2021-08-25

LOCAL BRIEFS

Six-figure spending on new school parking lot

A new $306,000 parking area at Park View Education Centre should be mostly finished by the end of August. The Bedford firm, Dexter Construction Company, was awarded the project by the South Shore Regional Centre for Education back in June. The company was tasked with providing the materials, labour and equipment necessary to complete the work at the King Street school in Bridgewater. Asphalt paving, sodding and applying painted lines and markings were also part of the job. The site is close to the corner of Panther Way and King Street.

Responders come to aid of senior reported missing

Paramedics and volunteer firefighters out of New Germany were sent to the community of Watford to aid a senior who had been reported missing. Emergency responders were summoned just after 7 p.m. on August 14 to a Northfield Road address where a woman in her 70s was found in a rocky area after her whereabouts were initially unknown, according to public safety radio traffic. Firefighters were dispatched when paramedics needed help getting access to the patient. Seven minutes after being sent, firefighters were cancelled from the call when paramedics were able to get the woman. No other details about the incident were immediately available.

Road work in Queens

A main drag in the Region of Queens is getting some new blacktop and a refresh. The province's transportation department recently announced a section of Highway 3 in White Point, from the Liverpool line three-and-a-half kilometres southwest into the neighbouring community, will receive upgrading and repaving. The work takes place until October 31. The department advised the motoring public to expect alternating lane closures while the job in ongoing from sunrise to sunset.

Hospital redevelopment photography contest

Bridgewater hospital officials are hoping local shutterbugs come through in a new contest. A South Shore Regional Hospital staff committee plans to select two outdoor images that will be used for "wayfinding" purposes, according to a social media online post from the Health Services Foundation of the South Shore, a charity that fundraises for both Lunenburg County hospitals. Large-scale prints of the award-winning photos will be exhibited in the Bridgewater hospital with a thank-you plaque dedicated to the photographer or photographers. The images must have been captured outdoors in Lunenburg or Queens counties. Also, the quality must be 300 pixels per inch. Entries to the South Shore Regional Hospital Redevelopment Photography Contest can be emailed to: SSRHRedevelopment@nshealth.ca.