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Cumberland County to issue RFP for policing services
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Cumberland municipal council is going to issue a request for proposals for policing services.
Council accepted the recommendation from its policing options review committee during its December meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.
Municipal units busy with healthcare recruitment, retention
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At a meeting on health care in Springhill on Dec. 8, 2022, Cumberland region mayors were disappointed more information related to local efforts pertaining to health care around physician recruitment and retention was not highlighted.
“It was disappointing the members of the community who were at the meeting were not enlightened about the efforts underway in the Cumberland region as a joint effort between our three municipalities and volunteers within our communities,” Cumberland County Mayor Murray Scott said.
River Hebert celebrates official opening of community centre
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Several years ago, River Hebert residents identified the need for a community centre. At about the same time, officials with the Brookside Curling Club were trying to decide what to do with their aging curling rink near the heart of the village.
Its membership was no longer active in the sport and it didn’t want to see the building fall into disrepair or become an eyesore. The community seized the opportunity and from a concept on a piece of paper, various volunteers came together with their talents and skills and redeveloped the building into what it is today – an example of what a community can accomplish when it puts its mind to something.
Compassion is key to ending gender-based violence
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While there have been gains made in the campaign to end violence against women, the guest speaker during the Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women says those gains have barely scratched the surface.
Speaking during a noon-hour luncheon at the Amherst Lions Club, Kiara Bubar said gender-based violence is just as much an issue as it was on Dec. 6, 1989, when a gunman massacred 14 women at a Montreal engineering school.
Making wishes come true for Springhill
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With the cost of Christmas escalating, a group of Springhill and area residents are coming together to make sure everyone has a Christmas Wish under the tree on Dec. 25.
Every year at this time, a tremendous effort is made to make sure every child has something under the tree on Christmas morning and Christmas for Kids in Amherst and Toys for Tots in Springhill goes a long toward achieving that goal. Christmas Wishes works to ensure older children and adults don’t go without.