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Remembering … and teaching

December 11, 2019December 10, 2019 Heather Brimicombe

Pictou Academy observed the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women with a special presentation and ceremony organized by the local chapter of the Interagency on Family Violence which alternates holding the ceremony each year at different high schools in the area. The day of remembrance is held each year to mark...

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Remembering …

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Pictou Advocate

Lynn Gallant Blackburn speaks about her sister Paula Gallant who was murdered by her intimate partner during a day of remembrance ceremony at Pictou Academy. The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, Friday, Dec. 6, on the 30th anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at L’École Polytechnique...

PA grads celebrate successes

July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 Heather Brimicombe

It was a bittersweet evening for the 2019 graduates of Pictou Academy last week as they bid their school farewell and became ready to start the next chapter of their life. The weather may not have been sunny and bright but the mood of the graduates was cheery none the less. This year, the graduates...

Meet the Creeps

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 Heather Brimicombe

Left, Sophie Heighton as Tarantula, Kyle McDowell as Sinbad and Myla Briand as Nana prepare to for Meet the Creeps, a Pictou Academy play at the deCoste Performing Arts Centre this weekend. Shows will take place Thursday and Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. with tickets available at the deCoste website or at the box office....

PAEF marking 100 years with celebration dinner

May 23, 2019May 22, 2019 Jackie Jardine

Pictou Academy students have made contributions to just about every profession imaginable in every corner of the world. That is why it’s so important to the Pictou Academy Educational Foundation to continue to support the school, its staff and students. One of the ways the PAEF will do this is with a fundraising dinner taking...

Now the kids can enjoy their rugby

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019 Hugh Townsend

Thank goodness the shock, the distress, the disbelief and the anger that dominated the front pages and newscasts lasted for only a few days. Less than a week. School rugby was back where it belonged. The girls and boys who love playing the sport for their high schools – from one end of the province...

Pictou Island Christmas 1959

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Jim Turple

The weather during the month of December 1959 remained mild, middle to high 30s Fahrenheit, the wind blew hard from the south nearly every day and it rained a lot. Jimmie MacDonald and wife Viney were found deceased in their burnt out home on December 10. Consequently, over the next several days, Arnold MacMillan kept...

Eyes wide open

May 30, 2018May 29, 2018 Jackie Jardine

A natural disaster that happened almost 13 years ago in New Orleans, U.S., has left an indelible mark on an altruistic young lady. Rikki Stevens of Pictou would have only been a youngster living some 3,500 kilometres away from Katrina, in another country, when the disaster struck on August 29, 2005. She remembered the devastating...

The show must go on!

March 1, 2018March 2, 2018 Heather Brimicombe

As the saying says, ‘the show must go on’ and at Pictou Academy, they are sticking to it. Despite the possible impending teachers strike, the school’s annual musical production will go on. Haphazardly Ever After is the musical of choice this year, hitting all the notes of family-friendly, interesting and funny that the cast was...

Local students heading to WE day

November 29, 2017 Heather Brimicombe

Young philanthropists from all over Pictou County will be congregating in Halifax this week to take part in WE Day on November 30. The gathering of students from all across the province is hosted by the organization ME to WE to help reward and inspire students to give back to their community and the world....

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