FAST-ROTTING DOGGIE BAGS

I have two lovely big dogs.
I pick up their poop.

These bags take 100 years to biodegrade, according to an article in today's paper.

I could just leave their poop where they leave it but I don't.

According to the same paper, today's biodegradable bags take 180 days to biodegrade.

SOLUTION:

A group of Truro students are trying to raise $15,000 they can pitch their product which 

BIODEGRADES IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS IN A COMPOST HEAP!!!

FOR INFO, SEE 

LINK

We're going to the birds!

Hummingbird sighted in Lockhartville May 9.

Just wondering if you have seen the great horned owl that seems to be guarding the big trees by the driveway up to Churchill House.   Brett and I could see him high in an evergreen that is opposite the verandah of the house - behind the corner of the tennis court.   Think there must be a nest but can't see it.   Guess there is still someone who gives a hoot about Hantsport!  LK

AT A GLANCE:                Dutch-Canadian Friendship Garden Bloom Party

Hosted By:                      Windsor Communities in Bloom

When:                              Sunday, May 22 at 2 pm

Where:                             Victoria Park Gazebo, 78 Thomas Street in Windsor, NS

Why:                                 Enjoy the first blooms of the garden commemorating the 70^th anniversary of the role Canadian soldiers played in the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation and for the hospitality Canada provided to the Dutch Royal Family in Ottawa during WWII.

Women Walk the World

(LR) Lynda Andres, Faye Singleton, Joyce Duncan, Marley Thornley and Glenda Braham.

On or around Associated Country Women of the World Day, 29th April 2016, people throughout the world are asked to join in Women Walk the World for ACWW. The aim is to raise ACWW’s image, promote the organization and raise funds. 

Some of the members of the Lockhartville group and the Grand Pré groups of Women's Institute of Nova Scotia met in Lockhartville to walk through land belonging to Marley Thornley. 

The aim of WINS is to educate women and to have fun. For more info, call President Lynda Andres at 684-9651  or email 

erwinlynda@bellaliant.net

Battle at Miner's Marsh over a female May 8/16

Quiet Sunday outing...

---on the quiet marsh...

…trouble and dad battles a competitor...

…luckily there's a referee...

…on it goes...

…looks serious now...

… this is not good...

…so serious the referee leaves...

…but referee can't tear himself away...

…a  second referee is called in ...

…the final blow...

…loser beats a hasty retreat...

…"I didn't want her anyway!"

Notice of Ratepayers Meeting for the Areas of Avonport, Hants Border, Lockhartville, Bishopville and West Brooklyn

Notice of Ratepayers Meeting for the Areas of Avonport, Hants Border, Lockhartville, Bishopville and West Brooklyn

The Municipality of the District of West Hants will be holding a Ratepayers Meeting for the areas above to deal with the setting of an area rate. Funds raised from the area rate will be applied to the capital purchases for the Hantsport Volunteer Fire Department, which provides fire protection to these areas.

Date: May 25, 2016
Place: Hantsport Volunteer Fire Department, 5 Oak Street, Hantsport
Time: 7:00 p.m.

The amount of the proposed area rate is 4.89 cents ($0.0489) per $100 dollars of taxable assessment. One ratepayer per property will be eligible to vote by secret ballot.

Example: A property with a taxable assessment of $100,000.00 would have an additional area rate charge of $48.95 per year.

Contact Rhonda Brown, Municipal Clerk at rbrown@westhants.ca or 902-798-6908 for more information.

Sent by Bill Preston on Facebook today.

Is Hantsport "a community of special interest"?

Nova Scotia Utility And Review Board's recently decided that it is.

West Hants is to give this status to Hantsport.

Hantsport is to retain its own councillor.

Hantsport's current boundaries will remain as they are.

The citizens' group Think Hantsport likes the decision. It maintains that the issue of polling districts was  not adequately addressed prior to dissolution.

However, the Municipality of West Hants plans to appeal this.

Warden Dauphinee maintains that his community of Three Mile Plains is also "a community of special interest". And no doubt the people of Brooklyn feel the same about their community.

It is estimated, according to the April 28, 2016 issue of the Hants Journal, that the cost of the appeal will be $20,000 - $25,000. The decision may not be made before the October 2016 municipal election.

No appeal was allowed by the UARB when it dissolved Hantsport.

Comment?

POP-UP MARKET GET $1000 AWESOME HANTSPORT GRANT.

Although several deserving groups applied to AWESOME HANTSPORT for the $1000 grant, it went to the POP-UP market for items to make the site more attractive and to promote it.

AND WATCH FOR INFO ON THE NEXT AWESOME HANTSPORT CONTEST. THIS ONE WILL BE UTTERLY SPONTANEOUS.

Tourism Director Susan Carey was delighted with the grant. It will be used to buy promotional items to attract more local and visiting merchants and customers.

Susan sent me the following pics from last year's market.

 I remember the pie-eating contest a few years ago. What a mouthful!

THE LUSTY MONTH OF MAY!

(A few days late  but - it's May! From the musical CAMELOT)
Tra la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev'ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
Tra la! It's here!
That shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts
Merrily appear!
It's May! It's May!
That gorgeous holiday
When ev'ry maiden prays that her lad
Will be a cad!
It's mad! It's gay!
A libelous display!
Those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes,
Ev'ryone breaks.
Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes
The lusty month of May!

Nova Scotia's part in the Great War.