Thank you nurses!! I am so grateful for the nurses here in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and right across Canada for working so hard to care for others. I know that these are particularly challenging times for so many working in health care. Thank you so much for all you do. #NursesWeek
Now that Nova Scotia is in the #thirdwave of this pandemic, it's more important than ever to remember that vaccines save lives. They help prevent illness and disease, and they allow for us to be closer to the things we enjoy and the ones we love. Each COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective, and approved by [...]
What 2021 Census team are you on? Team short form Team long form Lemme know in the comments below!! 2021 Census Questionnaires are out and StatsCan hopes you’ll have them completed by May 11th. Check your mail! Details: https://census.gc.ca/index-eng.htm
Congratulations to Dartmouth District Minor Baseball Association's Diamond Dawgs on winning the Jays Care Foundation Field of Dreams grant!! They'll be using this grant to make improvements to the dugouts and wheelchair accessibility to their home field. Working with the local BGC Greater Halifax and 2 local LGBTQ youth associations, they will sponsor 10 low-income players. Well done! https://about.rogers.com/…/jays-care-invests-more-than-1-m…/ [...]
Bringing this to your attention! (Helping HRM get the word out on this one) Just learned that Halifax Regional Municipality is looking for feedback on a development proposal for a new residential community on the former Shannon Park lands located off Princess Margaret Blvd, Iroquois Dr. & Nootka Ave in Dartmouth. Canada Lands Company produced this [...]
This Mental Health Week, it’s time to #GetReal about how you feel. The Canadian Mental Health Association - Nova Scotia is asking us to embrace all of our emotions—whether they feel good or challenging or difficult. This week—and every week after—don’t go uncomfortably numb. #GetReal about how you feel. And name it, don’t numb it. I’d like to [...]
Let’s show our favourite restaurants some love by safely purchasing take out or delivery! Does your family have a favourite Chinese food restaurant? There are so many great Chinese food restaurants across Dartmouth—Cole Harbour. Over the weekend we picked up some of our favourites from Heng Fung. Love this place and love their ginger [...]
News Release: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to continue delivering financial support to businesses impacted by COVID-19 May 4, 2021 · Moncton, New Brunswick · Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) "When COVID first hit, it pushed the country into its deepest recession since the Great Depression. From the very beginning of the pandemic, an essential [...]
It’s hard to imagine that it’s been 11 years since we gathered in that hanger at 12-Wing Shearwater to say goodbye to Petty Officer Second Class Craig Blake. I can tell you that 11 years later, Craig is still loved and very missed by his family and by our community. Craig served with honour [...]
This week we remember the longest and continuous battle of WW2–The Battle of the Atlantic. Taking place between 1939 and 1945, Canada and Newfoundland lost approximately 4,400 lives in the brutal Battle. #WeRemember