Municipality of the District of DigbyCommittee of the WholeAgendaMeeting DateJune 13, 2011Meeting LocationCouncil ChambersCall to OrderWardenPause to Seek GuidanceWardenApproval of the AgendaAdditions/DeletionsPresentationsClaredon Robicheau, Transport de ClareApproval of MinutesMay 9, 2011Old Business /Business Arising from Minutes# 1.0Municipal Fire Services – Fire Department five year fundinghistory# 2.0Deputy WardenMacAlpineCouncillor AmeroCouncillor AdamsCouncillor TudorWardenGregory
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Municipality of the District of DigbyCommittee of the WholeAgendaNew Business#1Debt collection service contract with SNSMR and request for designation#2Canadian Owners & Pilots Association 2014 Conference #3#4#5#6Correspondence ReceivedInformation Only# 1Copy of letter to Tri County Regional School Board# 2SNSMR-Cost sharing programs# 3Communities, Culture and Heritage-Amendments to Heritage Property Act#4#5# 6
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Municipality of the District of DigbyCommittee of the WholeAgendaChief Administrative ReportJune 13, 2011Meeting Dates/RemindersDate & TimeMeetingLocationJune 20, 2011 @ 6:00 pmBy-Law & PolicyMunicipal BoardroomJune 27, 2011 @ 6:00 pmPublic HearingCouncil ChambersJune 27, 2011 @ 6:15 pmCouncilCouncil ChambersJuly 4, 2011No MeetingJuly 11, 2011 @ 6:00 pmBy-Law & PolicyMunicipal BoardroomJuly 18, 2011No MeetingJuly 25, 2011 @ 6:00 pmCouncilCouncil ChambersAugust 1st& Aug 8thNo MeetingAug 15, 2011COTWCouncil ChambersAugust 22nd& 29thNo MeetingRequest for Decision/DirectionN/ADepartment Reports for May 2011AdministrationTaxationBuilding Department Permit ReportMunicipal Fire Inspector Environmental ServicesDispatch Call ReportAirport ReportDog Control Activity/Financial Coordinator Program Development
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Municipality of the District of DigbyCommittee of the WholeAgendaUpdates from PreviousmeetingsSpecial Projects UpdatesNotice of MotionIn-CameraAdjournment
Friday, June 10, 2011
Booze for Sale
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
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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Digby Digby Neck rural living
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Seafood Chowder Supper
Seafood chowder supper put on by the Digby Neck Volunteer fire dept and Ladies Auxiliary on Sat. June 11 5:30pm Adults $8. Kids under 12 $5.
Come one, come all!
Come one, come all!
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Digby Neck Events
Monday, June 6, 2011
Dan Mills offers Potato Seed
Good Afternoon and Hello!
The Old Coot is plantin' taters today - " Better the day; better the deed", it's been said since long ago.
He keeps his potato winter crop in a Cold Room in the basement every year.....and found enough Yukon Gold to plant for this season.
But, he found well over a milk crate of the Banana style (aka 'Finger Pototes'), and two nearly full of blue ones.These are the desendants of those which my old friend, Vaughn Height gave me ten or so years ago, and he claimed they'd been in his family since his father brought them off a ship some 60 years before.
I found a lot more than I expected and has all that he needs already planted....I shall put them in the car port -they are well sprouted and ready to go in the ground- and anyone who wishes some may come and help themselves. Bring a pail or a box please, and help yourself whether I am home or not.
In a weeks time I'll assume no one wants any and put them in the compost.
Danny
Pls.ask your neighbors. I don't have many local e-mail ads...d
The Old Coot is plantin' taters today - " Better the day; better the deed", it's been said since long ago.
He keeps his potato winter crop in a Cold Room in the basement every year.....and found enough Yukon Gold to plant for this season.
But, he found well over a milk crate of the Banana style (aka 'Finger Pototes'), and two nearly full of blue ones.These are the desendants of those which my old friend, Vaughn Height gave me ten or so years ago, and he claimed they'd been in his family since his father brought them off a ship some 60 years before.
I found a lot more than I expected and has all that he needs already planted....I shall put them in the car port -they are well sprouted and ready to go in the ground- and anyone who wishes some may come and help themselves. Bring a pail or a box please, and help yourself whether I am home or not.
In a weeks time I'll assume no one wants any and put them in the compost.
Danny
Pls.ask your neighbors. I don't have many local e-mail ads...d
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Digby Neck
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Digby Neck Events
Digby Neck Community Pot Luck Supper
6 p.m. Tuesday June 14, 2011
Digby Neck Consolidated Elementary School
Sandy Cove
Please bring your favourite dish to share and enjoy a delicious meal and conversation in warm fellowship with friends. If you don't have time to prepare something come anyway. There is always plenty of good food. Invite your neighbours.
Everyone is welcome.
Please put it on your calendar!
6 p.m. Tuesday June 14, 2011
Digby Neck Consolidated Elementary School
Sandy Cove
Please bring your favourite dish to share and enjoy a delicious meal and conversation in warm fellowship with friends. If you don't have time to prepare something come anyway. There is always plenty of good food. Invite your neighbours.
Everyone is welcome.
Please put it on your calendar!
Saturday, May 28, 2011
An Australian Mr. Digby
Blogger: My, what you find on the internet about the word or name Digby!
Man was tortured, strangled: witness
BY EMMA SPILLETT
28 May, 2011 01:00 PM
AN ANGLE grinder was allegedly used to torture former Cronulla man Matthew Digby before he was kicked in the head and strangled to death with a dog leash, Wollongong Local Court was told last week.
A male witness, known only as P550, told the court accused murderer Richard James Walsh had confessed to killing Mr Digby, 35, and then burning his body in a car in January last year.
Members of Mr Digby's family wept in court as they heard P550 recount how Walsh admitted to sinking an angle grinder into Mr Digby's leg when he refused to divulge information about a robbery at co-accused Lauren Mae Batcheldor's house in early 2010.
Walsh allegedly told P550 the pair took Mr Digby to an oval earlier to question him.
He said Walsh told him that when Mr Digby tried to run away, he punched him, dragged him to a car and chained his hands with a dog leash. Walsh then allegedly drove Mr Digby to a house and parked in the garage, where he punched and slapped him until he was unconscious, the court heard.
According to P550, Mr Digby later made a threat to Walsh about what he would do when released and Walsh had responded: "Now you've said that I can't let you go."
He then went to get Mr Digby a "last drink".
P550 said when Walsh returned, he noticed Mr Digby had freed an arm from the leash. It is alleged Walsh became angry, opening the back of the car to kick Mr Digby repeatedly in the head, the witness said.
P550 said Walsh told him he wrapped a dog leash around Mr Digby's neck and pulled until his body stopped moving. He allegedly said he later moved Mr Digby's body into the front passenger seat and placed a tyre on his stomach, before putting a tarp over him.
Walsh allegedly told P550 he had driven to a dirt road in the bush the following day, where he planned to leave Mr Digby's body.
According to P550, Walsh said he noticed blood had seeped on to the car's floor, so he doused the car and the body with fuel and set it alight, then called Batcheldor, who picked him up a short time later.
In another alleged conversation with P550, Walsh admitted there was blood on the garage floor and he had used bleach to clean it.
P550 said Walsh also told him he and Batcheldor went to a pawn shop to look for her stolen jewellery. She found a chain, which she believed Mr Digby had pawned, the court heard.
P550 was the final witness in a three-day committal hearing involving Walsh and Batcheldor, who are charged with murdering and kidnapping Mr Digby last year.
After hearing the evidence, Magistrate Ian Guy decided there was a case against the pair and committed them to stand trial later in the year.
Walsh and Batcheldor are expected to appear in the Supreme Court in Sydney for arraignment on August 5.
Man was tortured, strangled: witness
BY EMMA SPILLETT
28 May, 2011 01:00 PM
AN ANGLE grinder was allegedly used to torture former Cronulla man Matthew Digby before he was kicked in the head and strangled to death with a dog leash, Wollongong Local Court was told last week.
A male witness, known only as P550, told the court accused murderer Richard James Walsh had confessed to killing Mr Digby, 35, and then burning his body in a car in January last year.
Members of Mr Digby's family wept in court as they heard P550 recount how Walsh admitted to sinking an angle grinder into Mr Digby's leg when he refused to divulge information about a robbery at co-accused Lauren Mae Batcheldor's house in early 2010.
Walsh allegedly told P550 the pair took Mr Digby to an oval earlier to question him.
He said Walsh told him that when Mr Digby tried to run away, he punched him, dragged him to a car and chained his hands with a dog leash. Walsh then allegedly drove Mr Digby to a house and parked in the garage, where he punched and slapped him until he was unconscious, the court heard.
According to P550, Mr Digby later made a threat to Walsh about what he would do when released and Walsh had responded: "Now you've said that I can't let you go."
He then went to get Mr Digby a "last drink".
P550 said when Walsh returned, he noticed Mr Digby had freed an arm from the leash. It is alleged Walsh became angry, opening the back of the car to kick Mr Digby repeatedly in the head, the witness said.
P550 said Walsh told him he wrapped a dog leash around Mr Digby's neck and pulled until his body stopped moving. He allegedly said he later moved Mr Digby's body into the front passenger seat and placed a tyre on his stomach, before putting a tarp over him.
Walsh allegedly told P550 he had driven to a dirt road in the bush the following day, where he planned to leave Mr Digby's body.
According to P550, Walsh said he noticed blood had seeped on to the car's floor, so he doused the car and the body with fuel and set it alight, then called Batcheldor, who picked him up a short time later.
In another alleged conversation with P550, Walsh admitted there was blood on the garage floor and he had used bleach to clean it.
P550 said Walsh also told him he and Batcheldor went to a pawn shop to look for her stolen jewellery. She found a chain, which she believed Mr Digby had pawned, the court heard.
P550 was the final witness in a three-day committal hearing involving Walsh and Batcheldor, who are charged with murdering and kidnapping Mr Digby last year.
After hearing the evidence, Magistrate Ian Guy decided there was a case against the pair and committed them to stand trial later in the year.
Walsh and Batcheldor are expected to appear in the Supreme Court in Sydney for arraignment on August 5.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Hurry to add your input:Organic Salmon Farming
PETITIONING
Canadian General Standards Board(Mark Schuessler)
STARTED BY
Bronwen Barnett
Vancouver, Canada
OVERVIEW
Make sure your voice is heard on the proposed “organic” standard!
We expect the organic label to mean the food we're buying is produced in a way that is better for the environment and our health. But right now, the Canadian General Standards Board has proposed 'organic' aquaculture standards that would certify aquaculture practices that are already harming our oceans.
Draft two of the standard is now being considered for Canadian regulation and is open to a FINAL public comment period. This is your last chance to have your say count.
The proposed organic standards for farmed fish will allow the use of synthetic parasiticides, up to 100% non-organic and potentially unsustainable wild fish feed and net-cages which scientific evidence has linked to negatively harming wild salmon and marine ecosystems.
Organic aquaculture standards should adhere to the same set of principles used in standards for other organically certified food products. Unfortunately this is not the case with the proposed organic aquaculture standard.
The public comment period is open until May 31, 2011 and we are urging residents of Canada and consumers in the United States to take action and oppose the organic certification of net-cage salmon farms. The US remains the largest market for Canadian farmed salmon and until US organic aquaculture standards are passed into regulation, Canadian “organic” salmon could be sold on American shelves and menus.
Note: We will add this formal comment submission as an addendum to this petition.
Posted by the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform
Read Petition Letter
PETITION LETTER
Organic aquaculture standards need to be consistent with existing organic standards
Greetings,
Re: The proposed Canadian Organic Aquaculture Standard
Components of the proposed Canadian Organic Aquaculture Standard violate the very principles of organic production.
The standards allow for the use of parasiticides which is inconsistent with current organic standards and what consumers have come to expect when choosing organic. The standards also allow more wild fish to be used in feed than farmed fish produced, allowing a net-loss of marine protein that depletes natural systems. Organic principles within the aquaculture standard state biological productivity must be maximized.
The standards do not include strong measures to prevent well-documented impacts of net-cages on the health of wild salmon and marine ecosystems:
• Escapes of farmed fish
• Uncontrolled disposal of fish feces into the ocean
• Release of synthetic parasticides directly into the ocean
• Entanglement deaths of marine mammals, and
• The spread of disease and parasites
In the very least, a Canadian organic aquaculture standard needs to reflect practices that address the well-researched impacts of aquaculture. Such a standard would support producers that are using innovative practices to deliver truly sustainable products.
I urge the Canadian General Standards Board to ensure that the “Canadian Organic Aquaculture” standard does not accommodate either the use of non-organic, wild fish as feed or open net-cage systems. It is our hope that the organic label will continue to provide consumers with a clear and consistent understanding of how their food is produced and ensure them that their choice of an organic food product supports a safer, more humane, more sustainable environment.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
[Your name]
Blogger: You can post your letter online and it will be added to the petition or contact Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform
The info sent out above was sent out by David Suzuki and you can also go to his site. You can also go to: www.change.org
Canadian General Standards Board(Mark Schuessler)
STARTED BY
Bronwen Barnett
Vancouver, Canada
OVERVIEW
Make sure your voice is heard on the proposed “organic” standard!
We expect the organic label to mean the food we're buying is produced in a way that is better for the environment and our health. But right now, the Canadian General Standards Board has proposed 'organic' aquaculture standards that would certify aquaculture practices that are already harming our oceans.
Draft two of the standard is now being considered for Canadian regulation and is open to a FINAL public comment period. This is your last chance to have your say count.
The proposed organic standards for farmed fish will allow the use of synthetic parasiticides, up to 100% non-organic and potentially unsustainable wild fish feed and net-cages which scientific evidence has linked to negatively harming wild salmon and marine ecosystems.
Organic aquaculture standards should adhere to the same set of principles used in standards for other organically certified food products. Unfortunately this is not the case with the proposed organic aquaculture standard.
The public comment period is open until May 31, 2011 and we are urging residents of Canada and consumers in the United States to take action and oppose the organic certification of net-cage salmon farms. The US remains the largest market for Canadian farmed salmon and until US organic aquaculture standards are passed into regulation, Canadian “organic” salmon could be sold on American shelves and menus.
Note: We will add this formal comment submission as an addendum to this petition.
Posted by the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform
Read Petition Letter
PETITION LETTER
Organic aquaculture standards need to be consistent with existing organic standards
Greetings,
Re: The proposed Canadian Organic Aquaculture Standard
Components of the proposed Canadian Organic Aquaculture Standard violate the very principles of organic production.
The standards allow for the use of parasiticides which is inconsistent with current organic standards and what consumers have come to expect when choosing organic. The standards also allow more wild fish to be used in feed than farmed fish produced, allowing a net-loss of marine protein that depletes natural systems. Organic principles within the aquaculture standard state biological productivity must be maximized.
The standards do not include strong measures to prevent well-documented impacts of net-cages on the health of wild salmon and marine ecosystems:
• Escapes of farmed fish
• Uncontrolled disposal of fish feces into the ocean
• Release of synthetic parasticides directly into the ocean
• Entanglement deaths of marine mammals, and
• The spread of disease and parasites
In the very least, a Canadian organic aquaculture standard needs to reflect practices that address the well-researched impacts of aquaculture. Such a standard would support producers that are using innovative practices to deliver truly sustainable products.
I urge the Canadian General Standards Board to ensure that the “Canadian Organic Aquaculture” standard does not accommodate either the use of non-organic, wild fish as feed or open net-cage systems. It is our hope that the organic label will continue to provide consumers with a clear and consistent understanding of how their food is produced and ensure them that their choice of an organic food product supports a safer, more humane, more sustainable environment.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
[Your name]
Blogger: You can post your letter online and it will be added to the petition or contact Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform
The info sent out above was sent out by David Suzuki and you can also go to his site. You can also go to: www.change.org
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