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January  2008
 


January 4, 2008:  Volunteers are grooming cross country ski trails in Dartmouth and Truro.

January 4, 008: Conserve Nova Scotia has made enegy meters available to public and Community College libraries, so you can borrrow one, and check your energy consumpiton.

January 4, 2008: Amy and Allison Scott spin yarn from the fleece of goats, rabbits, alpaca and buffalo at their mill in Markhamville, NB.

January 2, 2008: Pastors Andy Northrup and John Andrew are running a new homeless shelter project in the Annapolis Valley.

December  2007
 

December 21: Childrens books suggestions:

Vivian Howards' list:


Top 3 books:
Chester by Melanie Watt
The End of the World as We Know It by Lesley Choyce
The Space Between by Don Aker

Other recommendations:
A Perfect Gentle Knight by Kit Pearson
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
Gracie The Public Gardens Duck by Judith Meyrick and Richard Rudnicki
Golden Legacy by Leonard Marcus

Favourite book of the year:
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Vicki Grant's List:

The Darwin Awards

The Guinness Book of World Records

Murders Strange but True by Max Haines

Ghost Stories of the Maritimes
by Vernon Oickle

Pet Cemetery, Christine by Stephen King

Books for older teens (parental advisory)

Girlfriend in a Coma, Generation X by Douglas Coupland

Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked by David Sedaris.


The book my teenage girl is crazy about:

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

The Clique by Lisi Harrison

Websites to check out:

www.guysread.com

www.orcabook.com - see their Soundings (ages 14 to 18) or Currents
(10 to 14) series

www.formac.ca

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/thedogdialed911/


December 21, 2007. Peter Halpin's Holiday Hits!
Christmas is a Special Day, by "The Fat Man" Domino, on album Southern Christmas.
Christmas is Here Again, by Jimmy Beasely , on R&B; Christmas Vol. 4
Memorabilia (recital), by Tish Hinohosa, From Texas on A Christmas Night
Hanukia, by Tish Hinohosa, From Texas on A Christmas Night
Merry Christmas Baby, by Chuck Berry, R&B; Christmas Vol. 1
Silent Night, by Huey Piano Smith, 'Twas the Night....'
The Friendly Beasts, The Louvin Brothers, Bummed Out Christmas
Sound the Trumpet, The Wailers, Reggae Christmas from Studio One.


December 18, 2007:  Kevin Vickers is The Toymaker in Lunenberg.

Decmber 12, 2007: Myrna Peeler's Cd is available to order by mail: Myrna Peeler, 126 Grimm Road, RR #2, Lunenberg County B0J 2C0.  The price is $20.00.

December 11, 2007:  The Immigrant Navigator in Antigonish helps immigrants, and the community, connect.

December 6, 2007:

Non Fiction Book suggestions from Sally Ross and Joanne McCarthy

Joanne's List:

The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton, translated and edited by John Shaw (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007).
The Stone Canoe: Two Lost Mi'Kmaq Texts, by Elizabeth Paul, Peter Sanger and Alan Syliboy (Gaspereau Press, 2007).


Historic South End Halifax, by Peter McGuigan (Nimbus, 2007) Historic Eastern Passage by John Boileau (Nimbus, 2007)
Historic Bedford, by Tony Edwards (Nimbus, 2007)

Hunting Halifax: In Search of History, Mystery and Murder, by Steven Edwin Laffoley (Pottersfield Press, 2007)
A History of Hangings in Nova Scotia, by Deanna Foster (Pottersfield Press, 2007)


Dartmouth's Day of Sorrow: Halifax Harbour Explosion--1917, by Harry Chapman (Dartmouth Historical Association, 2007)

The Nova Scotia Black Experience Through the Centuries, by Bridglal Pachai (Nimbus, 2007)

Honour Roll of the Nova Scotia Overseas Highland Brigade:85th, 185th, 193rd, 219th Battalions, by W. James MacDonald (Cape Breton University Press, 2007)
Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory by Jane Irwin and John deVisser (Firefly, 2007)

I've Got a Home in Glory Land, by Karolyn Smardz Frost (Thomas Allen, 2007).

Sally's List:

- THE LONG MARCH: THE TRUE HISTORY OF COMMUNIST CHINA'S FOUNDING MYTH by
Sun Shuyun, Doubleday, 2006, 270 pages.

- ON ASSIGNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN: MARITIMERS AT WAR, by Chis Lambie with  photographs by Christian Laforce, Nimbus Publishing and the Chronicle  Herald, 2007, 84 pages.

- ENDGAME 1758: THE PROMISE, THE GLORY, AND THE DESPAIR OF LOUISBOURG'S  LAST DECADE by A.J.B. Johnston, Cape Breton University Press, 2007, 365  pages.

- ACADIAN CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS by Georges Arsenault (translated by Sally  Ross), Acorn Press, 2007, 160 pages.

- IN OUR HANDS - ON BECOMING A DOCTOR, short stories edited by Linda E.  Clarke and Jeff Nisker, Potterfield Press, 2007, 192 pages.

- STORIES TO REMEMBER (Vol. 2), short stories by Laurent d'Entremont, \ Two Acre Publications, Lower West Pubnico (laudent@hotmail.com), 2007,  167 pages.

- CHASING THE SHORE: LITTLE STORIES ABOUT SPIRIT AND LANDSCAPE by David  Weale, Tangle Lane (902-628-1391), 2007, 173 pages.

- TREES OF NOVA SCOTIA by Gary Saunders, Nimbus Publishing and the Nova  Scotia Department of Natural Resources, 1995, 102 pages (it only costs  about $10 and is easy to consult)



December 5, 2007:  HRM is calling for artists to paint traffic control boxes in the city.  Artists have until December 14th to apply.

The Black Cultural Center is holding its Christmas Concert December 8th in Dartmouith.

December 4, 2007:  The deadline for the Student Entrepreneur Competition is Friday December 7.

December 4, 2007:  You can mail your donation to the The Shelburne Foodbank at : Shelburne Loyalist Food Bank, PO Box 1403,  Shelburne Nova Scotia, B0T 1W0
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