Category: volunteer

• 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

• Everyone has the RIGHT to volunteer.

  Interviewing the founder of the now defunct On-Point Volunteers, Tracey Randem was adament that EVERYONE has the RIGHT to volunteer. To get to feel like they are helping their community. It’d be hard to disagree.

  Sheryl Dubois

  March 12, 2020

  Abilities, Disabilities, Human rights, volunteer, volunteers

  On-Point Volunteers, Quotes, Tracey Randem

• 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

• 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

• Julie Michaud & Young Adult Cancer Canada (YACC)

  Reprinted in memory of Julie Michaud of Fall River, Nova Scotia, Canada. January 2020. “YACC for young adults with Cancer,” 2018.

  Sheryl Dubois

  January 11, 2020

  Chronicle Herald, fundraise, Gratitude, HRM, volunteer, volunteers

  Julie Michaud, Shave for the Brave, Young Adults Cancer Canada (YACC)

• I didn't see this coming: When people tell their stories

  Story by Sheryl Dubois written for The City Voice, December 2019. Lyle Mailman of Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia, speaks out about depression, gratitude and “doing” for his community. #inspire

  Sheryl Dubois

  January 6, 2020

  Amy Holloway Photography, Beaver Bank Bus, community, Depression, Gratitude, Halifax Regional Municipality, HRM, Lyle Mailman, Mental Health, The City Voice, volunteer, volunteers, Writing

  Beaver Bank, Gratitude, Halifax Regional Municipality, Inspiration, Lyle Mailman, Nova Scotia, The City Voice, Volunteering

• East Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia: Everything travellers need.

  East Lawrencetown, Lawrencetown and Cole Harbour offer an array of activities, trails, history, art, historic properties, eateries and suites for visitors – making it feel quite like a resort.

  Sheryl Dubois

  November 17, 2019

  community, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Salt Marsh Trail, Trails, Travel, volunteer, volunteers

  Acadian Tea Room, Atlantic Dutch Store, Atlantic View Trail, Cole Harbour Parks and Trails Association, Hope for Wildlife, Jane Dominie, La Cuisine de Brigette, Lucky Fancy Vintage, MacDonald House, Moonlight Beach Suites, Rose and Rooster Cafe and Bakery, Salt Marsh Trail, The Great Trail

• 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

• Data: Candidate profiles: What they told us (all 1745 of them), 2019 by Samara Canada

  1700 Candidates ran in the 2019 Federal election.Samara profiled candidates by employment and education. Here are the results.

  Sheryl Dubois

  October 21, 2019

  Canada, Candidate profiles, Democracy, Federal Election 2019, Research, Samara Canada, volunteer

  2019 Federal Election, The Samara Centre for Democracy

• Sackville Youth Expo 2019

  Story about the first annual 2019 Youth Expo in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada, organizaed by Jay Aaron and Rainie Murphy.

  Sheryl Dubois

  August 7, 2019

  community, HRM, Jay Aaron, Knox United Church, non – profit, Rainie Murphy, Sackville NS, Sackville Youth Expo, volunteer, volunteers, Youth

  Cadets, Cobequid Community Health Centre, community, HRM Youth, Jay Aaron, Opportunity Place, Our Social Market, Rainie Murphy, Sackville Youth Expo, The Den, Youth