Mainstreet Cape Breton

Senator Vernon White argues reducing crime and making communities safer will only be accomplished by having a coordinated front line response using both the police and mental health professionals.

A social media campaign is asking people to do three acts of kindness in memory of 14-year-old Leigh-Ann Cox, of Glace Bay. Cox, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2017, died on June 5.

We spoke with Reverend Mother Phyllis Marsh, Ashley Lyndon & Selah Best about the recent rally at the Myles F. Burke Police Headquarters in Sydney.

On this edition of the People's School we introduce you to the famous Cape Bretoner who became the leading Canadian expert on running meetings.

Cape Breton is included in new ocean research by the Ocean Frontier Institute.

Michelle Wilson from the Sydney Downtown Development Society and Dave MacKeigan from Bay it Forward Development Society discuss how the cancellation of cruise season in Cape Breton will affect the area.

Allison Smith has a daughter and nephew graduating from Sydney Academy High School this year. She, and some other parents, have organized a different kind of grand march ceremony for graduates. It will be hosting outdoors and a limited number of cars can park nearby to view the event.

On the People's School, we have been looking at the three “R’s” of a healthy organization – Respect, Rhythm, Resilience. Today we focus on the third R – “resilience.” The suggested reading to go with this topic is The Little Book of Healthy Organizations. The authors are David R. Brubaker and Ruth Hoover Zimmermann.

Celebrated Nova Scotia author and environmentalist Silver Donald Cameron has died.

The 82-year-old died June 1st, in Halifax after a recent cancer diagnosis.

Richard MacKinnon was a friend and co-worker of Silver Donald. He shared memories with Mainstreet.

Prof. Tom Urbaniak guides listeners through the three “R’s” of a healthy organization – Respect, Rhythm, Resilience." In this edition of the People's School he focuses on the second “R” – rhythm.

Rhythm means having predictable procedures and patterns: agendas, meeting times, a way of running meetings and getting through them, some policies in place, times of year for financial reports, regular – scheduled opportunities to step back and evaluate our work – all of this as part of the expected rhythm of your organization. Suggested reading is The Lions Club Handbook – 4th edition (2016) – available as a download from the on-line booksellers.