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Weather: Windsor, July 23rd 2008 / 24°C / Wind: 4 Km/h / Humidity: 69 %

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Never call the teacher a giraffe

Article online since July 10th 2008
Let’s face it! School these days just isn’t like it was in the 1940s and ‘50s. Back then it was a different world altogether. First of all, we walked to school no matter the weather. Some lived two miles away and when we did something wrong we were taught the difference between right...

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Walking the Windmill Roads

Article online since June 25th 2008
On West Pubnico Point, we have a wonderful tourist attraction in the form of a 17-unit windmill farm. Of course, it is much more than a tourist attraction. According to Atlantic Wind Power Corporation Ltd., this 30-megawatt wind farm creates clean, renewable energy that does the following...

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The Annapolis Valley connection

Article online since May 28th 2008
There has always been a connection between the people of the French shore area and those of the Annapolis Valley. As a small child growing up in the 1940s, I would hear my father and uncle, like so many others, reminisce about working in the apple orchards belonging to the Foote family during...

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Savour the moment and make it count

Article online since May 6th 2008
When Scott Manzer died recently at 80 years, it reminded me of some good advice he had given us when he was our homeroom teacher at the Yarmouth Vocational School (today the Burridge Campus) close to half a century ago. Manzer told us that true happiness all of the time was likely impossible...

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Dry fish shed more fun than it sounds

Regional Storyteller

Article online since April 22nd 2008
Laurent d’Entremont   Every year the Historical Acadian Village of Nova Scotia, located in Yarmouth County, presents a dinner theatre as a spring fundraiser. It is very successful and this year, for the second year in a row, I attended this enjoyable event. The setting was the 1950s,...

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