IOC must keep women's hockey: Swiss player
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NEW.BRUNSWICK (CBC) - A Swiss hockey player is urging the International Olympic Committee to keep women's hockey in the Winter Games.
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Lucrece Nausbaum, the 23-year-old defence player who also plays for Fredericton's St. Thomas University, is back in New Brunswick after playing for the Swiss Olympic team at the Vancouver Olympics.
Before Nausbaum left the west coast, Jacques Rogge, the president of the IOC, warned that women's hockey may have to be sacrificed if other countries can't compete with Canada and the United States.
Nausbaum said it's difficult to contemplate the Olympics without women's hockey.
"I couldn't even imagine. It would be a huge setback," she said.
Nausbaum helped her home country to a fifth-place finish at the Olympics.
Canada beat Nausbaum's Swiss team 10-1 in its second game of the tournament.
Nausbaum is back in New Brunswick helping her teammates from St. Thomas University battle for the top at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships being held this weekend in Moncton.
She said Olympic organizers have to be more patient to allow women's hockey to develop in countries that don't have the same resources as the teams in Canada and the United States.
"Some countries have a lot more support than others, but I think we're all getting closer to each other's levels and it will be," she said.
"It will be closer in the next few years."
Nausbaum had a solid Olympics logging 107 minutes of ice time, sixth most on the Swiss squad, and registering one goal, two assists and six shots on goal.
Lisa Jordan, the head coach of the St. Mary's University Huskies, said all it takes is a commitment to share expertise and the game will grow.
"There's a lot of Canadian curlers and Canadian coaches who have gone over to Europe to help coach some of their national programs," Jordan said.
"I think we need to send more coaches over there, just to share our knowledge a little bit, about how the game needs to be developed at the younger ages."
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Moonlight and Roses
Music at Trinity
presents
“MOONLIGHT & ROSES”
SUNDAY, MARCH 7
Two performances: 3 pm & 7 pm
in Trinity Hall, 109 Queen Street, Digby
Tickets: $8 including refreshments
(limited seating of 60 per performance)
For tickets and more information call 245-5393
presents
“MOONLIGHT & ROSES”
SUNDAY, MARCH 7
Two performances: 3 pm & 7 pm
in Trinity Hall, 109 Queen Street, Digby
Tickets: $8 including refreshments
(limited seating of 60 per performance)
For tickets and more information call 245-5393
New Brunswick Encourages Small Local Power
N.B. staying ahead of the pack with green energy
Published Saturday February 27th, 2010
D7Bruno Roy
Earlier this month, Energy Minister Jack Keir unveiled a brand new community energy policy that represents a new way of looking at sustainable energy production in New Brunswick.
The policy delivers again on another promise by the Liberal government, and is something that New Brunswickers should pay close attention to.
The idea is to support the growth and development of locally owned and operated renewable energy projects. The projects must be environmentally friendly, with the definition of renewable including biomass, wind, solar, small hydro or tidal power.
These projects are relatively small in nature, tiny when compared to the likes of Mactaquac Dam or Point Lepreau.
These projects will be less than 15 megawatts in terms of energy produced compared to the hundreds of megawatts produced by our major power plants. But it allows communities and First Nations communities to have more control over their energy needs. It also encourages investment in innovative new ways to produce energy in our province.
This won't be a case of private interests from elsewhere moving in and setting up little power plants in communities for profit. These projects will be designed, built, owned, and operated by New Brunswickers. Each project must have a majority New Brunswick owner that is a First Nations community, municipality, co-operative, association or not-for-profit organization.
This policy will not only create sustainable communities in New Brunswick. It will also be a tool for economic development and job creation.
This was one of the stated goals in the Liberal platform Charter for Change. The party promised to encourage research and development of alternative energy, and make New Brunswick a pioneer in the implementation of green power technology.
This community energy policy is another step in that direction toward a cleaner, technologically advanced province. Under the leadership of Efficiency NB, the Liberal government immediately embarked on an aggressive program to increase energy efficiency in our homes and businesses to reduce power usage. This has been a highly successful program, cutting electricity costs significantly for thousands of New Brunswick families. The program has also drawn praise across the country, and is recognized as one of Canada's leading energy efficiency programs.
Wind energy is another sector that this government has pursued aggressively. It is this Liberal government that saw the first windmills in the province erected, adding more clean energy to our electricity grid.
The community energy project has been well-received in communities throughout the province. The chief of the Metapanagieg First Nation says this policy will help him pursue a potential plasma gasification plant in his community, potentially creating 200 construction jobs and 40 long-term full time jobs which would be welcomed in a region with a high unemployment rate. The Mayor of Belledune says he's interested in pursuing wind, water and solar energy projects as a means of generating revenue, and called the new community energy project "very exciting."
Other communities and environmental leaders have chimed in with similar praise, and enthusiasm to explore new energy possibilities.
Critics of the deal to bring lower power rates to all New Brunswickers and billions of dollars less debt to NB Power have suggested that accessing hydro power from Quebec is a bad omen for homegrown renewable, green energy projects.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and major advancements made in both wind energy and community energy projects in this province are proof of that.
The initial phase of this community energy project is calling for a total of 75 megawatts of power from a variety of green sources. A request for expressions of interest will be issued before the end of May to identify potential projects and their proponents.
These are exciting times for energy in New Brunswick and it's not all about the Liberal government's attempts to lower your power bill and the opposition's attempts to prevent that from happening. The community energy policy is another exciting step in moving New Brunswick forward when the world is losing its taste for large carbon-based pollution-spewing power plants.
Premier Graham, Energy Minister Jack Keir and the entire Liberal caucus are aware the world around them is changing. And they are making sure New Brunswick stays at the front of the pack when it comes to change for the better.
* A resident of Dieppe, Bruno Roy was a Liberal candidate in the 2006 Provincial General Election. He is a past Executive Director of the New Brunswick Liberal Association. His column will appear every second Saturday.
Published Saturday February 27th, 2010
D7Bruno Roy
Earlier this month, Energy Minister Jack Keir unveiled a brand new community energy policy that represents a new way of looking at sustainable energy production in New Brunswick.
The policy delivers again on another promise by the Liberal government, and is something that New Brunswickers should pay close attention to.
The idea is to support the growth and development of locally owned and operated renewable energy projects. The projects must be environmentally friendly, with the definition of renewable including biomass, wind, solar, small hydro or tidal power.
These projects are relatively small in nature, tiny when compared to the likes of Mactaquac Dam or Point Lepreau.
These projects will be less than 15 megawatts in terms of energy produced compared to the hundreds of megawatts produced by our major power plants. But it allows communities and First Nations communities to have more control over their energy needs. It also encourages investment in innovative new ways to produce energy in our province.
This won't be a case of private interests from elsewhere moving in and setting up little power plants in communities for profit. These projects will be designed, built, owned, and operated by New Brunswickers. Each project must have a majority New Brunswick owner that is a First Nations community, municipality, co-operative, association or not-for-profit organization.
This policy will not only create sustainable communities in New Brunswick. It will also be a tool for economic development and job creation.
This was one of the stated goals in the Liberal platform Charter for Change. The party promised to encourage research and development of alternative energy, and make New Brunswick a pioneer in the implementation of green power technology.
This community energy policy is another step in that direction toward a cleaner, technologically advanced province. Under the leadership of Efficiency NB, the Liberal government immediately embarked on an aggressive program to increase energy efficiency in our homes and businesses to reduce power usage. This has been a highly successful program, cutting electricity costs significantly for thousands of New Brunswick families. The program has also drawn praise across the country, and is recognized as one of Canada's leading energy efficiency programs.
Wind energy is another sector that this government has pursued aggressively. It is this Liberal government that saw the first windmills in the province erected, adding more clean energy to our electricity grid.
The community energy project has been well-received in communities throughout the province. The chief of the Metapanagieg First Nation says this policy will help him pursue a potential plasma gasification plant in his community, potentially creating 200 construction jobs and 40 long-term full time jobs which would be welcomed in a region with a high unemployment rate. The Mayor of Belledune says he's interested in pursuing wind, water and solar energy projects as a means of generating revenue, and called the new community energy project "very exciting."
Other communities and environmental leaders have chimed in with similar praise, and enthusiasm to explore new energy possibilities.
Critics of the deal to bring lower power rates to all New Brunswickers and billions of dollars less debt to NB Power have suggested that accessing hydro power from Quebec is a bad omen for homegrown renewable, green energy projects.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and major advancements made in both wind energy and community energy projects in this province are proof of that.
The initial phase of this community energy project is calling for a total of 75 megawatts of power from a variety of green sources. A request for expressions of interest will be issued before the end of May to identify potential projects and their proponents.
These are exciting times for energy in New Brunswick and it's not all about the Liberal government's attempts to lower your power bill and the opposition's attempts to prevent that from happening. The community energy policy is another exciting step in moving New Brunswick forward when the world is losing its taste for large carbon-based pollution-spewing power plants.
Premier Graham, Energy Minister Jack Keir and the entire Liberal caucus are aware the world around them is changing. And they are making sure New Brunswick stays at the front of the pack when it comes to change for the better.
* A resident of Dieppe, Bruno Roy was a Liberal candidate in the 2006 Provincial General Election. He is a past Executive Director of the New Brunswick Liberal Association. His column will appear every second Saturday.
Bear River Health Clinic News
Bear River & Area Community Health Clinic
Clinic Hours: Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Email: bear.riverclinic@ns.sympatico.ca
Website: bearriverandareaclinic.ca
Phone: 467-3611 Fax: 467-3339
March 2010
Acupuncture – Traditional Chinese Acupuncture by Joe Kubinec. Traditional Chinese Acupuncture by Joe
Kubinec is available on Wednesdays unless otherwise posted. This treatment is good for back pain,
arthritis, menopause, headaches, insomnia, stop smoking and many other conditions. Appointments are
booked through the Clinic. Welcome back from your Great Adventure, Joe!
Audiology – Neil Hackett is in every other Friday to help with your hearing needs. Please call 1-866-299-
2016 to book appointment. Coupons available at the Clinic for a free hearing test.
BodyTalk System – Join us in welcoming Jocelyn to our Clinic! Rebalance your health with
BodyTalk. Book appointments through the Clinic. For further information call Jocelyn at 467-0771
or visit www.bodytalksystem.com
Electrolysis – Ronda Best is in once a month for all your hair removal needs. Call 1-902-791-0953 for
more information or to book your appointment.
Esthetics –Charlene Decker is in monthly for waxing, manicures and pedicures. To book an appointment
or for more information, call 1-902-362-2137.
Juniper House Outreach –You can book an appointment to see Lori at our Clinic by phoning 245-4789.
Massage Therapy – We are still working on getting a massage therapist in place as soon as possible. We
appreciate your patience during this transition.
Physician Services – Dr. Roy Harding is seeing patients by appointment only. At this time, Dr. Harding is
not able to take on any patients that he has not already seen at our Clinic.
Senior Services – Nurse Practitioner, Dianne Corbett, RN specializes in concerns specific to the elderly,
such as memory loss, complicated medical conditions and poor coordination/balance. For more
information or to book an appointment, call the Clinic.
Third Annual Health & Wellness Fair April 9 from 1-4 pm at the Bear River Firehall
Note: Times and dates are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
It’s INCOME TAX time again…
With e-file, refunds usually take less than two
weeks.
Are you getting ALL the credits you are entitled to?
Are you eligible for Pension Income Splitting?
Medical credits? Any of the new credits for 2010?
Prompt, professional and confidential. Seniors’
discount. 13 years in Bear River, 43 years total
experience.
Pat’s Office 467-3358
Personal returns, HST returns, small business, payroll and
bookkeeping services.
REBALANCE YOUR HEALTH
Reconnect your body-mind with BodyTalk System. The
stresses of day-to-day life affect the body’s lines of
communication leading to declined physical, emotional
and mental health. BodyTalk allows body energies to resynchronize
and operate as nature intended. For more
information call (902)467-0771
Jocelyn Pulchny, Certified BodyTalk Practitioner
Contact Clinic for appointments
Check this website out: www.bodytalksystem.com
NOTICE: The annual general meeting for the Bear River & Area Community Health Clinic will
be held on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:00 pm. Guest speaker, Tracey Gerber,
Primary Health Care Manager for SWNDHA
COME SEE WHAT YOUR CLINIC ACCOMPLISHED LAST YEAR!
Clinic Hours: Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Email: bear.riverclinic@ns.sympatico.ca
Website: bearriverandareaclinic.ca
Phone: 467-3611 Fax: 467-3339
March 2010
Acupuncture – Traditional Chinese Acupuncture by Joe Kubinec. Traditional Chinese Acupuncture by Joe
Kubinec is available on Wednesdays unless otherwise posted. This treatment is good for back pain,
arthritis, menopause, headaches, insomnia, stop smoking and many other conditions. Appointments are
booked through the Clinic. Welcome back from your Great Adventure, Joe!
Audiology – Neil Hackett is in every other Friday to help with your hearing needs. Please call 1-866-299-
2016 to book appointment. Coupons available at the Clinic for a free hearing test.
BodyTalk System – Join us in welcoming Jocelyn to our Clinic! Rebalance your health with
BodyTalk. Book appointments through the Clinic. For further information call Jocelyn at 467-0771
or visit www.bodytalksystem.com
Electrolysis – Ronda Best is in once a month for all your hair removal needs. Call 1-902-791-0953 for
more information or to book your appointment.
Esthetics –Charlene Decker is in monthly for waxing, manicures and pedicures. To book an appointment
or for more information, call 1-902-362-2137.
Juniper House Outreach –You can book an appointment to see Lori at our Clinic by phoning 245-4789.
Massage Therapy – We are still working on getting a massage therapist in place as soon as possible. We
appreciate your patience during this transition.
Physician Services – Dr. Roy Harding is seeing patients by appointment only. At this time, Dr. Harding is
not able to take on any patients that he has not already seen at our Clinic.
Senior Services – Nurse Practitioner, Dianne Corbett, RN specializes in concerns specific to the elderly,
such as memory loss, complicated medical conditions and poor coordination/balance. For more
information or to book an appointment, call the Clinic.
Third Annual Health & Wellness Fair April 9 from 1-4 pm at the Bear River Firehall
Note: Times and dates are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
It’s INCOME TAX time again…
With e-file, refunds usually take less than two
weeks.
Are you getting ALL the credits you are entitled to?
Are you eligible for Pension Income Splitting?
Medical credits? Any of the new credits for 2010?
Prompt, professional and confidential. Seniors’
discount. 13 years in Bear River, 43 years total
experience.
Pat’s Office 467-3358
Personal returns, HST returns, small business, payroll and
bookkeeping services.
REBALANCE YOUR HEALTH
Reconnect your body-mind with BodyTalk System. The
stresses of day-to-day life affect the body’s lines of
communication leading to declined physical, emotional
and mental health. BodyTalk allows body energies to resynchronize
and operate as nature intended. For more
information call (902)467-0771
Jocelyn Pulchny, Certified BodyTalk Practitioner
Contact Clinic for appointments
Check this website out: www.bodytalksystem.com
NOTICE: The annual general meeting for the Bear River & Area Community Health Clinic will
be held on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:00 pm. Guest speaker, Tracey Gerber,
Primary Health Care Manager for SWNDHA
COME SEE WHAT YOUR CLINIC ACCOMPLISHED LAST YEAR!
Lobster Fishers Meet
Lobstermen from Around World Coming to Maine Through MLA Exchange
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Lobstermen from several countries around the world will be visiting Maine March 4 through 14 through a Fishermen's Exchange organized by the Maine Lobstermen's Association (MLA). The seven visiting lobstermen - from Tasmania, West Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and the Caribbean - will meet with Maine lobstermen.
The Fishermen's Exchange begins with a Midcoast Regional Meeting on Thursday, March 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Maine Fishermen's Forum at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. Exchange participants will spend three days at the forum networking with Maine fishermen. Afterwards they will hit the road - visiting wharves and local businesses, attending community dinners and hosting talks in Down East, midcoast and southern Maine locations. Maine lobstering families are providing homestays and organizing community events for their international counterparts.
Maine lobstermen are encouraged to attend meetings and "talk shop" with their peers from overseas, sharing ideas on gear, bait usage and how to weather the recession.
A Down East Regional Meeting will be held at Ellsworth City Hall from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 9; and a Southern Regional Meeting will be held at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland from 2 to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 12. Lobstermen are encouraged to attend.
The Fishermen's Exchange will host events in Cutler on March 7 and 8, Jonesport on March 8, Mount Desert Island area on March 8 and 9, Stonington on March 9 and 10, Vinalhaven on March 10 and 11, Phippsburg on March 11 and 12, and Long Island and Portland March 12 through 14. The visiting lobstermen will also attend the Boston Seafood Show on Sunday, March 14. For more information, call 967-4555 or e-mail patrice@mainelobstermen.org.
2/25/2010 1:07:00 PM Email this article • Print this article
Lobstermen from several countries around the world will be visiting Maine March 4 through 14 through a Fishermen's Exchange organized by the Maine Lobstermen's Association (MLA). The seven visiting lobstermen - from Tasmania, West Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and the Caribbean - will meet with Maine lobstermen.
The Fishermen's Exchange begins with a Midcoast Regional Meeting on Thursday, March 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Maine Fishermen's Forum at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. Exchange participants will spend three days at the forum networking with Maine fishermen. Afterwards they will hit the road - visiting wharves and local businesses, attending community dinners and hosting talks in Down East, midcoast and southern Maine locations. Maine lobstering families are providing homestays and organizing community events for their international counterparts.
Maine lobstermen are encouraged to attend meetings and "talk shop" with their peers from overseas, sharing ideas on gear, bait usage and how to weather the recession.
A Down East Regional Meeting will be held at Ellsworth City Hall from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 9; and a Southern Regional Meeting will be held at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland from 2 to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 12. Lobstermen are encouraged to attend.
The Fishermen's Exchange will host events in Cutler on March 7 and 8, Jonesport on March 8, Mount Desert Island area on March 8 and 9, Stonington on March 9 and 10, Vinalhaven on March 10 and 11, Phippsburg on March 11 and 12, and Long Island and Portland March 12 through 14. The visiting lobstermen will also attend the Boston Seafood Show on Sunday, March 14. For more information, call 967-4555 or e-mail patrice@mainelobstermen.org.
NS: Yarmouth Airport flying high with new air service
By Staff, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Daily Business Buzz, Feb. 26, 2010
[YARMOUTH, NS] — After a turbulent past year, coping with the loss of its Starlink air service (between Yarmouth, Halifax and Portland), Yarmouth International Airport is again seeing blue skies ahead.
Today, Yarmouth International Airport Corporation (YIAC) announced it is partnering with Twin Cities Air Service of Auburn, Maine, to offer regular air service between Yarmouth, NS, and Portland, Maine.
Beginning March 15, 2010, air travelers will have access to weekly non-stop flights between the two destinations. Specially scheduled flights times will give travelers to Portland the opportunity to make many connections into larger U.S. centres. Round-trip flights start at $400 per person, plus taxes.
“Restoring regular air service to Portland is great news for Yarmouth, the region and the province, and demonstrates our commitment to making Yarmouth International Airport a viable air transportation hub in southwestern Nova Scotia,” says David Rankin, executive director, Yarmouth International Airport Corporation. “After a slight interruption in service, we’ve found an excellent partner in Twin Cities Air Service who shares our view of the economic feasibility of the Yarmouth to Portland air route.”
By Staff, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Daily Business Buzz, Feb. 26, 2010
[YARMOUTH, NS] — After a turbulent past year, coping with the loss of its Starlink air service (between Yarmouth, Halifax and Portland), Yarmouth International Airport is again seeing blue skies ahead.
Today, Yarmouth International Airport Corporation (YIAC) announced it is partnering with Twin Cities Air Service of Auburn, Maine, to offer regular air service between Yarmouth, NS, and Portland, Maine.
Beginning March 15, 2010, air travelers will have access to weekly non-stop flights between the two destinations. Specially scheduled flights times will give travelers to Portland the opportunity to make many connections into larger U.S. centres. Round-trip flights start at $400 per person, plus taxes.
“Restoring regular air service to Portland is great news for Yarmouth, the region and the province, and demonstrates our commitment to making Yarmouth International Airport a viable air transportation hub in southwestern Nova Scotia,” says David Rankin, executive director, Yarmouth International Airport Corporation. “After a slight interruption in service, we’ve found an excellent partner in Twin Cities Air Service who shares our view of the economic feasibility of the Yarmouth to Portland air route.”
New Adventure in Theme Park
NS: Upper Clements sets sights on next adventure
By Lawrence Powell, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Spectator, Feb. 26, 2010
[UPPER CLEMENTS, NS] — Visitors to Annapolis County will be taking to the air, possibly as early as this fall, as the Hanse Society redevelops the Upper Clements Wildlife Park into the Upper Clements Adventure Park, complete with zip lines, elevated canopy tours, and suspension bridges.
The project has been a couple of years in the making, but now a concept plan and feasibility study are complete and the aerial adventure park will be the centerpiece of the development that will also include survival camping, a network of hiking trails with educational interpretation centres, mountain biking trails with BMX courses, horseback riding trails, yurt camping, a paintball arena, along with an arrival plaza to showcase regional attractions and cultures. Other elements of the development will be announced at a later date.
The Hanse Society, which also owns the adjacent theme park and picnic park, said it sees the new development as being complementary to the existing theme park and will create a true destination. They expect it will attract new visitors, longer stays, and increased spending while creating economic benefits to the local economy and region.
The redevelopment will be ready for the 2011 operating season with the Aerial Adventure Park possibly opening this fall. The Hanse Society worked with the Economic Planning Group of Canada.
The wildlife park was closed for good last fall.
By Lawrence Powell, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Spectator, Feb. 26, 2010
[UPPER CLEMENTS, NS] — Visitors to Annapolis County will be taking to the air, possibly as early as this fall, as the Hanse Society redevelops the Upper Clements Wildlife Park into the Upper Clements Adventure Park, complete with zip lines, elevated canopy tours, and suspension bridges.
The project has been a couple of years in the making, but now a concept plan and feasibility study are complete and the aerial adventure park will be the centerpiece of the development that will also include survival camping, a network of hiking trails with educational interpretation centres, mountain biking trails with BMX courses, horseback riding trails, yurt camping, a paintball arena, along with an arrival plaza to showcase regional attractions and cultures. Other elements of the development will be announced at a later date.
The Hanse Society, which also owns the adjacent theme park and picnic park, said it sees the new development as being complementary to the existing theme park and will create a true destination. They expect it will attract new visitors, longer stays, and increased spending while creating economic benefits to the local economy and region.
The redevelopment will be ready for the 2011 operating season with the Aerial Adventure Park possibly opening this fall. The Hanse Society worked with the Economic Planning Group of Canada.
The wildlife park was closed for good last fall.
Expo Acadie!
Expo Acadie, which alternates every two years between Louisiana and Nova Scotia, will be held at the Holidome on April 22-24.
The event allows businesses in Acadiana to promote their products and develop business partnerships with Canadian Acadian companies.
"It's an event for companies trying to expand their business," said Fumilayo Rita of Le Centre International de Lafayette, a division of Lafayette Consolidated Government.
"If companies wish to open up to the international market, this would be the perfect event for them."
Expo Acadie was first held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2004 in conjunction with the World Acadian Congress and the 400th anniversary of l'Acadie.
The fair moved to New Orleans and Lafayette in 2006 and back to Nova Scotia in 2008.
This year, Expo Acadie returns to Lafayette with a focus on the commercialization of educational and cultural products and services.
The theme of this year's event is "Towards an Acadian and Cajun French Language Cultural Economy."
The event kicks off April 22 with a workshop titled Collaborative Strategies in Community Development, hosted by Acadian Affairs and the Nova Scotia Department of Economic and Rural Development.
A networking luncheon follows on April 23, with a presentation by UL's Barry Ancelet titled "Socio-Cultural Tourism as an Economic Engine for Les Acadien."
The exposition will be held on April 23 and is free and open to the public.
Some industries represented include French language education, publishing, genealogy, information technology, translation and interpretation, heritage, cultural tourism and new interactive media.
Gabriel Comeau, general manager of Canadian-based Echovoix, said he wants to explore work or partnership opportunities in Louisiana.
The company provides simultaneous interpretation and translation services for clients in Canada and the United States.
A film crew will also be conducting interviews for "A Cajun's View of Nova Scotia, a" series of video clips promoting Acadian tourism in Canada.
For more information or to register, contact Le Centre International de Lafayette at 291-5475.
The event allows businesses in Acadiana to promote their products and develop business partnerships with Canadian Acadian companies.
"It's an event for companies trying to expand their business," said Fumilayo Rita of Le Centre International de Lafayette, a division of Lafayette Consolidated Government.
"If companies wish to open up to the international market, this would be the perfect event for them."
Expo Acadie was first held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2004 in conjunction with the World Acadian Congress and the 400th anniversary of l'Acadie.
The fair moved to New Orleans and Lafayette in 2006 and back to Nova Scotia in 2008.
This year, Expo Acadie returns to Lafayette with a focus on the commercialization of educational and cultural products and services.
The theme of this year's event is "Towards an Acadian and Cajun French Language Cultural Economy."
The event kicks off April 22 with a workshop titled Collaborative Strategies in Community Development, hosted by Acadian Affairs and the Nova Scotia Department of Economic and Rural Development.
A networking luncheon follows on April 23, with a presentation by UL's Barry Ancelet titled "Socio-Cultural Tourism as an Economic Engine for Les Acadien."
The exposition will be held on April 23 and is free and open to the public.
Some industries represented include French language education, publishing, genealogy, information technology, translation and interpretation, heritage, cultural tourism and new interactive media.
Gabriel Comeau, general manager of Canadian-based Echovoix, said he wants to explore work or partnership opportunities in Louisiana.
The company provides simultaneous interpretation and translation services for clients in Canada and the United States.
A film crew will also be conducting interviews for "A Cajun's View of Nova Scotia, a" series of video clips promoting Acadian tourism in Canada.
For more information or to register, contact Le Centre International de Lafayette at 291-5475.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Health Care in the Digby Area
South West Health is hosting a public meeting in Digby next Thursday to talk
about its commitment to keep emergency departments open 24 hours a day,
seven days a week.
For several years, emergency departments at Digby and Roseway hospitals have
been experiencing frequent temporary closures due to physician shortages.
The Nova Scotia government requires District Health Authorities to consult
with communities affected by such emergency department closures.
Public consultation will be held March 4 at 5 p.m. in the Community Theatre
at Digby Regional High School.
An advertisement for the session is included in this week’s issue of The
Digby Courier of page 5.
The meeting will begin with a short presentation with information on the
continuing temporary ER closures, what is being done to recruit physicians
and how South West Health is working with the community on these issues.
“Then we will open up the conversation and allow people to stand up and tell
us their ideas and solutions for minimizing temporary closures and keeping
the Digby General Hospital open 24/7,” explains health authority
spokesperson Fraser Mooney.
All input will be recorded and sent directly to the province’s minister of
health. Existing legislation requires the minister to then table a report in
the Legislature. The information will also be posted on the South West
Health website.
People who are unable to attend the meeting can also send heir thoughts to
Blaise MacNeil, CEO, South West Health, 60 Vancouver St., Yarmouth, B5A 2P5.
Input can also be sent by fax to (902) 742-0369. Or emailed to
info@swndha.nshealth.ca
about its commitment to keep emergency departments open 24 hours a day,
seven days a week.
For several years, emergency departments at Digby and Roseway hospitals have
been experiencing frequent temporary closures due to physician shortages.
The Nova Scotia government requires District Health Authorities to consult
with communities affected by such emergency department closures.
Public consultation will be held March 4 at 5 p.m. in the Community Theatre
at Digby Regional High School.
An advertisement for the session is included in this week’s issue of The
Digby Courier of page 5.
The meeting will begin with a short presentation with information on the
continuing temporary ER closures, what is being done to recruit physicians
and how South West Health is working with the community on these issues.
“Then we will open up the conversation and allow people to stand up and tell
us their ideas and solutions for minimizing temporary closures and keeping
the Digby General Hospital open 24/7,” explains health authority
spokesperson Fraser Mooney.
All input will be recorded and sent directly to the province’s minister of
health. Existing legislation requires the minister to then table a report in
the Legislature. The information will also be posted on the South West
Health website.
People who are unable to attend the meeting can also send heir thoughts to
Blaise MacNeil, CEO, South West Health, 60 Vancouver St., Yarmouth, B5A 2P5.
Input can also be sent by fax to (902) 742-0369. Or emailed to
info@swndha.nshealth.ca
Caterpillar Hunters
By Arthur V. Evans
In July of 2008, while conducting a beetle survey of the Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve in Fauquier and Prince William counties in Virginia, I found numerous metallic green elytra scattered along a foot trail winding through an oak woodland on a west-facing slope. The area had been heavily infested with larvae of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, as evidenced by thousands of larval exuviae and pupal cases that festooned the trunks of oaks and other hardwood trees.
At first glance, I thought the beetle remains were those of the indigenous caterpillar hunter or fiery searcher, Calosoma scrutator, a common, brightly colored, and widespread carabid beetle found in the mountains and lowlands of Virginia. Closer inspection revealed that the elytra were much brighter and more yellow than those of C. scrutator and lacked the characteristic coppery red margins.
Further searching in the area produced a very fragile, yet nearly intact specimen ensnared in an abandoned spider web. The pronotum of this specimen was mostly black with metallic blue along the margins, rather than bluish with violet or coppery yellow green borders typical of C. scrutator. Of the five other species of Calosoma known in Virginia, only C. wilcoxi has entirely metallic green elytra, but it is smaller and much duller than either C. scrutator or the silk-wrapped remains in question. (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The Virginia species of Calosoma (from top to bottom, left to right): C. calidum (F.), C. externum (Say), C. frigidum Kirby, C. sayi Dejean, C. scrutator F., C. sycophanta (L.), and C. wilcoxi LeConte. The scale bar equals 5.0 mm. © 2009, Chris Wirth.
I soon realized that what I had in my possession were the remains of a European species, the forest caterpillar hunter, C. sycophanta. Long known as an important predator of gypsy moth larvae in France, 4,046 of these beetles were imported into the United States between 1905 and 1910, most of which were released in New England to combat outbreaks of two European species of lymantriids: the gypsy moth and the browntail moth, Euproctis chrysorroea.
In the United States, the forest caterpillar hunter is established in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. They have been released in Delaware, Michigan, Washington, and West Virginia, but they have yet to become established in these states. In spite of releases on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, the forest caterpillar hunter does not appear to be a permanent resident in Canada either.
Both the adults and larvae climb trees to attack and eat caterpillars and pupae of gypsy moths and other species. Adult males are more likely to be found on tree trunks, while females tend to remain on the ground. Based on observations in the laboratory and in the field, both sexes are active day and night. Males tend to be more conspicuous as they spend most of their time actively searching for mates. The more secretive females spend much of their time buried in the soil and hidden among leaf litter to feed and lay eggs.
Adult activity coincides with the larval activity of the gypsy moth. Beetles emerge from their overwintering sites in June to search for prey and mates, although some beetles may remain dormant for up to two years. Although adults are strong and agile fliers capable of leaving their overwintering sites behind to search for high populations of caterpillars, their appearance at new outbreaks of gypsy moths is by no means certain. In fact, beetles released as part of biological control programs often remain near their release site.
Forest caterpillar hunters will attack a variety of other caterpillar species, but are most abundant where populations of gypsy moth caterpillars are high. They remain active for about a month, re-enter the soil, and remain there until the following spring.
Adult predation is not this species’ primary impact on gypsy moth populations. It’s greatest impact is through larval production and the voracious appetites of the beetle’s larvae for mature caterpillars and pupae. The ability of adult beetles to reproduce is directly dependent upon the availability of high densities of gypsy moth caterpillars, especially since females require sufficient protein to ensure successful development of their eggs.
Eggs are laid in the soil beginning in early July and hatch in 4-7 days. The larvae climb trees in search of caterpillars and pupae. The remains of pupae attacked by beetle larvae have characteristically large and jagged holes. Mature beetle larvae seek pupation sites in the soil. The entire life cycle, from egg to adult, takes about seven weeks. In Connecticut, adults are known to live three to four years.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that forest caterpillar hunters are potentially important predators of gypsy moth larvae and pupae, but there is still much to learn. Nearly all of the information on the ecology and behavior of C. sycophanta was gathered during the brief period of adult activity that coincides with gypsy moth outbreaks, but little is known about the ecology of this species between outbreaks.
Many thanks to Chris Wirth for the wonderful color plate. This essay is excerpted from Evans, A.V. 2010. The forest caterpillar hunter, Calosoma sycophanta, an Old World species confirmed as part of the Virginia beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Banisteria [2009
In July of 2008, while conducting a beetle survey of the Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve in Fauquier and Prince William counties in Virginia, I found numerous metallic green elytra scattered along a foot trail winding through an oak woodland on a west-facing slope. The area had been heavily infested with larvae of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, as evidenced by thousands of larval exuviae and pupal cases that festooned the trunks of oaks and other hardwood trees.
At first glance, I thought the beetle remains were those of the indigenous caterpillar hunter or fiery searcher, Calosoma scrutator, a common, brightly colored, and widespread carabid beetle found in the mountains and lowlands of Virginia. Closer inspection revealed that the elytra were much brighter and more yellow than those of C. scrutator and lacked the characteristic coppery red margins.
Further searching in the area produced a very fragile, yet nearly intact specimen ensnared in an abandoned spider web. The pronotum of this specimen was mostly black with metallic blue along the margins, rather than bluish with violet or coppery yellow green borders typical of C. scrutator. Of the five other species of Calosoma known in Virginia, only C. wilcoxi has entirely metallic green elytra, but it is smaller and much duller than either C. scrutator or the silk-wrapped remains in question. (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The Virginia species of Calosoma (from top to bottom, left to right): C. calidum (F.), C. externum (Say), C. frigidum Kirby, C. sayi Dejean, C. scrutator F., C. sycophanta (L.), and C. wilcoxi LeConte. The scale bar equals 5.0 mm. © 2009, Chris Wirth.
I soon realized that what I had in my possession were the remains of a European species, the forest caterpillar hunter, C. sycophanta. Long known as an important predator of gypsy moth larvae in France, 4,046 of these beetles were imported into the United States between 1905 and 1910, most of which were released in New England to combat outbreaks of two European species of lymantriids: the gypsy moth and the browntail moth, Euproctis chrysorroea.
In the United States, the forest caterpillar hunter is established in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. They have been released in Delaware, Michigan, Washington, and West Virginia, but they have yet to become established in these states. In spite of releases on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, the forest caterpillar hunter does not appear to be a permanent resident in Canada either.
Both the adults and larvae climb trees to attack and eat caterpillars and pupae of gypsy moths and other species. Adult males are more likely to be found on tree trunks, while females tend to remain on the ground. Based on observations in the laboratory and in the field, both sexes are active day and night. Males tend to be more conspicuous as they spend most of their time actively searching for mates. The more secretive females spend much of their time buried in the soil and hidden among leaf litter to feed and lay eggs.
Adult activity coincides with the larval activity of the gypsy moth. Beetles emerge from their overwintering sites in June to search for prey and mates, although some beetles may remain dormant for up to two years. Although adults are strong and agile fliers capable of leaving their overwintering sites behind to search for high populations of caterpillars, their appearance at new outbreaks of gypsy moths is by no means certain. In fact, beetles released as part of biological control programs often remain near their release site.
Forest caterpillar hunters will attack a variety of other caterpillar species, but are most abundant where populations of gypsy moth caterpillars are high. They remain active for about a month, re-enter the soil, and remain there until the following spring.
Adult predation is not this species’ primary impact on gypsy moth populations. It’s greatest impact is through larval production and the voracious appetites of the beetle’s larvae for mature caterpillars and pupae. The ability of adult beetles to reproduce is directly dependent upon the availability of high densities of gypsy moth caterpillars, especially since females require sufficient protein to ensure successful development of their eggs.
Eggs are laid in the soil beginning in early July and hatch in 4-7 days. The larvae climb trees in search of caterpillars and pupae. The remains of pupae attacked by beetle larvae have characteristically large and jagged holes. Mature beetle larvae seek pupation sites in the soil. The entire life cycle, from egg to adult, takes about seven weeks. In Connecticut, adults are known to live three to four years.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that forest caterpillar hunters are potentially important predators of gypsy moth larvae and pupae, but there is still much to learn. Nearly all of the information on the ecology and behavior of C. sycophanta was gathered during the brief period of adult activity that coincides with gypsy moth outbreaks, but little is known about the ecology of this species between outbreaks.
Many thanks to Chris Wirth for the wonderful color plate. This essay is excerpted from Evans, A.V. 2010. The forest caterpillar hunter, Calosoma sycophanta, an Old World species confirmed as part of the Virginia beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Banisteria [2009
Annapolis County Events
by Larry Powell
Lenten fish chowder
February 19 Every Friday from11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. until March 26 at St. James Anglican Church Hall, Bridgetown. Take out available for pick-ups or deliveries. Contact: Hall, 665-4734; Peg, 665-2480; Hilda, 665-4627.
Winterfest 2010
February 19-21 Come to Bridgetown this week-end. Enjoy the Parade of Lights, a giant bonfire, Lion’s brunch, activities with Club 400, a family skate, broomball tournament, chicken barbecue, a variety show, Lion’s Church parade, and a lunch buffet. For a complete list with times, visit www.bridgetownwinterfest.ca Sponsored by the Bridgetown Lions Club.
4-H Rally
February 20 The Lucky Stars 4-H Club is holding a Public Speaking and Demonstration Rally on Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Melvern Square Community Center. The public is invited to attend and are welcome to join us for our Incredible Community Lunch. Support the local 4-H members and enjoy a celebration of local food. Doors open at 9 a.m., speeches start at 9:30. Meal begins at 12 noon. Awards are presented at 1 p.m. There will be 4-H members who will be speaking as part of a competition as well as three guest speakers to help celebrate eating local. For more information contact Krystal Brown at 765-2433, jkbrown@eastlink.ca.
Breakfast
February 20 Big breakfast at Middleton Curling Club, 6 King St., from 8 to 11 a.m. A community favourite.
Chicken Barbeque
February 20 As part of Winterfest 2010, the Bridgetown Curling Club will be holding a Barbeque Chicken Dinner on February 20 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Bridgetown Curling Club. Includes half chicken, potato salad, dinner roll and dessert. Eat in or Take Out only $12. $15 per plate for delivery in Bridgetown / Annapolis Royal area.
HART fundraiser
February 20 Chili and Flea Market fundraiser at Aylesford Volunteer Fire Hall, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Enjoy veggie or meat chili for lunch and supper. Freewill flea market and pet basket to be raffled. Cost is $8 (children 12 and under $5). All proceeds go to Port Royal Animal Hospital where our rescues are all treated (including spay/neuters).
Book Sale
February 20 Don't miss Annapolis Valley Regional Library's annual Summer Reading Club fundraiser Book Sale. Amazing variety and selection of books at affordable prices. Saturday, Feb. 20 from 9 a.m. to noon, 26 Bay Road, Bridgetown. All proceeds go to the Summer Reading Club for kids and teens.
Gospel Music
February 21 Gospel Music afternoon on Sunday, Feb. 21 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Forresters Hall, Clementsvale. Features 3+3 from Weymouth, Salem from Kentville, Highway 10 from New Minus, and Tilly & Friends from Clementsvale. A free will offering will be taken. Storm date is February 28. (Listen to AVR for cancellation)
Museum Exhibit
February 21 The Light Shines On, 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 21, Macdonald Museum, Middleton. An exhibit and reception celebrates 100 years of registered nurses in Nova Scotia. It features uniforms, yearbooks, photos and much more. Come in and show your appreciation of nurses and support the museum. There is no admission charged for this event. All welcome. Phone 825-6116 for more information.
MS Society
February 22 Meeting of the Valley Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society at 7:30 p.m. in the Cornwallis Room, Kentville Research Station.
Funds for Fuel
February 22 Funds for Fuel bridge party. Play begins at 1:15 p.m., Monday, Feb. 22, Macdonald Museum, Middleton. Come out for a fun afternoon and support your Museum. Cost $4 per person, light lunch served. Call 825-6116 for more information.
Historical Society Meeting
February 23 Annapolis Valley Historical Society will meet at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23, Macdonald Museum, Middleton. Guest speaker David Attree will give a presentation on his father who died in Iceland while serving during the Second World War. All welcome. No admission charged. Phone 825-6116 for more information.
Middleton Fireflies’ Luncheon
February 23 Middleton Fireflies’ Luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 23 at Middleton Fire Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Menu: corn chowder; split pea/ham soup; turkey vegetable soup; hamburger soup, apple crisp; rice pudding, tea/coffee. $7 (beverage not included in take out orders). Middleton deliveries call and leave message by Monday, Feb. 22 at 825-3062.
CAPS meeting
February 24 Monthly meeting of Companion Animal Protection Society of Annapolis County starts at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Building, Lawrencetown.
Shopping Spree
February 25-26 Doing some spring cleaning? We're having a Frenchy Shopping Spree on February 25 at 2:30 p.m. and February 26 all day at Northhills Nursing Home and would love to have donated items to sell. We'll take everything from cloths to electronics. Donated sale items can be dropped off at the Rec. Dept. office before February 25. All proceed go towards the Rec. Dept. in support of our activities.
Lenten fish chowder
February 26 Every Friday from11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. until March 26 at St. James Anglican Church Hall, Bridgetown. Take out available for pick-ups or deliveries. Contact: Hall, 665-4734; Peg, 665-2480; Hilda, 665-4627.
Pub quiz night
February 26 At the Bridgetown Lions Club at 6:30. Chili supper followed by trivia contest, $10 per person. Proceeds to Companion Animal Protection Society of Annapolis County. Info: Nahleen, 665-5244.
Variety Show
February 26 The Annual Outreach Review Variety Show will be held at Kingston United Church on Friday, Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Come prepared to laugh a lot and also to enjoy the music of Graham Moorehead and Ruth Manning. Partial proceeds for the church outreach work. Free will donation. Refreshments following. All welcome.
Cribbage tournament
February 27 At the Middleton Legion Branch #1, registration at 12, noon, play starting at 1:00 p.m. All entrance monies returned in prizes. Canteen available. Members and guests welcome. Must be 19 years of age. Info: 825-4751
Chinese auction
February 27 Auction sponsored by Middleton and Area Fireflies at the Fire Hall. Starts at 10 a.m, canteen opens at noon, and draws start at 2:05 pm. (Re-scheduled from Jan. 30)
Legion Darts
February 27 There will be a Men’s and Women’s Doubles Tournament on Feburary 27 at the Bridgetown Legion. Call 665-2820 to register. Start time 10 a.m.
Dinner & dance
February 27 Support the Valley Cardiac Rehab Program Fund at Kingston Lion’s Club, (Cocktails: 6 p.m.; Dinner: 7 p.m.; Dancing: 8 p.m.). Dinner music by Frank Dobbins. Dance to the “Hi-Lites.” Menu: hors d’oeuvres, shrimp salad, roast pork loin & Godfather parfait. Tickets, $35 a couple, available at Pharmasaves, Kingston & Middleton, Lola’s and T&S Office. Sponsored by Kingston Lions Club. Info: 765-6746; 765-2128
Memorial Hymn Sing
February 28 As part of the 300th anniversary celebrations of the Parish of Annapolis, an Old Fashioned Memorial Hymn Sing will be held at St. Luke's Church, Annapolis Royal on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. Choose a favourite hymn and dedicate it to loved ones or just come and join in the singing. Free will offering and refreshments. Storm date Sunday, March 7. For more information please call Norma Grant at 532-5568.
Chinese auction
March 7 At New Ross Fire Hall. Doors open at 12, noon, draw starts at 2:30. Canteen available. Also a sale table for larger items. Proceeds for the on-going health care of cancer patient, Wanda Bezanson (Broome).
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Lenten fish chowder
February 19 Every Friday from11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. until March 26 at St. James Anglican Church Hall, Bridgetown. Take out available for pick-ups or deliveries. Contact: Hall, 665-4734; Peg, 665-2480; Hilda, 665-4627.
Winterfest 2010
February 19-21 Come to Bridgetown this week-end. Enjoy the Parade of Lights, a giant bonfire, Lion’s brunch, activities with Club 400, a family skate, broomball tournament, chicken barbecue, a variety show, Lion’s Church parade, and a lunch buffet. For a complete list with times, visit www.bridgetownwinterfest.ca Sponsored by the Bridgetown Lions Club.
4-H Rally
February 20 The Lucky Stars 4-H Club is holding a Public Speaking and Demonstration Rally on Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Melvern Square Community Center. The public is invited to attend and are welcome to join us for our Incredible Community Lunch. Support the local 4-H members and enjoy a celebration of local food. Doors open at 9 a.m., speeches start at 9:30. Meal begins at 12 noon. Awards are presented at 1 p.m. There will be 4-H members who will be speaking as part of a competition as well as three guest speakers to help celebrate eating local. For more information contact Krystal Brown at 765-2433, jkbrown@eastlink.ca.
Breakfast
February 20 Big breakfast at Middleton Curling Club, 6 King St., from 8 to 11 a.m. A community favourite.
Chicken Barbeque
February 20 As part of Winterfest 2010, the Bridgetown Curling Club will be holding a Barbeque Chicken Dinner on February 20 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Bridgetown Curling Club. Includes half chicken, potato salad, dinner roll and dessert. Eat in or Take Out only $12. $15 per plate for delivery in Bridgetown / Annapolis Royal area.
HART fundraiser
February 20 Chili and Flea Market fundraiser at Aylesford Volunteer Fire Hall, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Enjoy veggie or meat chili for lunch and supper. Freewill flea market and pet basket to be raffled. Cost is $8 (children 12 and under $5). All proceeds go to Port Royal Animal Hospital where our rescues are all treated (including spay/neuters).
Book Sale
February 20 Don't miss Annapolis Valley Regional Library's annual Summer Reading Club fundraiser Book Sale. Amazing variety and selection of books at affordable prices. Saturday, Feb. 20 from 9 a.m. to noon, 26 Bay Road, Bridgetown. All proceeds go to the Summer Reading Club for kids and teens.
Gospel Music
February 21 Gospel Music afternoon on Sunday, Feb. 21 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Forresters Hall, Clementsvale. Features 3+3 from Weymouth, Salem from Kentville, Highway 10 from New Minus, and Tilly & Friends from Clementsvale. A free will offering will be taken. Storm date is February 28. (Listen to AVR for cancellation)
Museum Exhibit
February 21 The Light Shines On, 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 21, Macdonald Museum, Middleton. An exhibit and reception celebrates 100 years of registered nurses in Nova Scotia. It features uniforms, yearbooks, photos and much more. Come in and show your appreciation of nurses and support the museum. There is no admission charged for this event. All welcome. Phone 825-6116 for more information.
MS Society
February 22 Meeting of the Valley Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society at 7:30 p.m. in the Cornwallis Room, Kentville Research Station.
Funds for Fuel
February 22 Funds for Fuel bridge party. Play begins at 1:15 p.m., Monday, Feb. 22, Macdonald Museum, Middleton. Come out for a fun afternoon and support your Museum. Cost $4 per person, light lunch served. Call 825-6116 for more information.
Historical Society Meeting
February 23 Annapolis Valley Historical Society will meet at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23, Macdonald Museum, Middleton. Guest speaker David Attree will give a presentation on his father who died in Iceland while serving during the Second World War. All welcome. No admission charged. Phone 825-6116 for more information.
Middleton Fireflies’ Luncheon
February 23 Middleton Fireflies’ Luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 23 at Middleton Fire Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Menu: corn chowder; split pea/ham soup; turkey vegetable soup; hamburger soup, apple crisp; rice pudding, tea/coffee. $7 (beverage not included in take out orders). Middleton deliveries call and leave message by Monday, Feb. 22 at 825-3062.
CAPS meeting
February 24 Monthly meeting of Companion Animal Protection Society of Annapolis County starts at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Building, Lawrencetown.
Shopping Spree
February 25-26 Doing some spring cleaning? We're having a Frenchy Shopping Spree on February 25 at 2:30 p.m. and February 26 all day at Northhills Nursing Home and would love to have donated items to sell. We'll take everything from cloths to electronics. Donated sale items can be dropped off at the Rec. Dept. office before February 25. All proceed go towards the Rec. Dept. in support of our activities.
Lenten fish chowder
February 26 Every Friday from11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. until March 26 at St. James Anglican Church Hall, Bridgetown. Take out available for pick-ups or deliveries. Contact: Hall, 665-4734; Peg, 665-2480; Hilda, 665-4627.
Pub quiz night
February 26 At the Bridgetown Lions Club at 6:30. Chili supper followed by trivia contest, $10 per person. Proceeds to Companion Animal Protection Society of Annapolis County. Info: Nahleen, 665-5244.
Variety Show
February 26 The Annual Outreach Review Variety Show will be held at Kingston United Church on Friday, Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Come prepared to laugh a lot and also to enjoy the music of Graham Moorehead and Ruth Manning. Partial proceeds for the church outreach work. Free will donation. Refreshments following. All welcome.
Cribbage tournament
February 27 At the Middleton Legion Branch #1, registration at 12, noon, play starting at 1:00 p.m. All entrance monies returned in prizes. Canteen available. Members and guests welcome. Must be 19 years of age. Info: 825-4751
Chinese auction
February 27 Auction sponsored by Middleton and Area Fireflies at the Fire Hall. Starts at 10 a.m, canteen opens at noon, and draws start at 2:05 pm. (Re-scheduled from Jan. 30)
Legion Darts
February 27 There will be a Men’s and Women’s Doubles Tournament on Feburary 27 at the Bridgetown Legion. Call 665-2820 to register. Start time 10 a.m.
Dinner & dance
February 27 Support the Valley Cardiac Rehab Program Fund at Kingston Lion’s Club, (Cocktails: 6 p.m.; Dinner: 7 p.m.; Dancing: 8 p.m.). Dinner music by Frank Dobbins. Dance to the “Hi-Lites.” Menu: hors d’oeuvres, shrimp salad, roast pork loin & Godfather parfait. Tickets, $35 a couple, available at Pharmasaves, Kingston & Middleton, Lola’s and T&S Office. Sponsored by Kingston Lions Club. Info: 765-6746; 765-2128
Memorial Hymn Sing
February 28 As part of the 300th anniversary celebrations of the Parish of Annapolis, an Old Fashioned Memorial Hymn Sing will be held at St. Luke's Church, Annapolis Royal on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. Choose a favourite hymn and dedicate it to loved ones or just come and join in the singing. Free will offering and refreshments. Storm date Sunday, March 7. For more information please call Norma Grant at 532-5568.
Chinese auction
March 7 At New Ross Fire Hall. Doors open at 12, noon, draw starts at 2:30. Canteen available. Also a sale table for larger items. Proceeds for the on-going health care of cancer patient, Wanda Bezanson (Broome).
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Fundy High Tides Around March 2
high tides around March 2
Thought you might be interested in checking out the link to the Nova Scotia webcams at the end of this forwarded message. You can see the changing tides at Halls Harbour and Digby. The ones on March 2nd should be spectacular.
Gini
Subject: [NatureNS] High Tides around March 2
Hi everyone:
For those who are interested in high tides, at the last Minas Astronomy Group meeting, Roy Bishop noted that several astronomical effects were going to coincide to produce exceptionally high tides in the Bay of Fundy around March 2. He also predicted that the wharf in Hantsport would likely be underwater during the highest of the tides.
Mark Drysdale, who was at the meeting, found a webcam that can let people see the tides even if they can't be there.
http://www.novascotiawebcams.ca/hallsharbour
Thought you might be interested in checking out the link to the Nova Scotia webcams at the end of this forwarded message. You can see the changing tides at Halls Harbour and Digby. The ones on March 2nd should be spectacular.
Gini
Subject: [NatureNS] High Tides around March 2
Hi everyone:
For those who are interested in high tides, at the last Minas Astronomy Group meeting, Roy Bishop noted that several astronomical effects were going to coincide to produce exceptionally high tides in the Bay of Fundy around March 2. He also predicted that the wharf in Hantsport would likely be underwater during the highest of the tides.
Mark Drysdale, who was at the meeting, found a webcam that can let people see the tides even if they can't be there.
http://www.novascotiawebcams.ca/hallsharbour
Tidal Power - General
Ocean Tidal Power as Renewable Energy
February 10th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
One of the Earth’s great renewable energy sources is actually the energy that can be found in all the waves of the ocean. Let’s look at this further.
If you have ever been to the ocean, you were probably fascinated by the phenomena of the waves crashing against the shorelines as the tides came in. The ocean’s tides are the product of gravitational pull of the sun and the moon, as well as, the Earth’s rotation. It causes the ocean waters to be raised and lowered from time to time. The tides have cycles of twelve and one half hours, twice per day, and are easily predictable.
The use of tidal power is seen as early as the twelfth century where tidal mills used the force of the tides to grind grain and corn. The eighteenth century brought competition from windmills and waterwheels. Tidal mills pretty much became extinct with the invention of cheap steam engines. In 1967, France became the first to be able to put tidal wave power to work on a large scale to produce electricity.
The generation of electricity from tidal waves is similar to that of hydroelectric power generation. Bigger dams, known as barrages, are built on the bottom of a tidal basin. Gates on the barrage allow the tidal basin to fill during incoming high tides. Likewise, the basin will empty through a turbine during the outgoing tide. This would turn an electric generator for the production of electricity. There are also systems that generate electricity from incoming and outgoing tides. This system can have a negative effect on plants and animals in the area.
Tidal fences are also used to generate electricity. Vertical axis turbines are mounted on fences. Passing water is forced through the turbines. Ideal locations for these are channels between two landmasses. Tidal fences are cheaper than tidal barrages and cause less of an environmental impact on large marine life.
Tidal turbines are a new technology used for tidal energy. They are similar to wind turbines and are arranged underwater in rows. They work best in areas with strong tides. Although they are heavier and costlier to build, they also are capable of capturing more energy. They are also the least environmentally damaging of all the tidal power technologies, since they do not interfere with migration paths.
In order for tidal power to work successfully it requires a tide difference of at least sixteen feet. Unfortunately there are only a few places where this occurs. This means tidal power plants cannot just be constructed anywhere. There are only a handful of sites on Earth with this type of tidal range. At present, France is the only country that has been successful in using tidal power. It is hoped developments in technology, through research, will be made to allow better use of this, what is now, wasted energy. The future of tidal energy seems hopeful. Tidal power has great potential and hopefully we can make better use of it in the future in our quest to find a replacement for fossil fuels.
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February 10th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
One of the Earth’s great renewable energy sources is actually the energy that can be found in all the waves of the ocean. Let’s look at this further.
If you have ever been to the ocean, you were probably fascinated by the phenomena of the waves crashing against the shorelines as the tides came in. The ocean’s tides are the product of gravitational pull of the sun and the moon, as well as, the Earth’s rotation. It causes the ocean waters to be raised and lowered from time to time. The tides have cycles of twelve and one half hours, twice per day, and are easily predictable.
The use of tidal power is seen as early as the twelfth century where tidal mills used the force of the tides to grind grain and corn. The eighteenth century brought competition from windmills and waterwheels. Tidal mills pretty much became extinct with the invention of cheap steam engines. In 1967, France became the first to be able to put tidal wave power to work on a large scale to produce electricity.
The generation of electricity from tidal waves is similar to that of hydroelectric power generation. Bigger dams, known as barrages, are built on the bottom of a tidal basin. Gates on the barrage allow the tidal basin to fill during incoming high tides. Likewise, the basin will empty through a turbine during the outgoing tide. This would turn an electric generator for the production of electricity. There are also systems that generate electricity from incoming and outgoing tides. This system can have a negative effect on plants and animals in the area.
Tidal fences are also used to generate electricity. Vertical axis turbines are mounted on fences. Passing water is forced through the turbines. Ideal locations for these are channels between two landmasses. Tidal fences are cheaper than tidal barrages and cause less of an environmental impact on large marine life.
Tidal turbines are a new technology used for tidal energy. They are similar to wind turbines and are arranged underwater in rows. They work best in areas with strong tides. Although they are heavier and costlier to build, they also are capable of capturing more energy. They are also the least environmentally damaging of all the tidal power technologies, since they do not interfere with migration paths.
In order for tidal power to work successfully it requires a tide difference of at least sixteen feet. Unfortunately there are only a few places where this occurs. This means tidal power plants cannot just be constructed anywhere. There are only a handful of sites on Earth with this type of tidal range. At present, France is the only country that has been successful in using tidal power. It is hoped developments in technology, through research, will be made to allow better use of this, what is now, wasted energy. The future of tidal energy seems hopeful. Tidal power has great potential and hopefully we can make better use of it in the future in our quest to find a replacement for fossil fuels.
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Sea Snakes Produce Power
Captain Nemo’s Dream: How Europe Draws Power from the Sea
By Steven Hill | Tuesday, February 23, 2010
While wind and solar power are the most common forms of renewable energy deployed in Europe, other energy forms are gradually being utilized and show impressive potential. One of these is power derived from the sea. Steven Hill, the author of "Europe's Promise," discusses how the EU is developing this unconventional alternative energy source.
arnessing the sea has long been the stuff of science fiction, the allure of seemingly limitless and continuous energy (unlike solar or wind, since the sun doesn’t always shine or the wind blow).
However, science fiction is becoming reality in Britain, Portugal, Spain and elsewhere.
With the services of a Scottish company, Portugal is the first country to pioneer an eye-popping new technology known as a “sea snake” or “energy eel.” Sea snakes are long, floating cylinders that bob semi-submerged in the waves and convert wave motion to electricity.
Europe has long led the world in marshaling power from the sea. The world’s first tidal station was the Rance Estuary dam, built in Brittany, France, in 1966.
Each sea snake is about 400 feet (120 meters) long and 11 feet in diameter and is composed of three or four segments linked together, end to end. The ocean’s constant wave motion causes them to undulate in the sea like a giant snake, up and down and side to side, the motion pumping fluid through pistons that drive generators, both of which are housed inside the cylinders.
The power produced is then fed into underwater cables and brought to land, the entire array composing a wave farm that provides energy that is inexhaustible and more predictable than wind or solar power.
Portugal’s first sea snake had three segments, producing over two megawatts of power, which met the electricity needs of an entire coastal village — some 1,500 homes. Now Portugal is planning to expand that to 30 segments capable of producing 20 megawatts of power, sufficient for 15,000 households, saving some 30 million tons of carbon emissions.
Scotland also has purchased four of the sea snake segments to produce three megawatts of power off the coast near the Orkneys, with talk of expanding to a 30-megawatt wave farm that would occupy a half square mile of ocean and provide sufficient electricity for 20,000 homes. Twenty of these farms could power a city the size of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
Europe has long led the world in marshaling power from the sea. The world’s first tidal station was the Rance Estuary dam, built in Brittany, France, in 1966. The station harnesses an exceptional tide differential with a range of 27 feet to produce 240 megawatts of power for 100,000 homes.
In this age of oil uncertainty and unstable energy prices, Europeans are experimenting with all sorts of renewable energy and transportation options that previously had limited appeal.
But modern technology is allowing the futuristic promise of tidal energy to step up to a new level. Britain is pushing forward with a new tidal machine that has created a stir of excitement. Imagine taking a windmill, turning it on its side, and sinking it into the ocean.
That, in effect, is what engineers have done in the Bristol Channel, south of Wales, about a mile off the British coast. Sixty feet beneath the sea surface, 35-foot-long turbines turn 17.5 times a minute, generating renewable energy from the water’s current. Above the surface, only a white and red-striped tower is visible.
Just as dozens of windmills can be deployed in a field to create a wind farm, these underwater “seamills” create the possibility of grids of undersea turbines producing hundreds of megawatts of carbon-free power — an energy sea farm.
Europe is employing a whole array of these energy technologies and more. Italy, Iceland, Switzerland, Germany and Portugal are developing geothermal energy, which makes use of the earth’s interior heat to produce steam that rotates turbines. Italy has 95% of the EU’s installed capacity, and volcanic Iceland produces over 50% of its electricity from geothermal sources.
The EU overall is nearly on track for reaching its 2010 target of generating 21% of its electricity needs (excluding transportation) from renewable energy sources.
In 2007, Germany generated 14% of its electricity consumption from renewable energy, preventing 114 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Meanwhile, the United States generates a paltry 6% of electricity from renewables.
Portugal is the first to pioneer a new technology known as “sea snakes,” which are long, floating cylinders that bob semi-submerged in the waves and convert wave motion to electricity.
In this age of oil uncertainty and unstable energy prices, and with the urgency of Europe’s governments to meet their goals for sustainable energy and greenhouse gas reductions, Europeans are experimenting with all sorts of renewable energy and transportation options that previously had limited appeal.
Each country is deploying different technologies and acting as a laboratory for the others, plotting a meandering course toward the future. Motivated by the increasingly urgent crisis of global climate change, previously futuristic ideas now are seen to be within reach scientifically as well as economically.
Of course, such pronouncements and proclamations would be hot air without the funding to back them up. But substantial capital investments are being made — not only by governments, but also by venture capitalists, major banks, financial institutions and blue chip technology companies.
At a national energy summit convened by Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany’s energy industry pledged to invest $50 billion in new renewable energy infrastructure by 2012, with $20 billion in the solar industry alone. On a per capita basis, that would be equivalent to the United States investing $180 billion, nearly $30 billion per year, in renewable energy — an unprecedented sum.
The outline of a low carbon economy is emerging, with Europe at the forefront. “Renewable energy is the source of energy for the future,” says Manuel Pinho, Portugal’s economics minister. “We think this can create an industrial revolution and a lot of opportunities for jobs and research, and we want to be ahead of the curve.”
That’s how Europe is viewing this — as a new industrial revolution. And it is at the lead of this revolution.
Editor's Note: This feature has been adapted from EUROPE'S PROMISE by Steven Hill, published by the University of California Press. Copyright 2010 Steven Hill. Reprinted with permission of the author.
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By Steven Hill | Tuesday, February 23, 2010
While wind and solar power are the most common forms of renewable energy deployed in Europe, other energy forms are gradually being utilized and show impressive potential. One of these is power derived from the sea. Steven Hill, the author of "Europe's Promise," discusses how the EU is developing this unconventional alternative energy source.
arnessing the sea has long been the stuff of science fiction, the allure of seemingly limitless and continuous energy (unlike solar or wind, since the sun doesn’t always shine or the wind blow).
However, science fiction is becoming reality in Britain, Portugal, Spain and elsewhere.
With the services of a Scottish company, Portugal is the first country to pioneer an eye-popping new technology known as a “sea snake” or “energy eel.” Sea snakes are long, floating cylinders that bob semi-submerged in the waves and convert wave motion to electricity.
Europe has long led the world in marshaling power from the sea. The world’s first tidal station was the Rance Estuary dam, built in Brittany, France, in 1966.
Each sea snake is about 400 feet (120 meters) long and 11 feet in diameter and is composed of three or four segments linked together, end to end. The ocean’s constant wave motion causes them to undulate in the sea like a giant snake, up and down and side to side, the motion pumping fluid through pistons that drive generators, both of which are housed inside the cylinders.
The power produced is then fed into underwater cables and brought to land, the entire array composing a wave farm that provides energy that is inexhaustible and more predictable than wind or solar power.
Portugal’s first sea snake had three segments, producing over two megawatts of power, which met the electricity needs of an entire coastal village — some 1,500 homes. Now Portugal is planning to expand that to 30 segments capable of producing 20 megawatts of power, sufficient for 15,000 households, saving some 30 million tons of carbon emissions.
Scotland also has purchased four of the sea snake segments to produce three megawatts of power off the coast near the Orkneys, with talk of expanding to a 30-megawatt wave farm that would occupy a half square mile of ocean and provide sufficient electricity for 20,000 homes. Twenty of these farms could power a city the size of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
Europe has long led the world in marshaling power from the sea. The world’s first tidal station was the Rance Estuary dam, built in Brittany, France, in 1966. The station harnesses an exceptional tide differential with a range of 27 feet to produce 240 megawatts of power for 100,000 homes.
In this age of oil uncertainty and unstable energy prices, Europeans are experimenting with all sorts of renewable energy and transportation options that previously had limited appeal.
But modern technology is allowing the futuristic promise of tidal energy to step up to a new level. Britain is pushing forward with a new tidal machine that has created a stir of excitement. Imagine taking a windmill, turning it on its side, and sinking it into the ocean.
That, in effect, is what engineers have done in the Bristol Channel, south of Wales, about a mile off the British coast. Sixty feet beneath the sea surface, 35-foot-long turbines turn 17.5 times a minute, generating renewable energy from the water’s current. Above the surface, only a white and red-striped tower is visible.
Just as dozens of windmills can be deployed in a field to create a wind farm, these underwater “seamills” create the possibility of grids of undersea turbines producing hundreds of megawatts of carbon-free power — an energy sea farm.
Europe is employing a whole array of these energy technologies and more. Italy, Iceland, Switzerland, Germany and Portugal are developing geothermal energy, which makes use of the earth’s interior heat to produce steam that rotates turbines. Italy has 95% of the EU’s installed capacity, and volcanic Iceland produces over 50% of its electricity from geothermal sources.
The EU overall is nearly on track for reaching its 2010 target of generating 21% of its electricity needs (excluding transportation) from renewable energy sources.
In 2007, Germany generated 14% of its electricity consumption from renewable energy, preventing 114 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Meanwhile, the United States generates a paltry 6% of electricity from renewables.
Portugal is the first to pioneer a new technology known as “sea snakes,” which are long, floating cylinders that bob semi-submerged in the waves and convert wave motion to electricity.
In this age of oil uncertainty and unstable energy prices, and with the urgency of Europe’s governments to meet their goals for sustainable energy and greenhouse gas reductions, Europeans are experimenting with all sorts of renewable energy and transportation options that previously had limited appeal.
Each country is deploying different technologies and acting as a laboratory for the others, plotting a meandering course toward the future. Motivated by the increasingly urgent crisis of global climate change, previously futuristic ideas now are seen to be within reach scientifically as well as economically.
Of course, such pronouncements and proclamations would be hot air without the funding to back them up. But substantial capital investments are being made — not only by governments, but also by venture capitalists, major banks, financial institutions and blue chip technology companies.
At a national energy summit convened by Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany’s energy industry pledged to invest $50 billion in new renewable energy infrastructure by 2012, with $20 billion in the solar industry alone. On a per capita basis, that would be equivalent to the United States investing $180 billion, nearly $30 billion per year, in renewable energy — an unprecedented sum.
The outline of a low carbon economy is emerging, with Europe at the forefront. “Renewable energy is the source of energy for the future,” says Manuel Pinho, Portugal’s economics minister. “We think this can create an industrial revolution and a lot of opportunities for jobs and research, and we want to be ahead of the curve.”
That’s how Europe is viewing this — as a new industrial revolution. And it is at the lead of this revolution.
Editor's Note: This feature has been adapted from EUROPE'S PROMISE by Steven Hill, published by the University of California Press. Copyright 2010 Steven Hill. Reprinted with permission of the author.
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Dexter Touts Fundy Tides in Washington
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Dexter promotes Fundy’s renewable energy in Washington
By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
Tue. Feb 23 - 4:53 AM
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, centre, talks with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert as National Governors Association chairman James Douglas of Vermont looks on at left in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.(Cliff Owen / AP)
Promoting Bay of Fundy tidal power was at the top of Premier Darrell Dexter’s agenda in Washington last weekend.
Dexter and other Canadian premiers met with United States governors, senators, and two top federal officials — Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — to talk about renewable energy and carbon emission regulations.
There is debate in the United States about whether some types of hydroelectric power, particularly associated with dams, should qualify as a renewable resource because of its effect on the environment.
Dexter said Monday he wanted to be sure Wellinghoff knew that the Nova Scotia project is different.
"In-stream tidal (is) of a wholly different nature, and that we were proceeding with a regulatory regime that was, of course, going to respect the proper environmental stewardship"" of the Bay of Fundy, Dexter said during a conference call from the Centre for Naval Analyses, a non-profit research organization in Washington.
Dexter was one of seven premiers at the first meeting of the Council of the Federation and the National Governors Association. The former is a group of Canadian premiers and the later American governors.
Scott Travers, president of Minas Basin Pulp and Power Co. Ltd., and John Woods, the company’s vice-president, joined Dexter in discussing the potential for tidal power.
Minas Basin is one of three proponents involved in a test project in the bay. The company, with technology partner Marine Current Turbines Ltd. of Bristol, England, plan to install a turbine in the bay in 2011, a year later than hoped.
Another prototype planned by Clean Current Power Systems Inc. of British Columbia and its partner, Alstom, is also scheduled to go in the water next year rather than this one.
Nova Scotia Power and its Irish partner, OpenHydro, put a turbine in the water last year, but it isn’t hooked up to the grid yet.
Potential energy exports are still years away, but Dexter said it’s not too early to lay some groundwork.
"We want to be a world leader in tidal technology," he said.
"In terms of utility planning and energy planning, this is not something that’s done on a year-to-year basis. These kinds of planning initiatives look out 10, and 15, and 20 years, and it would be dreadfully ill-advised, I think, to take the narrow view that you only look to the near-term."
Dexter said he also talked with Jackson about how the United States may regulate carbon emissions, and the potential impact on Nova Scotia manufacturers.
The premier said he also met with some business leaders, including officials with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
Last April, the company announced that it would add 100 more employees to its Halifax staff of 80 over five years. The province is supporting the expansion with a $1.8-million payroll rebate.
Dexter said the company continues to look for opportunities in Nova Scotia and has identified possibilities, but he couldn’t offer any specifics.
"We were there, really, to encourage their increase in their investment in the province and to ensure that they know that we’re appreciative of the jobs that they’ve already brought into the province," the premier said.
Lockheed Martin’s business in Halifax includes being the prime contractor for $1.4 billion in work upgrading the Canadian navy’s combat management and control systems on 12 Halifax-class frigates.
There is also a second contract that will run to 2024, worth $600 million, for in-service support of those systems.
( djackson@herald.ca)
‘We want to be a
world leader in tidal technology.’
PREMIER DARRELL DEXTER
Dexter promotes Fundy’s renewable energy in Washington
By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
Tue. Feb 23 - 4:53 AM
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, centre, talks with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert as National Governors Association chairman James Douglas of Vermont looks on at left in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.(Cliff Owen / AP)
Promoting Bay of Fundy tidal power was at the top of Premier Darrell Dexter’s agenda in Washington last weekend.
Dexter and other Canadian premiers met with United States governors, senators, and two top federal officials — Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — to talk about renewable energy and carbon emission regulations.
There is debate in the United States about whether some types of hydroelectric power, particularly associated with dams, should qualify as a renewable resource because of its effect on the environment.
Dexter said Monday he wanted to be sure Wellinghoff knew that the Nova Scotia project is different.
"In-stream tidal (is) of a wholly different nature, and that we were proceeding with a regulatory regime that was, of course, going to respect the proper environmental stewardship"" of the Bay of Fundy, Dexter said during a conference call from the Centre for Naval Analyses, a non-profit research organization in Washington.
Dexter was one of seven premiers at the first meeting of the Council of the Federation and the National Governors Association. The former is a group of Canadian premiers and the later American governors.
Scott Travers, president of Minas Basin Pulp and Power Co. Ltd., and John Woods, the company’s vice-president, joined Dexter in discussing the potential for tidal power.
Minas Basin is one of three proponents involved in a test project in the bay. The company, with technology partner Marine Current Turbines Ltd. of Bristol, England, plan to install a turbine in the bay in 2011, a year later than hoped.
Another prototype planned by Clean Current Power Systems Inc. of British Columbia and its partner, Alstom, is also scheduled to go in the water next year rather than this one.
Nova Scotia Power and its Irish partner, OpenHydro, put a turbine in the water last year, but it isn’t hooked up to the grid yet.
Potential energy exports are still years away, but Dexter said it’s not too early to lay some groundwork.
"We want to be a world leader in tidal technology," he said.
"In terms of utility planning and energy planning, this is not something that’s done on a year-to-year basis. These kinds of planning initiatives look out 10, and 15, and 20 years, and it would be dreadfully ill-advised, I think, to take the narrow view that you only look to the near-term."
Dexter said he also talked with Jackson about how the United States may regulate carbon emissions, and the potential impact on Nova Scotia manufacturers.
The premier said he also met with some business leaders, including officials with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
Last April, the company announced that it would add 100 more employees to its Halifax staff of 80 over five years. The province is supporting the expansion with a $1.8-million payroll rebate.
Dexter said the company continues to look for opportunities in Nova Scotia and has identified possibilities, but he couldn’t offer any specifics.
"We were there, really, to encourage their increase in their investment in the province and to ensure that they know that we’re appreciative of the jobs that they’ve already brought into the province," the premier said.
Lockheed Martin’s business in Halifax includes being the prime contractor for $1.4 billion in work upgrading the Canadian navy’s combat management and control systems on 12 Halifax-class frigates.
There is also a second contract that will run to 2024, worth $600 million, for in-service support of those systems.
( djackson@herald.ca)
‘We want to be a
world leader in tidal technology.’
PREMIER DARRELL DEXTER
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Alec Baldwin-yes,him!- on Nuclear Power
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Posted: February 22, 2010 12:41 PM BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers' Index
The Truth About Nuclear Power in Utility Reactors
It was in 1996 that I was first contacted by an organization called the Standing for Truth About Radiation (STAR) Foundation. The Long Island-based group, a loose bundle of veterans of the anti-nuclear movement, local artists, businessmen with large investments in second homes on the East End and scientists with a career-long dedication to the issue were attempting to raise awareness about the Brookhaven National Laboratory and its nuclear-powered research facility, the High Flux Beam Reactor.
The reactor operations at Brookhaven were reported to have released billions of gallons of tritiated water into the headwaters of the Peconic River during the period of its operations from 1965 to 1996. BNL, the U.S. Army's former Camp Upton and the site of decades-long research into all things nuclear, had been the base of operations for some of the earliest work on the atomic bomb. A coalition of different community groups had been opposing the HFBR at BNL for years. Pro-business lobbying groups warned that closing the reactor would have dire consequences to the Long Island economy, as national laboratories, with their high-skill, high-paying jobs, were viewed as "sexy" components of any area's business landscape. Opponents of BNL pointed out that levels of soft tissue cancers and rare diseases such as rhabdomyosarcoma were extraordinarily higher adjacent to the water recharge area near the lab. More effectively, the anti-BNL groups pointed out that Long Islanders had already voiced their opinion of having nuclear reactors in the area when they agreed to absorb the unconscionable amount of money necessary to shutter the Shoreham nuclear power plant several years earlier.
The Long Island Lighting Company, one of the most horrifically mismanaged public utilities in U.S. history, had thrown the switch and already gone "online" with a utility reactor on the North Shore of Suffolk County, a decision that represented a game of chicken with the area's rate payers. Once the reactor went "hot", any move to shut it down would surely mean hundreds of millions of dollars extra in decommissioning and decontamination costs. Long Island residents said, "Bring it on." Already the highest utility rate payers in the forty-eight contiguous states, LILCO customers absorbed billions in costs, amortized over several years, and Shoreham closed. Soon after that, then Governor George Pataki set up another darling of Albany politicos, a quasi-public authority (the Long Island Power Authority or LIPA) to, among other things, evacuate LILCO's overpaid executives who were responsible for the Shoreham debacle. All the information you could possibly want on this issue was brilliantly covered by one of the greatest journalists in the area, Karl Grossman.
Shoreham was closed because even the Feds could not argue that Long Island had no effective evacuation plan, a vital issue for people who would have to either bottleneck through the biggest city in the U.S. or swim to Connecticut in the event of some disaster. That fear also applied to BNL. Soon, the HFBR was closed as well.
During that time, I became acquainted with Dr. Ernest Sternglass, whose work (studying the accumulation of ambient radioactive materials which mimic calcium in the developing human fetus and, thus, serve as scientifically effective markers for radiological spikes in the atmosphere) helped to leverage the test ban treaty during President Kennedy's administration. Dr. Sternglass, along with Dr. Jay M. Gould, founded the Radiation and Public Health Project, which I support today. In 1996, during the period where BNL was on one burner, RPHP turned my attention toward the reactor mess in Millstone, Connecticut; Millstone is one of the dirtiest and most often fined reactors in this country. We gathered information about Indian Point, and worried about implications of a containment breach there long before 9/11 heightened that risk. We gathered information about Oak Ridge, Tennessee, The Gaseous Diffusion plant in Piketon, Ohio. The problems with operations at Dresden, Illinois. At Turkey Point in Florida. And we immersed ourselves in the problems surrounding the Oyster Creek facility in Tom's River, New Jersey.
I started going down to Oyster Creek in 1996. I returned there with a 60 Minutes camera crew a couple of years ago. I have a strong and abiding belief that true knowledge of what does and does not go on in Tom's River, as well as in both Trenton and Washington, combined with unbiased knowledge about nuclear power in utility reactors could kill any of the talk about reviving this industry. The truth not only could but would kill it, if it were known and were disseminated in the press fairly.
In my next post I will comment on last Saturday's broadcast of Weekend Edition on NPR and how Scott Simon appallingly allowed Stewart Brand to burble on and on with his outrageous pablum about "the new safe and clean nuclear power." I will tell you some of what I have learned during the years I've worked with RPHP down in Tom's River and how I view some of the efforts I have joined, with people like the tireless and courageous Joe Mangano who now heads RPHP, as some of the most important work I have ever undertaken.
Posted: February 22, 2010 12:41 PM BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers' Index
The Truth About Nuclear Power in Utility Reactors
It was in 1996 that I was first contacted by an organization called the Standing for Truth About Radiation (STAR) Foundation. The Long Island-based group, a loose bundle of veterans of the anti-nuclear movement, local artists, businessmen with large investments in second homes on the East End and scientists with a career-long dedication to the issue were attempting to raise awareness about the Brookhaven National Laboratory and its nuclear-powered research facility, the High Flux Beam Reactor.
The reactor operations at Brookhaven were reported to have released billions of gallons of tritiated water into the headwaters of the Peconic River during the period of its operations from 1965 to 1996. BNL, the U.S. Army's former Camp Upton and the site of decades-long research into all things nuclear, had been the base of operations for some of the earliest work on the atomic bomb. A coalition of different community groups had been opposing the HFBR at BNL for years. Pro-business lobbying groups warned that closing the reactor would have dire consequences to the Long Island economy, as national laboratories, with their high-skill, high-paying jobs, were viewed as "sexy" components of any area's business landscape. Opponents of BNL pointed out that levels of soft tissue cancers and rare diseases such as rhabdomyosarcoma were extraordinarily higher adjacent to the water recharge area near the lab. More effectively, the anti-BNL groups pointed out that Long Islanders had already voiced their opinion of having nuclear reactors in the area when they agreed to absorb the unconscionable amount of money necessary to shutter the Shoreham nuclear power plant several years earlier.
The Long Island Lighting Company, one of the most horrifically mismanaged public utilities in U.S. history, had thrown the switch and already gone "online" with a utility reactor on the North Shore of Suffolk County, a decision that represented a game of chicken with the area's rate payers. Once the reactor went "hot", any move to shut it down would surely mean hundreds of millions of dollars extra in decommissioning and decontamination costs. Long Island residents said, "Bring it on." Already the highest utility rate payers in the forty-eight contiguous states, LILCO customers absorbed billions in costs, amortized over several years, and Shoreham closed. Soon after that, then Governor George Pataki set up another darling of Albany politicos, a quasi-public authority (the Long Island Power Authority or LIPA) to, among other things, evacuate LILCO's overpaid executives who were responsible for the Shoreham debacle. All the information you could possibly want on this issue was brilliantly covered by one of the greatest journalists in the area, Karl Grossman.
Shoreham was closed because even the Feds could not argue that Long Island had no effective evacuation plan, a vital issue for people who would have to either bottleneck through the biggest city in the U.S. or swim to Connecticut in the event of some disaster. That fear also applied to BNL. Soon, the HFBR was closed as well.
During that time, I became acquainted with Dr. Ernest Sternglass, whose work (studying the accumulation of ambient radioactive materials which mimic calcium in the developing human fetus and, thus, serve as scientifically effective markers for radiological spikes in the atmosphere) helped to leverage the test ban treaty during President Kennedy's administration. Dr. Sternglass, along with Dr. Jay M. Gould, founded the Radiation and Public Health Project, which I support today. In 1996, during the period where BNL was on one burner, RPHP turned my attention toward the reactor mess in Millstone, Connecticut; Millstone is one of the dirtiest and most often fined reactors in this country. We gathered information about Indian Point, and worried about implications of a containment breach there long before 9/11 heightened that risk. We gathered information about Oak Ridge, Tennessee, The Gaseous Diffusion plant in Piketon, Ohio. The problems with operations at Dresden, Illinois. At Turkey Point in Florida. And we immersed ourselves in the problems surrounding the Oyster Creek facility in Tom's River, New Jersey.
I started going down to Oyster Creek in 1996. I returned there with a 60 Minutes camera crew a couple of years ago. I have a strong and abiding belief that true knowledge of what does and does not go on in Tom's River, as well as in both Trenton and Washington, combined with unbiased knowledge about nuclear power in utility reactors could kill any of the talk about reviving this industry. The truth not only could but would kill it, if it were known and were disseminated in the press fairly.
In my next post I will comment on last Saturday's broadcast of Weekend Edition on NPR and how Scott Simon appallingly allowed Stewart Brand to burble on and on with his outrageous pablum about "the new safe and clean nuclear power." I will tell you some of what I have learned during the years I've worked with RPHP down in Tom's River and how I view some of the efforts I have joined, with people like the tireless and courageous Joe Mangano who now heads RPHP, as some of the most important work I have ever undertaken.
NS: Watts Wind Energy and NSP strike deal
By Staff, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Daily Business Buzz, Feb. 23, 2010
[DARTMOUTH, NS] — Watts Wind Energy Inc., a joint venture between renewable energy operators Seaforth Engineering and Eon WindElectric, has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Nova Scotia Power Inc.
Watts plans to install a single 1.5 MW Vensys V77 wind turbine at Watt Section, NS. The company has measured wind data at the site since October 2008 and said it is looking forward to implementing the project this year.
Seaforth Energy Inc., headquartered in Dartmouth, has been contracted to manage Watts Wind Energy. Eon WindElectric, an Atlantic Canadian wind farm installation and servicing firm, will be providing wind consulting and project management services.
In addition to cash investment from the principals, the Watts project will also be financed with a mix of secured debt and equity capital. The current intent of Watts is to annually distribute most of its net profits to shareholders by way of dividends after paying all expenses and contributing to a capital reserve account, rather than reinvesting any profits into Watts Wind Energy which could be used for future wind development, to purchase more wind turbines or for other purposes.
Although the current intent is that Watts will own the entire wind project, it may choose to sell a portion of the project, partner or joint venture with another company to develop the project, spin off the project into a new entity which could be partially owned by Watts or otherwise take actions whereby it would only own a portion of the project.
Watts Wind Energy is being organized as a special purpose Community Economic Development Investment Fund (CEDIF), which is RRSP eligible and provides the potential for up to 65 per cent in tax benefits to eligible Nova Scotia investors, subject to various conditions.
By Staff, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Daily Business Buzz, Feb. 23, 2010
[DARTMOUTH, NS] — Watts Wind Energy Inc., a joint venture between renewable energy operators Seaforth Engineering and Eon WindElectric, has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Nova Scotia Power Inc.
Watts plans to install a single 1.5 MW Vensys V77 wind turbine at Watt Section, NS. The company has measured wind data at the site since October 2008 and said it is looking forward to implementing the project this year.
Seaforth Energy Inc., headquartered in Dartmouth, has been contracted to manage Watts Wind Energy. Eon WindElectric, an Atlantic Canadian wind farm installation and servicing firm, will be providing wind consulting and project management services.
In addition to cash investment from the principals, the Watts project will also be financed with a mix of secured debt and equity capital. The current intent of Watts is to annually distribute most of its net profits to shareholders by way of dividends after paying all expenses and contributing to a capital reserve account, rather than reinvesting any profits into Watts Wind Energy which could be used for future wind development, to purchase more wind turbines or for other purposes.
Although the current intent is that Watts will own the entire wind project, it may choose to sell a portion of the project, partner or joint venture with another company to develop the project, spin off the project into a new entity which could be partially owned by Watts or otherwise take actions whereby it would only own a portion of the project.
Watts Wind Energy is being organized as a special purpose Community Economic Development Investment Fund (CEDIF), which is RRSP eligible and provides the potential for up to 65 per cent in tax benefits to eligible Nova Scotia investors, subject to various conditions.
Unesco Biosphere Reserve
You're Invited !
Developing Sustinable Tourism Experiences within the UNESCO Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve Workshop; March 30 & 31 2010
The Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve Association in partnership with the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism (GMIST) and White Point Beach Resort invite you to attend this workshop Tuesday March 30th and Wednesday March 31st, 2010 hosted at the White Point Beach Resort, White Point, NS.
DID YOU KNOW ?DID YOU KNOW:
In 2001, the five most southern counties in Southwest Nova earned the distinguished designation of UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in recognition of its globally significant ecological and cultural landscape from the Man and the Biosphere Programme of UNESCO - one of only 15 in Canada and 500 around the world. Fostering the recognition and awareness of the Biosphere Reserve is the Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve Association (www.snbra.ca). One of its mandates is to assist in the development and collaboration of multi-sector tourism products and partnerships. This workshop is designed to achieve just such mandate.
THE POTENTIAL :
The potential.Phenomenal. We have an internationally recognized UNESCO designation that showcases our best attributes - our natural assets. We have an extensive inventory of existing nature reserves and parks, museums and historic sites, beaches, campgrounds, accommodations, cuisine, festivals, crafters and artisans, guides, and more that bring the Biosphere to life.
As determined by research undertaken by NS Tourism, visitors to Nova Scotia are attracted to our Seacoast, Outdoors, Culture, Cuisine, Heritage and Urban experiences. Within the UNESCO Southwest Nova Biosphere, we have 4 out of 5!
Building on our strengths, let's package the pieces together and deliver year-round UNESCO Biosphere experiences in the marketplace.
THE OPPORTUNITY :
Develop and deliver exceptional sustainable year-round tourism packages and itineraries that deliver authentic, hands-on, engaging experiences for visitors to truly connect with and explore the UNESCO Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve. Ultimately, we'll enhance the viability and sustainability of tourism and related businesses and suppliers.
Register Now ! Call White Point Beach Resort at 1.800.565.5068
Full registration information below
For more information contact Maegan Power Noble at
maegan.power-noble@nscc.ca
Developing Sustinable Tourism Experiences within the UNESCO Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve Workshop; March 30 & 31 2010
The Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve Association in partnership with the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism (GMIST) and White Point Beach Resort invite you to attend this workshop Tuesday March 30th and Wednesday March 31st, 2010 hosted at the White Point Beach Resort, White Point, NS.
DID YOU KNOW ?DID YOU KNOW:
In 2001, the five most southern counties in Southwest Nova earned the distinguished designation of UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in recognition of its globally significant ecological and cultural landscape from the Man and the Biosphere Programme of UNESCO - one of only 15 in Canada and 500 around the world. Fostering the recognition and awareness of the Biosphere Reserve is the Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve Association (www.snbra.ca). One of its mandates is to assist in the development and collaboration of multi-sector tourism products and partnerships. This workshop is designed to achieve just such mandate.
THE POTENTIAL :
The potential.Phenomenal. We have an internationally recognized UNESCO designation that showcases our best attributes - our natural assets. We have an extensive inventory of existing nature reserves and parks, museums and historic sites, beaches, campgrounds, accommodations, cuisine, festivals, crafters and artisans, guides, and more that bring the Biosphere to life.
As determined by research undertaken by NS Tourism, visitors to Nova Scotia are attracted to our Seacoast, Outdoors, Culture, Cuisine, Heritage and Urban experiences. Within the UNESCO Southwest Nova Biosphere, we have 4 out of 5!
Building on our strengths, let's package the pieces together and deliver year-round UNESCO Biosphere experiences in the marketplace.
THE OPPORTUNITY :
Develop and deliver exceptional sustainable year-round tourism packages and itineraries that deliver authentic, hands-on, engaging experiences for visitors to truly connect with and explore the UNESCO Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve. Ultimately, we'll enhance the viability and sustainability of tourism and related businesses and suppliers.
Register Now ! Call White Point Beach Resort at 1.800.565.5068
Full registration information below
For more information contact Maegan Power Noble at
maegan.power-noble@nscc.ca
Monday, February 22, 2010
Loss of the CAT- A View from Maine
Anchors aweigh The CAT’s departure ushers in new possibilities for the Ocean Gateway terminal
By ROBERT M. COOK
Mainebiz Staff Reporter
Today
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When Jan Beitzer, Portland’s downtown district director, gazes out at the open waters of Portland harbor, she sees more than containers stacked for transport, bobbing lobster buoys and the prospective home of a new mega berth for visiting cruise ships. She sees all kinds of potential.
“When you bring 70,000 people to town, the ship is here for eight to 12 hours and people fan out and patronize all sorts of businesses,” Beitzer says. “It is an economic development cluster that is significant for the city and we must do all we can to promote it.”
That includes picking itself up and dusting off the disappointment that followed the departure of The CAT high-speed ferry service from the Ocean Gateway International Marine Terminal in December. The ferry service was the anchor tenant in the $20.7 million, state-of-the-art terminal that opened in 2008. Long term, the city sees the terminal as a vital component in its growing cruise ship industry, regardless of whether The CAT or other ferry service is restored. Enhancing that industry — which is projected to grow 32% in ship visits in 2010 versus 2009 — is a priority.
City Manager Joe Gray found out Feb. 17 that an application requesting $8 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to complete a second mega deep-water berth on the eastern side of the terminal was denied. He says he intends to meet with city councilors and Maine’s congressional delegation to seek other funds. If completed, the second mega berth would allow the terminal to accommodate larger vessels, such as the Queen Elizabeth II, which is scheduled to visit Portland in 2011, says Nicole Clegg, a spokeswoman for the city. It could also be a potential home for the USS John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned Navy aircraft carrier.
The second berth would allow the city to host three cruise ships in one day, she says, significantly expanding its ability to welcome tourists.
Last year, the city saw 48 cruise ships that brought 70,000 visitors, and in 2010 the city expects to see 71 cruise ships that will deliver 80,000 visitors, Clegg says.
“Every year we’ve set a record,” she says.
When the city hosted 31 cruise ships in 2008, visitors pumped $6 million to $8 million into the city and other Maine communities when they boarded tour buses and traveled elsewhere, according to Clegg, citing the most recent statistics available.
Pining for the Scotia Prince Ironically, revenues from the growing cruise ship industry and The CAT ferry pale by comparison to the local revenues generated by the Scotia Prince, The CAT’s precursor that stopped service in 2004 after suffering some financial hardship. Mark Hudson, a former vice president of finance and communications for Scotia Prince cruises, told Mainebiz in 2004 that the ferry pumped $53 million a year into the Greater Portland region.
Don Haggett, sales director of Bangor-based Lafayette Hotels, believes it. He says his three hotels in Portland saw much more business from visitors who used the Scotia Prince than The CAT.
The Scotia Prince — regarded by many as a harbinger of spring — gave travelers more options than The CAT, he says, allowing people who traveled from Nova Scotia to stay in the city for a few days or travel to Lafayette hotels in seaside communities like Wells and Ogunquit.
Unlike The CAT, the Scotia Prince was also capable of transporting buses and trucks to and from the Canadian Maritime province.
“We need a ship like that,” he says. “The Scotia Prince was an attraction and a floating hotel,” that featured a casino and live entertainment.
Haggett says the cruise ship business has been great for the area, but it doesn’t fill his 600 hotel rooms at the Holiday Inn by the Bay, the Holiday Inn West and the Best Western Merry Manor Inn.
The greatest benefit he derives from the cruise ship industry is that it brings people to the city and makes them want to come back and vacation here. “We give them the sample and hopefully they buy the box of chocolates,” Haggett says.
The CAT’s departure The CAT’s impact was much more subtle and, therefore, harder to measure, says Barbara Whitten, president of the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Portland. Unlike cruise ships that yield thousands of visitors who descend on the Old Port all at once and spend money, Whitten says some CAT passengers stayed at a Portland hotel before or after they used the service, while others arrived in the city a few hours before they headed to Nova Scotia.
George Driscoll, vice president of marketing and sales in The CAT’s Portland office, said more than half of the 76,000 CAT passengers in 2009 took the ferry out of Portland; the others boarded in Bar Harbor. By his estimates, The CAT pumped $7 million into the Greater Portland economy in 2009.
But the high-speed ferry service (a one-way trip to Yarmouth was five and half hours versus 11 hours on the slower Scotia Prince ) failed in its quest to get a $6 million to $7 million subsidy from the Canadian government to operate in 2010. Mark MacDonald, president and CEO of Bay Ferries Limited, owner of The CAT, announced the service was discontinued on Dec. 15.
The loss of the service means more than just fewer options for travelers to get to Nova Scotia. According to Clegg, Bay Ferries Limited leased the Ocean Gateway terminal for $103,000 in 2009. Unless another ferry service is found, she says the city will not recover that money.
By comparison, cruise ships paid the city $33,000 in berthing fees in 2009 whenever they tied up at Ocean Gateway, she says. The city also logged $59,000 in revenue during fiscal year 2009 from weddings and events held at the terminal. She says the facility, which has a maximum occupancy of 500 people, is expected to generate $65,000 in this fiscal year.
All tallied, the city received about $195,000 in revenue from the terminal last year, $85,000 shy of its $280,000 annual debt service on the structure. Portland ponied up $4.1 million to build the terminal, with the federal government contributing $4.5 million and the state paying more than $12 million. Clegg says the city is scheduled to pay off its portion of the Ocean Gate terminal project by 2028.
Seeking other tenants The decision to develop the Ocean Gateway International Marine Terminal was well-thought out and a decade in the making, an innovative use of a former Bath Iron Works dry dock that had been used to repair Navy ships, says Clegg.
But not everyone was on board with the decision or the cost.
As much as his business has benefitted from cruise ship visitors, Steve DiMillo, whose family owns DiMillo’s restaurant on the waterfront, says he never liked the city’s decision to spend so much money to build a facility that will never generate revenue year-round.
Besides the cruise ships and a ferry service, DiMillo says, “I don’t really have another use for it.”
Like Haggett, he would prefer to see the city get another vessel similar to the Scotia Prince or the Prince of Fundy to serve Portland because they generated more business for him than The CAT.
Haggett says better still, landing the USS Kennedy would create a year-round tourist draw at the Ocean Gateway terminal. Such an attraction would bring plenty of military reunions and visitors who would stay in the city for two or three days, he says. A group supporting the effort to bring the warship to Portland, JFK for ME, recently announced its application passed the Navy’s first round of testing.
Beitzer, whose group represents 485 businesses, including 154 retail shops and more than 100 restaurants in the Old Port and the Arts District, says she’s looking forward to the completion of the second mega berth so larger cruise ships will be able to be in port, rather than in the harbor where they have to use launches to taxi visitors to and from the city.
Some of those tourists will likely find their way to the convention bureau’s visitor information center at the Ocean Gateway terminal, which is maintained from March to October and will continue to be staffed regardless if The CAT service is restored, Whitten says. The Ocean Gateway terminal provides tour buses and individual travelers with a place to park, stretch their legs and get information about the city.
Like Beitzer, many hope those visitors will be captivated by the Ocean Gateway terminal’s views of Portland harbor, the impressive sight of large cruise ships in port and the terminal building’s architecture, which features towering glass windows.
“It’s a beautiful, unique space,” Beitzer says.
By ROBERT M. COOK
Mainebiz Staff Reporter
Today
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When Jan Beitzer, Portland’s downtown district director, gazes out at the open waters of Portland harbor, she sees more than containers stacked for transport, bobbing lobster buoys and the prospective home of a new mega berth for visiting cruise ships. She sees all kinds of potential.
“When you bring 70,000 people to town, the ship is here for eight to 12 hours and people fan out and patronize all sorts of businesses,” Beitzer says. “It is an economic development cluster that is significant for the city and we must do all we can to promote it.”
That includes picking itself up and dusting off the disappointment that followed the departure of The CAT high-speed ferry service from the Ocean Gateway International Marine Terminal in December. The ferry service was the anchor tenant in the $20.7 million, state-of-the-art terminal that opened in 2008. Long term, the city sees the terminal as a vital component in its growing cruise ship industry, regardless of whether The CAT or other ferry service is restored. Enhancing that industry — which is projected to grow 32% in ship visits in 2010 versus 2009 — is a priority.
City Manager Joe Gray found out Feb. 17 that an application requesting $8 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to complete a second mega deep-water berth on the eastern side of the terminal was denied. He says he intends to meet with city councilors and Maine’s congressional delegation to seek other funds. If completed, the second mega berth would allow the terminal to accommodate larger vessels, such as the Queen Elizabeth II, which is scheduled to visit Portland in 2011, says Nicole Clegg, a spokeswoman for the city. It could also be a potential home for the USS John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned Navy aircraft carrier.
The second berth would allow the city to host three cruise ships in one day, she says, significantly expanding its ability to welcome tourists.
Last year, the city saw 48 cruise ships that brought 70,000 visitors, and in 2010 the city expects to see 71 cruise ships that will deliver 80,000 visitors, Clegg says.
“Every year we’ve set a record,” she says.
When the city hosted 31 cruise ships in 2008, visitors pumped $6 million to $8 million into the city and other Maine communities when they boarded tour buses and traveled elsewhere, according to Clegg, citing the most recent statistics available.
Pining for the Scotia Prince Ironically, revenues from the growing cruise ship industry and The CAT ferry pale by comparison to the local revenues generated by the Scotia Prince, The CAT’s precursor that stopped service in 2004 after suffering some financial hardship. Mark Hudson, a former vice president of finance and communications for Scotia Prince cruises, told Mainebiz in 2004 that the ferry pumped $53 million a year into the Greater Portland region.
Don Haggett, sales director of Bangor-based Lafayette Hotels, believes it. He says his three hotels in Portland saw much more business from visitors who used the Scotia Prince than The CAT.
The Scotia Prince — regarded by many as a harbinger of spring — gave travelers more options than The CAT, he says, allowing people who traveled from Nova Scotia to stay in the city for a few days or travel to Lafayette hotels in seaside communities like Wells and Ogunquit.
Unlike The CAT, the Scotia Prince was also capable of transporting buses and trucks to and from the Canadian Maritime province.
“We need a ship like that,” he says. “The Scotia Prince was an attraction and a floating hotel,” that featured a casino and live entertainment.
Haggett says the cruise ship business has been great for the area, but it doesn’t fill his 600 hotel rooms at the Holiday Inn by the Bay, the Holiday Inn West and the Best Western Merry Manor Inn.
The greatest benefit he derives from the cruise ship industry is that it brings people to the city and makes them want to come back and vacation here. “We give them the sample and hopefully they buy the box of chocolates,” Haggett says.
The CAT’s departure The CAT’s impact was much more subtle and, therefore, harder to measure, says Barbara Whitten, president of the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Portland. Unlike cruise ships that yield thousands of visitors who descend on the Old Port all at once and spend money, Whitten says some CAT passengers stayed at a Portland hotel before or after they used the service, while others arrived in the city a few hours before they headed to Nova Scotia.
George Driscoll, vice president of marketing and sales in The CAT’s Portland office, said more than half of the 76,000 CAT passengers in 2009 took the ferry out of Portland; the others boarded in Bar Harbor. By his estimates, The CAT pumped $7 million into the Greater Portland economy in 2009.
But the high-speed ferry service (a one-way trip to Yarmouth was five and half hours versus 11 hours on the slower Scotia Prince ) failed in its quest to get a $6 million to $7 million subsidy from the Canadian government to operate in 2010. Mark MacDonald, president and CEO of Bay Ferries Limited, owner of The CAT, announced the service was discontinued on Dec. 15.
The loss of the service means more than just fewer options for travelers to get to Nova Scotia. According to Clegg, Bay Ferries Limited leased the Ocean Gateway terminal for $103,000 in 2009. Unless another ferry service is found, she says the city will not recover that money.
By comparison, cruise ships paid the city $33,000 in berthing fees in 2009 whenever they tied up at Ocean Gateway, she says. The city also logged $59,000 in revenue during fiscal year 2009 from weddings and events held at the terminal. She says the facility, which has a maximum occupancy of 500 people, is expected to generate $65,000 in this fiscal year.
All tallied, the city received about $195,000 in revenue from the terminal last year, $85,000 shy of its $280,000 annual debt service on the structure. Portland ponied up $4.1 million to build the terminal, with the federal government contributing $4.5 million and the state paying more than $12 million. Clegg says the city is scheduled to pay off its portion of the Ocean Gate terminal project by 2028.
Seeking other tenants The decision to develop the Ocean Gateway International Marine Terminal was well-thought out and a decade in the making, an innovative use of a former Bath Iron Works dry dock that had been used to repair Navy ships, says Clegg.
But not everyone was on board with the decision or the cost.
As much as his business has benefitted from cruise ship visitors, Steve DiMillo, whose family owns DiMillo’s restaurant on the waterfront, says he never liked the city’s decision to spend so much money to build a facility that will never generate revenue year-round.
Besides the cruise ships and a ferry service, DiMillo says, “I don’t really have another use for it.”
Like Haggett, he would prefer to see the city get another vessel similar to the Scotia Prince or the Prince of Fundy to serve Portland because they generated more business for him than The CAT.
Haggett says better still, landing the USS Kennedy would create a year-round tourist draw at the Ocean Gateway terminal. Such an attraction would bring plenty of military reunions and visitors who would stay in the city for two or three days, he says. A group supporting the effort to bring the warship to Portland, JFK for ME, recently announced its application passed the Navy’s first round of testing.
Beitzer, whose group represents 485 businesses, including 154 retail shops and more than 100 restaurants in the Old Port and the Arts District, says she’s looking forward to the completion of the second mega berth so larger cruise ships will be able to be in port, rather than in the harbor where they have to use launches to taxi visitors to and from the city.
Some of those tourists will likely find their way to the convention bureau’s visitor information center at the Ocean Gateway terminal, which is maintained from March to October and will continue to be staffed regardless if The CAT service is restored, Whitten says. The Ocean Gateway terminal provides tour buses and individual travelers with a place to park, stretch their legs and get information about the city.
Like Beitzer, many hope those visitors will be captivated by the Ocean Gateway terminal’s views of Portland harbor, the impressive sight of large cruise ships in port and the terminal building’s architecture, which features towering glass windows.
“It’s a beautiful, unique space,” Beitzer says.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Premier Dexter on His Trips
This following is an op-ed piece by Premier Darrell Dexter.
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This week has been a busy and exciting one for Nova Scotia, and I am happy to say that there is still more to come. I have just wrapped up what I would describe as one of the most important trips that I have taken since becoming premier last June.
The 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver was an ideal opportunity to promote Nova Scotia and all of its opportunities to the world. I am proud to say that we had overwhelming participation in the Atlantic Canada House, and the enthusiasm for our Bluenose province on Nova Scotia Day was through the roof.
I now plan to carry that momentum on to Washington, D.C., where, this weekend, Canada’s premiers will participate in the Winter Meeting of the National Governors Association.
It was Nova Scotia that last summer urged the Council of the Federation to conduct a Premier’s Mission to Washington to promote the advantages of the Canada-U.S. trade and energy relationship. This is a rare chance to meet with high-ranking American officials to highlight the unique opportunities available in Nova Scotia, particularly tidal power. To help in that regard, I will be joined for part of the trip by Scott Travers, president of Minas Basin Pulp and Power, an energy and environmental leader in Nova Scotia.
Throughout the mission, my fellow premiers and I will meet with members of President Barack Obama’s administration, governors, senators and members of Congress. We will explain the significant mutual benefits of fair and open trade and a more efficient border. We will also promote the importance of the two countries collaborating on our approach to climate change and green energy, because working together will help reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions, while maintaining energy security in our countries.
After the National Governor Association meetings, I will meet with business representatives and other government leaders to help ensure Nova Scotia remains an energy leader, and to see how we can work to create the secure jobs Nova Scotia’s economy needs.
I am doing this because I think it is important to learn more about the energy supply needs of our American neighbours. I am doing this to gain a better understanding of how their policy will impact our potential tidal and wind energy business opportunities in American markets. I am doing this to develop new business relationships with the United States, and nurture existing ones.
We need to shine a light on our province. We need share our many examples of innovative leadership, particularly our ability to harness the Bay of Fundy tides. There are tremendous opportunities for us to grow our economy through renewable energy sources and high-value green-technology jobs, right here at home.
These discussions with key political leaders help demonstrate Nova Scotia’s commitment to finding new and leading-edge solutions to boost our economy so all Nova Scotians share in a better future.
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Media Contact: Jennifer Stewart
Premier’s Office
902-424-0007
Cell: 902-497-7198
E-mail: stewarjl@gov.ns.ca
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This week has been a busy and exciting one for Nova Scotia, and I am happy to say that there is still more to come. I have just wrapped up what I would describe as one of the most important trips that I have taken since becoming premier last June.
The 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver was an ideal opportunity to promote Nova Scotia and all of its opportunities to the world. I am proud to say that we had overwhelming participation in the Atlantic Canada House, and the enthusiasm for our Bluenose province on Nova Scotia Day was through the roof.
I now plan to carry that momentum on to Washington, D.C., where, this weekend, Canada’s premiers will participate in the Winter Meeting of the National Governors Association.
It was Nova Scotia that last summer urged the Council of the Federation to conduct a Premier’s Mission to Washington to promote the advantages of the Canada-U.S. trade and energy relationship. This is a rare chance to meet with high-ranking American officials to highlight the unique opportunities available in Nova Scotia, particularly tidal power. To help in that regard, I will be joined for part of the trip by Scott Travers, president of Minas Basin Pulp and Power, an energy and environmental leader in Nova Scotia.
Throughout the mission, my fellow premiers and I will meet with members of President Barack Obama’s administration, governors, senators and members of Congress. We will explain the significant mutual benefits of fair and open trade and a more efficient border. We will also promote the importance of the two countries collaborating on our approach to climate change and green energy, because working together will help reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions, while maintaining energy security in our countries.
After the National Governor Association meetings, I will meet with business representatives and other government leaders to help ensure Nova Scotia remains an energy leader, and to see how we can work to create the secure jobs Nova Scotia’s economy needs.
I am doing this because I think it is important to learn more about the energy supply needs of our American neighbours. I am doing this to gain a better understanding of how their policy will impact our potential tidal and wind energy business opportunities in American markets. I am doing this to develop new business relationships with the United States, and nurture existing ones.
We need to shine a light on our province. We need share our many examples of innovative leadership, particularly our ability to harness the Bay of Fundy tides. There are tremendous opportunities for us to grow our economy through renewable energy sources and high-value green-technology jobs, right here at home.
These discussions with key political leaders help demonstrate Nova Scotia’s commitment to finding new and leading-edge solutions to boost our economy so all Nova Scotians share in a better future.
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Media Contact: Jennifer Stewart
Premier’s Office
902-424-0007
Cell: 902-497-7198
E-mail: stewarjl@gov.ns.ca
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New Road Work Projects
Conway, Hwy. 101 paving projects announced
by John DeMings/Digby Courier
View all articles from John DeMings/Digby Courier
Article online since February 19th 2010, 11:44
Conway, Hwy. 101 paving projects announced
Conway is about to get a left-turning lane from Hwy. 101 at Exit 26, north to the Digby town line.
Repaving of 2.3 kilometres of Route 303 is included in the project, one of two announced today by the provincial and federal governments.
The second project will see repaving of Hwy. 101 from the Mary Jane Riley Road overpass to the Digby County end of the bridge across Bear River.
No start date was announced for the work, but federal financial support under the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund is for construction-ready infrastructure projects that can be completed by March 31, 2011.
The projects are being paid for by a $2.79-million joint investment by the province and Ottawa. Nova Scotia is contributing $1.39 million to the projects, with a matching contribution from the federal government.
by John DeMings/Digby Courier
View all articles from John DeMings/Digby Courier
Article online since February 19th 2010, 11:44
Conway, Hwy. 101 paving projects announced
Conway is about to get a left-turning lane from Hwy. 101 at Exit 26, north to the Digby town line.
Repaving of 2.3 kilometres of Route 303 is included in the project, one of two announced today by the provincial and federal governments.
The second project will see repaving of Hwy. 101 from the Mary Jane Riley Road overpass to the Digby County end of the bridge across Bear River.
No start date was announced for the work, but federal financial support under the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund is for construction-ready infrastructure projects that can be completed by March 31, 2011.
The projects are being paid for by a $2.79-million joint investment by the province and Ottawa. Nova Scotia is contributing $1.39 million to the projects, with a matching contribution from the federal government.
Nova Scotian Great Reading
The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville (Forgotten Books) Review
Series of short stories written originally for The Nova Scotian in the early 1830s. The narrator while riding through Nova Scotia meets an itinerant clock seller - Samual Slick of Slickville, Connecticut. The stories concern the views and opinions of Slick about - well, almost anything. And, for the most part, they are funny. A great deal of the book is a satire or parody of the moralizing story popular at the time: although occasionally, the stories themselves do fall into the moralizing trap themselves. If nothing else, great history as told by a contemporary neighbour of a young United States. The period is equidistant between the revolutionary war and the civil war. In one story, Sam Slick expounds on the great freedoms of the American people: all men created equal. The narrator points out that it is the British Empire (and hence Nova Scotia) where slavery is abolished. Maybe, says the narrator, the American constitution meant all white people are created equal. The humour is often of this type where paradoxes and false syllogisms are revealed.
The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville (Forgotten Books) Overview
"Sam Slick was a character created by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Canadian judge and author. With his wry wit and Yankee voice, Sam Slick of Slicksville put forward his views on "human nature" in a regular column in the Novascotian, beginning in 1835. The twenty-one sketches were published in a collection titled The Clockmaker, or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slicksville, First Series in 1836, supplemented by an additional 12 unpublished or new sketches. The book was Canada's first international bestseller and was hugely popular, not only in Nova Scotia but also in Britain and the United States.
Slick's wise-cracking commentary on the colonial life of Nova Scotia and relations with the U.S. and Britain struck a note with readers, leading to a second series in 1838 and a third in 1840. The satirical sketches, mocking both Canadians and Americans, made Haliburton one of the most popular writers of comic fiction in English of that era. The Clockmaker (which was also translated into German) established Haliburton as one of the founders of North American humour." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
About the Author
"Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 - August 27, 1865) was one of the first major Canadian authors.
Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia to an upper class family. He attended University of King's College in Windsor and became a lawyer, opening a practice in Annapolis Royal. While in England, he met Louisa Neville, whom he married in 1816 and brought back to Nova Scotia. Louisa died in 1840.
Haliburton became noted local business man and a judge, but his great fame came from his writing. He wrote a diverse number of books on history, politics, and farm improvement. He rose to world wide fame with his Clockmaker serial that first appeared in the Novascotian and was later published in book form
Series of short stories written originally for The Nova Scotian in the early 1830s. The narrator while riding through Nova Scotia meets an itinerant clock seller - Samual Slick of Slickville, Connecticut. The stories concern the views and opinions of Slick about - well, almost anything. And, for the most part, they are funny. A great deal of the book is a satire or parody of the moralizing story popular at the time: although occasionally, the stories themselves do fall into the moralizing trap themselves. If nothing else, great history as told by a contemporary neighbour of a young United States. The period is equidistant between the revolutionary war and the civil war. In one story, Sam Slick expounds on the great freedoms of the American people: all men created equal. The narrator points out that it is the British Empire (and hence Nova Scotia) where slavery is abolished. Maybe, says the narrator, the American constitution meant all white people are created equal. The humour is often of this type where paradoxes and false syllogisms are revealed.
The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville (Forgotten Books) Overview
"Sam Slick was a character created by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Canadian judge and author. With his wry wit and Yankee voice, Sam Slick of Slicksville put forward his views on "human nature" in a regular column in the Novascotian, beginning in 1835. The twenty-one sketches were published in a collection titled The Clockmaker, or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slicksville, First Series in 1836, supplemented by an additional 12 unpublished or new sketches. The book was Canada's first international bestseller and was hugely popular, not only in Nova Scotia but also in Britain and the United States.
Slick's wise-cracking commentary on the colonial life of Nova Scotia and relations with the U.S. and Britain struck a note with readers, leading to a second series in 1838 and a third in 1840. The satirical sketches, mocking both Canadians and Americans, made Haliburton one of the most popular writers of comic fiction in English of that era. The Clockmaker (which was also translated into German) established Haliburton as one of the founders of North American humour." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
About the Author
"Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 - August 27, 1865) was one of the first major Canadian authors.
Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia to an upper class family. He attended University of King's College in Windsor and became a lawyer, opening a practice in Annapolis Royal. While in England, he met Louisa Neville, whom he married in 1816 and brought back to Nova Scotia. Louisa died in 1840.
Haliburton became noted local business man and a judge, but his great fame came from his writing. He wrote a diverse number of books on history, politics, and farm improvement. He rose to world wide fame with his Clockmaker serial that first appeared in the Novascotian and was later published in book form
Other Ferries Part of Highway System
LOCAL NEWS
Last updated at 6:14 PM on 20/02/10
Transport Minister John Baird, left, speaks with veterans Cecil MacLeod, middle, past president of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 19 in North Sydney and branch president Carl Wall at the Marine Atlantic terminal building in North Sydney, Saturday. Baird was in town to tour the Marine Atlantic facilities and announce the continuation of the Canadian Forces Appreciation Fare for 2010. T.J. Colello - Cape Breton Post
Marine Atlantic funding to be considered for budget: Baird
The Cape Breton Post
NORTH SYDNEY — Transport Minister John Baird said further infrastructure funding for Marine Atlantic will be discussed with his fellow cabinet ministers heading into the March 4 budget.
“There’s no doubt that the age of the fleet and the cost for keeping it in operation is significant, so I did a lot of listening and I’ll be reflecting on that with my colleagues in the weeks and months ahead,” said the Conservative MP for Ottawa West-Nepean. “Obviously, this is not only important for the region, it’s really part of the national highway system, it’s part of the Trans-Canada Highway. It’s important for both Nova Scotia and particularly for Newfoundland, so I don’t need to be convinced of its importance.
“We have to measure this with the other demands on our budget. That’s why it’s important for me to come first hand to see the need, see the story face to face.”
Baird was in North Sydney Saturday for a tour of the Marine Atlantic facilities, meet with company representatives and to announce the continuation of the Canadian Forces Appreciation Fare for this year. The fare gives travel discounts to current and former members of the military and their families, which was first launched last year.
Last updated at 6:14 PM on 20/02/10
Transport Minister John Baird, left, speaks with veterans Cecil MacLeod, middle, past president of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 19 in North Sydney and branch president Carl Wall at the Marine Atlantic terminal building in North Sydney, Saturday. Baird was in town to tour the Marine Atlantic facilities and announce the continuation of the Canadian Forces Appreciation Fare for 2010. T.J. Colello - Cape Breton Post
Marine Atlantic funding to be considered for budget: Baird
The Cape Breton Post
NORTH SYDNEY — Transport Minister John Baird said further infrastructure funding for Marine Atlantic will be discussed with his fellow cabinet ministers heading into the March 4 budget.
“There’s no doubt that the age of the fleet and the cost for keeping it in operation is significant, so I did a lot of listening and I’ll be reflecting on that with my colleagues in the weeks and months ahead,” said the Conservative MP for Ottawa West-Nepean. “Obviously, this is not only important for the region, it’s really part of the national highway system, it’s part of the Trans-Canada Highway. It’s important for both Nova Scotia and particularly for Newfoundland, so I don’t need to be convinced of its importance.
“We have to measure this with the other demands on our budget. That’s why it’s important for me to come first hand to see the need, see the story face to face.”
Baird was in North Sydney Saturday for a tour of the Marine Atlantic facilities, meet with company representatives and to announce the continuation of the Canadian Forces Appreciation Fare for this year. The fare gives travel discounts to current and former members of the military and their families, which was first launched last year.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Being Discussed At Municipal Council This Monday
Council Agenda
Meeting Date February 22, 2010 Meeting Location Municipal Council Chambers
Call to Order Warden
Jim Thurber Reading of Mission Statement Warden
Jim Thurber Pause to Seek Guidance Warden Jim Thurber Documents Subject Area Approval of the Agenda Additions/Deletions
Council Staff Special Presentations Presentations & Hearings
Friends of Point Prim-Doug Brown
Minutes Approval/Amendments January 25, 2010 Public Hearing January 25, 2010 Regular Council
Council Agenda
Business Arising from Minutes
1. Solid Waste By-Law Second and Final Reading
2. Integrated Community Sustainability Plan Resolution for approval of Final Plan
3. Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Gregory Councillor Amero Councillor Adams Warden Thurber
New Business # 1 Bear River & Area Health Clinic Request for funding $ 1,800 # 2 Councillor Amero Letter to Dept of Education # 3 TIANS 2010 Annual General Meeting Request for co-sponsorship # 4 Councillor Gregory Cell phone coverage # 5 Letter of Support Hanse Society-Adventure Park # 6
Council Agenda
Administration Requests for Decisions/Directions
Approval of tender for 3 geo-thermal wells and 1 domestic well for Weymouth Library
Appointment of Todd Hall to Planning Advisory Committee
Extension of Glenn Dunn’s appointment to ADEDA for six months as per policy.
CAO Report Meeting Updates Project Updates Payables- January 31, 2010 $ 750,154.65 Financial Report January 31, 2010 Correspondence
1. Environment Canada Recovery Strategy for Eastern Mountain Avens in Canada
2. PVSC 2010-2011 Budget 3. SNSMR ICSP 4. SNSMR Municipal Services Division Survey
Council Agenda
Council Committees 1. COTW Motions That Council support Le Transport de Clare’s expansion of service up to and including Barton in the amount of $7,000 for the 2010/2011 fiscal year. 2. By-law & Policy Motions That Digby Salvage & Disposal be awarded the Solid Waste Contract for 2010-2015 Youth Grant Policy Amendment Human Resource Policy Amendments Low Income Tax Exemption Policy Advisory Committees
# 1 REMO Management Planning Committee Warden Thurber/ Deputy Warden MacAlpine Minutes Nov 2009
# 2 Heritage Advisory Committee Councillor Amero Councillor Adams Minutes Jan 2010
# 3 Planning Advisory Committee Warden Thurber Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Gregory Advertisement for 3 new citizen members due Feb 20th..
# 4 Police Advisory Committee Councillor Gregory Councillor Amero Councillor Adams Next meeting April 20th
# 5 Tri County Housing Authority R Fitzgerald Last reported in October 09
Council Agenda
Regional/Joint Committees # 1 Airport Working Group Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Adams Minutes Dec, 2009 # 2 Annapolis Digby Economic Development Agency Warden Thurber Minutes Dec 2009 Managing Director Report Jan 2010 #3 Digby Annapolis Development Corp Warden Thurber Councillor Amero Met Jan 21st Next meeting April 14th #4 Digby Area Learning Association Councillor Adams #5 Digby Area Tourism Association Councillor Gregory Minutes-Jan 2010 #6 Digby Area Recreation Committee Councillor Gregory Councillor Amero
Minutes Jan 2010 Managers Report Feb 2010 Community Links Bulletin Active Kids E-Bulletin #7 Digby Harbour Port Association Councillor Gregory #8 Fundyweb Broadband Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Amero No meeting # 9 Industrial Commission Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Amero Met Feb 23rd # 10 Kings Transit Authority Councillor Amero # 11 Senior Safety Committee Councillor Adams Councillor Gregory Minutes Nov 2009 # 12 Tideview Terrace Councillor Gregory Warden Thurber & Councillor Adams Minutes Dec 2009 # 13 Waste Check Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Gregory Minutes Dec 2009 Report Feb 2010 # 14 Western Counties Regional Library Deputy Warden MacAlpine Meeting scheduled
Council Agenda
Council Reports Warden Thurber Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Gregory Wharf Rat Rally Buy Back Nova Scotia Councillor Amero Councillor Adams Notice of Motion In Camera Personnel Issue Adjournment
Meeting Date February 22, 2010 Meeting Location Municipal Council Chambers
Call to Order Warden
Jim Thurber Reading of Mission Statement Warden
Jim Thurber Pause to Seek Guidance Warden Jim Thurber Documents Subject Area Approval of the Agenda Additions/Deletions
Council Staff Special Presentations Presentations & Hearings
Friends of Point Prim-Doug Brown
Minutes Approval/Amendments January 25, 2010 Public Hearing January 25, 2010 Regular Council
Council Agenda
Business Arising from Minutes
1. Solid Waste By-Law Second and Final Reading
2. Integrated Community Sustainability Plan Resolution for approval of Final Plan
3. Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Gregory Councillor Amero Councillor Adams Warden Thurber
New Business # 1 Bear River & Area Health Clinic Request for funding $ 1,800 # 2 Councillor Amero Letter to Dept of Education # 3 TIANS 2010 Annual General Meeting Request for co-sponsorship # 4 Councillor Gregory Cell phone coverage # 5 Letter of Support Hanse Society-Adventure Park # 6
Council Agenda
Administration Requests for Decisions/Directions
Approval of tender for 3 geo-thermal wells and 1 domestic well for Weymouth Library
Appointment of Todd Hall to Planning Advisory Committee
Extension of Glenn Dunn’s appointment to ADEDA for six months as per policy.
CAO Report Meeting Updates Project Updates Payables- January 31, 2010 $ 750,154.65 Financial Report January 31, 2010 Correspondence
1. Environment Canada Recovery Strategy for Eastern Mountain Avens in Canada
2. PVSC 2010-2011 Budget 3. SNSMR ICSP 4. SNSMR Municipal Services Division Survey
Council Agenda
Council Committees 1. COTW Motions That Council support Le Transport de Clare’s expansion of service up to and including Barton in the amount of $7,000 for the 2010/2011 fiscal year. 2. By-law & Policy Motions That Digby Salvage & Disposal be awarded the Solid Waste Contract for 2010-2015 Youth Grant Policy Amendment Human Resource Policy Amendments Low Income Tax Exemption Policy Advisory Committees
# 1 REMO Management Planning Committee Warden Thurber/ Deputy Warden MacAlpine Minutes Nov 2009
# 2 Heritage Advisory Committee Councillor Amero Councillor Adams Minutes Jan 2010
# 3 Planning Advisory Committee Warden Thurber Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Gregory Advertisement for 3 new citizen members due Feb 20th..
# 4 Police Advisory Committee Councillor Gregory Councillor Amero Councillor Adams Next meeting April 20th
# 5 Tri County Housing Authority R Fitzgerald Last reported in October 09
Council Agenda
Regional/Joint Committees # 1 Airport Working Group Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Adams Minutes Dec, 2009 # 2 Annapolis Digby Economic Development Agency Warden Thurber Minutes Dec 2009 Managing Director Report Jan 2010 #3 Digby Annapolis Development Corp Warden Thurber Councillor Amero Met Jan 21st Next meeting April 14th #4 Digby Area Learning Association Councillor Adams #5 Digby Area Tourism Association Councillor Gregory Minutes-Jan 2010 #6 Digby Area Recreation Committee Councillor Gregory Councillor Amero
Minutes Jan 2010 Managers Report Feb 2010 Community Links Bulletin Active Kids E-Bulletin #7 Digby Harbour Port Association Councillor Gregory #8 Fundyweb Broadband Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Amero No meeting # 9 Industrial Commission Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Amero Met Feb 23rd # 10 Kings Transit Authority Councillor Amero # 11 Senior Safety Committee Councillor Adams Councillor Gregory Minutes Nov 2009 # 12 Tideview Terrace Councillor Gregory Warden Thurber & Councillor Adams Minutes Dec 2009 # 13 Waste Check Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Gregory Minutes Dec 2009 Report Feb 2010 # 14 Western Counties Regional Library Deputy Warden MacAlpine Meeting scheduled
Council Agenda
Council Reports Warden Thurber Deputy Warden MacAlpine Councillor Gregory Wharf Rat Rally Buy Back Nova Scotia Councillor Amero Councillor Adams Notice of Motion In Camera Personnel Issue Adjournment
Gordon Lightfoot Lives!
The National Post, Globe and Mail and other media are reporting this afternoon that Gord Lightfoot is alive and well.
The National Post and other Canwest newspaper websites including the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and Calgary Herald all erroneously reported today that Lightfoot was dead, quoting his longtime musician-friend Ronnie Hawkins.
Now, the Post is attributing the report to an Internet hoax that was started on Twitter, reportedly by someone from Ottawa.
CP24.com has traced the story back to Canwest political reporter David Akin, who "made a well-circulated post on Twitter that the singer had died, quoting anonymous sources close to Lightfoot."
However, Canwest reported late this afternoon that Ronnie Hawkins says that someone claiming to be Lightfoot's grandson left a message for him, indicating that his grandfather was dead.
"Hawkins said he then told his wife Wanda, who sent out e-mails to some of their close friends and contacts in the music community, where the false news spread further," Canwest says.
Bernie Fielder, Lightfoot's longtime publicist and manager, told the Globe and Mail this afternoon that Lightfoot visited his dentist today and then proceeded to his office.
The Toronto Sun got through to Lightfoot himself. "I’m in great health," he told the newspaper. "I’m doing fine. I’m running around right now, doing my errands."
The National Post and other Canwest newspaper websites including the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and Calgary Herald all erroneously reported today that Lightfoot was dead, quoting his longtime musician-friend Ronnie Hawkins.
Now, the Post is attributing the report to an Internet hoax that was started on Twitter, reportedly by someone from Ottawa.
CP24.com has traced the story back to Canwest political reporter David Akin, who "made a well-circulated post on Twitter that the singer had died, quoting anonymous sources close to Lightfoot."
However, Canwest reported late this afternoon that Ronnie Hawkins says that someone claiming to be Lightfoot's grandson left a message for him, indicating that his grandfather was dead.
"Hawkins said he then told his wife Wanda, who sent out e-mails to some of their close friends and contacts in the music community, where the false news spread further," Canwest says.
Bernie Fielder, Lightfoot's longtime publicist and manager, told the Globe and Mail this afternoon that Lightfoot visited his dentist today and then proceeded to his office.
The Toronto Sun got through to Lightfoot himself. "I’m in great health," he told the newspaper. "I’m doing fine. I’m running around right now, doing my errands."
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Lobster Deaths and Pesticide
Lobster death raises questions
Pesticide used in European fish farms found on dead, weak lobsters
Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | 9:59 AM AT Comments50Recommend34CBC News
New Brunswick's aquaculture industry is facing questions after an illegal pesticide was found on weak and dying lobsters on the Fundy coast last November.
Environment Canada officials are still investigating how the pesticide, Cypermethrin, made its way onto the lobsters in the Grand Manan and Seal Cove areas.
Cypermethrin is illegal to use in Canadian waters and is toxic to lobsters. But it has been used to kill sea lice in European fish farms.
And that's creating concern about its use in the Bay of Fundy considering some of the dead lobsters were found not far from aquaculture sites last fall.
David Thompson, an environmentalist, said many people in the area have suspicions about how it got in the water.
"Public feeling is that it probably originated at salmon farm sites, with people attempting to control a very serious problem they had with sea lice," Thompson said.
'We want the public to know that salmon farmers are extremely diligent at protecting marine environment. This is where we grow our fish too.'
— Pamela Parker, N.B. Salmon Growers AssociationThat allegation was strongly rebuffed by the group representing New Brunswick's aquaculture industry.
Pamela Parker, the executive director of the New Brunswick Salmon Growers Association, said the organization does not think any of its members were responsible for Cypermethrin getting into the Bay of Fundy.
And Parker said the group does not condone the use of any illegal pesticide.
"We want the public to know that salmon farmers are extremely diligent at protecting marine environment. This is where we grow our fish too," Parker said.
"We only use products authorized by Environment Canada, and we only use them [in] accordance to prescribed method of treatment. Vets are the only ones who can prescribe these treatments and the fish are under a vet's care, so we take this very, very seriously. "
Dead lobsters first appeared last November in Grand Manan's Seal Cove, and five days later a fisherman 50 kilometres away in Pocologan found more dead lobsters in his traps.
Soon after that discovery, another 816 kilograms of weak or dead lobster were discovered in Deer Island's Fairhaven Harbour.
Tests found that the lobsters were exposed to Cypermethrin, a pesticide that's illegal to use in marine environments and toxic to lobsters. Environment Canada officials said on Tuesday that human health was never in danger.
Pesticide found in 1996
Environment Canada has launched two investigations into the lobster kills on Grand Manan and Deer Island. The federal department cannot say how long the investigations will take to wrap up.
The fall lobster season in the Bay of Fundy starts in mid-November and stretches into January.
This isn't the first time that the pesticide has been found in the Bay of Fundy.
In 1996, about 50,000 lobsters were found dead in a pound near St. George.
Tests revealed they were exposed to Cypermethrin.
Many people at the time blamed the aquaculture industries in the area for the pesticide getting into the water.
Pesticide used in European fish farms found on dead, weak lobsters
Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | 9:59 AM AT Comments50Recommend34CBC News
New Brunswick's aquaculture industry is facing questions after an illegal pesticide was found on weak and dying lobsters on the Fundy coast last November.
Environment Canada officials are still investigating how the pesticide, Cypermethrin, made its way onto the lobsters in the Grand Manan and Seal Cove areas.
Cypermethrin is illegal to use in Canadian waters and is toxic to lobsters. But it has been used to kill sea lice in European fish farms.
And that's creating concern about its use in the Bay of Fundy considering some of the dead lobsters were found not far from aquaculture sites last fall.
David Thompson, an environmentalist, said many people in the area have suspicions about how it got in the water.
"Public feeling is that it probably originated at salmon farm sites, with people attempting to control a very serious problem they had with sea lice," Thompson said.
'We want the public to know that salmon farmers are extremely diligent at protecting marine environment. This is where we grow our fish too.'
— Pamela Parker, N.B. Salmon Growers AssociationThat allegation was strongly rebuffed by the group representing New Brunswick's aquaculture industry.
Pamela Parker, the executive director of the New Brunswick Salmon Growers Association, said the organization does not think any of its members were responsible for Cypermethrin getting into the Bay of Fundy.
And Parker said the group does not condone the use of any illegal pesticide.
"We want the public to know that salmon farmers are extremely diligent at protecting marine environment. This is where we grow our fish too," Parker said.
"We only use products authorized by Environment Canada, and we only use them [in] accordance to prescribed method of treatment. Vets are the only ones who can prescribe these treatments and the fish are under a vet's care, so we take this very, very seriously. "
Dead lobsters first appeared last November in Grand Manan's Seal Cove, and five days later a fisherman 50 kilometres away in Pocologan found more dead lobsters in his traps.
Soon after that discovery, another 816 kilograms of weak or dead lobster were discovered in Deer Island's Fairhaven Harbour.
Tests found that the lobsters were exposed to Cypermethrin, a pesticide that's illegal to use in marine environments and toxic to lobsters. Environment Canada officials said on Tuesday that human health was never in danger.
Pesticide found in 1996
Environment Canada has launched two investigations into the lobster kills on Grand Manan and Deer Island. The federal department cannot say how long the investigations will take to wrap up.
The fall lobster season in the Bay of Fundy starts in mid-November and stretches into January.
This isn't the first time that the pesticide has been found in the Bay of Fundy.
In 1996, about 50,000 lobsters were found dead in a pound near St. George.
Tests revealed they were exposed to Cypermethrin.
Many people at the time blamed the aquaculture industries in the area for the pesticide getting into the water.
Turbines Susceptible to Cold, Ice
Ice halts northern N.B. wind farm
Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | 10:45 AM CBC News
Suez Energy has shut down 33 wind turbines at its Caribou Mountain wind farm south of Bathurst, N.B., because of ice (CBC)Northern New Brunswick's cold, icy weather is causing wind turbines to freeze and stop producing power at the Caribou Wind Park near Bathurst.
The new wind farm's 33 turbines have been generating power since November, but they have been forced to shut down for the past two days due to ice forming on some of the blades.
The wind farm has been battling ice problems all winter.
David Cousins, the Caribou Wind Park's site manager, said when ice starts forming on the turbines' blades, they can't operate.
'Just like how an airplane won't fly with ice on it, wind turbines won't generate electricity with ice ….'
— David Cousins, wind farm site manager"As soon as there is ice rain or rime ice, which is fairly common in this area, the performance of the blades of the wind turbine diminishes significantly," Cousins said.
"Just like how an airplane won't fly with ice on it, wind turbines won't generate electricity with ice .…."
The mild winter, according to Cousins, has meant that the precipitation has not turned to snow and has remained as ice, which has then formed on the turbine blades.
While the turbines can tolerate cold temperatures, Cousins said they don't do well with ice.
Cousins said they've lost about 20 days due to ice since the park went online three months ago.
And again on Wednesday, none of the 33 windmills was operating.
The Caribou wind park near Bathurst has the capacity to produce enough electricity to power about 30,000 homes.
Company planned for problems
Ice forms on the blade of a wind turbine at the Caribou Mountain wind farm. (CBC)Danni Sabota, a spokesperson for GDF Suez Energy North America, the company that owns the park, said the company planned for these types of problems when it designed the northern wind farm.
"We have budgeted allowances for every year for possible generation interruptions like this caused by something like severe weather," Sabota said.
"We're still OK, but we believe — we hope — this year's severe icing was an anomaly."
They also hope the mild weather in the forecast will melt the ice and that there will be enough wind to get the windmills moving again.
Suez Energy was awarded a 20-year contract to build the Caribou Mountain wind farm in February 2008 and sell up to 99 megawatts of power to NB Power.
When it was announced, Suez Energy estimated it would invest $200 million to start the northern wind farm.
This isn't the first odd development that has hit a New Brunswick wind farm. In August, a fire mysteriously destroyed one of the turbines at TransAlta Corp.'s Kent Hills Wind Farm in southeastern New Brunswick.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | 10:45 AM CBC News
Suez Energy has shut down 33 wind turbines at its Caribou Mountain wind farm south of Bathurst, N.B., because of ice (CBC)Northern New Brunswick's cold, icy weather is causing wind turbines to freeze and stop producing power at the Caribou Wind Park near Bathurst.
The new wind farm's 33 turbines have been generating power since November, but they have been forced to shut down for the past two days due to ice forming on some of the blades.
The wind farm has been battling ice problems all winter.
David Cousins, the Caribou Wind Park's site manager, said when ice starts forming on the turbines' blades, they can't operate.
'Just like how an airplane won't fly with ice on it, wind turbines won't generate electricity with ice ….'
— David Cousins, wind farm site manager"As soon as there is ice rain or rime ice, which is fairly common in this area, the performance of the blades of the wind turbine diminishes significantly," Cousins said.
"Just like how an airplane won't fly with ice on it, wind turbines won't generate electricity with ice .…."
The mild winter, according to Cousins, has meant that the precipitation has not turned to snow and has remained as ice, which has then formed on the turbine blades.
While the turbines can tolerate cold temperatures, Cousins said they don't do well with ice.
Cousins said they've lost about 20 days due to ice since the park went online three months ago.
And again on Wednesday, none of the 33 windmills was operating.
The Caribou wind park near Bathurst has the capacity to produce enough electricity to power about 30,000 homes.
Company planned for problems
Ice forms on the blade of a wind turbine at the Caribou Mountain wind farm. (CBC)Danni Sabota, a spokesperson for GDF Suez Energy North America, the company that owns the park, said the company planned for these types of problems when it designed the northern wind farm.
"We have budgeted allowances for every year for possible generation interruptions like this caused by something like severe weather," Sabota said.
"We're still OK, but we believe — we hope — this year's severe icing was an anomaly."
They also hope the mild weather in the forecast will melt the ice and that there will be enough wind to get the windmills moving again.
Suez Energy was awarded a 20-year contract to build the Caribou Mountain wind farm in February 2008 and sell up to 99 megawatts of power to NB Power.
When it was announced, Suez Energy estimated it would invest $200 million to start the northern wind farm.
This isn't the first odd development that has hit a New Brunswick wind farm. In August, a fire mysteriously destroyed one of the turbines at TransAlta Corp.'s Kent Hills Wind Farm in southeastern New Brunswick.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Florida Man Hopes to Run Ship Portland/Yarmouth
Private group seeks to form new ferry companyBy Robert M. Cook
Mainebiz Staff Reporter
Yesterday
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A man with long ties to the former Scotia Prince cruise ship ferry hopes to lure enough investors to purchase a similar vessel that would sail under the flag of a new company to restore ferry service between the city and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Erik Hultkrantz of Tampa, Fla., owns The Shuttle LLC, a company that works with the shipping industry. Soon after Bay Ferries Ltd. of Prince Edward Island, Canada, announced in December it was discontinuing its high-speed CAT ferry service, Hultkrantz picked up the phone and e-mailed as many people as he could worldwide to generate interest in a new service.
The CAT discontinued its ferry service on Dec. 16 after the service failed to receive a $6 million-$7 million subsidy from Nova Scotia's government to keep operating in 2010.
Hultkrantz has reached out to his contacts in the city, including Bob Cott, a partner at CD&M Communications in Portland, which is doing the marketing and advertising for the new venture. Cott says Hultkrantz formerly led Floating Fleet for 20 years, which was in charge of all onboard operations when the Scotia Prince left the dock in Portland and Yarmouth. CD&M handled marketing for the Scotia Prince for 14 years.
Cott says there are also a lot of people who worked for the former Scotia Prince Cruises who have expressed interest in working onboard any new cruise ship ferry vessel that Hultkrantz and his group of prospective investors might purchase. These people include former Scotia Prince crew members, support staff and business management, according to Cott.
The Scotia Prince was a well-managed cruise ship ferry for more than 30 years before it ceased operations in Portland in 2004, pumping $53 million a year into the greater Portland economy, Mark Hudson, a former vice president of finance and communications for Scotia Prince cruises, told Mainebiz at the time.
Cott says the investment group is presenting itself as Nova Scotia Cruises. If Hultkrantz's new business venture bears fruit, the potential cruise ship ferry would operate at the city's Ocean Gateway International Marine Terminal where The CAT ferry operated for the past two seasons.
Ideally, Hultkrantz would like to purchase a vessel similar to the Scotia Prince, but larger. He recalled the Scotia Prince had 315 cabins and could hold 200 cars, trucks and buses.
He says he would like a vessel with up to 700 cabins that could accommodate more people and vehicles. He says all the cabins would include modern amenities and he would seek a cruise ship ferry that would have a casino with table games and slot machines, two dining rooms and live entertainment.
Hultkrantz says he knows there are other groups seeking to do the same thing as his group because they all recognize the potential business opportunity that exists. He would not say how much investment capital he would need to raise to make his venture a reality. He says he might have a better idea if it will come together in the next two or three months.
Hultkrantz says the Portland to Nova Scotia ferry route could be profitable if the company operating the vessel and the service demonstrated strong business management practices. Despite his plans, he emphasized that the group is "in such the beginning stages of it." He added, "If we get this together, we are looking for a 2011 startup."
Mainebiz Staff Reporter
Yesterday
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A man with long ties to the former Scotia Prince cruise ship ferry hopes to lure enough investors to purchase a similar vessel that would sail under the flag of a new company to restore ferry service between the city and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Erik Hultkrantz of Tampa, Fla., owns The Shuttle LLC, a company that works with the shipping industry. Soon after Bay Ferries Ltd. of Prince Edward Island, Canada, announced in December it was discontinuing its high-speed CAT ferry service, Hultkrantz picked up the phone and e-mailed as many people as he could worldwide to generate interest in a new service.
The CAT discontinued its ferry service on Dec. 16 after the service failed to receive a $6 million-$7 million subsidy from Nova Scotia's government to keep operating in 2010.
Hultkrantz has reached out to his contacts in the city, including Bob Cott, a partner at CD&M Communications in Portland, which is doing the marketing and advertising for the new venture. Cott says Hultkrantz formerly led Floating Fleet for 20 years, which was in charge of all onboard operations when the Scotia Prince left the dock in Portland and Yarmouth. CD&M handled marketing for the Scotia Prince for 14 years.
Cott says there are also a lot of people who worked for the former Scotia Prince Cruises who have expressed interest in working onboard any new cruise ship ferry vessel that Hultkrantz and his group of prospective investors might purchase. These people include former Scotia Prince crew members, support staff and business management, according to Cott.
The Scotia Prince was a well-managed cruise ship ferry for more than 30 years before it ceased operations in Portland in 2004, pumping $53 million a year into the greater Portland economy, Mark Hudson, a former vice president of finance and communications for Scotia Prince cruises, told Mainebiz at the time.
Cott says the investment group is presenting itself as Nova Scotia Cruises. If Hultkrantz's new business venture bears fruit, the potential cruise ship ferry would operate at the city's Ocean Gateway International Marine Terminal where The CAT ferry operated for the past two seasons.
Ideally, Hultkrantz would like to purchase a vessel similar to the Scotia Prince, but larger. He recalled the Scotia Prince had 315 cabins and could hold 200 cars, trucks and buses.
He says he would like a vessel with up to 700 cabins that could accommodate more people and vehicles. He says all the cabins would include modern amenities and he would seek a cruise ship ferry that would have a casino with table games and slot machines, two dining rooms and live entertainment.
Hultkrantz says he knows there are other groups seeking to do the same thing as his group because they all recognize the potential business opportunity that exists. He would not say how much investment capital he would need to raise to make his venture a reality. He says he might have a better idea if it will come together in the next two or three months.
Hultkrantz says the Portland to Nova Scotia ferry route could be profitable if the company operating the vessel and the service demonstrated strong business management practices. Despite his plans, he emphasized that the group is "in such the beginning stages of it." He added, "If we get this together, we are looking for a 2011 startup."
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Unique Nova Scotia History Captured in Play
'Lights in the Forest’ pays homage to remarkable story
Community effort helps bring local history to life
Article online since February 16th 2010, 8:00
In the early scenes of Hal Theriault’s play ‘Lights in the Forest’, Marie Therese Stehelin (Louise Mullen) reads a letter from their son, Jean Jacques, who is in the wilds of Nova Scotia, to her husband Emile Charles Stehelin (Andrew Maves) at their home in Gisors France. Karla Kelly photo View all pictures 'Lights in the Forest’ pays homage to remarkable story
Community effort helps bring local history to life
By Karla Kelly
FOR THE DIGBY COURIER
NovaNewsNow.com
The last curtain call has been made, the stage lights extinguished and the echoes of applause have faded now that the opening chapters of the compelling Stehelin story, ‘Lights in the Forest’, have been played out in the Marc Lescarbot Theatre at Universite Sainte-Anne.
Actors, crew and playwright received standing ovations and many words of congratulations for a job well done from the sold out audiences after each of the three performances Feb. 12 and 13.
Comments such as “excellent play, stellar performances, intriguing story retold where it all began, fabulous, just the right touch of humour, so happy the story’s been told” and the promising, “I’ll be here for the second part of the story, can’t wait.”
Hal Theriault’s ‘Lights in the Forest’ presented the background to, and beginnings of the Stehelin experience in coming to Nova Scotia from France in the last decade of the 1900’s and paid homage to one of the region’s most remarkable stories.
Playwright Hal Theriault spoke enthusiastically about the play and the actors’ performances.
“Everyone did a wonderful job, I am proud of them all,” said Theriault. “The cast, many of them novices, worked very hard at doing something so unique to what they were use to.”
“It was just the right mix with 25 actors ranging in age from 12 to 70 and everyone worked so well together. The end result was born from a huge community effort with contributions from local Acadian, Black and English actors,” he said.
The response from the audience was also tremendous and very much appreciated added Theriault who treated them to his special brand of humour throughout scenes in the play.
Andrew Maves in his lead role as Emile Charles Stehelin, the family patriarch, said he considers Theriault to be one of this area’s treasures and working with Hal and the cast has been incredible.
“Neither my wife, Allyson, who worked long hours helping me practice, nor I had ever known the story of ‘New France’ and the Stehelins but Hal’s craft brought it to life,” said Maves. “I have yet to visit the ‘Electric Forest’ but the play has made it a priority to me.”
The way Theriault is helping to preserve the history of our area is remarkable added Maves.
Weymouth native, Louise Mullen, who took on the role as the matriarch, Marie Therese Stehelin, late last summer, said she has childhood memories of New France through picnics at the site and history lessons.
“I knew the story well from my growing up years and it was passed on to my children as we were constantly camping at Langford Lake,” said Mullen. “With the publication of Paul Stehelin’s ‘The Electric City’ in 1983, it renewed an interest in New France and now with the play it’s nice to see the history right in our own backyard brought to life.”
Mullen added that she loved every minute of being in the play and the audience response was great.
“Their involvement, especially with the laughter made me feel that the play was going well.”
Local businessman and pharmacist Rod Lefort said playing the role of Roland was an incredible experience for him.
“I had a wonderful time being involved in the production but it was amazing the amount of work and dedication that was needed to pull it off,” said Lefort. “I hope that for a lot of these actors the laughter will be a narcotic that will encourage them to continue on in their acting careers.”
A unique part of the production was the involvement of two sets of families consisting of five members each.
One family group was made up of Weymouth residents Don McNeil (Pere Blanche) who was joined by his nephew, Dean Jones (Jean Jacques Stehelin), niece Julie Ford (Germaine Stehelin) and two of her sons, Mackenzie Ford (Maurice Stehelin) and Daniel Ford (Bernard Stehelin).
“To be part of such a wonderful cast and crew was a privilege,” said Julie Ford. “Hal’s patience with us novice actors was endless.”
Ford said it was a blessing to stand next to her children and watch her brother and uncle on stage.
“Our family has lived in this area for many generations and my grandmother knew one of the Stehelin sisters.”
“Gram passed on the love of story telling and laughter to all of us and like me, she would have been so proud,” she said. “It was a lot of hard work, a lot of fun and now the boys are just waiting for the second part of the play.”
Theriault said he is hoping to present the second half of the Stehelin story this fall or early next spring.
‘Lights in the Forest’ was presented by the Weymouth Waterfront Development Committee and Sissiboo Landing and as Louise Mullen pointed out, the play was a highlight for Weymouth and area and the village is proud.
Community effort helps bring local history to life
Article online since February 16th 2010, 8:00
In the early scenes of Hal Theriault’s play ‘Lights in the Forest’, Marie Therese Stehelin (Louise Mullen) reads a letter from their son, Jean Jacques, who is in the wilds of Nova Scotia, to her husband Emile Charles Stehelin (Andrew Maves) at their home in Gisors France. Karla Kelly photo View all pictures 'Lights in the Forest’ pays homage to remarkable story
Community effort helps bring local history to life
By Karla Kelly
FOR THE DIGBY COURIER
NovaNewsNow.com
The last curtain call has been made, the stage lights extinguished and the echoes of applause have faded now that the opening chapters of the compelling Stehelin story, ‘Lights in the Forest’, have been played out in the Marc Lescarbot Theatre at Universite Sainte-Anne.
Actors, crew and playwright received standing ovations and many words of congratulations for a job well done from the sold out audiences after each of the three performances Feb. 12 and 13.
Comments such as “excellent play, stellar performances, intriguing story retold where it all began, fabulous, just the right touch of humour, so happy the story’s been told” and the promising, “I’ll be here for the second part of the story, can’t wait.”
Hal Theriault’s ‘Lights in the Forest’ presented the background to, and beginnings of the Stehelin experience in coming to Nova Scotia from France in the last decade of the 1900’s and paid homage to one of the region’s most remarkable stories.
Playwright Hal Theriault spoke enthusiastically about the play and the actors’ performances.
“Everyone did a wonderful job, I am proud of them all,” said Theriault. “The cast, many of them novices, worked very hard at doing something so unique to what they were use to.”
“It was just the right mix with 25 actors ranging in age from 12 to 70 and everyone worked so well together. The end result was born from a huge community effort with contributions from local Acadian, Black and English actors,” he said.
The response from the audience was also tremendous and very much appreciated added Theriault who treated them to his special brand of humour throughout scenes in the play.
Andrew Maves in his lead role as Emile Charles Stehelin, the family patriarch, said he considers Theriault to be one of this area’s treasures and working with Hal and the cast has been incredible.
“Neither my wife, Allyson, who worked long hours helping me practice, nor I had ever known the story of ‘New France’ and the Stehelins but Hal’s craft brought it to life,” said Maves. “I have yet to visit the ‘Electric Forest’ but the play has made it a priority to me.”
The way Theriault is helping to preserve the history of our area is remarkable added Maves.
Weymouth native, Louise Mullen, who took on the role as the matriarch, Marie Therese Stehelin, late last summer, said she has childhood memories of New France through picnics at the site and history lessons.
“I knew the story well from my growing up years and it was passed on to my children as we were constantly camping at Langford Lake,” said Mullen. “With the publication of Paul Stehelin’s ‘The Electric City’ in 1983, it renewed an interest in New France and now with the play it’s nice to see the history right in our own backyard brought to life.”
Mullen added that she loved every minute of being in the play and the audience response was great.
“Their involvement, especially with the laughter made me feel that the play was going well.”
Local businessman and pharmacist Rod Lefort said playing the role of Roland was an incredible experience for him.
“I had a wonderful time being involved in the production but it was amazing the amount of work and dedication that was needed to pull it off,” said Lefort. “I hope that for a lot of these actors the laughter will be a narcotic that will encourage them to continue on in their acting careers.”
A unique part of the production was the involvement of two sets of families consisting of five members each.
One family group was made up of Weymouth residents Don McNeil (Pere Blanche) who was joined by his nephew, Dean Jones (Jean Jacques Stehelin), niece Julie Ford (Germaine Stehelin) and two of her sons, Mackenzie Ford (Maurice Stehelin) and Daniel Ford (Bernard Stehelin).
“To be part of such a wonderful cast and crew was a privilege,” said Julie Ford. “Hal’s patience with us novice actors was endless.”
Ford said it was a blessing to stand next to her children and watch her brother and uncle on stage.
“Our family has lived in this area for many generations and my grandmother knew one of the Stehelin sisters.”
“Gram passed on the love of story telling and laughter to all of us and like me, she would have been so proud,” she said. “It was a lot of hard work, a lot of fun and now the boys are just waiting for the second part of the play.”
Theriault said he is hoping to present the second half of the Stehelin story this fall or early next spring.
‘Lights in the Forest’ was presented by the Weymouth Waterfront Development Committee and Sissiboo Landing and as Louise Mullen pointed out, the play was a highlight for Weymouth and area and the village is proud.
News from 1900
Blogger's Note: I particulary enjoyed the report (within) saying "It is rumored taht Cupid is still busy in Freeport"
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APRIL 1900:
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LET THE GOOD WORK CONTINUE
A Freeport correspondent writes as follows: - The work of grace is still going on in Freeport. Forty three have
united with the church, and others are awaiting baptism. The young men are holding cottage meetings with good
results. The pastor is now in Tiverton engaged in special services, while the young men are holding their meetings
in Freeport and Central Grove.
Westport:
-D. McClain is in town with a stock of jewelry.
-Dr. Morgan was at the Central House last week.
-Schooner Freddie G. sailed for St. John for bait Tuesday night.
-Schooner W. K. Smith was towed to Plympton by steamer Westport.
-Schooner Minerva sailed on Monday for Brown's Bank on a halibut trip.
-John A. Ewing, under writer's agent from St. John, is at the Central.
-Schooner Hattie, Thompson, arrived from St. John on Sunday with general cargo.
-Schooner L'Etoile, Titus, arrived from Grand Manan with smoked fish for Halifax.
-Mr. Charles Suthern arrived on Monday from Yarmouth to pay a short visit to this town.
-Schooner Sovereign arrived this morning from Grand Manan with lobster bait for Yarmouth.
-Saturday night's storm was the worst we have had since the first of January, also more snow.
PASSED BRIER ISLAND:
The signal agent reports that a full rigged ship passed there yesterday morning at 7:00, bound up the Bay, and that
at 8:00 the tug Flushing passed inward.
The Flushing was at Barrington Wednesday with the ship Canara in tow, bound from Shelburne to Saint John. The
Canara was on a voyage from New York to Germany, and had put in to the former port with 4 feet of water in her
hold.
It is possible that the Flushing had dropped her tow in order to call at Yarmouth and has again joined the ship.
Freeport:
-It is rumored that Cupid is still busy in Freeport.
-J. M. Roy M.D. and family have moved to Tiverton.
-George Morrell goes as steward of the schooner Nina Blanche.
-We regret to hear that Mr. Asaph Moore is seriously ill.
-Shooners Nina Blanche and Mayflower are being painted and renovated for sea.
-Rev. E. H. Howe is still holding meetings in Tiverton. He was unable to fill his appointment with us last Sunday on
account of trouble with his throat.
-We notice several of the boys home again; among them are Al Lewis and Arch Thurber. They have returned home
as full as enthusiasm as they were when they went away.
-Dr. W. A. Morgan is expected daily. He did a rushing business while here and this second visit is to finish pieces of
work left over for lack of time and material.
-Mr. L. B. Chipman, our genial jeweler, leaves today for up the valley. There is a suspicion that he has done a good
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stroke of business here. Only one event transpired to mar the even tenor of his way, but he found the splinter and
things are running smoothly again.
Westport:
-Saturday and Sunday were the most like winter weather of any days this season. We had a gale of wind and
blinding snow storm.
-At the home of the groom's parents, April 5th, Mr. Barlow Suthern was married to Miss Bessie Phillps, of
Yarmouth County. Rev. P. S. McGreggor performed the marriage ceremony.
-Steamer Westport arrived from St. John Saturday with a full freight for Bay ports. Mrs. E. C. Bowers, Miss Nellie
Denton and Mr. Rupert Peters were passengers to Westport with their spring supply of goods.
-At the home of the groom's parents, April 4th, Mr. Robert Lafoley was united in marriage to Miss Edith Florence;
only daughter of George Bunker, of Little River, Digby County. The ceremony was performed by Rev. P. S.
MacGreggor.
-Mrs. Phoebe Suthern, widow of the late Joshua Suthern, passed away at 1:00 Sunday afternoon, aged 67. She was
the daughter of Deacon Franklin Potter. She leaves 3 sons and 1 daughter to mourn their loss, also one half-sister,
Mrs. Cynthia Suthern.
A WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE:
R. G. D. Richardson, B. A., principal of Westport school, had a scholarly three column article in the issue of April
6th, of the Middleton Outlook. Subject "The aims and history of the Institute". As Secretary Treasurer of that
body, he was well fitted for the task, and during the recent sessions it was very favorably discussed by the
Superintendent of Education and other prominent educationists. In the last issue of the same paper, among the
sketches of a half dozen prominent teachers of the district, is a cut and an article on his life and work in his
profession. Mr. Richardson reported the Institute for one of the Halifax papers.
VESSEL'S NAME CHANGED:
The name of the schooner Mary A. Taylor, of Westport has, by order in council, been changed to "Mildred M."
and a new register issued. The above vessel was built in the United States many years ago and has been owned since
1897 by Messrs. Morris D. Peters and Collin Titus of Westport. She is 63 feet long, 19 feet beam, 7 feet deep and is
52 tons register.
HARBOR MASTER AT TIVERTON:
By a recent order in council Tiverton is now a public harbor. Mr. Joel Blackford has been appointed Harbor
Master. This has been a long felt want and we congratulate the enterprising village in their upward march.
Westport:
-There is quite a number of our fishing boats ready for the fishing business.
-The boats are all out on the fishing grounds this morning. It looks like spring. Dandelions are in blossom.
-Schooner Hattie arrived today from Meteghan River, with timber and lumber for the enlargement of E. C.
Bowers' residence.
-The Guano factory is going on very rapidly, so I think there is no doubt but we will have a clean shore this
summer, when the tourists arrive.
-Capt. Denis Sullivan arrived today on his first ferry trip for this season. He intends making his weekly trips as
usual. He is looking as well as he did 50 years ago.
TIVERTON:
-Mr. Edward Blackford is getting ready to build a new house.
-Mr. Jacob P. Wyman has painted Mr. Joel Blackford's house.
-Schooner Alfred, Capt. F. P. Small, is ready for the freighting business.
-We have now a public harbor, with Mr. Joel Blackford as Harbor Master.
-We are anxiously looking for the commencement of our much needed breakwater.
-L. S. Morse, Esq., Inspector of Public Schools, passed through to Westport on the 20th.
-A large amount of halibut have been caught by our fishermen this spring, some as heavy as 300 pounds.
-Capt. John Sollows has been doing considerable painting, and white-washing about his residence.
-Mr. Freeman Small, who has been laid up so long with a lame arm, we are glad to say is getting better.
-Another store is about to be built by Mr. Howard Ossinger, which will make 10 stores in number for Tiverton.
-Schooner Annie and Lizzie, Capt. Handford Outhouse, has sailed for Halifax with a cargo of smoked herring and
dry fish.
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-We are having some very fine spring weather. The fields are looking very green. Tiverton is a busy place at present.
-Capt. John Mckay has bought the schooner Restless from Centreville parties. He has 3 loads of coal engaged for
different ports.
-David Loomer, Esq., of St. John, who is running a general store and factory in this place, came to town by steamer
Westport Saturday night.
-Rev. E. H. Howe, pastor of the Baptist church, is holding special meetings in Tiverton and East Ferry. Quite a
number, we understand, are to be baptised on Sunday 29th.
-Mr. George Hegan has accepted a fine position as night watchman in one of the large factories in the U.S. we are
glad of this good position for "George". He is also very much improved in health.
-Another fishing vessel has been added to the fleet - the schooner Minnie C., bought by Mr. Lyman H. Outhouse
from Capt. Charles Bailey, of Westport, and commanded by Capt. George Sollows, of this town.
-William Kay, Esq., of Leonardsville, D. I., who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Alpheus Handspiker, has returned
home very much pleased with the place and people. He also made very many friends while in this town.
-The schooner A. B. Parker, owned by Capt. Holland Outhouse, is at Meteghan, being very extensively repaired. A
new stern is being put in and other necessary work done. They say she will be a very handsome vessel when she
returns from the blocks. Capt. John Clifford takes charge of her this season.
FREEPORT:
-Rev. E. H. Howe baptized 4 candidates on Sunday afternoon.
-In spite of the rainy evening our "Ice Cream" social was quite a success. About $10 was realized.
-La Grippe is the fashionable malady just now. There are several cases, but quite mild in character.
-Capt. Ernest Lewis formerly mate of the S. S. Westport, leaves soon to take command of a tug up the Bay of Fundy.
-Mr. Ralph Morrell left for French shore yesterday at 1:00 p.m. returning at 5:00 p.m.. Not so bad for the new
boat. The boat was built by Mr. Wallace Haines of this place.
-We are happy to hear that Miss Lizzie Lewis is rapidly recovering from injuries received in a bicycle tumble. Also
that Mrs. E. Haines who met with quite a severe accident is around again.
WESTPORT:
-Schooner Dominion is here discharging a load of soft coal for E. C. Bowers.
-Schooner Gertie is here from Parrsboro, landing a cargo of coal for the Insular S. S. Company.
-We had quite an exciting boat race on the harbor Saturday, Capt. Cousins' new boat "Moose", carried away her
spar and had to be towed home.
-Capt. Charles Bailey finished his boat, the Addie B., and will launch her out of the shop about the first day of May.
She will be rigged Irish style. Her dimensions are length over all, 40 feet, length of keel, 25 feet, breadth of beam, 13
feet, depth of hole, 6 feet. I think she is the finest boat of the kind that is at present in Westport.
-Miss Florence Cowie of Westport is a pupil at the Halifax School for the Blind.
-Welch - Born at Westport, on the 19th to Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Welch a son.
(April 30th): The new boat was launched from Capt. Bailey's wharf Monday. She makes a fine appearance on the
water.
-Mr. James Strickland has sold the S. S. Gem to parties up St. John river. She steamed over last Sunday, making a
quick run across the Bay.
Death's
Died at Boston: Miss Maggie Cutten, sister of Mrs. Ralph Eldridge, died at Boston on Saturday last. The remains
will arrive by steamer Yarmouth tomorrow morning, and will be forwarded to her former home, Freeport for
burial.
-We are sorry to have to report the death of Mrs. Letitia Welch. She passed away on the 24th at 5 p.m. She leaves 3
children, 24 grandchildren, and 25 great-grandchildren.
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APRIL 1900:
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LET THE GOOD WORK CONTINUE
A Freeport correspondent writes as follows: - The work of grace is still going on in Freeport. Forty three have
united with the church, and others are awaiting baptism. The young men are holding cottage meetings with good
results. The pastor is now in Tiverton engaged in special services, while the young men are holding their meetings
in Freeport and Central Grove.
Westport:
-D. McClain is in town with a stock of jewelry.
-Dr. Morgan was at the Central House last week.
-Schooner Freddie G. sailed for St. John for bait Tuesday night.
-Schooner W. K. Smith was towed to Plympton by steamer Westport.
-Schooner Minerva sailed on Monday for Brown's Bank on a halibut trip.
-John A. Ewing, under writer's agent from St. John, is at the Central.
-Schooner Hattie, Thompson, arrived from St. John on Sunday with general cargo.
-Schooner L'Etoile, Titus, arrived from Grand Manan with smoked fish for Halifax.
-Mr. Charles Suthern arrived on Monday from Yarmouth to pay a short visit to this town.
-Schooner Sovereign arrived this morning from Grand Manan with lobster bait for Yarmouth.
-Saturday night's storm was the worst we have had since the first of January, also more snow.
PASSED BRIER ISLAND:
The signal agent reports that a full rigged ship passed there yesterday morning at 7:00, bound up the Bay, and that
at 8:00 the tug Flushing passed inward.
The Flushing was at Barrington Wednesday with the ship Canara in tow, bound from Shelburne to Saint John. The
Canara was on a voyage from New York to Germany, and had put in to the former port with 4 feet of water in her
hold.
It is possible that the Flushing had dropped her tow in order to call at Yarmouth and has again joined the ship.
Freeport:
-It is rumored that Cupid is still busy in Freeport.
-J. M. Roy M.D. and family have moved to Tiverton.
-George Morrell goes as steward of the schooner Nina Blanche.
-We regret to hear that Mr. Asaph Moore is seriously ill.
-Shooners Nina Blanche and Mayflower are being painted and renovated for sea.
-Rev. E. H. Howe is still holding meetings in Tiverton. He was unable to fill his appointment with us last Sunday on
account of trouble with his throat.
-We notice several of the boys home again; among them are Al Lewis and Arch Thurber. They have returned home
as full as enthusiasm as they were when they went away.
-Dr. W. A. Morgan is expected daily. He did a rushing business while here and this second visit is to finish pieces of
work left over for lack of time and material.
-Mr. L. B. Chipman, our genial jeweler, leaves today for up the valley. There is a suspicion that he has done a good
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stroke of business here. Only one event transpired to mar the even tenor of his way, but he found the splinter and
things are running smoothly again.
Westport:
-Saturday and Sunday were the most like winter weather of any days this season. We had a gale of wind and
blinding snow storm.
-At the home of the groom's parents, April 5th, Mr. Barlow Suthern was married to Miss Bessie Phillps, of
Yarmouth County. Rev. P. S. McGreggor performed the marriage ceremony.
-Steamer Westport arrived from St. John Saturday with a full freight for Bay ports. Mrs. E. C. Bowers, Miss Nellie
Denton and Mr. Rupert Peters were passengers to Westport with their spring supply of goods.
-At the home of the groom's parents, April 4th, Mr. Robert Lafoley was united in marriage to Miss Edith Florence;
only daughter of George Bunker, of Little River, Digby County. The ceremony was performed by Rev. P. S.
MacGreggor.
-Mrs. Phoebe Suthern, widow of the late Joshua Suthern, passed away at 1:00 Sunday afternoon, aged 67. She was
the daughter of Deacon Franklin Potter. She leaves 3 sons and 1 daughter to mourn their loss, also one half-sister,
Mrs. Cynthia Suthern.
A WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE:
R. G. D. Richardson, B. A., principal of Westport school, had a scholarly three column article in the issue of April
6th, of the Middleton Outlook. Subject "The aims and history of the Institute". As Secretary Treasurer of that
body, he was well fitted for the task, and during the recent sessions it was very favorably discussed by the
Superintendent of Education and other prominent educationists. In the last issue of the same paper, among the
sketches of a half dozen prominent teachers of the district, is a cut and an article on his life and work in his
profession. Mr. Richardson reported the Institute for one of the Halifax papers.
VESSEL'S NAME CHANGED:
The name of the schooner Mary A. Taylor, of Westport has, by order in council, been changed to "Mildred M."
and a new register issued. The above vessel was built in the United States many years ago and has been owned since
1897 by Messrs. Morris D. Peters and Collin Titus of Westport. She is 63 feet long, 19 feet beam, 7 feet deep and is
52 tons register.
HARBOR MASTER AT TIVERTON:
By a recent order in council Tiverton is now a public harbor. Mr. Joel Blackford has been appointed Harbor
Master. This has been a long felt want and we congratulate the enterprising village in their upward march.
Westport:
-There is quite a number of our fishing boats ready for the fishing business.
-The boats are all out on the fishing grounds this morning. It looks like spring. Dandelions are in blossom.
-Schooner Hattie arrived today from Meteghan River, with timber and lumber for the enlargement of E. C.
Bowers' residence.
-The Guano factory is going on very rapidly, so I think there is no doubt but we will have a clean shore this
summer, when the tourists arrive.
-Capt. Denis Sullivan arrived today on his first ferry trip for this season. He intends making his weekly trips as
usual. He is looking as well as he did 50 years ago.
TIVERTON:
-Mr. Edward Blackford is getting ready to build a new house.
-Mr. Jacob P. Wyman has painted Mr. Joel Blackford's house.
-Schooner Alfred, Capt. F. P. Small, is ready for the freighting business.
-We have now a public harbor, with Mr. Joel Blackford as Harbor Master.
-We are anxiously looking for the commencement of our much needed breakwater.
-L. S. Morse, Esq., Inspector of Public Schools, passed through to Westport on the 20th.
-A large amount of halibut have been caught by our fishermen this spring, some as heavy as 300 pounds.
-Capt. John Sollows has been doing considerable painting, and white-washing about his residence.
-Mr. Freeman Small, who has been laid up so long with a lame arm, we are glad to say is getting better.
-Another store is about to be built by Mr. Howard Ossinger, which will make 10 stores in number for Tiverton.
-Schooner Annie and Lizzie, Capt. Handford Outhouse, has sailed for Halifax with a cargo of smoked herring and
dry fish.
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-We are having some very fine spring weather. The fields are looking very green. Tiverton is a busy place at present.
-Capt. John Mckay has bought the schooner Restless from Centreville parties. He has 3 loads of coal engaged for
different ports.
-David Loomer, Esq., of St. John, who is running a general store and factory in this place, came to town by steamer
Westport Saturday night.
-Rev. E. H. Howe, pastor of the Baptist church, is holding special meetings in Tiverton and East Ferry. Quite a
number, we understand, are to be baptised on Sunday 29th.
-Mr. George Hegan has accepted a fine position as night watchman in one of the large factories in the U.S. we are
glad of this good position for "George". He is also very much improved in health.
-Another fishing vessel has been added to the fleet - the schooner Minnie C., bought by Mr. Lyman H. Outhouse
from Capt. Charles Bailey, of Westport, and commanded by Capt. George Sollows, of this town.
-William Kay, Esq., of Leonardsville, D. I., who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Alpheus Handspiker, has returned
home very much pleased with the place and people. He also made very many friends while in this town.
-The schooner A. B. Parker, owned by Capt. Holland Outhouse, is at Meteghan, being very extensively repaired. A
new stern is being put in and other necessary work done. They say she will be a very handsome vessel when she
returns from the blocks. Capt. John Clifford takes charge of her this season.
FREEPORT:
-Rev. E. H. Howe baptized 4 candidates on Sunday afternoon.
-In spite of the rainy evening our "Ice Cream" social was quite a success. About $10 was realized.
-La Grippe is the fashionable malady just now. There are several cases, but quite mild in character.
-Capt. Ernest Lewis formerly mate of the S. S. Westport, leaves soon to take command of a tug up the Bay of Fundy.
-Mr. Ralph Morrell left for French shore yesterday at 1:00 p.m. returning at 5:00 p.m.. Not so bad for the new
boat. The boat was built by Mr. Wallace Haines of this place.
-We are happy to hear that Miss Lizzie Lewis is rapidly recovering from injuries received in a bicycle tumble. Also
that Mrs. E. Haines who met with quite a severe accident is around again.
WESTPORT:
-Schooner Dominion is here discharging a load of soft coal for E. C. Bowers.
-Schooner Gertie is here from Parrsboro, landing a cargo of coal for the Insular S. S. Company.
-We had quite an exciting boat race on the harbor Saturday, Capt. Cousins' new boat "Moose", carried away her
spar and had to be towed home.
-Capt. Charles Bailey finished his boat, the Addie B., and will launch her out of the shop about the first day of May.
She will be rigged Irish style. Her dimensions are length over all, 40 feet, length of keel, 25 feet, breadth of beam, 13
feet, depth of hole, 6 feet. I think she is the finest boat of the kind that is at present in Westport.
-Miss Florence Cowie of Westport is a pupil at the Halifax School for the Blind.
-Welch - Born at Westport, on the 19th to Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Welch a son.
(April 30th): The new boat was launched from Capt. Bailey's wharf Monday. She makes a fine appearance on the
water.
-Mr. James Strickland has sold the S. S. Gem to parties up St. John river. She steamed over last Sunday, making a
quick run across the Bay.
Death's
Died at Boston: Miss Maggie Cutten, sister of Mrs. Ralph Eldridge, died at Boston on Saturday last. The remains
will arrive by steamer Yarmouth tomorrow morning, and will be forwarded to her former home, Freeport for
burial.
-We are sorry to have to report the death of Mrs. Letitia Welch. She passed away on the 24th at 5 p.m. She leaves 3
children, 24 grandchildren, and 25 great-grandchildren.
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