Sydney River woman making a difference
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“…The Sydney River native will leave on Feb. 15 and for the next six months will volunteer at Sarah’s Covenant House, a community of family-style foster homes that care for children and young adults with medical and special needs, doing behaviour therapy using applied behaviour analysis.
This will be the second time MacNeil has spent time in India as a volunteer. In 2012, she spent a month at the same facility….”
Author: Jeremy Fraser
Date of Article: February 1, 2017
Source: Cape Breton Post
Website: http://www.capebretonpost.com/news/local/2017/2/1/sydney-river-woman-making-a-difference.html
Halifax activist speaks out about Quebec mosque shootings
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“…In the hours following Sunday night’s fatal mosque shooting in Quebec City, Rana Zaman found herself comforting a daughter scared to be Muslim.
My daughter (a university student) and I had this horrible conversation where she felt she was really frightened, she couldn’t sleep and she said she was afraid of being a Muslim,” Rana Zaman said in an interview on Monday….”
Author: Yvette d’Entremont
Date of Article: January 31, 2017
Source: Truro Daily News
Website: http://www.trurodaily.com/living/2017/1/31/halifax-activist-speaks-out-about-quebec-mosque-shootings.html
Student-run health centre will turn to church supper to help find clients
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“…From occupational therapy to dentistry, students from an array of health-care programs are combining forces to bring their growing expertise right to the Sunday dinner table of some of Halifax’s homeless.
Students from Dalhousie University, Mount Saint Vincent University and paramedic college Medavie HealthEd are launching the Halifax Outreach Prevention Education Support (HOPES) health centre in the coming weeks….”
Author: Nina Corfu
Date of Article: January 31, 2017
Source: CBC News
Website: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/hopes-health-centre-dalhousie-mount-saint-vincent-university-medavie-students-homeless-1.3959672
St. John Ambulance’s Therapy Dog Program helps people in need
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“…Every two weeks, residents at various assisted living homes around the HRM get ready to greet special visitors. They’re different than the normal variety — they’re therapy dogs (and their owners) who volunteer with the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program.
“It started in Ontario in 1993 and it’s been operating in Nova Scotia since 1999 and Prince Edward Island since 2000,” says Tia Larkin, community services coordinator Nova Scotia/Prince Edward Island for St. John Ambulance. “Currently we have 300 teams in the two provinces.”…”
Author: Carol Dobson
Date of Article: January 30, 2017
Source: Darthmouth Tribune
Website: http://thechronicleherald.ca/dartmouthtribune/1436835-st.-john-ambulance%E2%80%99s-therapy-dog-program-helps-people-in-need
The Sharpes see positive benefits from Special Olympics involvement
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“…The Sharpe family finds it difficult to imagine what their lives would be like without Special Olympics.
“We probably wouldn’t be as close as a family,” said Ryan Sharpe. “Evan probably wouldn’t have the friend group he has now, and maybe not the same opportunities for physical activity and the skills it helped bring out in him.”
Ryan’s brother Evan, now 22, became a Special Olympics athlete 10 years ago. He’s a swimmer and a curler, and has won medals at both the Nova Scotia Summer and Winter Games….”
Author: Carol Dunn
Date of Article: January 30, 2017
Source: The News
Website: http://www.ngnews.ca/sports/2017/1/30/the-sharpes-see-positive-benefits-from-special-olympics-involvem.html
From lawn chair to wheelchair: what bare-bones care looks like in some countries
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“…Each time Krista Sweet visits Belize to help train health-care workers and fit children with wheelchairs and walkers, she’s reminded of how people with few material assets can survive.
Sweet, a pediatric physiotherapist at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, is a volunteer with Team Canada Healing Hands….”
Author: Sherri Borden Colley
Date of Article: January 17, 2017
Source: CBC News
Website: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ns-health-professional-global-volunteer-experience-1.3939837
Halifax Heroes: Paul Vienneau shovels up random acts of kindness across our city
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“…
Among the tattoos visible on Paul Vienneau’s arms are a shovel and a water bottle.
They’re a reminder of what he’s doing with his life and why.
In the winter, you’ll often find Vienneau in his wheelchair chopping away at ice and snow to help clear sidewalks, crosswalks, drains and street corners.
…”
Author: Yvette d’Entremont
Date of Article: January 15, 2017
Source: Metro Halifax
Website: http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2017/01/13/halifax-heroes-shovelling-up-random-acts-of-kindness.html
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE — Jan. 14, 2017
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“…There are many retired sailors in Halifax who would gladly volunteer to help maintain the ship if funds were available for materials. And the Acadia is as much a symbol of our maritime heritage as the Bluenose, which seems to require continuous replication….”
Author:
Date of Article: January 14, 2017
Source: Chronicle Herald
Website: http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1431979-voice-of-the-people-%E2%80%94-jan.-14-2017
Who ya gonna call? Maritime Ghostbusters looking for recruits
Excerpt:
“…Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full-trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster, and the theory of Atlantis?
If so, then the Maritime Ghostbusters might be for you.
The volunteer organization is sanctioned by entertainment giant Sony through Ghost Corp., the production company that owns the franchise. Maritime Ghostbusters even have a signed certificate from the original film’s director, Ivan Reitman….”
Author: Cassie Williams
Date of Article: January 14, 2017
Source: CBC News
Website: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/maritime-ghostbusters-recruits-hal-con-1.3932146
