Sunday August 12th 2007- Canso: Seamen’s Memorial Service

Adult Ball Tournament starting at 10.00a.m. Please register your teams by Thursday July 19 by calling 366-2559.

To demonstrate the size of the animal she saw, Monroe picked up her massive tabby cat. “It was at least three times bigger than him,” she said, referring to the tabby.

“I think particularly businesses who haven’t previously had a website up and running, felt that this was a huge step to actually get a physical presence on the web. I think by the time we finished the day they went away very confident, and it wasn’t such a huge step. I think everyone got the message.”

Mulgrave Road Theatre presents its 30th Anniversary production, “By the Dark of the Moon” on July 27th, 28th and 29th, 2007.

In memory of the crew of the Cormorant helicopter that crashed …

Hidden on the bottom of our rock strewn coastline, invisible to all but the fish and a few divers, lie many a sunken ship. But one large freighter, skewered on a reef at the tip of Cape Gegogan, on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, is in full view of the inquisitive sea kayaker and we can even paddle inside the hold.

The sunshine created micro-niches of warmth and sunlight in the woodlands of the Gully trail and despite the somewhat seasonally cooler weather an array of Warblers: Yellow, Black-and-White and Magnolia, were represented together with sightings of a Catbird.

The signs posted by The Canso Harbour Authority are clear: for now the wharf is closed. This means of course that the wharf is unavailable to Tall Ships that might be passing from Halifax following the Parade of Sail on Monday July 16th on their way to the ports of Port Hawkesbury, Louisbourg and Sydney in Cape Breton.

The 11th edition of the Stan Rogers festival featured a collection of artists from Scotland to Tuva, but it was the overload of Nashville talent that truly blew the Canso crowd away.

First time performer at Stanfest, Audra Raulyns, a Toronto native who has been living in Nashville since she was a young girl, took the stage by storm; her sultry jazz vocals booming from her tiny frame.