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-

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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

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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.

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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!

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DAVID MCCOLOUGH LUNDIE62 years a Fire Fighter;

24 as Chief