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A German delegation visited Amherst March 26 to prepare for their return visit on July 2, when they will help commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the closing of the Amherst POW camp following the First World War. Their tour of Amherst included a visit to the Amherst Cemetery where 11 German prisoners of war were once buried. Taking them on the tour was Amherst’s Morris Haugg (right) and, beside him, MP Bill Casey. The delegation was (from left) German Airforce band members Seffen Luderer and Ralph Handschug, Patrick Butzlaff, assistant to the German defence attaché at the German Embassy in Ottawa, and band member Jana Bunke.

German delegation scouts Amherst for POW camp’s 100th anniversary

The Wayne Butch Auto Sales Cougars finished off the season with wins over the Tigers and the Lions. The CBWRHL Cougars are: (front, from left) Karla Fulton, Dana Carr, Alyson Pickard, goaltender Patty Willigar, Alysha Manderson, Kelly Milner, (back, from left) Crystal Goodwin, Karlene Morris, Wanda Jewers, Isabelle Babineau, Caitlyn Matchett, Casie Skidmore, league co-ordinator Susan Smith and Carole Gautreau. Missing from photo is Kim Tanner and Chantal Daigle.

Cougars finish CBWRHL season with wins over Tigers, Lions

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Friends of the Northumberland Strait (FONS), a group based out of Pictou County, recently gave a presentation asking Cumberland County Council not to support an extension to the Boat Harbour Act which will see the closure of the Boat Harbour Effluent Treatment Facility on Jan. 31, 2020. Giving the presentation was: (from left) Jill Graham-Scanlan, Krista Fulton, and Linda Townsend. Graham-Scanlan is president of FONS, and Fulton and Townsend are members of FONS.

Cumberland County asked not to support extension of Boat Harbour Act

The Harry DeWolfe, which is also the class name of the new Arctic and offshore patrol ships, sits outside the Irving-owned Halifax shipyard in September. Two more of this vessel class have just been ordered by the federal government. - Eric Wynne

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