Community: Sydney

Dr. Marcia Ostashewski, (Centre for Sound Communities, CBU) and Graham Marshall (Council Member, Membertou First Nation) will lead a project to explore the potential to bring digital film and music production to Membertou to support community economic and cultural development, including Mi’kmaq language revitalization. In the background is Clifford Paul, one of the co-authors of this team's award winning paper.

Dr. Lilla Roy and Dr. Catherine Leviten Reid will work with The Affordable Housing and Homelessness Working Group to collect data in CBRM that will give a better understanding of the situation of homelessness in that part of Nova Scotia.

New Dawn Meals on Wheels, led by Erika Shea, is partnering with Beth Mason at Cape Breton University to assess possible gaps in nutritional needs of seniors receiving meals through the Meals on Wheels program, and to develop a plan for addressing those gaps through locally grown crops at the Cape Breton University greenhouse. (Bkgnd photo by @timberfoster)

Amanda McNeil (Horizons participant) on the left, is discussing issues with Carol Pendergast, (Executive Director, Horizons Achievement Centre).

Patricia Bates-MacDonald (left) of the Cape Breton Correctional Institute, is shown here with Dr. Margaret Dechman discussing issues related to improving the lives of those incarcerated upon their release.