) Oickle, Aubendale, NS. Grandchildren, Jerry Nowe, Stettler, Alberta; Barb (Rick) Pyne, Waterloo, ON; Brent Croft, Huntington, QC; Trevor Croft, Waterloo, ON; Derek (Kim) Stanley, Millstream, NB; Devin Stanley, Calgary, AB; Kim Stanley, Roseville, CA; Dean Stanley, Bonnyville, AB; Sarah Croft, Kentville, NS; Sherri Croft, Kentville, NS; Jason (Holly) Croft, Bridgewater, NS; Trevor Croft, Bridgewater, NS; Nathan Croft, Bridgewater, NS. 16 Great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Mom was predeceased by her husband, Garnett Fancy; brothers, Sherman, Gary, Lincoln, Leonard; and sisters, Kathleen and Phyllis; also by her son-in-law, Earl Croft; and brother-in-law, George Oickle. Mom worked at Lahave Manor for many years before retiring. She was a nursing assistant and always did the night shift. She had many interests, playing scrabble and she hated to lose, doing puzzles, the harder the better, knitting and loved her flower gardens. She loved her dogs, BC and Ruby, the rottweilers, they were never far from her side. Mom looked forward to all our visits those that were near and those that lived far away. The body rested at R.A. Corkum Funeral Home before cremation, by her request, there was no service. Donations in memory of Mom can be made to the donor’s choice. The family of the late Beatrice L Fancy wishes to express sincere thanks and appreciation to the many friends and family who sent cards, food, memorials and phone calls. Your kindness and thoughtfulness was greatly appreciated and will always be remembered.

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We, the family of thelate Carleton Meisnerwould like to extend ourthanks to all whobrought food to ourhome, the visits and themany phone calls and e-mails. Your kindness andthoughtfulness is greatlyappreciated. Thank youfor all of the sympathycards. There were toomany to answer indi-vidually. A very specialthanks to our goodfriends, Sonny andGlenda Powers for beingthere at Carleton’s bed-side as he passed away.Thank you to KristaCorkum for all your helpwith the funeral arrange-ments. Also Jeff andCindy Cross for thebeautiful memorial videoshown during the serv-ice. Many thanks to allthat made food andserved during the recep-tion. Carleton wouldhave been happy to seeall that attended thefuneral. A very specialthanks to all the nurseson the 4th fl oor at theSouth Shore RegionalHospital. The care yougave Carleton made iteasier on us during a dif-fi cult time. Loved and forevermissed by Betty, Gregoryand family.

We, the family of thelate Joan Arlene Smith,wish to express our sin-cere thanks to those whogave assistance duringthe time of her illness.Thank you to Dr. K.J.Gandhi, Dr. HeatherRobertson, Dr. DavidAbriel and the staff ofthe Chemotherapy Unitat the South ShoreRegional Hospital. Alsoto Dr. Bruce Colwell andthe staff at the NovaScotia Cancer Centre,Halifax; LunenburgCounty Home Support,Lunenburg County VON,C.F. Sweeny FuneralHome and Rev. Willis Ott.Your care and compas-sion will never be forgot-ten. Many thanks tothose who called, visited,brought food to thehome and gave memo-rial donations. Specialthanks to pallbearers,Arch Parsons, RichardJamieson, Charlie Baker,Brian Reese, Ozzie Wileand Richard Penney. Ithas been one year sincethe passing of our wifeand mother, and at thistime would like to thankthe many families,friends, co-workers andemployers who havebeen so supportive dur-ing this time. Your kind-ness and patience willalways be remembered.Charles, Melanie, Darren.

WEAVER: In loving mem-ory of a dear husband,father and grandfather,Capt. Rockwell Weaver,who passed away April4, 2013.Gone is the face weloved so dearSilent is the voice weloved to hear, Too far away for sight orspeechBut not too far forthought to reach.Sweet to remember himwho once was here,And who, though absent,is just as dear. Forever loved, wifeRose, children andgrandchildren.

SLAUENWHITE: In lovingmemory of our dearmother, grandmotherand great-grandmother,Geraldine, who passedaway April 5, 2011.They say it’s a beautifuljourneyFrom the old world tothe new,Someday we’ll make thatjourneyWhich will lead usstraight to you.And when we reach thatgardenIn which there is nopain,We’ll put our armsaround youAnd never part again. Lovingly rememberedand sadly missed by,Arlene (Wilfred), Carolyn(Lawrence), Lloyd(Darlene), Keith (Loretta)and families.

MURPHY: In memory ofour mother, Jean, whopassed away April 2,2005.To some you may be for-gottenTo others part of thepast,To us who loved and lostyouYour memory will alwayslast. Love, your girls,Marlene, Ronda andTrudy.

JOUDREY: In lovingmemory of Calvin, whopassed away April 6,2002.Deep in our hearts Your memory is kept,We think of you oftenAnd speak of you still,You have not been for-gottenAnd you never will. Sadly missed by brother,Linden and family.

ERNST: In memory offather, Kenneth C. Ernst,who passed away April5, 1977.There is not a day thatpassesThat we do not think ofyou,You always loved us withall your heartAnd never put yourselffi rst.You were an example ofwhat a person should be,And we strive to neverdishonour your memoryby being anything less. Missed by daughter,Jennie; grandson,Lorraine.

COLP, Rona: In memoryof Rona Colp, whopassed away April 1,1992. Every day in some smallwayMemories of you comeour way,Though absent, you arealways nearStill missed, loved andalways dear. Sadly missed by Marsha,Daphney, Michael andfamilies.

Robert Charles “Bob”Cuttell - 79, Lunenburg,died March 27, 2014, atSouth Shore RegionalHospital, Bridgewater.Funeral arrangementsare under the directionof Dana L. SweenyFuneral Home,Lunenburg.Beatrice Lorena Fancy- 85, Italy Cross, diedMarch 19, 2014, atSouth Shore RegionalHospital, Bridgewater.Funeral arrangementsunder the direction ofR.A. Corkum FuneralHome, Wileville.Beatrice Ruth Pernette- 80, Bridgewater, for-merly of West LaHave,died March 21, 2014, atRyan Hall, Bridgewater.Funeral arrangementsunder the direction ofR.A. Corkum FuneralHome, Wileville.

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Evening10:00 (CH) “Sydney White”

(Comedy,2007) Amanda Bynes, Sara Paxton. A former sorority girl moves in with social outcasts and tries to change campus life. (PG)

1:00 (VIS) “Rich in Love” (Drama,1993) Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh. A young high school student’s life is upended when her mother abandons the family. (14+)

2:30 (CH) “The Outlaw” (Western,1943) Jane Russell, Walter Huston. Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid fight over possession of a stallion and a sultry girl. (G)

THURSDAY 04/03

Evening9:00 (CH) “One True Thing”

(Drama,1998) Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger. A career woman reassesses her parents’ lives while caring for her cancer-stricken mother. (PG)(SHOW) “Solar Attack” (Sci-Fi,2005) Mark Dacascos, Louis Gossett Jr.. Scientists race against time to save humanity when a solar mass threatens Earth. (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. (APTN) “45 RPM” (Drama, 2009) Jordan Gavaris, Mackenzie Porter. Fluke weather allows a teen from the 1960’s to receive a radio broadcast from NYC. (14+)(VIS) “Columbo: A Stitch in Crime” (Mystery,1973) Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy. A brilliant heart surgeon quietly arranges for his rival’s death on the operating table. (PG)

1:00 (VIS) “Columbo: A Stitch in Crime” (Mystery,1973) Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy. A brilliant heart surgeon quietly arranges for his rival’s death on the operating table. (PG)

2:00 (APTN) “45 RPM” (Drama, 2009) Jordan Gavaris, Mackenzie Porter. Fluke weather allows a teen from the 1960’s to receive a radio broadcast from NYC. (14+)

2:30 (CH) “Fists of Bruce Lee” (Martial Arts,1978) Bruce Lee, Lieh Lo. Li plays an underground Interpol agent stationed in Hong Kong. (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.

FRIDAY 04/04

Evening8:00 (SHOW) “Collision Earth”

(Sci-Fi,2012) Kirk Acevedo,

Diane Farr. A solar flare knocks Mercury out of its orbit and onto a collision course with Earth. (14+)

9:00 (FAM) “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl” (Adventure,2005) Taylor Lautner, Taylor Dooley. An ordinary boy’s superhero friends take him to Planet Drool to defeat a villain.

10:00 (TOON) “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” (Fantasy,2003) Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah. Seven fantasy and sci-fi characters team up to prevent a madman from starting a war. (14+)

(WTN) “The Next Three Days” (Drama,2010) Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks. A man decides to break his wife out of jail when he can’t find the evidence to free her. (14+)

(SPACE) “Bulletproof Monk” (Action,2003) Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott. A Tibetan monk becomes a mentor to a street kid, whom he teaches to protect a scroll. (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) “Death Race” (Action,2008) Jason Statham, Joan Allen. A framed convict agrees to enter a dangerous life-or-death race to win his freedom. (18+)

(FAM) “Avalon High” (Children,2010) Brittany Robertson, Molly C. Quinn. A girl is transferred to a new school and discovers her school is a modern day Camelot. (G)

1:00 (TOON) “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” (Fantasy,2003) Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah. Seven fantasy and sci-fi characters team up to prevent a madman from starting a war. (14+)

(SHOW) “Rush Hour 2” (Action,2001) Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker. Two police officers uncover a counterfeiting ring in Hong Kong and try to bring it down. (14+)

(VIS) “Follow That Dream” (Musical,1961) Elvis Presley, Anne Helm. An innocent country boy’s family moves to the Florida Coast to set up a homestead.

2:30 (SPACE) “Bulletproof Monk” (Action,2003) Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott. A Tibetan monk becomes a mentor to a street kid, whom he teaches to protect a scroll. (PG)

SATURDAY 04/05

Evening5:00 (ASN) “Terry” (True

Story,2005) Shawn Ashmore, Ryan McDonald. Recounts Terry Fox’s unprecedented and heroic run across Canada on an artificial leg.

(WTN) “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (Comedy,1997)

Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney. A woman tries to break up her best friend’s wedding so she can marry him herself. (14+)

(BRAVO) “Groundhog Day” (Comedy,1993) Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell. A man gets trapped in a time warp where he relives the same day over and over again.

(TBS) “Resident Evil” (Action,2002) Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez. The leaders of a commando team break into a secret laboratory where a deadly virus looms. (18+)

5:30 (A&E) “Bad Boys” (Action,1995) Will Smith, Martin Lawrence. Two detectives must switch their identities on an important murder and drug case. (18+)7:00 (SHOW) “Fire Serpent” (Thriller,2007) Robert Beltran, Nicholas Brendon. A group of alien creatures are born from the sun and attempt to destroy planet Earth. (PG)

7:30 (WTN) “The In-Laws” (Comedy,2003) Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks. Mismatched fathers-in-law get embroiled in perilous adventures on the eve of the wedding. (14+)

7:45 (SPACE) “Bulletproof Monk” (Action,2003) Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott. A Tibetan monk becomes a mentor to a street kid, whom he teaches to protect a scroll. (PG)

8:00 (TOON) “Rio” (Animated, 2011) Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway. When a domesticated parrot meets the bird of his dreams, they take off to Rio de Janeiro.

9:00 (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+)

(SHOW) “Malibu Shark Attack” (Thriller,2009) Renee Bowen, Remi Broadway. Prehistoric goblin sharks prey on the citizens of Malibu when a Tsunami floods the city. (14+)

10:00 (TOON) “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (Fantasy,2002) Voices of Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan. A fellowship created to destroy a ring of power is fractured, putting the quest at risk. (14+)

(WTN) “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+)

(LIFE) “Bad Teacher” (Comedy,2011) Cameron Diaz, Jason Segal. An unconventional educator teaches her class and herself a unique type of lesson.

(TBS) “Stuck on You” (Comedy,2003) Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear. Conjoined twins leave their jobs behind and set out to make it big in Hollywood.

11:00 (SHOW) “The Blind Side” (Sport,2009) Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw. An

affluent family takes in a homeless teenager who becomes a star football player. (14+)

(FAM) “Read it and Weep” (Comedy,2006) Kay Panabaker, Marquise Brown. A girl accidentally turns her personal journal in as her homework assignment. (G)

(SPACE) “The A-Team” (Action,2010) Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper. Veterans try to clear their names when the military suspects them of committing a crime. (14+)

12:00 (LIFE) “Bad Teacher” (Comedy,2011) Cameron Diaz, Jason Segal. An unconventional educator teaches her class and herself a unique type of lesson.

12:05 (ATV) “Major League” (Comedy,1989) Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger. A group of misfits are picked to form a baseball team that manages to surprise everyone. (PG)

12:15 (BRAVO) “Boss” (Action,2013) Akshay Kumar, Shiv Pandit. (PG)

1:00 (WTN) “The In-Laws” (Comedy,2003) Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks. Mismatched fathers-in-law get embroiled in perilous adventures on the eve of the wedding. (14+)

(COM) “Extract” (Comedy,2009) Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis. The owner of an extract company must deal with his cheating wife and scamming employees. (18+)

(OWN) “Pride & Prejudice” (Drama,2005) Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFayden. A British upper class family seeks suitable mates for their five daughters. (14+)

(STAR) “Morning Glory” (Comedy/Drama,2010) Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford. A television producer tries to revive a struggling morning show whose hosts always argue. (14+)

1:30 (BRAVO) “Best Men” (Comedy,1997) Dean Cain, Andy Dick. A groom is delayed on the way to his wedding when his best man decides to rob a bank. (18+)

(SPACE) “The Punisher” (Action,2004) Thomas Jane, John Travolta. A special agent becomes a vigilante after a ruthless assassin murders his family. (18+)

2:00 (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+)

(SHOW) “Something Borrowed” (Comedy/Drama,2011) Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson. A single woman falls in the love with her best friend’s fiancé. (PG)

(TBS) “Just Married” (Comedy,2003) Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy. Two people with seemingly nothing in common fall in love and decide to get married. (14+)

SUNDAY 04/06

Evening4:30 (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)

(BRAVO) “You’ve Got Mail” (Romance,1998) Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks. Rival bookstore owners are brought together after e-mailing anonymously over the Internet. (PG)

(SPACE) “The A-Team” (Action,2010) Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper. Veterans try to clear their names when the military suspects them of committing a crime. (14+)

5:00 (CBC) “Prom” (Comedy/Drama,2011) Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell. A group of high school students prepare for their prom. (PG)

(WTN) “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+)

(TBS) “The Messengers” (Horror,2007) Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller. A family moves to a country farm only to find their new home harbours dark secrets. (14+)

6:00 (LIFE) “Maid in Manhattan” (Comedy, 2002) Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes. A senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid who is posing as a Manhattan socialite. (14+)

7:00 (SHOW) “Happy Face Killer” (Drama,2014) David Arquette, Gloria Reuben. A truck driver travels across country killing many women, leaving confessions with each. (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)

(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.

(STAR) “Morning Glory” (Comedy/Drama,2010) Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford. A television producer tries to revive a struggling morning show whose hosts always argue. (14+)

10:00 (WTN) “Dolphin Tale” (Family,2011) Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd. A young boy and a dolphin with a prosthetic tail form a special friendship. (G)

(BRAVO) “Notting Hill” (Romance,1999) Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts. The press tests the relationship between a Hollywood star and a London shopkeeper.

(TBS) “Collateral” (Thriller,2004) Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx. A contract killer hijacks a taxicab on the night he is supposed to kill five people. (18+)

11:00 (FAM) “Life Is Ruff” (Family,2005) Kyle Massey, Kay Panabaker. Calvin Wheeler, a 13-year-old slacker, adopts a dog so that he can win a dog show. (G)

12:45 (BRAVO) “You’ve Got Mail” (Romance,1998) Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks. Rival bookstore owners are brought together after e-mailing anonymously over the Internet. (PG)

1:00 (WTN) “Dolphin Tale” (Family,2011) Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd. A young boy and a dolphin with a prosthetic tail form a special friendship. (G)

(COM) “Muppets Take Manhattan” (Family,1984) The Muppets hit the streets of Manhattan to find some-one to produce their show.

2:30 (TBS) “The Italian Job” (Action,2003) Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron. Thieves plan the heist of their lives by creating the largest traffic jam in L.A. history. (14+)

MONDAY 04/07

Evening9:00 (SHOW) “Earth’s Final

Hours” (Sci-Fi,2011) Hamza Adam, Julia Benson. A group of government agents must find a lost satellite network to save the planet. (PG)

10:00 (CH) “Swimming With Sharks” (Comedy/Drama,1995) Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley. An assistant snaps and seeks revenge against his boss, a Hollywood movie producer.

1:00 (VIS) “Cast a Giant Shadow” (History,1966) Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas. An American officer is recruited to organize Israeli forces in time to ward off invasion.

2:30 (CH) “Abilene Town” (Western,1946) Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak. A patient sheriff tries to straighten out a homestead conflict after the Civil War. (G)

TUESDAY 04/08

Evening9:00 (SHOW) “Happy Face

Killer” (Drama,2014) David Arquette, Gloria Reuben. A truck driver travels across country killing many women, leaving confessions with each. (14+)

10:00 (VIS) “Varian’s War” (War,2000) William Hurt, Howard Ryshpan. Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from the Nazis during the Second World War. (PG)

1:00 (VIS) “A Bridge Too Far” (War,1977) Dirk Bogarde, James Caan. An Allied operation must strategically capture important Dutch bridges behind enemy lines.

2:30 (CH) “The Little Shop of Horrors” (Horror,1960) Jackie Joseph, Jonathan Haze. A florist cultivates a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. (PG)

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Religion DirectoryServices for April 6, 2014

Celebrating 150 years ~ 1864 - 2014Worship Services - Sundays 11 a.m.

Bible Study - Tuesday 3 pm (Sept. to June)

Choir Practice - Thursday 6:30 pm (Sept. to June)

St. John'S EvangElical luthEran church

Pastor Stephen Kristenson

89 Edgewater Street, Mahone Bay624-9660

www.stjohnsmahonebay.ca

“A worshiping, loving & welcoming community,

joyfully sharing God’s gifts”

All are welcome to come and worship. Wheelchair Accessible.

West Side United Church - Pentzof The LaHave New Dublin Pastoral Charge

2702 Highway 331, Pentz B0R 1G0Office 688-2926; Minister’s Residence: 688-1580

email: [email protected] www.lahavenewdublin.org

SUNDAY, APRIL 65th Sunday of Lent

10:30 am - Worship and Sunday School Thursday Luncheon

April 10th – 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH78 Alexandra Avenue

Bridgewater, B4V 1H1

Parish Office: 543-3440; [email protected]

Sunday Services8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist BCP service 10:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist BAS or BCP

MUNICIPALLY REGISTERED AS A HERITAGE PROPERTY

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Old Town Lunenburg

Team Ministry with

The Rev. Dr. Laurence and Marion Mawhinney

Fifth Sunday in Lent, April 6, 201411:00 a.m. Morning Worship

Sunday School meets at the same time

Sermon Topic: “If Only” ...The sting of Regret!

Visitors are welcome at the little Church around the corner.

EMMANUEL PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE

Hirtle Rd., MiddlewoodPastor: Rev. Fred Carr 354-4828

2:30 p.m. WorshipCALVARY TEMPLE (P.A.O.C.)

510 Main St., Mahone Bay 624-8253

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Guest Speaker - Kevin Williams

7 pm Hymn Sing - Johnny Power & Karen Williams

ALL WELCOME!

Zion Evangelical Lutheran ChurchCorner of Cornwallis and Fox Street, Lunenburg

Rev. Willis Ott, Interim PastorSUNDAY, APRIL 6 – LENT V

9:45 am - SCS11:00 - Regular Service

Tuesday - Quilters, 9:00 amLenten Café - Wednesday, 11 am

Mid Week Lenten Service - 7:00 pm

Canada’s Oldest Lutheran Congregation - Celebrating 241 Years!

~ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE ~ WE WELCOME YOU ~

ANGLICAN PARISHES OF PETITE RIVIERE & NEW DUBLINE-mail: [email protected] Phone: (902) 634-8589 www.prnd.ca

Sunday, April 6

Passion Sunday - Rev. Oliver Osmond

9:00 a.m. St. Peter’s, West LaHave Holy Communion

11:00 a.m. St. Michael’s, Petite Riviere Holy CommunionAll services according to the Book of Common Prayer

"O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness"

CENTRAL UNITED Lunenburg

136 Cumberland St.Reverend

Grace Caines-Corkum634-4035

10:30 amSunday School During Service

MAHONE BAY 101 Edgewater St.

Reverend Ruth Brown624-9287

Trinity United 10:50 am

St. Paul’s, Blue Rocks

9:30 am

The United Church of Canada

Bridgewater United ChurchCorner of Hillcrest & Dominion Sts.

www.bridgewaterunited.ca

Minister: Rev. Eleanor L. Scarlett Organist and Choir Director: Wendy FraserChurch Office open weekday mornings, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm

SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2014 LENT V

11:00 Worship and Sunday School

St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church25 Phoenix Street, Bridgewater, 543-4106

[email protected]

SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2014 Lent 5

8:45 a.m. Celebration & Praise (Communion) 8:45 a.m. Sunday School

10:00 a.m. COFFEE HOUSE (All are welcome)11:00 a.m. Worship (Radio Broadcast)3:00 p.m. HC Service @ Hillside Pines

Pastor Paul Jensen – Organist: David G. Zwicker

Wednesday, April 2

10 am/7 pm Bible Study;

1:00 pm Adult Choir; 5:30 pm Community Café

“May the Peace of Christ Jesus be with you today and always”

Archdeacon Michael H. Mitchell, Parish Office 634-4994 / www.stjohnslunenburg.org

ST. JOHNÕ S ANGLICAN CHURCHLUNENBURG

HERITAGE, FAITH, VISION SINCE 1753

Sunday, April 6: 5th Sunday in LentHoly Eucharist 8:30 amHoly Eucharist 10:30 am

Sunday School Classes 10:30 am Parish Hall

Saturday, April 5: St. Matthew Passion 4:00 pm KingÕ s College Choir

Holy Eucharist every Wednesday at 10:00 amMusic & Meditation Wednesdays at Noon during Lent

Seminar focuses on restorative practices

COUNTY — Harbour House is hosting a community seminar on restorative prac-tices called Yes We Care.

With funding from Justice Canada for Victims Week, the event will be held on April 10 and 11 at Bridgewater fire hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. Featured speakers are Dale McFee and Daniel Gra-ham.

Mr. McFee is deputy minister of cor-rections and policing for Saskatchewan. He is known across North America for his leadership in adopting and promoting a “community hub” model for policing and community health and safety.

The hub model goes beyond policing to include all stakeholders in a community to identify high-risk situations, then come together to find solutions and supports, and modify systems to become more re-sponsive to the needs present in the com-munity.

Mr. Graham has a long record as cham-pion for social justice. He is Nova Scotia’s chief negotiator in the Made in Nova Sco-

tia Process – the comprehensive rights rec-onciliation process among the Mi’kmaq, the province and the federal government. He was also founding chair of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice program.

During these two days, we will be ex-ploring restorative practices — what they are, why would we want them here in Lunenburg County, what are the benefits to all citizens, and what might restorative practices look like in our community.

There will be a panel presentation by service providers on the South Shore who have adopted restorative approaches in their organizations and other speakers with perspectives from their own experi-ences. On Friday, we will take time to discuss the ideas that have been presented and begin to dream about how we might take steps to become a safer, healthier and more compassionate community.

For more information, or to register for this event, please phone Harbour House at 543.3665. Seating is limited. Registration is required.

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LENTEN SOUP LUNCHEONSA group of five Bridgewater churches are taking turns hosting charity Lenten soup luncheons at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church on Thursdays through April 17. Pictured working in the kitchen during the recent St. Paul’s Lutheran Church luncheon are, from left: Nancy Sarty, Victoria Rhodenizer, Alice Rhodenizer, Elaine Daniels and Joanne Meisner.


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