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Health authority honours volunteers
A room full of Colchester-East Hants Health Authority volunteers were recently honoured during a week that aims to celebrate volunteers across the county. The volunteers were the guests at a special volunteer tea hosted at the Best Western Glengarry in Truro. “This year’s Volunteer Week theme is, ‘Volunteers cast a beautiful shadow,’” said Wendy Mosher, Volunteer Resources Manager. “I thought that was a very fitting theme for our volunteers with the health authority. Their commitment over the past year has been outstanding. Each and every one of them has gone above and beyond.” While the health authority is thankful for…
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Home show has record attendance
Records are made to be broken and during this year’s Colchester Home Show, that happened all three days. “It was a record attendance for us,” said Scott Sprague of Master Promotions. “Our numbers just about doubled over last year on the Friday and were more than double on Saturday and Sunday. We’re extremely pleased with that.” The annual Colchester Home Show is put on by Master Promotions in partnership with the Truro and Colchester Chamber of Commerce. This marked the first year it was held at the Rath-Eastlink Community Centre. The last 21 years, it’s been held at the Colchester…
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Friends of the Garden preparing for annual plant sale at Dal campus
It’s Wednesday morning, and the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus bustles with activity as members of the “Friends of the Garden” gear up with their tools of the trade - dandelion-diggers, clippers, and kneepads - and head for that little-known gem, the rock garden, just as they have been doing every Wednesday morning for more than a decade.The “Friends” are all volunteers, mostly retired individuals, whose interests lie in plants and gardens in general, rock gardening in particular.Back in 2002, a grassy slope on the campus of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College was transformed into an area encompassing tons of pink granite…
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Does Molly find the Oak Island Treasure?
TRURO: To find out, come to St. Andrew’s United Church where the Maritime Marionettes will be putting on two shows of “Molly and the Oak Island Treasure” at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 7 and 2 p.m., on Saturday, June 8.Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the Clay Cafe, in the St. Andrew’s church office between 9 a.m. and noon Monday to Friday, and at the door.Darryll Taylor wrote the story about Molly and the Oak Island Treasure and combines local folklore with fantasy in this musical play. Heather, Taylor’s partner in the Maritime Marionettes, developed an interest…
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Anti-bullying message received loud and clear during Credit Union AGM
The message was clear as Community Credit Union hosted its annual general meeting – it’s time to put a stop to bullying.Held at the Best Western Glengarry, the room was a sea of pink as the majority of Community Credit Union members who attended the AGM wore pink shirts in support of the organization’s efforts to take a stand against bullying.Right from the very beginning, Darrell Kuhn, the organization’s CEO said this year’s AGM had a different feel to it because of the anti-bullying theme. That’s because in addition to conducting normal business, two donations of $2,500 were made to…
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Literacy Nova Scotia ensures everyone has a chance to learn
By Heather Laura Clarke New Member Profile Walking along the street, you could pass by someone and never realize they struggle with literacy. Literacy Nova Scotia Executive Director Jayne Hunter says four in 10 adults in Nova Scotia have real challenges with literacy.“Years ago, some people left school in Grade 10 because that was all the education they needed, they could work hard and make a good living. Over time, job requirements have changed and workers need to improve their skills,” says Hunter. “We’re seeing a lot more young people who didn’t do well in traditional school enrolling in adult…
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Chamber upset with federal changes to foreign worker rules
TRURO - The Truro and Colchester Chamber of Commerce says changes announced by the federal government to the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program will mean more red tape and additional costs for small businesses in Colchester and neighbouring counties. “The TFW program is meant to fill labour shortages in the market,” says Chamber Vice President Stephanie Jones. “For example, there are minimum wage jobs in agriculture, or jobs requiring late night or overnight hours that many Canadians are unable to, or not willing to work. For many employers, the TFW program is the only way to fill these jobs.”Before the…
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Make life easier with Party Time Rentals
By Heather Laura Clarke New Member Profile Connie Baird has two sons, so she’s never gotten to be the “Mother of the Bride.” But now she gets the fun of helping hundreds of brides pick out linens, tablescapes, and decor -- all as part of her job as the owner of Party Time Rentals.Baird started her business two years ago, after realizing that Truro lacked a service to rent items for special events.“When my son got married, I had to keep going to New Glasgow to get everything we needed,” says Baird. “I knew there was nothing like this in…
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Solidarity and tenacity are our only choices
By Mike Michaud - Truro and Colchester Chamber of Commerce President The weather is not the only thing improving in Colchester County; so is the business climate in our incredible town and county. In the past 12 months, we have watched our area add great infrastructure to help our businesses prosper for many years to come. If you take a good look around, you’ll quickly see that we are not waiting for things to happen - we are making things happen.In almost every sector in Truro and Colchester County, as the Chamber President I am seeing great growth. It does…
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Ironic political bullying leads to many questions
By Alan Johnson It’s not often I hear talk of cyber-bullying as much as I have with the Rehtaeh Parsons case in the Halifax area this spring. Some of you may even know that I spent many years covering legislatures and Ottawa politics in one of my previous careers as a journalist. So it wouldn’t be surprising that I have a habit of taking all political viewpoints into account. But what I’m about to say might sound a little cynical, or you might even think I’m strongly in favour of one party over another. Years of interviewing political leaders has…
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Goad eyes national title while raising awareness for Spartans
By Heather Laura Clarke No one would ever believe Jared Goad had gotten a late start in gymnastics. But the Canadian National Champion and Canada Games Gold Medalist didn’t set foot in the Cobequid Spartans Gymnastics Club until he was 11 years old.He was in Grade 6 when he attended a gymnastics class as part of a “bring a friend” event, and the coaches quickly discovered he had a natural ability.“I fell in love with it right away, and it wound up becoming the passion of my life,” says Goad, 20, who grew up in Bible Hill. He did a…
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Pennies are worth it
By Rock Johnson The energy level is about to rise up in Truro, as The Fed Pennies will be rolling out their loud, gritty rock and roll show at the Split Crow on May 10 and 11. After nine years as a band, they are finally making their first public stop in the Hub town, and I for one couldn’t be happier.After seeing these guys live at least a dozen times, it is hard to precisely define their sound. They are truly a band who doesn’t pigeon hole themselves to one genre, but rather take pieces of a lifetime of…
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