News: World Canoe Championship: The big breaking news this week is that Canoe Kayak Canada and our local Atlantic Division have been successful in landing the 2022 World Canoe Sprint Championship for Lake Banook. The Worlds are coming to Dartmouth! This will be Dartmouth’s third time hosting the event, which …
News Alderney Ferry Schedule Change The Alderney ferry schedule changed this week. As of Tuesday, Halifax Transit is providing 15-minute weekday service in both directions, beginning at 7:00 am from Dartmouth and 7:15 am from Halifax. Service between 8:00 pm and 11:30 pm will move from 15 minute to 30-minute …
News Community Grants Program 2018-2019: The 2018-2019 Community Grants program is now open for applications. The Grants Program provides project specific awards to registered non-profit organizations and charities located in HRM. Deadlines for applications is March 31, 2018. For more information the Community Grants Program Guidebook and application form is available online. …
Happy Holidays Before launching into the business of my last newsletter of 2017 (a lot to cover this month), I wanted to take a moment to wish you the best for the holidays and the New Year from myself and my family. I have been serving as your Councillor for …
It was a packed house at Harbour East Community Council last night. On Council’s agenda was a proposal to build a nine storey building at the corner of Prince Albert Road and Glenwood Avenue at the Walker’s Funeral Home property. You might recall that back in 2012, Harbour East Council …
If you missed the meeting on Thursday night at the Mic Mac Aquatic Club, there is an exciting project under consideration: a redesign of Prince Albert Road around Grahams Grove. The upcoming road project would run from the intersection with Sinclair up to the Superstore. HRM is considering narrowing this …
Well Dartmouth, it was a busy night at the Findlay Community Centre as District 5’s first participatory budget became reality. Turnout was more than I was expecting. We had 640 people cast ballots. At one point the line to register and get a ballot was out the door and down …
Public Meetings/Consultation Participatory Budget Vote Night Tuesday November 7th, 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. Findlay Community Centre Tomorrow, on November 7th, the first participatory budgeting process will conclude in District 5 with the award of $50,000 in District Capital funds to local community groups. All District 5 residents are eligible to …
Participatory Budgeting: I’m excited to be launching Participatory Budgeting in District 5. My Participatory Budgeting process will allow residents to have a direct say in how $50,000 of our $94,000 District Capital Fund is spent. I’m pleased to report that there has been significant interest. A total of 19 non-profit …
News Sawmill River Project: If you’ve been by Sullivan’s Pond lately, it’s been hard to miss the big hole sprawling across Ochterloney Street. Halifax Water has been making good progress on the Sawmill River Project, but we still have a ways to go. One thing that I have been worried …
