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fenwick16 · #**1301** Posted **May 26, 2010, 11:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by cormiermax

This is totally unacceptable, The hole Wanderers' Grounds block should have been re-developed years ago.

It would be a great location for a municipal stadium and could still be used for rugby.

fenwick16 · #**1302** Posted **May 27, 2010, 11:29 PM**

(source: http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/2010/05/27/14155796.html )

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Halifax mayor brings bullet to airport

Peter Kelly might want to review what he is permitted to take in his carry-on luggage - as any traveller will tell him, a bullet won't be on the list.

The Halifax mayor was making his way to the Big City Mayors Caucus in Toronto on Thursday morning when security at Stanfield International Airport in Halifax discovered a 9 mm bullet in his carry-on briefcase.

The bullet was seized and the mayor was questioned. He was later released and was able to catch a later flight to Toronto.

Kelly apologized for what he called "an oversight."

"I would never have intentionally caused a security breach and I am suitably embarrassed," he said in a statement.

Kelly said he found the bullet several weeks ago near city hall in an area called the Grand Parade and had every intention of turning it over to Halifax Regional Police.

"I had my briefcase bag in my office at the time and threw the bullet in the bag and, unfortunately, forgot about it until airport security found it," he said.

I don't want pick on the Mayor, but how can someone pick up a bullet and then forget to turn it over to the police? Are there that many bullets lying around in the HRM? I think that if I or most people tried to take a bullet on to a plane, I would be detained for a long time.

PS: I wonder if this was a live bullet or just the bullet shell? If it was just a bullet shell - well then maybe I could understand that he forgot about it - but if it was a live bullet then no wonder he was detained.

musicman · #**1303** Posted **May 28, 2010, 6:09 AM**

Just a little note on this... Beleive it or not if you have a license for a gun and you are traveling to a competition you HAVE to take the amunition on the plane in your carry on baggage... A family member was going to a biathalon competition where he had to carry on the amunition... The only problem was that he had too much for one person... So the responsible adult had to dole out ammo to each kid as they were passing by security checkpoint... I kid you not... besides anybody who knows anything about ammunition knows that it is very very extremely difficult to let off a round without a gun to shoot it from.. Not to mention if you do manage to get one off it will probably be only one considering what would happen to the purpetrator.

JET · #**1304** Posted **May 28, 2010, 4:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by fenwick16

(source: http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/2010/05/27/14155796.html )

I don't want pick on the Mayor, but how can someone pick up a bullet and then forget to turn it over to the police? Are there that many bullets lying around in the HRM? I think that if I or most people tried to take a bullet on to a plane, I would be detained for a long time.

PS: I wonder if this was a live bullet or just the bullet shell? If it was just a bullet shell - well then maybe I could understand that he forgot about it - but if it was a live bullet then no wonder he was detained.

When my son was five he found a live 357 round in a parking lot. I carried it in my pocket for the weekend, and when a police car came along I waved them down, and gave it to them. It happens.

JET · #**1305** Posted **May 31, 2010, 5:41 PM**

I was driving up Rainnie Drive this morning and on the horizon I could see a shiny brass/copper dome. It looked like it was in the area of the new mosque.
Impressive.

Barrington south · #**1306** Posted **Jun 3, 2010, 9:32 PM**

uncommon grounds has moved into the former cargo and James tea space...and cafe chianti is now open in the former Bear space.....south end of Barr. is doing good

Dmajackson · #**1307** Posted **Jun 3, 2010, 9:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Barrington south

uncommon grounds has moved into the former cargo and James tea space...and cafe chianti is now open in the former Bear space.....south end of Barr. is doing good

Good to hear.

Has there been anyword on when the Sam the Record Man (Barrington Espace) might start its renovations?

someone123 · #**1308** Posted **Jun 3, 2010, 11:04 PM**

A couple of days ago Allnovascotia reported that the Sam building renovations should begin in the next couple of weeks.

Jonovision · #**1309** Posted **Jun 7, 2010, 12:52 PM**

I've heard that a Pete's To Go will be opening up in the bottom of 1801 where Uncommon Ground used to be.

hfxtradesman · #**1310** Posted **Jun 10, 2010, 12:42 AM**

Shovels should also be in the ground soon for the new R.C.M.P. station. If anybody was keeping up one this one.

Jonovision · #**1311** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 2:56 AM**

Saint Leonard's Society to build transitional housing project on Gottingen Street
POSTED BY TIM BOUSQUET ON THU, JUN 10, 2010 AT 2:00 PM

The operators of the Metro Turning Point homeless shelter are planning to build a four-storey transitional housing project on Gottingen Street, at the corner of Cunard, on what is now an empty lot next to the Company House bar.
Ross Cantwell, who is the brain behind several other Gottingen-area projects, says he has been working with the Saint Leonard's Society, which runs Turning Point. "They received some funding [from the federal government] to create supportive housing for the homeless," he explains.

"The whole idea is that if you go to a homeless shelter, some of the people that are there have hit a rough patch, and they're there for a night, a week, then they get their lives back on track. Unfortunately, there's another portion of that population that is just chronically homeless---they just live in a shelter."

Experience has shown that intervention in the chronically homeless' situation---outright providing housing---is far more effective both financially and in terms of helping change lives, than is providing lots of social services to people in shelters.

The Gottingen building will have 18 one-bedroom apartments (six on each of the upper three floors), with a full-time manager/social worker living on site. The ground floor will consist of retail space, which could be broken into up to three units. Cantwell thinks some the retail operations could provide job training for the residents. Cantwell expects construction will start by fall.

someone123 · #**1312** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 3:41 AM**

Really good to see Gottingen continue to fill in.

Wishblade · #**1313** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 1:40 PM**

I was just looking at this piece of land on the bus yesterday and wondering what was ever going to be done with it. And it is great to see Gottingen infill more. That street is in a major transition right now

Jonovision · #**1314** Posted **Jun 12, 2010, 2:03 AM**

Just a quick snap of the new facade of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

fenwick16 · #**1315** Posted **Jun 12, 2010, 2:55 AM**

Thanks for the picture. This looks good. Is it the same all around or is there more glass on the other sides?

worldlyhaligonian · #**1316** Posted **Jun 12, 2010, 4:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jonovision

What kind of cladding is being installed on the building in the background?

Jonovision · #**1317** Posted **Jun 13, 2010, 1:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by fenwick16

Thanks for the picture. This looks good. Is it the same all around or is there more glass on the other sides?

It is the same all around.

Jonovision · #**1318** Posted **Jun 13, 2010, 1:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by worldlyhaligonian

What kind of cladding is being installed on the building in the background?

It's a paneling similar to that put on the buildings at the corner of North and Gottingen.

Here is the progress on the other side of the building from a two weeks ago.

hfxtradesman · #**1319** Posted **Jun 13, 2010, 11:45 PM**

I took some pictures of the city on Sat. What is the best way I can get them on this site. Did I tell anybody that I'am not very good with computers.

cormiermax · #**1320** Posted **Jun 13, 2010, 11:56 PM**

Upload them here http://imageshack.us/ then post the codes and the pics will appear.