Wildfire Risk Season 2023 ended.
Burning restrictions are lifted as of 16-Oct-2023 until and including 14-Mar-2024.
The 2023 fire-risk season has come to an end and you no longer need to check daily for permission to burn (domestic) brush or have a campfire.
Although the season ended today and you can burn without permission, Continue reading Burning Restrictions lifted for Season 2023
On 12-May-2023 both our access roads to the FoxCreek community
– Old Kettle Rd from Mill Village to the Fox Creek turnaround
– Medway Harbour Rd, from Hwy 331 to the turnaround
have been graded and “leveled”.
The roads at the moment do not look very smooth. They are not leveled as usual and rocks are sticking out or laying on the surface of the road. Continue reading FoxCreek Community Access Roads Graded
Please note that as of 15-Mar-2023 the Nova Scotia Burning Restrictions for 2022 are in effect until and including 15-Oct-2023.
During this Wildfire Risk Season brush burning and camp fires are Continue reading Nova Scotia Burning Restrictions 2023 in effect
Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts in USA and Canada !!!
The term “spring forward – fall back” is meant to trigger your memory to set your clocks forward one hour in the spring at the start of DST, and one hour back in the fall when DST ends.
Continue reading DST starts in USA and Canada on 12-Mar-2023
There was another short power outage for the FoxCreek community as part of a bigger outage with the same reason as yesterday: ‘Damage to overhead equipment’. Power was gone for 2hrs 15mins from 7:43am to 9:58am this morning.
The FoxCreek community, experienced a brief power outage of 1hr 36mins today, Friday, 3-Feb-2023 from 09:59am to 11:35am due to ‘damage to overhead equipment’. The restoration deadline was beat by over one hour for which we are very grateful. Thanks NSP.
In the Region of Queens, [household] waste collection is every second week as indicated on your 2023 Waste Collection Schedule. Green carts, blue bags and garbage (black) bags are picked up on the same day.
Place materials into the grey community garbage boxes by 8:00am on collection day … Continue reading Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2023
10 Facts about New Year
© 2022 By Anne Buckle and Vigdis Hocken
Did you know that people toast the New Year at 38 different times during 26 hours around the globe? Here are ten fun facts while you wait for 2023 …
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The FoxCreek community experienced a two-part power outage on Friday, 23-Dec-2022/11:43pm which lasted into Christmas Eve, 24-Dec-2022/5:44pm (18hrs 1min) for the first part (which seems to be from 470 OKR to HVD) and to 24-Dec-2022/7:02pm (19hrs 19mins) for the second part (rest), likely caused by the trees in the power lines from the winter storm popping the line breakers.
The restoration estimate was beat by 4 hours for the second part of the outage … just in time for fixing a less fancy Christmas Eve supper …
Many of us would welcome more daylight on the shortest day of the year. So here’s some good news: the year’s shortest day is becoming longer (but only by a few seconds).
The December solstice—when the North Pole is at its maximum tilt away from the Sun—is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It can fall on December 20, 21, 22, or 23 ….
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