Off to Permaculture Workshops EAC

Its all happening July 31st-August 1st 2010 at Fern Lane EAC's nice new home in Halifax.

Adrian Buckley from the South Shore is one of the presenters.

I hope to green up my garden - and my life  - even more!

Metro Transit misses, but CHAD rocks !

by AVA JANE, transportation & entertainment editor

Saturday, my little brother (aka MR RYAN, if you please) and me and Rebecca went off to Mic Mac Mall on a - wait for it - a CITY BUS.

WOW !

Mr Ryan was soooooo impressed.

He'd never been on anything but a yellow school bus and maybe Acadian Lines - but now he had a great view of the Bridge to Dartmouth and the big harbour.

The bus driver said we might see a glimpse of the Gay Pride parade but it had been re-routed - sadly no sightings to report !

BUT - but, we did get to hear some of the Concert on the Commons (thankfully ,The Black Eyed Peas hadn't arrived yet - Mommy was pleased we got over that hump ) - instead we heard a nice singer from Cole Harbour .

You rock Chad !

Now that I am back in Hub-City, I will keep up my blogging - because - "a good reporter is NEVER off duty..."

A little doll can mean so much

by AVA JANE, seniors reporter

Friday, Rebecca and I went to the monthly "OUT TO LUNCH"

lunch, aka the St Mary's University Faculty Women's Association, at Lillian's home.

We had a lovely lunch and Lillian , who is normally quite reserved, told me about her little blond doll that she had fallen upon at a yard sale at Northwood Manor.

It looked exactly like one she had to leave behind in Europe when the Nazis came in and it reminded her so much of her happy life before the War.

MO goes PO: Photos of Martin Henry Dawson

Still the best place in town to get those oh so scarce photos/images/pictures/photographs of Martin Henry Dawson:

MO goes PO: Photos of Martin Henry Dawson:

"HERE IS A SMALL COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARTIN HENRY DAWSON"

My tummy was Phil-ed at Phil's

by AVA JANE , food reporter

For supper, Michael took me and Rebecca to Phil's Seafood on Quinpool Road.

Good food, good prices, great staff and service.

Best of all - a children's menu and a coloring book and crayons.....

Jock does my hair up right

by AVA JANE, fashion reporter

Today I went downtown with Rebecca to get my hair by a "Big Person's hairdresser" - Jock of CAS SPA .

He does Rebecca's hair, and my mother and dad - and my great aunt Donna as well.

He said I was 'gorgeous' - did my head swell !

Then we had lunch at subway - yummy ....

Meinhard Doelle putting up more Solar Panels

by AVA JANE, energy reporter

This morning, I heard some men making noise outside and asked them what they were doing - they were putting more solar panels on the roof of my friend Nikola's house.

I was surprised they were willing to work just after a huge clap of thunder and lightening burst about a half kilometre away -- brave men - some people in Rebecca's house were still shaken hours later when we met them at Park Lane....

Inha tells of hungry North Korean children

by AVA JANE, Diplomatic reporter

On my second day at JUNIOR MEDIA CAMP at PIER 21, we learned that children in North Korea are very hungry and they have to obey the bosses or they die.

Mrs Inha told us that people can't leave and it is very hard even to get in to help.

We are lucky to live in Canada...

A Date with Spiders & Snakes!

Ava Jane, SCIENCE Reporter

I was playing with Nicola and asked her if she would like to go to

the venom show at the NS Museum of Natural History.

She said yes and we walked over to the Museum for the show at 2:30PM.

The man from the Ottawa Zoo talked first about the Kane Toad which was poisonous but ONLY if you ate it.

If the toad was scared, it would excrete white poisonous bumps that could kill a creature and make a human very sick. These toads use their venom to protect their babies or frighten away predators.

Next was a rattle snake which only uses its venom for emergencies which is true of all venomous creatures.

Finally he brought out something and he said "a lot of people are afraid of this".

(He was right ---it was a tarantula !!)

At the end of the venom demonstration, he said he would let people hold the animals and so he got a volunteer to hold the tarantula so that others wouldn't be afraid to hold it either.

Then was a scorpion and he told us that it has a stinger at the tip of his tail. He got a volunteer to hold the scorpion so that others

would not be afraid of it stinging them.

We were told to keep our hand flat when holding the scorpion or the tarantula.

We all had a turn holding the King Snake, the Tarantula and we touched the beautiful Boa Constrictor. What an exciting time we had!

SNAKES, SPIDERS AND SCORPIONS, venomous all!!!

Just remember this!!! "ALL SNAKES are venomous but not all are poisonous....