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Theatre Arts Guild actors Mike Taylor, Chantelle Dooley, Frank MacLean, Will Brewer, Sheila Morrison and Rick Brien rehearse a scene from Corker by Dartmouth playwright Wendy Lill at the Pond Playhouse in Halifax last week. (PETER PARSONS / Staff)

Lill’s play Corker onstage at Pond Playhouse
Lorraine Cantwell loved the Wendy Lill play Corker from the first time she read it. “The play deals with serious issues like love of family,” Cantwell says. “It deals with hope. It deals with taking care of each other, with... Read More

Average: 1 (1 vote)

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Longtime blood donor Les Eldridge of Halifax has donated 43 gallons of blood so far and lugs a barrel along to illustrate the point when he gives speeches to others about blood donation. Now 80, he’s hoping his physician will let him start giving blood again. (CHRISTIAN LAFORCE / The Chronicle Herald)

He’s given blood by the barrel
Les Eldridge hasn’t given blood in about six years but he still has some pretty impressive statistics under his belt. The Halifax man had made 347 donations over 56 years when he stopped putting his arm out at the age of 74. Read More

Average: 5 (1 vote)

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Jennifer MacKinnon, a librarian at Millwood High School in Lower Sackville, is shown on her last day at her regular job for awhile. MacKinnon has just left for Lubuto, Zambia, where she’ll work in a library for street kids. She’s volunteering with Cuso International. (INGRID BULMER / Staff)

School librarian off to Zambia to work with street kids
At a time in her life when many parents are helping their older teens get ready for a gap year, Jennifer MacKinnon is taking one herself. Last week, the 55-year-old Millwood High School librarian headed off to Zambia to volunteer for a year with a... Read More

Average: 5 (6 votes)

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Ken Wilson, local president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, speaks to reporters at a rally Feb. 7 for striking Metro Transit workers. (PETER PARSONS / Staff / File)

More to transit workers’ arguments than I realized
IF PEOPLE honestly scrutinized all the things they have said and done every day, I think most would quickly realize that they can be hypocritical at times. I know that I recently have had cause to call myself a hypocrite. Read More

Average: 3.3 (50 votes)

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Tribute to special uncle who kept our family connected

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:32am | By ED McHUGH | BUZZ FROM THE ’BURBS

MOST FAMILIES have at least one. Frequently, the role is performed by the person you least expected to do it. I am referring to the family glue — the person who ensures that everyone stays linked to one another in various ways.
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Average: 5 (11 votes)

Flashback: Bedford’s new police station

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:32am

The old Maritime Tel & Tel building on the Bedford Highway was being converted into the police station for the Town of Bedford when this photo was taken in September 1983. The police department had been renting space in Sunnyside Mall since the...
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READER FEEDBACK

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:32am

Unions have improved conditions for all workers The day that any union acknowledged that seniority is not sacrosanct in contract negotiations is the day that unions as we know them will cease to exist. The union philosophy is that seniority...
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Average: 2.3 (3 votes)

Flashback: Before the Oval

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:32am

Dartmouth was gearing up for its annual winter carnival when this photo of skaters on Lake Banook was taken in February 1973.(REG HORNER / The Chronicle Herald archive)
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Average: 4 (1 vote)

Longtime blood donor Les Eldridge of Halifax has donated 43 gallons of blood so far and lugs a barrel along to illustrate the point when he gives speeches to others about blood donation. Now 80, he’s hoping his physician will let him start giving blood again. (CHRISTIAN LAFORCE / Staff)

He’s given blood by the barrel

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:32am | By PAT LEE Staff Reporter

Les Eldridge hasn’t given blood in about six years but he still has some pretty impressive statistics under his belt.
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Flashback: Table tennis at J. L. Ilsley

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:32am

Back in December 1986, J.L. Ilsley High School in Halifax had a group of table tennis enthusiasts. From left are Tammy Pottie, Sandy Hunter, Debbie Snow, Brad Dempsey, coach Delano Lai Fatt, Jason Myers, Stacey Bignell, George Goldsmith, Robert...
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Average: 4.5 (2 votes)

Ill woman’s spouse sees flaws in home-care system

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:32am | By ANGELA MOMBOURQUETTE Don't Get Me Started

BILL PHILLIPS is a loyal reader of the Community Herald, and a man who cares deeply about his community. He’s also a devoted husband whose beloved wife, Doris, has been struggling with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Average: 4.9 (10 votes)

Tribute to special uncle who kept McHugh family connected

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:32am | ED McHUGH BUZZ FROM THE ’BURBS

MOST FAMILIES have at least one. Frequently, the role is performed by the person you least expected to do it. I am referring to the family glue — the person who ensures that everyone stays linked to one another in various ways.
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Average: 5 (2 votes)

Events listings

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 4:33am

CONCERTS Acadia Hall Jamboree: Guests include Blain Henshaw, Graham Moorehead with Matt Balsor, Wendell Boutilier, Johnny Drakes, Roger Lake, Out of the Blue and MC Wendy Manning, Sunday, 2 p.m. 650 Sackville Dr., Lower Sackville.
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Swimsuit spa owner grapples with ABCs of entrepreneurship

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 4:33am | By ED McHUGH Buzz From The 'Burbs

HERE IS my confession: I have a huge soft spot for entrepreneurs who choose that exciting and challenging career path.
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Average: 5 (4 votes)

Coach Angeline Gillis and assistant coach John Boyd are pretty proud of their basketball team, the Sackville Storm mini girls. The girls, aged 10 to 12, were mistaken for a Sackville, N.B., team but ended up winning a tournament in New Brunswick. (TED PRITCHARD / Staff)

Tourney invite gone wrong turns out right

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 4:33am | By DAVENE JEFFREY Staff Reporter

A case of mistaken identity has helped a young team of Lower Sackville basketball players make a name for themselves.
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Average: 4.7 (27 votes)

Events listings

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 4:33am

CONCERTS Dartmouth Community Concert Series: James Hill, ukulele, and Anne Davison, cello, Friday, 8 p.m. Woodlawn United Church, Dartmouth. Visit www.dartmouthcommunityconcert.ca for more information.
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(The Chronicle Herald archive)

FLASHBACK: Duelling grocery stores

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 4:33am

Sobeys was located on Wyse Road just north of the Dartmouth Shopping Centre in January 1963. The Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) branch is at right, with the Dominion Store (now nofrills) at far right. (The Chronicle Herald archive)
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Average: 4.5 (6 votes)

Striking Metro Transit workers picket on Thursday, February 2 in Burnside near Metro Transit headquarters. (CHRISTIAN LAFORCE / Staff)

Pretty bad for users’ bad behaviour to figure in transit talks

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 4:33am | By BRENDA MacDONALD | TWO CENTS’ WORTH

I’M QUITE CERTAIN there’s no opinion on the Metro Transit strike that hasn’t already been expressed by some other columnist somewhere. Nonetheless, I’m still going to take a quick moment here to say that I’m completely...
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Average: 4.8 (14 votes)

A model of what the completed King's Wharf development will look like. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff)

Olive predicts King’s Wharf will spur downtown renaissance

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 4:33am | By COLLEEN COSGROVE Business Reporter

The ingredients are there for downtown Dartmouth to become a vibrant waterside destination and the King’s Wharf development will bring the all-important last piece of the puzzle — the people.
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Average: 4.1 (21 votes)