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Local Residents Examining Provincial Plans for Pondville Beach
PONDVILLE - Isle Madame residents are currently poring over a provincial draft management strategy for the popular beach and park in this Atlantic coastal community.
Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (DNRR) posted the draft strategy for Pondville Beach Provincial Park on the department's Web site at the end of December. DNRR officials have invited the public to submit their thoughts on the document before January 31 by traditional mail or e-mail.
The 21-page document's contents drew praise from Lisa Boudreau, a spokesperson for the Save Pondville Beach Provincial Park Committee. She praised DNRR representatives for their community consultation approach during a public engagement session held last June in the nearby Rocky Bay Irish Hall. As well, Boudreau declared that the draft management strategy takes in many of the community's concerns, including coastal erosion and proper maintenance of the Pondville site.
However, while DNRR officials have pledged to make new washrooms and change-houses more accessible to all, Boudreau and her committee feel the department has not gone far enough to make Pondville Beach fully accessible.
Also on this week's Roundtable:
* 22:25 - The chair of the St. Martha's Regional Hospital Foundation, Meghan MacGillivray-Case, talks to Telile LJI journalist Adam Cooke about the successful conclusion of the Antigonish health care facility's 10-year fundraising campaign "The Time Is Now." The initiative, designed to increase the hospital's yearly medical-equipment endowment from $3.5 million to $20 million, actually concluded three years ahead of schedule due to the generosity of 1,900 individual donors.
* 33:14 - As Canada's ban on conversion therapy reaches the two-year mark, the head of the Cape Breton Transgender Network, Veronica Merryfield, is continuing her efforts to have the practice discontinued in other jurisdictions. These include the United States and Merryfield's birthplace, the United Kingdom.
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