DELIVERING KINDNESS: Rose Fitzgerald had to close her flower shop due to the state of emergency announced last week. On Monday, she prepared beautiful bouquets with her remaining flowers to deliver to essential workers and others in the community.
EASTERN SHORE – Three seniors living 35 kilometres apart on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore share their strategies for staying connected to family and friends with The Journal this week. The landline telephone is the tool helping many seniors stay connected.
If you can remember as far back as May/June 2019, you might recall getting an envelope in the mail asking you take part in Engage Nova Scotia’s Quality of Life Survey. Eighty thousand such requests made their way into mailboxes across the province, over 12,000 citizens answered the call.
SHERBROOKE – With salvos of slick new media shot deep into Nova Scotia’s rural heart, the hot war of words between opponents and proponents of a proposed gold mine in St. Mary's just became hotter and wordier.
Our editorial discusses the importance of appreciating all those who do so much to keep things going during this time of crisis ... even politicians! Murphy's Law discovers that one of the loneliest places to be during this age of isolation is in a spot that's usually crowded. Additional stories this week include: COVID-19 prompts historic agreement to keep taps running in eastern N.S.; Guysborough and Area Food Bank, here for the community; St. Mary’s expands online access to budget documents during COVID-19; Cermaq’s fish farm lease option deadline extended; First COVID-19 assessment centre opens in MODG – and more. Plus news and notes from Port Shoreham's own Jimmy Pirrello, updates on Authentic Seacoast and the Guysborough Marina and their responses to the pandemic as well as a new offering from Ray's Opinion. You might be stuck at home alone, but we're all in this together – so grab your copy of this week's Guysborough Journal to help keep in touch with what's going on in your community.
SHERBROOKE – Despite the social and economic havoc COVID-19 threatens to unleash, the Canadian government is determined to help Canadians meet the needs of everyday life.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the public has been subjected to fake news, occasional price gouging, and innovative con artists capitalizing on widespread fear of the unknown. In a reaction to the fearmongering that has often taken over social media in recent weeks, a new movement has taken root in Canada: “caremongering.”
GUYSBOROUGH – In the new reality of the COVID-19 crisis, grocery stores across the country have seen a large increase in demand for certain goods and an unfortunate hoarding mentally surrounding the availability of others; toilet paper and hand sanitizer being top of the list.
Nova Scotia has declared a provincial state of emergency to help contain the spread of COVID-19. Nova Scotians should not leave the province and only leave home for essential items and services, said Premier McNeil on March 22.
GUYSBOROUGH – Residents of MODG won’t see a change in tax rates or service fees in the 2020-2021 fiscal year. The municipality released a balanced budget on Monday to the tune of $17 million. One big ticket item included in the budget is $100,000 allocated for the construction of a new food bank operations centre in Guysborough.
SHERBROOKE – A poll that was supposed to clarify public opinion about a proposed gold mine along the St. Mary’s River appears to be having the opposite effect.
From time to time Nova Scotians have a shot at an Oscar or are part of a team that has a shot at an Oscar. And this year was one of those years. Martin MacDonald, originally from Indian Harbour Lake, Guysborough County was a member of the visual effects team nominated for an Oscar for the film: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
GUYSBOROUGH – All municipal buildings are closed to the public until further notice as MODG rolls out their Coronavirus Pandemic Plan. Aspects of the plan, like social distancing, were already being observed when it was presented at Monday’s regular monthly meeting as councillors and staff maintained a distance of two metres from one another.
SHERBROOKE – While passengers aboard the good ship St. Mary’s should keep calm and carry on, the message is loud and clear from the officers on watch: The time has come to batten down the hatches.
SHEET HARBOUR – Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital and Harborview Lodge long term care facility in Sheet Harbour are among healthcare facilities closed to patient visitors as directed by the Nova Scotia Health Authority. With the arrival of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, visitors are banned until further notice.
Like many other municipal units across the province, the Town of Mulgrave released plans on Tuesday, March 17, effective immediately, to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
EASTERN SHORE – Three seniors living 35 kilometres apart on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore share their strategies for staying connected to family and friends with The Journal this week. The landline telephone is the tool helping many seniors stay connected.
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