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Advocate Media wants to do more to support local businesses and the communities we serve. Times are unique for us all, and despite our deepest wishes, we may find ourselves in a position where we cannot support local business the way we would like. In this section we’re bringing light to the businesses who are making a difference in our community. Visit porthawkesburyreporter.com/shine-on to nominate a business you feel deserves recognition.

HALIFAX: As students start learning from home, the province has made available a breakdown of COVID-19 cases in each part of the province and is taking steps to do more testing and enforcement. Accounting for approximately...
ARICHAT: The Local Jerk is now in Arichat. The owners of La Goélette à Pépé Café opened a brand new micro processing facility in their building on the High Road in Richmond County’s shire...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Despite an increase in panic-buying in recent weeks - due to concerns around the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) - grocers are assuring their customers there is enough to go around, for everyone. Michael Doucette,...
ST. PETER’S: Sales of a popular t-shirt have resulted in the donation of technology to facilities and groups in the Strait area. About a month ago, Wendy Owens Abbott performed on the Facebook group...
HALIFAX: The provincial and federal governments continue to scramble to contain the economic damage from COVID-19, and Canada Post is announcing some changes as the pandemic continues. On April 24, the province said the COVID-19 Small Business...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A local convenience store and gas bar is one of the latest nominees in Advocate Media’s “Shine On” campaign. Kathleen Leblanc nominated Need’s Convenience and Fast Fuel of Port Hawkesbury in the...
ARISAIG: It has been a sobering reality since the beginning of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, disinfectants and sanitizers have been flying off the shelves in high demand while being in short supply. However, a resourceful craft...
INVERNESS: Heather Rankin, co-owner of The Red Shoe Pub in Mabou, was at Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital (ICMH) recently to present a cheque for $15,000 in support of the hospital’s emergency department. “We feel...
By: Raissa Tetanish DEBERT: “You’re my angel.” That’s a sentence Crystal Blair has heard on more than one occasion over the last couple of weeks while offering free meals to truckers amid...
GUYSBOROUGH: When Authentic Seacoast began operations on the historic Guysborough waterfront 15 years ago, they never imagined that providing hand sanitizer to health facilities operated by Nova Scotia Health Authority would become part of their operations.




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