"We went because they needed answers"

On February 17, 2013, the fishing boat Miss Ally, with five men aboard, was lost in a storm off the South Shore of Nova Scotia. The hull of the craft was sighted, but searchers chose not to examine it right away. At the request of the families of those on board, a full day before "official" crews examined the hull of the Miss Ally, four divers from Shelburne County had been to the hull to provide answers for those grieving families. Please follow this link to look into the faces of these true heroes of the community. Their heartfelt gift was to help in the only way they could.

The Scrapper

One fine evening while walking on the beach, I came upon one of life's little dramas.  The outcome was very different from what I expected when I arrived, for what I saw was a common rock crab,

Cancer irroratus, turned belly-up and lying quite still.  I thought it was dead, but much to my surprise when a wave rolled over it, the little crustacean, it righted itself and started to make its

way back to the sea.  I've decided to learn from this little fellow and roll with the punches.  Don't count yourself out until you've had a chance to roll over and start again!