Your Eastern Shore Joint Emergency Management Team ( ESJEM ), from Cole Harbour to Ship Harbour, is looking for volunteers to become Community Status Reporters ( CSR ). If there should ever be more significant weather events or any other community-wide emergency crisis, CSR’s will be providing first hand, up-to-date details on local conditions ( roads / power outages / flooding, etc.) within their immediate neighbourhood and/or community. CSR’s will receive an automated phone message which will ask them to call ESJEM back and report in on the local conditions or inform them of any immediate needs they are aware of in their area. The ESJEM-CSR system will be a lead way for the preparation of any community-led organizational response to non-emergency needs during a sustained period of crisis. With a slogan of ‘Organizing to Respond’ and in the spirit of being prepared, ESJEM proposes to run annual Community Status Reporting practise exercises. These will be simply practise phone calls without the stress of being in a real life crisis and it allow ESJEM to test their alert system and assess their readiness capabilities. ESJEM will provide you with the pertinent materials if you wish to help out with this initiative. For further enquires or need any more information, please contact ESJEM at 827-5414. ESJEM meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7 pm in the Eastern Shore Ground Search and Rescue building at # 5688 - Hwy # 7, Head of Chezzetcook. All are welcome.

You can now report any streetlight outages on-line. NS Power's website enables you to alert them directly of any safety and/or operational problems about street lighting. www.nspower.ca/customer_service/residential/street.shtml. So why be left out in the dark anymore ?

www.gov.ns.ca/natr/protection/wildfire/fwi/default.htm

Now with Phase 2 of this bulk paving program underway; future phases are being planned that should address all of the remaining subdivision streets in the greater Lawrencetown area that want to be paved. Once again, I want to personally thank and publicly acknowledge the great efforts of the Eastern Shore MLA - the Hon. Bill Dooks, NS Minister of Energy, for his on going cooperation and determination in addressing in our local road priorities.

Seaforth will be having hosting a Fun Night at its community hall on Saturday, Oct 13th. At 8:00 PM, there will be a “Potato Patch” weigh-in for the largest home-grown spud. So dig up your best tuber and try to win the prized Mr. Potato-Head Trophy. There will also be a pie auction & pub night complete with local entertainment and grub. And be sure to watch out for their “Treasure Hunt” special that will be featured in the “Daily News”.

www.halifax.ca/wrms/index.html . And for more precise information about the bi-weekly organic and recyclables collection schedule: www.halifax.ca/wrms/zoneaandb.html#week