Category: Environment

• Community of volunteers and entrepreneurs a great asset, in pictures (2017 – present)

  

  Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) ‘s community assets in pictures. Stories by Sheryl Dubois.

  Sheryl Dubois

  November 16, 2020

  Abilities, Adam Ghazoul, Adults, AIDS, Amy Holloway Photography, Animals, Art, BBI, Beaver Bank Bus, Birding, Birds, Black Business Initiative, Boys and Girls Clubs of Halifax, Bread, Brunswick Street Mission, Business, Canada, Candidate profiles, Children, Chronicle Herald, Cleaning company, community, Conservation, Dance, Definitions, Democracy, Depression, Disabilities, Disaster, Don’t Throw it Away, Donations, Easter Seals Nova Scotia, Economical, elephant, Entrepreneur, Environment, Etsy, Federal Election 2019, Fishing, Food, Freedom Kitchen, fundraise, Gratitude, Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, HIV, Home Insurance, Homeless, HRM, Human rights, Insurance, Jay Aaron, Jay Aaron Roy, Knox United Church, Lawrencetown, Lori Lewis, Lyle Mailman, Makers, Mariah Rose, Meals, Mental Health, mini homes, Mobile homes, Modo Yofa, non – profit, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Bird Society, Petal and Crow, pets, Rainie Murphy, Rescue, Research, Sackville Area Warming Centre, Sackville NS, Sackville Youth Expo, Salt Marsh Trail, Salt News, Samara Canada, Solopreneur, The City Voice, Trails, Travel, Videos, volunteer, volunteers, VON Frozen Meals Delivered, VON Victoria Order of Nurses, Wise Group, Wise Group Canada, Writing, Yoga, Youth, Zero-waste society

• Women that Hunt

  Nothing could have surprised me more. I went into the brief – to profile the group called Women that Hunt – with trepidation. Could I write positively about something I didn’t ‘believe in’? Hunting, I thought, is not something I could get behind. I was not on the phone a minute when president of Women…

  Sheryl Dubois

  March 12, 2020

  Abilities, Animals, community, Conservation, Economical, Environment, Fishing, Food, non – profit, Nova Scotia, The City Voice

  Conservation, Environment, Kelly Countway, Women that Hunt

• More Stories on Pinterest

  

  Photos are the essence of the story. Here are a few photos representing as many stories. Thank you to everyone donating photos to accompany respective articles.

  Sheryl Dubois

  February 28, 2020

  Abilities, Adam Ghazoul, Adults, AIDS, Amy Holloway Photography, Animals, Art, BBI, Birding, Birds, Black Business Initiative, Boys and Girls Clubs of Halifax, Bread, Canada, Children, Chronicle Herald, Cleaning company, community, Conservation, Dance, Democracy, Depression, Disabilities, Disaster, Don’t Throw it Away, Donations, Easter Seals Nova Scotia, Economical, education, Entrepreneur, Environment, Etsy, Federal Election 2019, Fishing, Food, Free, Freedom Kitchen, fundraise, Gratitude, Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, HIV, Home Insurance, Homeless, HRM, Human rights, Insurance, Jay Aaron, Jay Aaron Roy, Knox United Church, Lawrencetown, Lori Lewis, Lyle Mailman, Makers, Mariah Rose, Meals, Mental Health, mini homes, Mobile homes, Modo Yofa, non – profit, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Bird Society, Petal and Crow, pets, Poll, Rainie Murphy, Rescue, Research, Sackville Area Warming Centre, Sackville NS, Sackville Youth Expo, Salt Marsh Trail, Salt News, Samara Canada, Solopreneur, Square Roots, Square Roots Sackville NS, The City Voice, The Halifax Wire, Trails, Travel, Videos, volunteer, volunteers, VON Frozen Meals Delivered, VON Victoria Order of Nurses, Wise Group, Wise Group Canada, Writing, Yoga, Youth, Zero-waste society

  Pinterest, Sheryl Dubois Writes

• Don't Throw it Away

  I regularly peruse Kijiji for volunteer calls. In November I dug into a post titled, “Don’t throw it out. There’s a group for that.” The writer was named David and we exchanged emails. “In today’s age there is very little that should be going out to the garbage as so many non-profits exist and thrive…

  Sheryl Dubois

  January 11, 2020

  community, Don’t Throw it Away, Environment, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, The City Voice, Zero-waste society

  aluminum, bikes, blankets, books, cell phones, clothing, CPAP machines, crafting, electronics, eye glasses, fridge freezer, garbage, Hearing Aids, Ink, instruments, markers, music, personal care, pets, refuse, textiles, tools, What to do with, zero-waste

• The Great Trail, Canada

  Looking for interesting volunteer gigs. Found that Cole Harbour Parks and Trails Association offers ‘drop-in’ volunteering on Saturday mornings. That search led to two newspaper articles for The City Voice, and two features for The Great Trail. Extraordinary.

  Sheryl Dubois

  November 17, 2019

  Birding, Canada, community, Environment, Halifax Regional Municipality, HRM, non – profit, Nova Scotia, Salt Marsh Trail, Trails, volunteer, volunteers, Writing

  Cole Harbour, Cole Harbour Parks and Trails Association, East Lawrencetown, Emma Dubois, Lawrencetown, Marty Zelenietz, Michael McFadden, Nova Scotia Bird Society, Salt Marsh Trail, The Great Trail, Trans Canada Trail