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Hope For Wildlife opens new drop-off centre in Annapolis Valley
Hope for Wildlife has opened a new drop-off centre in the Annapolis Valley. This new location will better enable the organization to respond to the thousands of calls it receives each year.
Social Sharing This way they ve got a far better chance of making it to us, says Hope Swinimer
Posted: May 08, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: May 8
These red fox pups recently arrived at Hope For Wildlife s new location in the Annapolis Valley.(Hope Swinimer)
DARTMOUTH, N.S. A pair of Ospreys have had their home moved because of a construction project. The hope was they would move to the relocated nest a few hundred metres away, but that hasn’t happened and now residents and wildlife experts say it might be time to move the nest back. Oscar and Ethel have become part of the community around Russell Lake in Dartmouth. They’ve been coming here for at least 14 years, says Connie Dennis. Every year we look forward to seeing them in April. This spring however, their home isn’t where they remember it being.
HALIFAX Hope for Wildlife in Seaforth, N.S. is warning the public about a scam where people are going door-to-door asking for money on behalf of the organization. We started getting calls about three days ago that someone was knocking on doors and asking for money on behalf of Hope for Wildlife . It s not something we would ever have done, so it s obviously fraud, said Hope Swinimer, the founder of Hope for Wildlife. The animal rehabilitation centre contacted police to make them aware of the situation and shared a message on their Facebook page to warn others. They say they received reports of a woman knocking on doors in Dartmouth asking for money, while wearing a Hope for Wildlife hat – merchandise that can be purchased online.
Posted: Dec 13, 2020 6:55 PM AT | Last Updated: December 13, 2020
Adison, left, Katie, middle, and Hayes Stubbert make the ornaments out of what they find while combing the beaches.(Travis Kingdon/CBC)
The Stubbert children love walking along the beach, collecting shells and sea glass, and cleaning up trash along the way.
It should serve as no surprise that Adison, 11, Hayes, six, and Katie, five, have called themselves Beachcomber crafts.
The three are selling handmade ornaments, raising money for charity this Christmas season. We are already going to the beaches all the time winter, summer, spring picking up garbage. They ve done it for the last four years, said Denise Metcalfe, the children s mother.