Past Events
Upcoming Events
Old Time Music & Country Dance
Date: Saturday, March 9, 2024
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Round Hill Community Hall (1689 Highway 201, Round Hill)
Admission: $10 (at the door)
Details: Get your dancing shoes on and two-step your way down to the Round Hill Community Hall for an old-time dance in support of SOOF! Featuring live music by the North Mountain Islanders. Instruction for 2 steps, waltzes, maybe a contra or two, polkas by request.
Informtion and registration can be found here.
Join Nature Nova Scotia and Mhari as she delves into the vision of the Nova Scotia Working Woodlands Trust, a progressive land trust collaborating with private woodland stewards to preserve their stewardship legacy through working forest easements. Explore the intricacies of these easements, from the permitted practices to the strategic utilization of the carbon market for financing enduring stewardship and monitoring of the trust’s properties. Gain insights into the sustainable and forward-thinking approach that ensures the conservation of vital woodlands for generations to come.
Register for the Nature Talks on Working Forest Easements by using the link below:
https://us06web.zoom.us/…/tZIkde6trjgpHNA76S5FDmT…
This workshop is open to Mi’kmaw community members only.
Join us for back to back days of education, and collaboration at AWN’s 2024 Annual Network Meeting. This year we will be focusing on building resilience, both in your communities and your watersheds.
February 7th & 8th from 1-4pm AST, On-line
The Annual Network Meeting will host presentations from our regional and national water partners, facilitated training sessions as well as inter-provincial networking opportunities. Don’t miss a chance to hear all the exciting updates from AWN, including special training on AWN’s exciting new Knowledge Hub!
Registration and information can be found here
The municipality is inviting residents to attend an in-person public information meeting to learn more and provide feedback on the preliminary design of the erosion mitigation measures for Shore Road.
Public information meeting: Shore Road: Building with Nature
February 8, 2024 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Fisherman’s Cove, Clyde T. Henneberry room (in person)
Residents are invited to join municipal staff for a presentation on the project and an opportunity to ask questions. Feedback from the meeting will be compiled into a What We Heard Report and will be used to help inform the project design. There will be a follow-up meeting in fall 2024 to present the final design and to discuss design considerations as a result of the first public information meeting.
Want to learn how you can help shape industrial projects in your area?
Join us for a workshop (either online or in-person) exploring how your community can engage in the environmental assessment (EA) process, hold productive meetings with politicians, lead effective grassroots campaigns and more! You’ll learn all about how the EA process works, how you can provide input and help influence projects to be more sustainable and beneficial for your community.
In-person and on-line Workshop
Date: Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 (rain date: Tuesday, Feb. 13)
Time: 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. AT
Location: Eastern Shore Wildlife Association Lodge, 202 Pool Road, Sheet Harbour
RSVP here so that you can receive helpful resources to continue your learning after the workshop. Not sure if you can make it? Drop-ins are also welcome.
SOOF Soup Sunday
Date: Sunday, February 18, 2024
Time: 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Centerlea Community Hall (3495 Highway 201, Centerlea)
Free Event. Free donation to the Hall is appreciated.
About: Come join us for lunch and a chat about old forests and citizen science.
There is a special meeting of Cumberland County Council in the Council Chambers in Upper Nappan for the second reading of the Development Agreement between Higgins Mountain Partnership Limited and the Municipality of Cumberland County.
The meeting is scheduled at 4 pm on January 31 ( Wednesday). The public is welcome to attend this meeting but we have been advised there will be no public presentations.
For more inforamtion contact:
Public Meeting
Date: Sunday, January 28, 2024
Time: 1:30 – 3:30pm
Location: Bridgetown Legion, 20 Jeffrey Street
About: SOOF is hosting a Public Meeting to talk about potential sites in Annapolis County that have been identified for clearcutting and spraying and our ongoing work to protect two wilderness areas on the South Mountain.
Please note that this is not a SOOF Soup Sunday event and there will not be a free lunch served at the Public Meeting.
SOOF Soup Sunday
Hope you can join us at our first SOOF Soup Sunday on January 21! We’ll be hosting a free lunch of soups (including vegan) and bread, and talking about the Goldsmith Lake and Beals Brook Wilderness areas. It’s a free event – but we do ask that you register in advance so we know how much soup to make!
Details:
- Date: Sunday, January 21, 2024
- Time: 12:00pm – 3:00pm
- Location: Centerlea Community Hall (3495 Highway 201, Centerlea)
- Free Event. (Donation to the Hall is appreciated.)
Registration Required: https://link.arlingtonforestprotection.ca/register#saveouroldforests
If you are not able to attend, please consider writing Halifax Council or your Counsellor. For more information and for speaking / writing notes, go to: Friends of Halifax Commons
For more information on what’s happening in Liverpool, check out our website here and visit Protect Liverpool Bay.org
For more information and to regster for this hike, visit sandylakecoalition.ca/hikes
Save Our Old Forests Minamkeak Trail Walk
Sunday October 1, 2023 at 13:00 (1:00 pm)
Learn about edible mushrooms with fungus enthusiast Valerie Hearder.
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