When: Saturday, September 22, 2018 Doors open at 5 pm
Where: Purcell’s Cove Social Club, 505 Purcell’s Cove Road
Activities:
– Eat! Drink! And Dance to the music of Lime Rickey Band
– Silent and Live Auctions (cash or cheque only), Food, Cash Bar
Proceeds to go to the Nature Conservancy of Canada for the Halifax Wilderness Park in the Purcell’s Cove Backlands
Tickets are limited and go on sale August 1st
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“Come to the AGM to learn about Willliams Lake. We will have a shortened meeting followed by an opportunity to socialize and discuss what we still need to do to see a major portion of the watershed become a protected urban wilderness.”
View May 2018 Newsletter
It contains info about the developing Wilderness Park, results of lake water quality testing and discussion of road salt issues.
The NCC update on efforts to create the Urban Wilderness Park at Williams Lake, held at the Saraguay House yesterday evening, was well attended, upbeat and even mellow at the same time. The mellowness reflected the beautiful setting on the Arm and the serene spring evening.
Three people spoke briefly. To paraphrase their themes:
Craig Smith: The urban wilderness park is going ahead, no question. The Nature Conservancy of Canada is excited about its first venture into an urban space, and sees it as a unique opportunity to connect urban folk with wilderness and hence to generate support for protecting wilderness areas more broadly.
Steve Adams: The councillors voted 15 to zero in favour of it. That’s unheard of!
Marla Cranston: My working days are stressful as they are for so many of us. Being able within a few minutes to access a wilderness area after work and on weekend keeps me going and inspired. It’s an incredible asset for working people and families.
For more information about the Urban Wilderness Park and how to support it, visit: www.natureconservancy.ca/wildparkhrm.
Received from the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC):
“Please join us and NCC for an update on efforts to create the Urban Wilderness Park at Williams Lake.
“The Nature Conservancy of Canada is hosting an open house and would love to meet with everyone who has followed and supported efforts to protect this important wilderness area.
“Monday May 7, 2018
5:00-7:00 pm – Saraguay House
The Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron
360 Purcells Cove Rd, Halifax, NS
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A wilderness in our midst
Said DeMont:
Somewhere nearby a man my age was sweating about his taxes or banging his head against his keyboard after his hard drive failed.
I, however, was walking beside a stream, next to a stand of woods that could have been there for the past century, for a little while longer
oblivious to the weight of life.
View DeMONT:Going into the wild, but not out of town
John DeMont in the Chronicle Herald, Apr 19, 2018
One good reason for conserving the Backlands
“All are invited to a public meeting on April 12th for updates and information on park progress. We will also explore interest in forming a citizen’s group, such as a “Friends of Blue Mountain” group, to speak up for creation of the promised park and collaborate with the municipality and other levels of government.
Please come to St. Peter’s Anglican Church Hall from 7-9pm on Thursday, April 12th.
There will be a formal presentation at 7:15, and opportunity for questions and public comments at 8pm.”
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“In September HRM [Halifax Regional Municipality] announced that the tentative agreement for the Urban Wilderness Park on the Purcell’s Cove Backlands would include a parking lot and main entrance.
“Since then some questions have been raised about the concept and possible scale of parking adjacent to a wilderness area.
“Nature Conservancy Canada in partnership with urban parking specialists UrbanMobility has arrived at a solution that will provide for those who visit by car while meeting the concerns of conservationists.
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“Geoffrey Grantham began painting en plein air early in his career, in 1995. He paints throughout his native Nova Scotia, but has repeatedly returned to certain inspiring locations, such as the globally rare barrens found in the Purcell’s Cove Backlands. Located just outside the city of Halifax, this unique landscape is characterized by jack pines growing among spectacular whaleback rock formations. He also returns to the stark, majestic Cape Breton Highlands as well as the expansive Annapolis Valley.” Read more, view more Exhibit at Baka Gallery Cafe
“On January 18, the Halifax Regional Municipality purchased approximately 197 acres of lands to form part of a Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Regional Park. This important acquisition marks the first parcel of land to be acquired by the municipality towards the creation of the regional park, which is proposed in the municipality’s Regional Plan…
“The Hobson Lake lands have been acquired from West Bedford Holdings and will both enable public access into the regional park and support the protected wilderness area by acting as a buffer between it and developed lands. ”
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Our HRM Alliance launched a “Proposal for a Regional Main Streets Plan” at Station Six on Herring Cove Road on January 9, 2018.
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Halifax has a problem. Communities throughout the region have big ideas, but for many, their official plans have not been updated in decades. Only with updated plans can transit and development investment work together to create great main streets, places that make life convenient and affordable, and that form the centre of local pride.
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