Welcome, David and Sarah
The Kings CED Agency, in partnership with Kings Transit, welcomes David Shepherd and Sarah Hiseler as its summer students through the Nova Scotia Youth Conservation Corps (NSYCC).
The Nova Scotia Youth Conservation Corps, a program of Nova Scotia Environment, provides Nova Scotian youth ages 17-24 with training and employment opportunities in the environmental field while providing services to Nova Scotian communities for the enhancement of the local environment. David and Sarah will be working on alternative energy initiatives with the Kings CED Agency and will conduct surveys for Kings Transit.
David is a recent graduate of Central Kings Rural High School and Sarah is a recent graduate of Northeast Kings Education Centre. Both David and Sarah will attend post-secondary institutions in the fall. David and Sarah commenced their duties June 30, 2008.
Revised Kings County maps
The Kings CED Agency is happy to inform you that new, revised maps of Kings County are now available. Maps can be purchased from the Kings CED Agency at a cost of $3 each.
If you would like to purchase a map/maps or would like more information, contact MaDonna MacDonald, Development Officer at 678-2298.
UNESCO designates second World Heritage Site in Nova Scotia
On Monday, July 7, 2008, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee designated the Joggins Fossil Cliffs as a World Heritage Site, a second such site in Nova Scotia, bringing attention to the province’s unique heritage.
“Congratulations to Joggins for this very prestigious honour. The world recognized a unique heritage, a heritage that Nova Scotians are proud of,” says Erin Beaudin, co-chair of the Grand-Pré World Heritage nomination proposal Advisory Board. “This is an extraordinary privilege for Nova Scotia to be home to two World Heritage Sites and we’re actively working on adding a third one to the list,” adds Beaudin.
Grand-Pré is one of the original 11 sites that Canada had included on its list of sites it intends to propose for World Heritage designation in the next few years. Work is actively underway to prepare a nomination for the cultural landscape of Grand-Pré, a proposal that will consider the dykelands and their surroundings.
The World Heritage List is an instrument of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and contains natural and cultural properties that were found to have outstanding universal value and whose protection is of interest to humanity as a whole. Canada currently has 15 sites on the World Heritage List, including Old Town Lunenburg and The Joggins Fossil Cliffs here in Nova Scotia.
The Grand-Pré World Heritage nomination proposal Advisory Board is aiming to complete the nomination proposal for submission to UNESCO in February 2010. Regular updates on the nomination proposal can be accessed online at
www.nominationgrandpre.ca.Information is provided by your regional development authority, the Kings Community Economic Development Agency. The Kings CED Agency is a non-profit society funded by public membership and grants from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Nova Scotia Office of Economic Development, the Municipality of the County of Kings, Nova Scotia Department of Community Services, and the Towns of Kentville, Wolfville and Berwick. Our motto is: “Together Making Kings County a Better Place to Live.” For more info call 678-2298, or visit
www.kingsced.ns.ca, or 35 Webster Street, Kentville.
