PAGE 4 THE SHORELINE JOURNAL - MARCH, 2021 Letters to the editor This is an open forum for your opinions and comments. MAIL TO: The Shoreline Journal, P.O. Box 41, Bass River, NS, B0M 1B0 (902) 647-2968; Fax: 902-647-2194 Email: [email protected] Will there be two The War Amps Key Tag Service Celebrates 75 Years elections this year? Dear Editor, though it’s a free service, dona- sources to draw from. Through not only protects your keys, it The War Amps Key Tag tions enable the Association to the Association, amputees are allows amputees across the There has been so much going on during the last Service is celebrating a mile- operate its many programs for also eligible for financial assis- country to reach their full po- month, it is difficult to know where to start. For instance, stone this year – its 75th an- amputees, including veterans tance for artificial limbs which tential. near the first of the month provincial Liberals chose Iain niversary! The service has not and children. allow them to be active and in- Tim Verney Rankin as their new leader, who will automatically be- only been reuniting Canadians I was born missing both dependent. War Amps Regional come Premier Stephen McNeil’s replacement. There is a with their lost keys, it has been feet and was enrolled in The The War Amps 2021 key Representative major uproar, which started in Bass River, about the EHS helping to make a difference War Amps Child Amputee tags are being mailed to Nova Nova Scotia response times which has also evolved into complaints in the lives of amputees. To (CHAMP) Program at a young Scotia residents next week date, more than 1.5 million age. With this support, I grew and I would like to thank about volunteer Fire Fighters, not being involved in or re- sets of lost keys have been re- up knowing I wasn’t alone everyone for their continued ceiving messages about local 911 events. turned to their owners. Al- and that I had a wealth of re- support. The Key Tag Service Winter finally arrived last weekend with depending where you lived a dumping of 12-24 inches of snow, fol- lowed by freezing rain, which turned to rain as temps OP-ED rose overnight to 12-13. Tuesday morning an onslaught of cold air turn everything into a skating rink. Recently two matters things have been much in the Let’s Pitch Food Waste We launched the challenge, not knowing Here’s where news and a third matter, at the county level, will become what kind of response we would get. to find us: very contentious. As we stay somewhat isolated from By MARIE-CLAUDE BIBEAU We were thrilled at the response. Already, 343 Every year, over half of the food produced in proposals have poured in from all across the BASS RIVER: Covid-19, within our own bubble, people have lots of Canada is wasted. Crops are left unharvested in country, from start-ups and entrepreneurs ready time to dwell on “discussions” happening while joining Bayside Pharmacy the field. Food spoils during transportation. to tackle this issue in Canada. A first round of Dominion Chair Factory Store friends for coffee . Reusable by-products are cast aside during pro- winners will be announced in the coming BIBLE HILL: First the conjecture there might be two elections this cessing. Retailers and consumers fall short on months and another round of applications will C.W. Fraser Pharmacy year. Many believe Prime Minister Trudeau might pull the selling and eating food before it spoils. be open in the spring, this time focused on new MacQuarries Pharmacy plug and send us to the polls before the end of June. In According to the experts at Second Harvest, technologies that extend the life of food or trans- Kennedy’s Deli – Ryland Ave Cumberland-Colchester the announcement by at least it’s like building 95 CN towers out of wasted form food waste into new foods or value-added DEBERT: two people who will seek the Conservative nomination to food every year. Uneaten food often ends up in products. Debert Mini-Mart run again incumbent, Lenore Zann. So far Colchester landfills and creates methane, a powerful green- While we’re making good progress on re- FIVE ISLANDS: house gas. A staggering 8% of all greenhouse using and recycling waste, the biggest challenge Masstown Market Five Islands Councillor Tom Taggart and David Phillips, Business De- gases worldwide are the result of food waste. remains waste prevention — preventing food GLENHOLME: velopment Officer for the Truro Colchester Partnership for Food waste is a major challenge – and a major waste before it ever happens. And we can all Double “C” Truckstop Economic Prosperity have announced their intentions to opportunity. start with a simple solution right in our own GREAT VILLAGE: seek the nomination. It is rumoured a professional in the We’ve all heard the saying: ”Reduce, reuse, homes. Some of us are unsure about is whether Wilson’s Gas Truro area medical field will also seek the nomination. No and recycle.” Well, it turns out those three ‘Rs’ are to eat food after the best-before date. The best- MAITLAND: candidates from Cumberland and Amherst areas have all key to taking on this mountain of a problem. before date indicates to consumers that if the Frieze & Roy General Store reached the speculative stage. The team at Enterra Corp. is more than up to product has been properly handled, the un- MASSTOWN: The number of current Liberal MLA’s who have indi- the challenge. Enterra runs a large state-of-the-art opened product should be of high quality until Masstown Market facility just north of Calgary. Every day, they the specified date. Best-before dates are about MTM Retail Gas (Petro-Can) cated they will not be seeking re-election continues to gather 130 tonnes of surplus fruits, vegetables food quality and not food safety. MILLBROOK: rise, giving speculation newly installed, Premier Iain and other food from local farmers, grocery stores Being confined at home during the COVID- Super 8 Motel Rankin (sworn in Tuesday, February 23) is facing a and food processors. They bring the waste back 19 pandemic has helped us all discover (or re- Hampton Inn & Suites quandary - when to send us to the polls. By law, he must to their facility and feed it to large colonies of discover) the joy of cooking. Personally, I enjoy NORTH RIVER: call an election by May 2022. The 40th Nova Scotia gen- black soldier larvae. The larvae are then dried the challenge of cooking a delicious meal using Grant’s Grocery eral election was held on May 30, 2017. His problem is and offered as a nutrient-rich pet food and plant the forgotten ingredients in the back of my PARRSBORO: not wanting to be in the election cycle close to a Federal fertilizer in an attractive packaging. fridge. CrossRoads Co-op Election. It appears to be a guessing game. Will Trudeau Altruism isn’t driving Enterra’s success – it’s Tackling food waste is a challenge for all of Ken’s Grocery a viable business model to recycle food waste. us. It’s a key focus area for the Food Policy for Wright’s Pharmasave go before end of June or wait until later this fall? Our Government recently announced an invest- Canada, which our Government launched two TRURO: So far, according to my memory, the following Liber- ment of $6 million to help them expand. years ago. Reducing food waste can save us Atlantic Superstore als will not be seeking another term. Included in the list We need more Enterras. A lot more. money, support those in need, create new busi- Best Western Glengarry with the year first elected in brackets includes: Stephen Last November, our Government launched ness opportunities, and reduce GHG emissions. Holiday Inn McNeil, (2003), (former premier), Karen Casey (2006), the $20-million Food Waste Reduction Chal- Whether it’s a multi-million dollar business ven- MacQuarrie’s Pharmasave Leo Glavine (2003), Geoff MacLellan (2010), Gordon lenge, offering cash prizes to innovators with so- ture or a back-of-fridge stew, let’s keep working (Esplanade) Wilson, (2013), and most recently Mark Furey (2013). lutions to prevent or divert food waste at any on solutions. Rath Eastlink Comm Centre The second saga is that 100+-Million Americans have point on the food supply chain, from farm-to- The Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau is Canada’s Minister Colchester East Hants Health plate. of Agriculture and Agri-Food Centre – Coffee Shop been afflicted with a major winter storm, including a NEWSPAPERS IN week-long deep freeze throughout the entire state of EDUCATION: Texas. Imagine Dallas receiving a foot of snow. After the Volunteer Recognition Voting February 25 & 26 Each classroom at the following schools will receive a copy of the temperatures started to moderate, thawing and melting of By Maurice Rees awards ceremony and lunch- Award is as follows: Council- snow started, the real damage was with the number of Shoreline Journal: Cumberland residents will eon as the Municipality’s Vol- lors are invited to nominate an Bass River Consolidated; frozen pipes which have basically demolished entire have an opportunity to partic- unteer Representative. Due to individual, a youth, a family vol- Great Village Elementary; Debert homes. Interesting photos included a chandelier with ici- ipate in an on-line voting on COVID- 19 restrictions, this unteering together for the Vol- Elementary; Chiganois Elementary; cles almost a foot long; ceilings which had fallen due to February 25th and 26th to se- year’s ceremony will unteer Representative Award Central Colchester Junior High excessive water dripping from the room above and lect the county’s volunteer for be taking place virtually on and, a new category this year, School; Parrsboro Elementary and kitchens with up to three inches of water.