Public Meeting Thursday
Please come to a public meeting at the Freeport School, Thursday, November 19 at 6:45 pm to discuss the Nurse Practitioner issue and for updates. Please spread the word, please bring a friend.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Destination Southwest Nova Association
Destination Southwest Nova Association
Mid-Year Review
Learn about how your Destination Marketing Organization can work for you!
DSWNA
representing the
Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley,
Yarmouth & Acadian Shores
and the South Shore
would like to remind you of the
DSWNA Mid-Year Review
on
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
at 1:30pm
at
the Visitor Information Centre at
Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site of Canada
Agenda items include: What's New & Exciting,
Communications, Visitor Services, Marketing, General Manager's Update, Discussion on Regional Guides
Please RSVP by Thursday, November 12th, 2009 to:
Phone: (902) 634-8844
info@dswna.com
www.destinationsouthwestnova.com
Mid-Year Review
Learn about how your Destination Marketing Organization can work for you!
DSWNA
representing the
Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley,
Yarmouth & Acadian Shores
and the South Shore
would like to remind you of the
DSWNA Mid-Year Review
on
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
at 1:30pm
at
the Visitor Information Centre at
Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site of Canada
Agenda items include: What's New & Exciting,
Communications, Visitor Services, Marketing, General Manager's Update, Discussion on Regional Guides
Please RSVP by Thursday, November 12th, 2009 to:
Phone: (902) 634-8844
info@dswna.com
www.destinationsouthwestnova.com
Turbines Not as Efficient as Believed
From The Daily Observer
The reality of wind turbines is not as efficient as lobbyists would like the public to believe
Editor:
The article in the Thursday, Oct. 27 edition of The Daily Observer, 'Energy solution blowing in the wind,' is an example of alternative energy propaganda funded by wind farm companies and promoted by environmental lobby groups.
Mr. Berton has nothing but praise for Spain and its supposedly 13 per cent production figure, but what he doesn't tell you is that although the wind is free, the means to produce power from it is twice as expensive as conventional power plants. Furthermore, Spain is now realizing how inefficient wind power is.
England is on the brink of a blackout in about seven years because of its commitment to wind power. The British have spent billions of pounds installing 2,000 wind turbines that barely produce one per cent of the power needed.
They signed on to Kyoto and are legally obligated to produce 32 per cent of their power from alternative energy sources by 2010. Let's do the math: If 2,000 wind turbines barely produce one per cent of need, then 32 times 2,000 means it would take
64,000 turbines to meet the
target. Each turbine needs about four
acres, four times 64,000 amounts to 256,000 acres and England would be hard-pressed to find room for 10,000 turbines. Prime Minister Brown and his group of
environmental dreamers are in fantasy land.
They are proposing to close their coal and oil-fired power plants and eight of their nine nuclear plants are so old that they will be forced to shut down, amounting to approximately 65 per cent of their power production.
The government is now reluctantly proposing to build a new generation of nuclear
power plants, but it has
waited too long and will not have them in place before the county runs out of
power. Britain sold its world class nuclear construction company, Westinghouse, to the Japanese for a fire sale price.
Germany has installed more than 3,000 wind turbines and are in the process of building 40 more clean coal-fired plants, because they now realize how inefficient and expensive wind power is.
In Ontario, Mr. McGuinty and his group of socialist comrades are travelling down the same road, and if not stopped, WE will be looking at power shortfalls in 10 years. I suggest rather than wasting our tax dollars on wind power, we should be refurbishing or building new nuclear power plants and also clean coal power plants.
The notion that wind power can replace conventional and nuclear power production is ridiculous and just a means for extracting our tax dollars from naive political leaders by the use of alarmism.
The sad reality is there is a lot of money behind wind power promoted by environmental lobby groups, and I would love to follow that paper trail to see who is getting it.
Mack Thrasher,
Laurentian Valley
The reality of wind turbines is not as efficient as lobbyists would like the public to believe
Editor:
The article in the Thursday, Oct. 27 edition of The Daily Observer, 'Energy solution blowing in the wind,' is an example of alternative energy propaganda funded by wind farm companies and promoted by environmental lobby groups.
Mr. Berton has nothing but praise for Spain and its supposedly 13 per cent production figure, but what he doesn't tell you is that although the wind is free, the means to produce power from it is twice as expensive as conventional power plants. Furthermore, Spain is now realizing how inefficient wind power is.
England is on the brink of a blackout in about seven years because of its commitment to wind power. The British have spent billions of pounds installing 2,000 wind turbines that barely produce one per cent of the power needed.
They signed on to Kyoto and are legally obligated to produce 32 per cent of their power from alternative energy sources by 2010. Let's do the math: If 2,000 wind turbines barely produce one per cent of need, then 32 times 2,000 means it would take
64,000 turbines to meet the
target. Each turbine needs about four
acres, four times 64,000 amounts to 256,000 acres and England would be hard-pressed to find room for 10,000 turbines. Prime Minister Brown and his group of
environmental dreamers are in fantasy land.
They are proposing to close their coal and oil-fired power plants and eight of their nine nuclear plants are so old that they will be forced to shut down, amounting to approximately 65 per cent of their power production.
The government is now reluctantly proposing to build a new generation of nuclear
power plants, but it has
waited too long and will not have them in place before the county runs out of
power. Britain sold its world class nuclear construction company, Westinghouse, to the Japanese for a fire sale price.
Germany has installed more than 3,000 wind turbines and are in the process of building 40 more clean coal-fired plants, because they now realize how inefficient and expensive wind power is.
In Ontario, Mr. McGuinty and his group of socialist comrades are travelling down the same road, and if not stopped, WE will be looking at power shortfalls in 10 years. I suggest rather than wasting our tax dollars on wind power, we should be refurbishing or building new nuclear power plants and also clean coal power plants.
The notion that wind power can replace conventional and nuclear power production is ridiculous and just a means for extracting our tax dollars from naive political leaders by the use of alarmism.
The sad reality is there is a lot of money behind wind power promoted by environmental lobby groups, and I would love to follow that paper trail to see who is getting it.
Mack Thrasher,
Laurentian Valley
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Carol Littleton's Response to Newspaper
Re the Nov 12th piece on wind turbines by Judy Myrden
Where there is high profit to be made it is tempting to distort the inconvenient truths involved – it is no different with wind turbines. Even the greens and environmentalists can be accused of ignorance in this regard. Do they understand that dirty coal plants have NOT been closed down no matter how many turbines are built? ( when the wind dies suddenly another source of energy needs to be ready immediately to pick up the slack, so plants can not be turned off but have to be kept “ on the ready”) Therefore carbon emission reductions are much exaggerated. Do they know that Denmark , regarded as the most advanced in installation of wind turbines have switched to off shore turbine development only ? Do they know that the separation distances legislated in France, Scotland and coming in the rest of the UK is 2400 meters ? Do they know that the reason why the negative effects have not been publicized is that those who innocently lease the land have to sign a contract which muzzles them forever? Those who suffer are ridiculed – investors and developers continue to fund media to keep up the myth of NIMBYism !! Even homeowners who are suffering dare not speak up if they want to be able to unload their homes. Go on line and discover there are petitions all over the world requesting a moratorium on these gigantic installations until health effects have been properly researched Carol Littleton Annapolis Royal
Where there is high profit to be made it is tempting to distort the inconvenient truths involved – it is no different with wind turbines. Even the greens and environmentalists can be accused of ignorance in this regard. Do they understand that dirty coal plants have NOT been closed down no matter how many turbines are built? ( when the wind dies suddenly another source of energy needs to be ready immediately to pick up the slack, so plants can not be turned off but have to be kept “ on the ready”) Therefore carbon emission reductions are much exaggerated. Do they know that Denmark , regarded as the most advanced in installation of wind turbines have switched to off shore turbine development only ? Do they know that the separation distances legislated in France, Scotland and coming in the rest of the UK is 2400 meters ? Do they know that the reason why the negative effects have not been publicized is that those who innocently lease the land have to sign a contract which muzzles them forever? Those who suffer are ridiculed – investors and developers continue to fund media to keep up the myth of NIMBYism !! Even homeowners who are suffering dare not speak up if they want to be able to unload their homes. Go on line and discover there are petitions all over the world requesting a moratorium on these gigantic installations until health effects have been properly researched Carol Littleton Annapolis Royal
A Local Food Video Clip
From Tom Paton and Jennifer
Subject: More good news! An encouraging "local food" video clip...
Dear All,
Thanks to BC/Digby friend Jennifer Hill for this yet-another delicious-looking local food video clip. The distinction between farm and garden is becoming nicely fuzzy. All produces FOOD...
Jennifer has started EM (Environmental Microorganisms) Bokashi probiotic composting (and food growing) in almost a dozen schools in BC and is active in the local-food thru micro-markets movement there etc. etc.
Thanks for growing and sharing food and enriching your local soil via composting...,
Tom
EM Atlantic Canada Network
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See video clip below---
I hope you enjoy this great little video as much as I did. Just replace the west coast names with local names in your area and voila you have SW Nova Scotia.
Cheers
Jennifer
http://vimeo.com/7409888
jennh@smartt.com
Subject: More good news! An encouraging "local food" video clip...
Dear All,
Thanks to BC/Digby friend Jennifer Hill for this yet-another delicious-looking local food video clip. The distinction between farm and garden is becoming nicely fuzzy. All produces FOOD...
Jennifer has started EM (Environmental Microorganisms) Bokashi probiotic composting (and food growing) in almost a dozen schools in BC and is active in the local-food thru micro-markets movement there etc. etc.
Thanks for growing and sharing food and enriching your local soil via composting...,
Tom
EM Atlantic Canada Network
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See video clip below---
I hope you enjoy this great little video as much as I did. Just replace the west coast names with local names in your area and voila you have SW Nova Scotia.
Cheers
Jennifer
http://vimeo.com/7409888
jennh@smartt.com
Labels:
Local food gardens
Events Coming Up
Nov. 17 - Blood donor clinic, Digby Fire Hall, from 1-3 p.m., and 5-7 p.m.
Nov. 17 - Volunteer food handler course. Digby Area Arena, 2nd floor, from 6–9 p.m. Basics of food safety. Pre-register with Heather Charlton at 467-3269. Free for volunteers only.
Nov. 18 - Digby Area Learning Association annual general meeting in Digby Community Education Centre multi-purpose room at 10 a.m. Open to public.
Nov. 18-Feb. 10 - Scallop Palette Gallery in Digby General Hospital showing paintings inspired by winter. Featured artist Angela O’Neil.
Nov. 22 - ‘Sights of Christmas’ concert, Trinity Anglican Church, Digby, from 3-7 p.m. Tickets available in advance or at the door.
Nov. 22 - Fundraising concert in Oakdene Centre, Bear River, at 3 p.m. with Stan Carew of CBC Weekend Morning & his Band of Magpies. Advance tickets at Digby Convenience & Cherry Brook Grocery. Proceeds for upkeep of Oakdene Centre.
Nov. 26 & 28, Dec. 3 & 12 - Well women’s clinic. Digby General Hospital consultants’ clinic. To book appointment, call 24502502, ext. 3282.
Nov. 28 - Gingerbread competition. Holiday Spirit Fair at Rebekah Music Hall, Bear River, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Over 20 artists & live music. Register Nov. 25 with your finished gingerbread house. Organized by Women In Rural Enterprise
Nov. 28 - Annual Italian feast. Annapolis Royal Fire Hall from 3–7 p.m. to support Homeless Animals Rescue Team. For advance tickets, call (902) 341-HART. Proceeds to Port Royal Animal Hospital.
Dec. 2-3 - Book sale. Weymouth Consolidated School from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Tuesdays - ‘Baby & Me’. Family Resource Centre, Digby, from 1 - 2:30 p.m., for parents of babies to 18 months. For information, call 245-6464.
Wednesday-Friday - ’Mother’s United’ for mothers and expectant mothers. Wednesdays at Weymouth library; Thursdays in Little River Baptist Church vestry; Fridays in Digby Family Resource Centre. For information, call 245-6464.
Sundays - Women’s hockey. Digby Area Arena from 9 to 10 a.m. All skills levels welcome. For more information, contact Kim at 245-4631.
AT THE LIBRARIES:
Nov. 20 - Launch of book ‘Led by love’ with poetry by Nora Comeau from 2-4 p.m. in Isaiah W. Wilson Memorial Library, Digby.
To Nov. 28 - Annual book sale at Weymouth branch library.
To Dec. 30 - ‘Gifts from the Sea and Land’ art exhibit at Weymouth branch library featuring paintings of artists with the Atelier de Clare.
Nov. 17 - Volunteer food handler course. Digby Area Arena, 2nd floor, from 6–9 p.m. Basics of food safety. Pre-register with Heather Charlton at 467-3269. Free for volunteers only.
Nov. 18 - Digby Area Learning Association annual general meeting in Digby Community Education Centre multi-purpose room at 10 a.m. Open to public.
Nov. 18-Feb. 10 - Scallop Palette Gallery in Digby General Hospital showing paintings inspired by winter. Featured artist Angela O’Neil.
Nov. 22 - ‘Sights of Christmas’ concert, Trinity Anglican Church, Digby, from 3-7 p.m. Tickets available in advance or at the door.
Nov. 22 - Fundraising concert in Oakdene Centre, Bear River, at 3 p.m. with Stan Carew of CBC Weekend Morning & his Band of Magpies. Advance tickets at Digby Convenience & Cherry Brook Grocery. Proceeds for upkeep of Oakdene Centre.
Nov. 26 & 28, Dec. 3 & 12 - Well women’s clinic. Digby General Hospital consultants’ clinic. To book appointment, call 24502502, ext. 3282.
Nov. 28 - Gingerbread competition. Holiday Spirit Fair at Rebekah Music Hall, Bear River, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Over 20 artists & live music. Register Nov. 25 with your finished gingerbread house. Organized by Women In Rural Enterprise
Nov. 28 - Annual Italian feast. Annapolis Royal Fire Hall from 3–7 p.m. to support Homeless Animals Rescue Team. For advance tickets, call (902) 341-HART. Proceeds to Port Royal Animal Hospital.
Dec. 2-3 - Book sale. Weymouth Consolidated School from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Tuesdays - ‘Baby & Me’. Family Resource Centre, Digby, from 1 - 2:30 p.m., for parents of babies to 18 months. For information, call 245-6464.
Wednesday-Friday - ’Mother’s United’ for mothers and expectant mothers. Wednesdays at Weymouth library; Thursdays in Little River Baptist Church vestry; Fridays in Digby Family Resource Centre. For information, call 245-6464.
Sundays - Women’s hockey. Digby Area Arena from 9 to 10 a.m. All skills levels welcome. For more information, contact Kim at 245-4631.
AT THE LIBRARIES:
Nov. 20 - Launch of book ‘Led by love’ with poetry by Nora Comeau from 2-4 p.m. in Isaiah W. Wilson Memorial Library, Digby.
To Nov. 28 - Annual book sale at Weymouth branch library.
To Dec. 30 - ‘Gifts from the Sea and Land’ art exhibit at Weymouth branch library featuring paintings of artists with the Atelier de Clare.
Women Not Allowed to Compete
From cbc.ca
Write to the IOC, if you care about this issue.
Women ski jumpers lose appeal
B.C. court won't compel Olympic event
Last Updated: Friday, November 13, 2009 | 6:52 PM PT Comments457Recommend106CBC News
A tearful world women's ski jump champion Lindsay Van reacts to the B.C. Court of Appeal decision Friday. (CBC)Women ski jumpers from Canada and the U.S. hoping to have their event included in the 2010 Olympics have lost their case before the B.C. Court of Appeal.
The appeal was dismissed in a unanimous decision Friday in Vancouver after two days of hearings.
The Appeal Court judges stood by the decision of the B.C. Supreme Court in July. In that ruling, Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon said that while it was discriminatory to exclude the women's event, Vancouver's Olympic organizing committee (VANOC) could not be held responsible.
The skiers had argued that VANOC should have been compelled to stage a women's ski jump event — even though it was not sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) — because VANOC is subject to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with its guarantees of gender equality.
After the ruling was announced, the women said they were devastated and hadn't decided what their next course of action would be.
"I thought they would go the other way, for sure," reigning world champion ski jumper Lindsay Van of Utah said as she wiped away tears. "I thought we had a very good argument that was very much set and it didn't seem it would go the other direction."
'Like Taliban of Olympics'
"The Canadian court system is weak," Van added. "They can't even stand up to the IOC. [The IOC] can come in here and do whatever they want. That's scary. It's like the Taliban of the Olympics."
The women could seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, but that process would take months. The Winter Olympics begin Feb. 12.
"I'm not going to commit to anything, but I think it's very late," said Ross Clark, the lawyer for the women.
The Appeal Court judges did not give reasons for their decision but said a written version of their reasons will be issued next week.
Vancouver Games organizers said they were glad the process was over, but they were sad for the women.
"I don't like these kinds of days. We are, first and foremost, men and women of sport and we believe in athletics," said John Furlong, VANOC's chief executive.
"This is a matter that's been far from our reach and our influence and we simply didn't have any jurisdiction here.… These girls have tried very hard, they have put up a very good fight."
The IOC voted in 2006 not to include women's ski jumping at the Games, saying the sport had not met the required technical criteria.
Write to the IOC, if you care about this issue.
Women ski jumpers lose appeal
B.C. court won't compel Olympic event
Last Updated: Friday, November 13, 2009 | 6:52 PM PT Comments457Recommend106CBC News
A tearful world women's ski jump champion Lindsay Van reacts to the B.C. Court of Appeal decision Friday. (CBC)Women ski jumpers from Canada and the U.S. hoping to have their event included in the 2010 Olympics have lost their case before the B.C. Court of Appeal.
The appeal was dismissed in a unanimous decision Friday in Vancouver after two days of hearings.
The Appeal Court judges stood by the decision of the B.C. Supreme Court in July. In that ruling, Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon said that while it was discriminatory to exclude the women's event, Vancouver's Olympic organizing committee (VANOC) could not be held responsible.
The skiers had argued that VANOC should have been compelled to stage a women's ski jump event — even though it was not sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) — because VANOC is subject to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with its guarantees of gender equality.
After the ruling was announced, the women said they were devastated and hadn't decided what their next course of action would be.
"I thought they would go the other way, for sure," reigning world champion ski jumper Lindsay Van of Utah said as she wiped away tears. "I thought we had a very good argument that was very much set and it didn't seem it would go the other direction."
'Like Taliban of Olympics'
"The Canadian court system is weak," Van added. "They can't even stand up to the IOC. [The IOC] can come in here and do whatever they want. That's scary. It's like the Taliban of the Olympics."
The women could seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, but that process would take months. The Winter Olympics begin Feb. 12.
"I'm not going to commit to anything, but I think it's very late," said Ross Clark, the lawyer for the women.
The Appeal Court judges did not give reasons for their decision but said a written version of their reasons will be issued next week.
Vancouver Games organizers said they were glad the process was over, but they were sad for the women.
"I don't like these kinds of days. We are, first and foremost, men and women of sport and we believe in athletics," said John Furlong, VANOC's chief executive.
"This is a matter that's been far from our reach and our influence and we simply didn't have any jurisdiction here.… These girls have tried very hard, they have put up a very good fight."
The IOC voted in 2006 not to include women's ski jumping at the Games, saying the sport had not met the required technical criteria.
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