Category: Nova Scotia

• Dementia questions? Fear not. Ask.

  

  Got dementia questions. Linda and Jenna want to help you get answers. Visit Alzheimer.ca/ns or call 902-422-7961 or 1-800-611-6345.

  Sheryl Dubois

  February 2, 2021

  Abilities, Alzheimer, Dementia, education, Free, Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, HRM, non – profit, Nova Scotia, The Halifax Wire

  Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia, ASNS, Community Assets NS, Free, Help, Learning

• Business is Jammin’ and other stories: A conversation with Matthew Martel – CEO, Black Business Initiative (BBI), Nova Scotia

  

  A conversation with Matthew Martel, CEO of Black Business Initiative (BBI) a Nova Scotia not-for-profit, about BBI during COVID, BBI Youth Summit 2019, BBI Business in Jammin’ 2019 and the importance of seeing people like yourself.

  Sheryl Dubois

  January 11, 2021

  Adults, BBI, Black Business Initiative, Business, community, education, Entrepreneur, Free, Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, HRM, non – profit, Nova Scotia, Youth

  Adults, BBI Youth Summit, Black Business Initiative, Business is Jammin', education, Entrepreneur, Matthew Martel, Youth

• Conversation with Chris Aucoin, E.D. of AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia

  Conversation with Chris Aucoin, Executive Director of AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia, about HIV treatment, prevention, launch of in-home test kits for Canadians. And more.

  Sheryl Dubois

  December 6, 2020

  AIDS, Canada, Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, HIV, HRM, non – profit, Nova Scotia

  ACNS, AIDS Coalition Nova Scotia, World AIDS Day

• 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

• IWD 2020: Gina McFetridge

  

  KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) — In celebration of International Women’s Day, 2020, Saltwire ran a series of 24 articles called Amazing women doing wonderful things on the East Coast in their paper and digital newspapers. Among those women was Gina McFetridge, president of Archway Insurance and Atlantic Canadian original with over 31 locations and more than 200…

  Sheryl Dubois

  April 21, 2020

  Business, Chronicle Herald, community, Easter Seals Nova Scotia, fundraise, Halifax Regional Municipality, Insurance, non – profit, Nova Scotia, The City Voice

  2020, Archway Insurance, Chronicle Herald, Drop Zone, Easter Seals Nova Scotia, Gina McFetridge, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saltwire, South Shore Breaker, The City Voice

• 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

• DARTNS Disaster Animal Response Team, Nova Scotia

  When disaster strikes and you have to close up the home to seek shelter elsewhere, where do the pets go? Disaster Animal Response Team, Nova Scotia (DARTNS) has an answer.

  Sheryl Dubois

  January 20, 2020

  Animals, Disaster, Donations, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, pets, Rescue, The City Voice, volunteers

  DARTNS, Disaster Animal Response Team Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Red Cross, Rescue

• VON will deliver favourite, healthy, satisfying frozen meal(s) to the door.

  902-454-5755  halifaxreception@von.ca The VON (Victoria Order of Nurses) will deliver healthy, packaged frozen meals to your door. Frozen Favourites, they call the program. Order a few at a time for your freezer. You will appreciate it when you (or your loved ones!) are not up to cooking. The meals are under the cost of a…

  Sheryl Dubois

  January 20, 2020

  Economical, Food, Halifax Regional Municipality, HRM, Meals, non – profit, Nova Scotia, Uncategorized, volunteers, VON Victoria Order of Nurses

  Bedford Sackville Oberver, Food delivery, VON Halifax, VON Victoria Order of Nurses

• Sackville Area Warming Centre SAWC

  This page shares information about Sackville Area Warming Centre in Nova Scotia, Canada. Warm space to spend overnight out of the cold in Sackville, Nova Scotia – for people experiencing homelessness or are housing insecure. A wonderful community asset.

  Sheryl Dubois

  January 18, 2020

  Chronicle Herald, community, Donations, Halifax Regional Municipality, Homeless, HRM, non – profit, Nova Scotia, Sackville Area Warming Centre, The City Voice, volunteer, volunteers

  amyhollowayphotography.com, Beaver Bank NS, Bedford NS, Fall River NS, Free, Sackville NS, Service, Shelter, Wellington NS