Good Samaritans
Jeremy Pinch, Martin Cleveland and 17-year-old Clyde Cleveland were among the neighbours and Good Samaritans who helped a 19-year-old man severely injured in a two-vehicle collision in Cambridge, N.S. on July 19.
As they described it to SaltWire's Ashley Thompson, it was like a scene out of a Hollywood film unfolding before their eyes — but the chaos was all too real.
A motorbike, driven by 19-year-old Keaton Toney, collided with a truck towing a trailer, and multiple neighbours were involved in the efforts to keep Toney calm and as still as possible following the crash.
It was the quick thinking of the neighbours that kept Toney still in the critical moments following the collision.
Read on to find out how the whole thing unfolded.
Gardening for the soul
At the age of 92, Robert Cottreau has earned a ride on his lawn tractor.
The Brenton, N.S., resident is saving his energy for a 25-by-75-foot garden that he and his 90-year-old bride Ethel planted this spring.
Last year was the first time the couple have gardened in several years, but they've rediscovered that it's good for the soul and their health.
“A lot of it is by guess and by God,” Ethel tells SaltWire's Carla Allen about the gardening process.
Read their inspiring story here.
Seeing clearly
There were two times in Wesley Colford's life where things became more clear.
The first was at age eight after getting glasses for the first time. The second was four months ago when they came out as non-binary.
For the 29-year-old, who is artistic director of the Highland Arts Theatre and a driving force behind its creation and successes, coming out publicly as non-binary panromantic asexual in a video they posted to their Facebook page on March 21 has also boosted their self-esteem.
"It was the elephant in the room. Even people I talked to (while trying to figure out their identity) had suspicions before I did. There has definitely been an insecurity or a question mark that's filled my life. And until this year, I had not been able to answer that question. This is the answer to the question," Colford says.
Read Nicole Sullivan's story for the Cape Breton Post, in which she spoke to Colford and their partner of more than two years, Rachael Murphy, about how she reacted to Colford's coming out.
Digging it
Newfoundland might be Canada’s youngest province, but it has the country’s oldest fossils. Actually, not just the oldest in Canada, but in the entire world.
That’s the finding of an international research team, including geologists from Memorial University, which has concluded some fossils in the province are the world’s oldest evidence of animal life, the Telegram reports.
The study, which is published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin, focuses on the southern shore of the Avalon and Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, which was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.
By painstakingly identifying, cataloguing and sampling ancient volcanic ash associated with the fossils, the group revealed in greater detail than ever before exactly when these first animals appeared and their rate of evolution.
“This seals Newfoundland’s position as the go-to place worldwide to study the appearance and rise of animals during the geological period known as the Ediacaran," says Jack Matthews of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Memorial University, who led the study.
Two scoops of kindness, please
It's inspired by a Prince Edward Island story by the Guardian's Michael Robar, about the allure of ice cream intersecting with the pressure of a pandemic.
At J.R.’s Pizza and Dairy Bar in Cornwall, P.E.I. Saturday night, an irate customer threw a sundae through a service window at a teenage employee. The employee was still upset 20 minutes later and called Carolyn MacFadyen, the owner of the shop.
Feeling a need to say something, MacFadyen took to social media with a now widely shared Facebook post about what happened and why it wasn’t OK.
The owner had no insight into the angry customer’s life, but she told SaltWire Network she has noticed customers are more on edge than they were pre-pandemic.
“I think people are anxious when they come into a restaurant. They’re following the signs, they’re following as best they can the arrows on the floor, but you can sense that people … want to get in and out really quick,” she says.
A reminder to us all this weekend not to throw rage around blindly, despite the tumultuous times in which we're living.
Have a great weekend, and go grab yourself a cone of something sweet, whatever that may mean for you.
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