Petition asking for liquor store on Long Island and Digby Neck
Curious onlookers gathered to watch the first load of beer come off the truck and into Brier Island’s new NSLC agency store. Jonathan Riley photo
Published on June 10, 2011
Published on June 10, 2011
Jonathan Riley Residents of Long Island and Digby Neck want a place to buy alcohol, too. They say the recent decision by the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation to put an agency store on Brier Island did little for them.
Topics : Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation , Store in Centre Grove , Long Island , Brier Island , Freeport
Ossinger’s Store in Centre Grove, in the middle of Long Island, used to sell alcohol but closed this spring.
The NSLC put out a tender on April 4 asking for proposals for an agency store in the Digby Neck area, from Sandy Cove to Brier Island.
Two stores applied for the tender: R. E. Robicheau’s on Brier Island run by Wally and Joyce DeVries, and Long Island Trading in Tiverton on the eastern end of Long Island, run by Stanton Seamone.
On May 27, the NSLC announced that they had accepted the DeVries’ bid and they started selling alcohol on June 7.
Karen Crocker of Freeport has no problem with Brier Island getting a store but she doesn’t see how it helps people on Digby Neck and Long Island.
She started a petition requesting the NSLC maintain at least the level of service the people of Long Island had grown accustomed to.
Stanton Seamone who runs Long Island Trading says there were 138 signatures on the petition in his store and another 80 or so in Freeport on June 9.
David Tudor of Freeport is the municipal councilor for district four which covers Brier and Long islands and Digby Neck down past Little River. He says he is happy that Brier Island has a store, but he would have been happier if both stores had been accepted.
“I thought there was room for both stores. Now for people in East Ferry it means two ferry trips. So this doesn’t help them really.”
Rick Perkins, spokesperson for the NSLC, says Robicheau’s won the contract through a public tender process and any unsuccessful applicants can, upon request, receive an explanation and a debriefing on their submission.
The request for proposals states that potential stores must be at least 10 kilometres from any agent in any other community, and at least 13 kilometres from the closest existing NSLC store.
The request for proposals, including selection criteria, is available here online
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Dan Mills on Rural Living
From: Dan Mills
To: infomorning@halifax.cbc.ca
Cc: dan mills
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:49 PM
Subject: Fw: country living
Dear CBC:Information Morning,
I may have misunderstood, but I think the question I heard suggested is that rural living is less expensive than urban living. If that is the case,I don't think any of you at CBC ever tried living in the boonies like I and so many others do by choice.
Depending upon how far we live from all the amenities which can be found not too far from city doors,the costs escalate.I live on Digby Neck, just ten miles from a small town.Many live 15 miles further down on the mainland, while others live on one of two islands that require ferry trips beyond the mainland....
The farther we have to go, the more expensive the trip. If folks come from the farthest Island,it costs them two ferry tolls. When we get to Digby, we have but 2 choices to shop for groceries. You know what that means? No real competition, so prices for the basics are optimum. That's not to say that the flyers do not advise us from time to time of one discount, but you have to consider if the cost to get there in transportation and time is worth the trip to save a few cents on a roll of bread.
Of course, you must know that we have to pay more for gasoline here in the country as compared to metro. In metro, if you drive, you will likely find what you need within a mile or so. Here, we may have to drive forty or more miles just for some basic need.
Take a look at Health Care. In the City there are hospitals and clinics within minutes from most homes. Here,a good part of the time our out-patient service is closed for lack of medical practitioners. Did you know that one of the most normal of things in creation, having a baby, cannot take place in Digby County?
A woman has to travel to Kentvllle in Kings or Yarmouth Regional in Yarmouth County to give birth! Picture the young woman a few years ago (a friend and neighbor) who had a series of false alarms over some weeks,a young husband who had to ply his trade each day from early morn to night, and 2 or 3 A.M. trips from Digby Neck to Kentville at many times to get there and find out "It's not the time!"
I have a neighbor now whose wife five weeks ago suffered a massive stroke.She's been in Yarmouth Hospital ever since. Their children come from the city in their hours off work,and the husband stays by her bedside all the time so she shall not be alone.That's 75 miles away. When family members come,he comes to his place to check their pets and so forth. Eating meals at the cafeteria cost a minimum of $70.00 per week.....And gas to and fro isn't cheap. (In the city, you can grab a bus to do the same.) Weive in a very real world here!Even when we are old!
We have people here who travel 3 days per week to Yarmouth for dialysis. That's a long and tiring and expensive day.(It seems a snub to us here because there is an excellent machine in our local hospital for carrying out that function with people who can do it,but bureaucracy has decided 'no'.)
The last time I went to a movie was to see "Titanic" at the nearest theatre in Yarmouth. That was nearly 15 years ago. It was a great trip there, but the return took place in a blinding snowstorm on highway 101- that 60 mile stretch! At nearly 74, it's not an appealing enterprise to repeat that again! (So I watch re-runs of "Murder She Wrote! on TV most nights!)
I needed a pair of winter boots a year or so ago. We have no shoe or clothing store in our little town. I suppose one could buy "cardboard" footwear at the nearby big box place, but if you want something good that will last a few years and give you comfort, you have to go to Yarmouth or Greenwood at best to find it.
Need I rant on? And my rant is no complaint, let me assure you! I love where I live, and that by choice.So do all the people who here support with their labor the medical and educational system, as all other government workers. They too choose to live here, and they pay the price of seemed inconvenience.
At days end though, they deserve and earn the pay of anyone who works in public service in metro, can't you see?....Or to put it another way, my humble "think" is that the premier and his crowd would like us all to move to metro- in the slums or otherwise according to our personal wealth (or lack thereof) - so the rape of land and sea and forest can drive all of us out of rural Nova Scotia in the name of "The Economy!"
Therein lies the rub! People are the economy of a community,a province, or a country! The work that people do in any part is worthy of equal pay.
Dan Mills
RR 4 , Digby NS
BOV 1AO
902-245-5171
To: infomorning@halifax.cbc.ca
Cc: dan mills
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:49 PM
Subject: Fw: country living
Dear CBC:Information Morning,
I may have misunderstood, but I think the question I heard suggested is that rural living is less expensive than urban living. If that is the case,I don't think any of you at CBC ever tried living in the boonies like I and so many others do by choice.
Depending upon how far we live from all the amenities which can be found not too far from city doors,the costs escalate.I live on Digby Neck, just ten miles from a small town.Many live 15 miles further down on the mainland, while others live on one of two islands that require ferry trips beyond the mainland....
The farther we have to go, the more expensive the trip. If folks come from the farthest Island,it costs them two ferry tolls. When we get to Digby, we have but 2 choices to shop for groceries. You know what that means? No real competition, so prices for the basics are optimum. That's not to say that the flyers do not advise us from time to time of one discount, but you have to consider if the cost to get there in transportation and time is worth the trip to save a few cents on a roll of bread.
Of course, you must know that we have to pay more for gasoline here in the country as compared to metro. In metro, if you drive, you will likely find what you need within a mile or so. Here, we may have to drive forty or more miles just for some basic need.
Take a look at Health Care. In the City there are hospitals and clinics within minutes from most homes. Here,a good part of the time our out-patient service is closed for lack of medical practitioners. Did you know that one of the most normal of things in creation, having a baby, cannot take place in Digby County?
A woman has to travel to Kentvllle in Kings or Yarmouth Regional in Yarmouth County to give birth! Picture the young woman a few years ago (a friend and neighbor) who had a series of false alarms over some weeks,a young husband who had to ply his trade each day from early morn to night, and 2 or 3 A.M. trips from Digby Neck to Kentville at many times to get there and find out "It's not the time!"
I have a neighbor now whose wife five weeks ago suffered a massive stroke.She's been in Yarmouth Hospital ever since. Their children come from the city in their hours off work,and the husband stays by her bedside all the time so she shall not be alone.That's 75 miles away. When family members come,he comes to his place to check their pets and so forth. Eating meals at the cafeteria cost a minimum of $70.00 per week.....And gas to and fro isn't cheap. (In the city, you can grab a bus to do the same.) Weive in a very real world here!Even when we are old!
We have people here who travel 3 days per week to Yarmouth for dialysis. That's a long and tiring and expensive day.(It seems a snub to us here because there is an excellent machine in our local hospital for carrying out that function with people who can do it,but bureaucracy has decided 'no'.)
The last time I went to a movie was to see "Titanic" at the nearest theatre in Yarmouth. That was nearly 15 years ago. It was a great trip there, but the return took place in a blinding snowstorm on highway 101- that 60 mile stretch! At nearly 74, it's not an appealing enterprise to repeat that again! (So I watch re-runs of "Murder She Wrote! on TV most nights!)
I needed a pair of winter boots a year or so ago. We have no shoe or clothing store in our little town. I suppose one could buy "cardboard" footwear at the nearby big box place, but if you want something good that will last a few years and give you comfort, you have to go to Yarmouth or Greenwood at best to find it.
Need I rant on? And my rant is no complaint, let me assure you! I love where I live, and that by choice.So do all the people who here support with their labor the medical and educational system, as all other government workers. They too choose to live here, and they pay the price of seemed inconvenience.
At days end though, they deserve and earn the pay of anyone who works in public service in metro, can't you see?....Or to put it another way, my humble "think" is that the premier and his crowd would like us all to move to metro- in the slums or otherwise according to our personal wealth (or lack thereof) - so the rape of land and sea and forest can drive all of us out of rural Nova Scotia in the name of "The Economy!"
Therein lies the rub! People are the economy of a community,a province, or a country! The work that people do in any part is worthy of equal pay.
Dan Mills
RR 4 , Digby NS
BOV 1AO
902-245-5171
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