The Advisory Board
Posted by Alex on Jul 17, 2010 in Featured Articles | Comments
As many of you know, the Haliwards is my first international project. After the success of the inaugural year, I wanted to start to involve local people by the way of an Advisory Board. Here is a short and sweet look at the people who make up the 2010/2011 board. Though we have only been working together for a few weeks, I can safely say we are in for a good...
[Read More]Head for a Cure @ Halifax West
Posted by Alex on Feb 20, 2010 in Blog | Comments
As you all know two of this years awards are going to Halifax West High School. One of them to a teacher for her outstanding commitment to her students and the second to a group of students for raising the bar when it comes to community and charitable work. The four students that are receiving the award are currently working on a project called ‘Head for...
[Read More]It’ll Look Good on Your Resume…
Posted by Alex on Dec 4, 2009 in Blog, Featured Articles | Comments
Some of you may have glanced at a tweet i posted several days ago and i couldn’t have been any more serious. Being in Canada has opened up a new market for me but no matter how much experience i have in the UK, i am still the new kid on the block. As many of you know since i arrived in Canada i have indulged myself in local events and tried to get a...
[Read More]Avoiding a train wreck.
Posted by Alex on Oct 24, 2009 in Blog, Featured Articles | Comments
When i first started work on the Haliwards here in Nova Scotia it really was new grounds for me. All the ideas and successes from England could be redesigned, remade and in theory reanimated. I really have not had the time to put my heart and soul into a project so i wanted to start with something simple but something that would make a good impact to the local...
[Read More]Tall Ships 2009: Videos
Posted by Alex on Jul 21, 2009 in Blog, Featured Articles | Comments
Over the weekend i used my iPhone to capture some of the ships at this years festival. For those of you who missed my tweets here is a list of all the videos i captured this weekend. They get better towards the end. I hope you all had a chance to see the ships this weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed myself! Current clip at the Tall Ships....
[Read More]Tall Ships Nova Scotia Festival 2009 – Mini Guide
Posted by Alex on Jul 10, 2009 in Blog, Featured Articles | Comments
So this year will be the first Tall Ships festival I have ever witnessed and I have high hopes on what I am going to see. Aaron Legge the Chair of the Shoreside Operations Committee contacted me a few weeks ago and kindly offered me a position as Site Supervisor for Zone 5 (shown to the left). Even though, as you know I have been flooded with requests ever since...
[Read More]Blue Nose: Post-Marathon
Posted by Alex on May 18, 2009 in Blog | Comments
So that’s it! Blue Nose is done and dusted for another year. I was going to write a huge post about this weekend but then i thought to myself there are loads of articles out there already so i just wanted to share with you some great photographs that Tara took this weekend at the Youth Run. I really hope that next year if i am still in the area i will be a...
[Read More]Blue Nose: Pre-Marathon
Posted by Alex on May 15, 2009 in Featured Articles | Comments
So it’s Friday night. The countdown clock on the Scotiabank Blue Nose site is nearly down to zero and everyone is getting prepared for a manic weekend. What normally for me would be a weekend of mass twittering its sadly not. My iPod is in for servicing so i have to rely on my partners laptop and texting. This post is part of a 2-piece. I will be posting...
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