Category: Sydney

A minor hockey team from Glace Bay is the national winner of a contest that rewards good deeds and exempliary behaviour.

The Glace Bay Pee Wee A Miners were officially announced as the winners of the Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup Saturday.  The team was recognized for organizing a Valentine’s Day event at a continuing care home in Glace Bay.  Players also helped raise money for a player on another team diagnosed with cancer.

They also get a $35,000 prize which will be divied up among the team, Glace Bay Minor Hockey Association; Hockey Nova Scotia and $15,000 for the charity of their choice, the Alzheimers’s Society of Nova Scotia.

Works crews are getting to work this week on a number of road and waterline projects.

Royal Avenue in Dominion will be reduced to one lane as they dig it up to replace the pipes.  That project is exopected to last into he summer.  They’re also replacing waterlines and repaving Inglis Street from Union to High Street in Sydney and Hare Street in North Sydney.

You are being advised to watch for slow downs in the construction zones and possible detours, and to watch out for the workers.  You can check on the various constriction zones on the CBRM website and social media accounts.