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Dave Lundie, 80, the vet- eran Great Village Fire Fighter of 62 years, of which 24 were as chief, passed away sud- denly on November 24th. He continued as chief until his passed, even though in re- cent years he continued his leadership from a wheel- chair, when in public. Visitation will be held Wednesday, November 28 from 1pm until time of Fire- fighter Tribute Service at 2pm in Colchester Community Fu- neral Home, 512 Willow St., Truro. Reception will follow. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Great Vil- lage Fire Brigade. Please see complete obit- uary on Page 32. By Maurice Rees During a special council committee meeting held on Monday, October 22nd, Colch- ester Council discussed sev- eral matters concerning Strategic Priorities. Minutes from the special October 22nd meeting, included in the coun- cil package for monthly com- mittee meeting scheduled for November 15th, indicated the purpose of the purpose of the meeting was to review the Mu- nicipality’s Strategic Priorities. A check of incoming emails from the municipal office re- vealed notification of the Oc- tober 22nd and a subsequent meeting on October 29th was not forthcoming. (Normally, council staff have been very diligent in advising of upcom- ing meetings). Since the meeting was held to discuss council’s Strategic Priorities, Mr. Rob Simonds, CAO, provided a brief intro- duction which included a re- view of the list of priorities as previously approved by Coun- cil, as well as a brief overview of the process for the meet- ing. Directors and staff would provide updates on their oper- ational priorities, removing items that have been com- pleted and providing opportu- nity to bring forward new items. In his overview, Simonds said “it is important to keep in mind organizational capacity, such as core/fundamental services, when adding items to the list of priorities. Once this process is completed, there will no longer be the one-page update included in the monthly Council package.The intent is to distribute a varied form of updates, most likely on a quarterly basis, with a writ- ten synopsis on progresses to date”. Discussion was held on having flexibility to change the priorities, either by adding and removing items. The CAO advised that Council would have flexibility, possibly during the annual or bi-annual review mentioned in the proposal. This proposal had the highest property evaluation and de- sign fee at $650. After analysis of the submis- sions, staff recommended pro- ceeding with Supernova Energy Solutions. With Council approving the recommendation, staff would work with Supernova to design a program and pres- ent to Council prior to imple- mentation if desired. The program would be rolled out in the Spring of 2019 for the 2019 construction season. Program design would in- clude marketing and educa- tional materials, workshops in partnership with Solar Nova Scotia and administrative pa- perwork such as application forms and agreements. Property owners can gen- By Maurice Rees A residential solar energy program may be coming to Colchester in time for the 2019 construction season. Council committee approved a recommendation to Council to accept the proposal of Su- pernova Energy Solutions and that staff begin to design a ‘Solar Colchester’ program to encourage the installation of Solar PV systems in Colchester during a meeting on Novem- ber 15th. The decision was made fol- lowing an update to council by Crawford MacPherson, Di- rector Community Services, who stated an RFP has closed and five submissions were re- ceived. One was submitted after the deadline and disqual- ified. A second one took a dif- ferent approach from the RFP and did not score well. The remaining three pro- posals all have experience with solar PV projects and all included electrical contractors with “red seal” certified electri- cians that have experience with PV installations. Proposal three was disjointed and did not clearly indicate the role and relationship between their company and others Know you’re covered. Coverage for all your insurance needs. Home • Auto • Farm • Travel • Business www.caldwellroach.com 1-888-511-0777 $ 1 95 + HST PO BOX #41 BASS RIVER, NS B0M 1B0 Serving the Glooscap Trail • From Truro to Advocate Publications Mail™ #40048924 - VOL. 22 NO. 12 DECEMBER 2018 Solar Energy Program Possible in 2019 See Page 30 266 Robie Street, Truro 902.895.5000 “LAST CALL FOR COSTCO MEMBERS TO SAVE” FRONT PAGE BRIEFS December 2018 STRESS RELIEF - Royal Canadian Corps Of Signals Prayer Almighty God whose messengers go forth in every age giving light and understanding, grant that we of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals who spread the word of man to man may be swift and sure in sending the message of thy truth into all the world. May we serve thee faithfully and, with the help of thy Holy Spirit, make such success of our soldierly duties on this earth that we may be found worthy to receive the crown of life hereafter, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The television series, Cavendish, produced by Cavendish NS Productions Limited, has been approved for a funding com- mitment of $958,149 based on an eligible Nova Scotia expen- diture of $3,361,926 through the Nova Scotia Film and Television Production Incentive Fund. More details about pro- ductions approved for incentives through the Nova Scotia Film and Television Production Incentive Fund are available on the NSBI website at http://www.nsbi.ca/filmfunding Andy’s Tire Shop has purchased A-1 Tires from the Atkinson family. A-1 had just celebrated its 40 th Anniversary.There will be plenty of new faces in the new year as several members of the Atkinson family are leaving. Earle is finished on December 31 st , brother Ross and his wife Sandra are also leaving. Earle in- dicated the remainder of the staff, including brother, Joe will be staying. Andrew Pye is president Andy’s Tire Shop, while Craig MacKenzie is general manager. Brady Langille-Higgins, accompanied by his younger brother, Lochlan lay a wreath on behalf of the Great Village Elementary School at the Remembrance Day Service held at the Londonderry Community Centre. See the Shoreline Journal’s collection of Remembrance Day photos on pages 10 through 16. Council Meets to Review Strategic Priorities continued on page 9 continued on page 7 By Maurice Rees If the weather is unpre- dictable and you are travelling on Hwy 104 via the Cobequid Pass, BEWARE. Don’t expect any warnings on either of the two overhead highway signs located approximately 2.8 km west of Oxford (Exit 6) inter- change and 1.75 km west of Debert (Exit 13) interchange. They are out of order. It may take approximately $150,000 to correct and unde- termined amount of time. NSTIR representative, Troy Webb, District Director, told CBC Radio on November 20th, the department may have to hard wire the signs with fibre cable to get the signs operational and it may take up to $150,000 to do so. During a recent early win- ter storm when the Cobequid Pass was not safe to drive, elec- tronic billboards on Highway 104 that could’ve given mo- torists advance warning that a section of the Cobequid Pass was shut down during Tues- day’s storm were out of order. That resulted in several mo- torists being stranded on the highway for several hours. Councillor Tom Taggart added the highway problems to the council committee meeting in mid-November stating he had calls from con- stituents some of whom were held up for several hours when th3e highway was BEWARE! Trouble on Highway 104! continued on page 6 continued on page 7 DAVID M C COLOUGH LUNDIE 62 years a Fire Fighter; 24 as Chief
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Dave Lundie, 80, the vet-eran Great Village Fire Fighterof 62 years, of which 24 wereas chief, passed away sud-denly on November 24th. Hecontinued as chief until hispassed, even though in re-cent years he continued hisleadership from a wheel-chair, when in public.
Visitation will be heldWednesday, November 28from 1pm until time of Fire-fighter Tribute Service at 2pmin Colchester Community Fu-neral Home, 512 Willow St.,Truro. Reception will follow.In lieu of flowers, donationsmay be made to the Great Vil-lage Fire Brigade.
Please see complete obit-uary on Page 32.
By Maurice ReesDuring a special council
committee meeting held onMonday, October 22nd, Colch-ester Council discussed sev-eral matters concerningStrategic Priorities. Minutesfrom the special October 22ndmeeting, included in the coun-cil package for monthly com-mittee meeting scheduled forNovember 15th, indicated thepurpose of the purpose of themeeting was to review the Mu-nicipality’s Strategic Priorities.
A check of incoming emailsfrom the municipal office re-vealed notification of the Oc-tober 22nd and a subsequentmeeting on October 29th wasnot forthcoming. (Normally,
council staff have been verydiligent in advising of upcom-ing meetings).
Since the meeting was heldto discuss council’s StrategicPriorities, Mr. Rob Simonds,CAO, provided a brief intro-duction which included a re-view of the list of priorities aspreviously approved by Coun-cil, as well as a brief overviewof the process for the meet-ing. Directors and staff wouldprovide updates on their oper-ational priorities, removingitems that have been com-pleted and providing opportu-nity to bring forward newitems.
In his overview, Simondssaid “it is important to keep in
mind organizational capacity,such as core/fundamentalservices, when adding items tothe list of priorities. Once thisprocess is completed, therewill no longer be the one-pageupdate included in themonthly Council package. Theintent is to distribute a variedform of updates, most likely ona quarterly basis, with a writ-ten synopsis on progresses todate”.
Discussion was held onhaving flexibility to changethe priorities, either by addingand removing items. The CAOadvised that Council wouldhave flexibility, possibly duringthe annual or bi-annual review
mentioned in the proposal.This proposal had the highestproperty evaluation and de-sign fee at $650.
After analysis of the submis-sions, staff recommended pro-ceeding with SupernovaEnergy Solutions.
With Council approvingthe recommendation, staffwould work with Supernovato design a program and pres-ent to Council prior to imple-mentation if desired. Theprogram would be rolled outin the Spring of 2019 for the2019 construction season.
Program design would in-clude marketing and educa-tional materials, workshops inpartnership with Solar NovaScotia and administrative pa-perwork such as applicationforms and agreements.
Property owners can gen-
By Maurice Rees A residential solar energy
program may be coming toColchester in time for the2019 construction season.Council committee approveda recommendation to Councilto accept the proposal of Su-pernova Energy Solutions andthat staff begin to design a‘Solar Colchester’ program toencourage the installation ofSolar PV systems in Colchesterduring a meeting on Novem-ber 15th.
The decision was made fol-
lowing an update to councilby Crawford MacPherson, Di-rector Community Services,who stated an RFP has closedand five submissions were re-ceived. One was submittedafter the deadline and disqual-ified. A second one took a dif-ferent approach from the RFPand did not score well.
The remaining three pro-posals all have experiencewith solar PV projects and allincluded electrical contractorswith “red seal” certified electri-cians that have experience
with PV installations. Proposalthree was disjointed and didnot clearly indicate the roleand relationship betweentheir company and others
Know you’re covered.
Coverage for all your insurance needs.Home • Auto • Farm • Travel • Business
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See Page 30
266 Robie Street, Truro902.895.5000
“LASTCALL FORCOSTCO
MEMBERSTO SAVE”
FRONT PAGE BRIEFSDecember 2018
STRESS RELIEF - Royal Canadian Corps Of Signals PrayerAlmighty God whose messengers go forth in every age givinglight and understanding, grant that we of the Royal CanadianCorps of Signals who spread the word of man to man may beswift and sure in sending the message of thy truth into all theworld. May we serve thee faithfully and, with the help of thyHoly Spirit, make such success of our soldierly duties on thisearth that we may be found worthy to receive the crown oflife hereafter, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
The television series, Cavendish, produced by Cavendish NSProductions Limited, has been approved for a funding com-mitment of $958,149 based on an eligible Nova Scotia expen-diture of $3,361,926 through the Nova Scotia Film andTelevision Production Incentive Fund. More details about pro-ductions approved for incentives through the Nova ScotiaFilm and Television Production Incentive Fund are availableon the NSBI website at http://www.nsbi.ca/filmfunding
Andy’s Tire Shop has purchased A-1 Tires from the Atkinsonfamily. A-1 had just celebrated its 40th Anniversary. There willbe plenty of new faces in the new year as several members ofthe Atkinson family are leaving. Earle is finished on December31st, brother Ross and his wife Sandra are also leaving. Earle in-dicated the remainder of the staff, including brother, Joe willbe staying. Andrew Pye is president Andy’s Tire Shop, whileCraig MacKenzie is general manager.
Brady Langille-Higgins, accompanied by his younger brother, Lochlan lay a wreath on behalf of theGreat Village Elementary School at the Remembrance Day Service held at the Londonderry
Community Centre. See the Shoreline Journal’s collection of Remembrance Day photos on pages 10 through 16.
Council Meets to Review Strategic Priorities
continued on page 9
continued on page 7
By Maurice ReesIf the weather is unpre-
dictable and you are travellingon Hwy 104 via the CobequidPass, BEWARE. Don’t expectany warnings on either of thetwo overhead highway signslocated approximately 2.8 kmwest of Oxford (Exit 6) inter-change and 1.75 km west ofDebert (Exit 13) interchange.They are out of order.
It may take approximately$150,000 to correct and unde-termined amount of time.NSTIR representative, TroyWebb, District Director, toldCBC Radio on November20th, the department mayhave to hard wire the signswith fibre cable to get thesigns operational and it maytake up to $150,000 to do so.
During a recent early win-ter storm when the CobequidPass was not safe to drive, elec-tronic billboards on Highway104 that could’ve given mo-torists advance warning that asection of the Cobequid Passwas shut down during Tues-day’s storm were out of order.That resulted in several mo-torists being stranded on thehighway for several hours.
Councillor Tom Taggartadded the highway problemsto the council committeemeeting in mid-Novemberstating he had calls from con-stituents some of whom wereheld up for several hourswhen th3e highway was
BEWARE!Trouble on
Highway 104!
continued on page 6
continued on page 7
DAVID MCCOLOUGH LUNDIE62 years a Fire Fighter;
24 as Chief
