Over the past 7 years HRM Civic Addressing has been working across the Municipality verifying and correcting civic addresses. Your civic address is comprised of your civic number, street name and community name. An important part of these projects is the review of community names and boundaries. Once a community's boundaries have been reviewed and approved by Regional Council blue and white welcome signage is installed.

HRM is about to start a project within the areas known today as East Preston, North Preston, Lake Major, Cherry Brook , Westphal and Cole Harbour to verify the community names and boundaries. HRM wishes to work with area residents to confirm these names and boundaries. We will be contacting these communities, by mail, in the upcoming months and encourage everyone to participate.

If you have any questions in the meantime please do not hesitate to contact the Civic Addressing Coordinator, Gayle MacLean directly at 490-4105 or by e-mail : macleag@halifax.ca

HRM Animal Control By-law A-300 (www.halifax.ca/legislation/bylaws/hrm/documents/By-LawA-300.pdf ) is intended to promote responsible pet ownership.

No dog is to:
(a) run at large, at any time, except on the property of it’s owner;
(b) damage public or private property;
(c) defecate on any public or private property other than the property of it’s owner, without the dog owner immediately removing the defecation;
(d) be un-spayed, in heat and not be confined inside a dog-proof enclosure; or
(e) be in a municipal park unless designated by signage.

So please register your dog, use a leash and clean up the doggie doo.

Bike Week is a celebration of all forms of cycling in HRM. There will be plenty of events organized by local individuals, groups and by HRM to encourage bicycling for recreation, transportation and sport.

For more details on Bike Week events, go to: www.halifax.ca/bikeweek and for more general information about cycling throughout HRM :  www.halifax.ca/cycling/index.html

For more details, go to their web-site at www.atlanticbikeweek.com or contact Tim Martin : ABW Event Coordinator at 222-4111 or by e-mail at info@atlanticbikeweek.com .

June 13th will be the first anniversary the horrific wildfire between Porters Lake, Lake Echo & Lawrencetown Lake. The Mineville Community will be having its own neighbourhood commemoration to mark this event. The scarred landscape is still a reminder. Hopefully more pleasant memories will be lasting from this dramatic ordeal.

Together we can make our environment cleaner, greener and healthier for generations to come. If you wish to organize a community clean-up campaign or drive to Adopt-a-Highway, please refer to these web-sites for more information: www.gov.ns.ca/tran/aah.asp or www.myhrm.ca/ToolKit/OrganizeaNeighbourhoodCleanUp.php .

The Lake Echo Lions are hosting a highway clean-up on Saturday, June 13th starting at 9 AM. Volunteers are asked to show up at the community centre.

At this time I wish to congratulate all the High School, Community College, and University Students on their achievement of graduating. May all of you have the very best of luck with life successes in your future endeavours.

Sincerely,

Councillor  David  Hendsbee  
H.R.M. DISTRICT 3 COUNCILLOR
PRESTON/LAWRENCETOWN/CHEZZETCOOK

1 Chamberlain Drive, Westphal, NS, B2Z 1B1
829-2465 ( Home Office ) 483-0705 ( Cell )
490-4050 ( Hfx. City Hall ) 829-3620 ( Fax )
david@hendsbee.ns.ca & hendsbd@halifax.ca