Communities
Dream job brings healthcare professional back home
Lauren Boyd has always been an active person and is always looking for ways to give back.
Shopping for free! First swap and repair event hosted by municipality during Waste Reduction Week
For over 20 years, all across Canada, the 3rd week in October is Waste Reduction Week. Everyone knows that it’s becoming more and more urgent that we humans stem the tide of waste that we produce....
Writers Festival celebrates 15 storied years
On the weekend of September 22-24, lovers of music, stories, and words will gather at an extra festive Cabot Trail Writers Festival, celebrating this highlight cultural event’s 15th anniversary an...
L’Arche gives reclaimed wood a beautiful new lease on life
Turning trash into treasure: l’Arche Cape Breton is part of an international federation of people with and without intellectual disabilities living together to celebrate the unique value of every pe...
Age Well Academy sessions in full swing in Inverness County
Over the past few months, the municipality has been holding a host of information sessions in various community settings around Inverness County. With our county’s seniors being the target audience,...
Seeing her passion come to life
“Landfills are a waste solution that has limits as it is one direction. And once the landfills are full where do we go next?”
Filmmaker “had it right”
It was 30 minutes that altered two generations. As the Cape Breton Fiddlers Association (CBFA) celebrates 50 years, it owes it origins to a half-hour program on CBC more than half a century ago.
Lilith Fair event hits right note
The Lilith Fair Tribute Concert, a fundraiser for the Inverness Education Centre/Academy music program, marked its 12th annual event on June 15 and 16 at the school.
van Zutphen family “Always there” for hospital
“Always there” It’s the campaign slogan used by Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital (ICMH) Charitable Foundation in 2008
Volunteers are lifeblood of culture and heritage sector
For many cultural and heritage organizations in Inverness County, the winter season is a time to take stock, in between the rush that tourism brings. It’s a time when the sector can get together...
New Cheticamp branch joins ECRL family
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a library,” reflected the great Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Borges was a librarian himself and it says a great deal that a man who...