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Village of New Minas Special Events 2008

Jan. 1 – Dec. 31, 2008  Village of New Minas 40th (1968-2008) Anniversary Celebrations
   
Jan. 1     New Minas New Years Levee “Celebrating 40 Years”
   
Jan. 18 – Feb. 29 Village of New Minas Winter Active “Take the Roof Off Winter”
   
Jan 26   Video Ensemble Workshop
   
Jan. 30 Evangeline Middle School Winter Carnival
   
Feb. 2 – 29  February Family Physical Activity Challenge
   
Feb. 15  Flag Day (County) in Canning
   
Feb. 16 2008 Municipal Curling Challenge @ Middleton
   
Feb. 21–24 2nd Annual New Minas “Freezins the Reason” Winter Carnival 2008
(The Biggest Little Carnival in the Valley!)
   
Feb. 21 Sentimental Journey “Winter Wonderland” Seniors Social & Dance
   
March 10-14  March Break Madness Recreation Day Camp @ New Minas Elementary School
   
March 22 Bunny Hop...Children's Easter Egg Hunt Extravaganza
   
April 22 Princess Tea

 

Princess New Minas 2008 Crowned: Meghan MacLeod

 The Village of New Minas selected a new Princess and Child Attendant at their annual New Minas Princess Tea held on Thursday evening, May 1st at the New Minas Volunteer Fire Department Hall.

 

 

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Katelyn White, 2007-08, Princess New Minas and daughter of Kevin and Jean White, passed her crown on to Meghan MacLeod who will take over duties from Katelyn.

 Katelyn represented the Village of New Minas as its ambassador during the past year, especially during the 75th Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival and other events during the year.

 New Princess Meghan MacLeod will also represent the Village of New Minas as its ambassador during the next year, at

the 76th Apple Blossom Festival as well as other events during the year.

 Meghan MacLeod is the 18 year old daughter of Jim and Janet MacLeod of New Minas.

 She has just completed her first year at Acadia University where she is taking a Bachelor of Kinesiology program.

 She graduated from Horton last year with her French Immersion certificate and received an entrance scholarship to Acadia last year,

 Meghan enjoys working with children, dancing, running, and traveling to new places. She is also actively involved with the SMILE program at Acadia

Emma Jodrie was also named New Minas Child Attendant. Emma is the 7 year old daughter of Troy Jodrie and the late Julie Jodrie of New Minas.

 She is the older sister to Olivia and brother Hunter.

 She attends New Minas Elementary school and is in Grade 2.

 She loves Hannah Montana, arts and playing sports.

 Her Grandparents are: Reg & Donna Jodrie of Kentville and Greg & Linda Trefry of Delhaven.

 The May 1st evening Princess Tea included the New Minas Fire Department’s Auxiliary serving coffee, tea, sweets, etc.; New Minas Princess Representative Holly Thompson; emcee - Judy Rafuse; Cathy Briggs – 76th Apple Blossom Festival President; Donna Higgins – Pageant Director; Kathryn Cleveland – Annapolisa 75th; Village of New Minas Representatives – Commissioners Dale Pineo, Maynard Stevens and Dean Hatt, along with Director of Recreation Vince Forrestall & Assistant Fran Von; former Princesses, etc.



 
April 24 Volunteer Awards Day @ Halifax (Westin Hotel)
   
April 27 – May 3  Provincial Volunteer Week
   
April 28  New Minas Volunteer Recognition Reception



 

Village of New Minas Commission & Staff Recognizes & Honours Its Volunteers at Annual New Minas Volunteer Recognition Reception April 28

The Village of New Minas Commission & Staff Recognized & Honoured Its Volunteers at Annual New Minas Volunteer Recognition Reception held April 28 at the New Minas Civic Centre:

“IN RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEER SERVICE BENEFITING OUR COMMUNITY. WE EXTEND A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO YOU FOR GIVING YOUR TIME AND TALENTS TO OTHERS SO GENEROUSLY. YOUR KINDNESS AND COMMITMENT IS AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US”.

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The special evening included dinner, entertainment, Town Crier Lloyd Smith (Proclamation-please see below), special dignitaries and the presentation of certificates and gifts.

The Village of New Minas Commission & Staff Recognized & Honoured the following Volunteers:

Allen Buchanan - New Minas Volunteer Fire Department (10th Year), New Minas Invitational Soccer Tournament

Andrew Ward - New Minas Elementary School, New Minas Volunteer of the Year 2008 Runner-up

Anita German - NS Diabetes Association, Minas 50 Plus Seniors Club

Anna Kiefte - New Minas Brownies

Anne Boylen - New Minas Minor Ball Association, New Minas Recreation Department

Breanne Buchanan - New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events)

Brian Coole - New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events)

Carey Pineo - New Minas Champion Representative of Active Transportation

Cheryl Hill - New Minas Sparks

Christopher Shields - New Minas Recreation Advisory Committee & New Minas Area Advisory & Source Water Protection Committee’s

Dianne Best - New Minas Rotary Club, New Minas Santa Parade & Celebration of Lights (Christmas)

Doug Seamone - New Minas Water Commission

Drew Redden - New Minas Volleyball Coach

Errol Zwicker - Acadia Minor Hockey Association

Gerard Hamilton - Village of New Minas & New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events)

Greg Coldwell - New Minas Rotary Club

Greg Messom - Village of New Minas & New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events)

Greg Whynot - 40th Anniversary Committee, Business Supporter

Gordon Silver - New Minas Volunteer Fire Department, Village of New Minas Curling Team, New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events)

Holly Thompson - New Minas Rotary Club, East Kings Soccer Club, New Minas Soccer Association, Princess New Minas, New Minas Invitational Soccer Tournament, New Minas Guides

Jack Bezanson - Vice-Chair, New Minas Source Water protection Committee

James Redmond - New Minas Volunteer Fire Department

Joe Huntley - East Kings Soccer Club, Coach, New Minas Volunteer Fire Department, New Minas Volunteer of the Year 2002

John Bourgeois - New Minas Area Advisory Committee

June MacDonald - Minas 50 Plus Seniors Club

Karen Morine - W.A.A.G (We Are All Animal Guardians)

Keith Fuller - New Minas Invitational Soccer Tournament, East Kings Soccer Club, Valley District Soccer Association, Kentville Indoor Multi-Purpose Facility

Kelly Patton - 1st New Minas Brownies

Kenny Sewards - Horton Girls Division 1 Hockey Coach, East Kings Soccer Club

Kristin Redmond - New Minas Volunteer Fire Department & Auxiliary,

Laura Huntley - New Minas Volunteer Fire Department & Auxiliary, Girl Guides

Laurence Coldwell - 40th Anniversary Committee       

Leslie Hopkins - New Minas Recreation Department Special Events, New Minas Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary

Leslie Sequeira - He was on the executive board of the Annapolis Running Club which was instrumental in sending some of our under 14  athletes to Holland for a friendly meet, Gunn Baldersson Girls Soccer Tournament as a Field Marshall 2007 & 08, and sits on the Acadia Axemen Soccer Supporters Club Committee for fundraising, Volunteer Resident Member on the Village of New Minas Recreation Advisory Committee (where he has been for the last twelve years), Executive of the Kings South PC Association, where he was elected 1st Vice President last year, parishioner of the Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Wolfville and serves as chairman of the pastoral council. and has also served as Finance Chairman, Vice-President and member for the last twenty years

Lorraine Perrier - New Minas & Area Lions Club, SPCA

Lyle Boylen -   New Minas Minor Ball Association & Kentville Minor Ball Association

Lynn Fuller -  New Minas Elementary School, New Minas Invitational Soccer Tournament

Lynn Spencer - Village of New Minas & New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events)

Mary Stevens - New Minas & Area Lions Club, New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events), New Minas Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary

Max Noseworthy - Golfview Homeowners Association, Wal-Mart Business Supporter

Mike Dauphine - Acadia Minor Hockey Association

Miriam Coldwell - New Minas Area Advisory Committee

Morley Wills - New Minas & Area Lions Club

Pat Murphy - New Minor Basketball Association

Pat Saulnier - New Minas Transportation Advisory Committee Vice-Chair

Peter Pothier - Village of New Minas & New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events)

Robert Horne - New Minas Water Commission & Flowercart

Sam Milne - New Minas Volunteer Fire Department & Auxiliary

Sandra D'Arcy - Minas 50 Plus Seniors Club

Scott Allen - New Minas Rotary Club

Stephen Bishop - Celebration of Lights, Raymond James Business Supporter

Tim Kendrick - Valley East Basketball Association (VEBA), Horton Division 1 Basketball Coach (NS Champions)  

Terry Silver - Village of New Minas & New Minas Recreation Department (Special Events)

Vanessa McKillop - New Minas Elementary School (Hot Lunch Program)

Wayne Hopkins - New Minas Recreation Department Special Events

Wayne Kelly - New Minas Rotary Club
 

The Commission also presented the following special awards:
 

New Minas Volunteer of the Year 2008 - Leslie Sequeira

New Minas Business of the Year 2008 - Boston Pizza

Celebration of Lights 2007 (Christmas) - Stephen Bishop, Raymond James - Volunteer, Supporter, Sponsor, Organizer

12 Years of continued volunteer service as resident member on the New Minas Recreation Advisory Committee - Leslie Sequeira

 

PROCLAMATION

OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!

BE IT KNOWN BY ALL PRESENT

THAT WE ARE ASSEMBLED ON THIS OCCASION

TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION

TO THE MANY CITIZENS OF NEW MINAS,

WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED THEIR TIME AND SERVICES

FREELY AND GLADLY,

FOR THEIR VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION

WHICH HAS LED TO SIGNIFICANT

AND NOTICEABLE IMPROVEMENT

IN THE ADVANCEMENT AND WELFARE

OF THIS, OUR COMMUNITY.

THEREFORE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH

OUR NATIONAL AND LOCAL

YEAR TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT,

NATIONAL "VOLUNTEER WEEK" CAMPAIGN,

ON BEHALF OF

COMMISSION CHAIRMAN, DAVID CHAULK,

THE COMMISSION, AND ALL RESIDENTS,

OF THE VILLAGE OF NEW MINAS,

I AM COMMISSIONED TO REQUEST ALL CITIZENS

TO UNITE AND TO PAY TRIBUTE

TO THE VOLUNTEER HEROES

OF NEW MINAS

WHO ARE TO BE MORE FORMALLY

AND APPROPRIATELY RECOGNIZED

DURING CEREMONIES THIS EVENING,

AND TO THE COUNTLESS OTHERS

NOT PRESENT AT THIS TIME,

FOR THEIR DEDICATION AND CONTRIBUTION

WITHOUT EXPECTATION,

WHICH MAKES THEM AND INDEED ALL VOLUNTEERS

THE VERY HEART OF OUR COMMUNITY.

GOD BLESS A FREE AND UNITED CANADA

AND

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
May 1-7 National Youth Week
   
May 19 – 30 Kings County Seniors Games

 

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The Village of New Minas will be hosting a new sanctioned event for the 2008 Apple Blossom Festival to be included and promoted in this year’s 76th Annual Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival “Our Future Blossoms.”

The popular event will be for the Senior age group (50+). The event is called Sentimental Journey “Apple Blossom” and is a social and a dance for seniors (50+) with Loran Fevens.

The dance will be held Tuesday, May 27 at the New Minas Volunteer Fire Hall from 6:30 to 9:30 pm and is expected to sell out by attracting 180 seniors from the Annapolis Valley and Province.

Seniors 50 plus from the Annapolis Valley are invited to join Loran Fevens, AVR Morning Show Host of On the Rebound Program (January 1964 to December 1974), for a night out of Sentimental Journey music of yesteryear with friends and a chance to meet new friends!

Loran will play their favourite music from years past and will delightfully accept requests from participants. Sentimental Journey is a show Loran started almost six years ago on CHTN in Charlottetown.

It's now carried on five radio stations in various parts of Canada - CJLS-FM, Yarmouth; Seaside-FM in Eastern Passage, serving the Halifax/Dartmouth area; Coast 89.7 FM in Glace Bay, serving most of Cape Breton; CFCO in Chatham, Ontario, covering south western Ontario, most of Michigan and parts of Ohio; and CHON-FM in Whitehorse, Yukon, providing service to all of the Yukon Territory and parts of northern B.C.

Loran started the program as a result of his 19 years of work with the Communications Division of the head office of Veterans Affairs in Charlottetown.

He created and managed a project to record broadcast-quality video interviews with Canada's veterans.

Over a four-year period, he gathered 1,800 hours of interviews with about 850 veterans from coast to coast.

During those four years, time and time again he heard veterans remark to him, "We never hear our music anymore."

The program was intended to fill that need. Segments of the interviews done with the veterans can be viewed on the

Veterans Affairs website (www.vacacc.gc.ca) under the heading "Heroes Remember." The project won the federal government's gold medal last year for Securing and Managing Information Assets.

Seniors may want to listen to their favourite oldies all night or the dance floor will be open all night for participants who wish to dance the night away!

The Village of New Minas Recreation Department will be providing a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, sweets and refreshments (tea and coffee) for all in attendance. No alcoholic beverages will be served at anytime.

The fee is only $10 to register.

Participants must register with the New Minas Recreation Department at 681-6577 by May 23rd.

Loren Fevens, Sentimental Journey, and Vince Forrestall, New Minas Recreation Director, feel that this new event as part of the Annual Apple Blossom Festival for the Senior 50 plus age group will be so successful and appreciated by the senior age population in the Valley as 63 participants took part in the Sentimental Journey “Fall Harvest” held last October 25, 115 participants took part in the December 13 “Christmas” and 89 participated in the Annual New Minas Winter Carnival (Feb. 21, 2008).

For further information, or to register, please contact the New Minas Recreation Department at 681-6577.


 
May 30  “Luck of the Irish” with Daniel O’Donnell Trip & Tour
   
May 31 Apple Blossom Royal Party Dinner (Invitation only)
   
June 2008 New Minas Celebrates...June is Recreation Month
   
June 30 New Minas Summer Fun Day Camps Begin – Pre-school, Junior, Senior and Sports
   
July 1  New Minas Canada Day Celebrations
   
July 3 Tattoo Trip & Tour
   
July 29 New Minas Seniors Day “Hazy Lazy Crazy Days of Summer” Luncheon
   
August 8 – 10 New Minas Celebration Days and 23rd. Annual New Minas Invitational
Soccer Tournament
   
October 5 New Minas Family Fall Fun Harvest Fest & New Minas Recreation
Harvest Running Classic
   
October 25 Halloween Spooktacular
   
November 22 to Jan. 1  New Minas (Christmas) Celebration of Lights:
 
  1. Santa Parade, Nov. 22
  2. Christmas Tree Light-up and Children’s Christmas Party, Dec. 3
  3. It’s Getting Chili Cook-off & Sampling, Dec. 13
  4. Share the Holiday Spirit Christmas Card Art Contest & Display, Dec. 13
  5. Gingerbread House Decorating and Display, Dec. 13
   
December (TBA)  Christmas Sports Clinics & Games
 
  1. Christmas 3-on-3 Volleyball Extravaganza
  2. Christmas Indoor Golf
  3. Christmas Volleyball Camp (s)
  4. Christmas Badminton Camp

  

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