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NEW MINAS, N.S. A project proposed by an Annapolis Valley affordable housing association will provide more housing options for people in the New Minas .
After telling the populace they were purloining the goods for the Confederacy, they rode away.
Suspecting the men were nothing more than common thieves, a local posse was formed to track them down, and a messenger was sent to Fort Riley to enlist the military s help to retrieve their possessions.
The unanswered question was, did soldiers really come to help the Salina townspeople? And were the bushwhackers ever caught?
Local writer and historian Judy Magnuson Lilly was intrigued enough to research and write about this little-known piece of Salina history.
“I would see this story referenced in newspaper accounts and personal memoirs of the era,” she said. “So I decided to write a small book where people could learn a small part of our history.”
ARNPRIOR, ONT. Arnprior restaurants are stepping up to help with Christmas meal deliveries that were in jeopardy because of health and safety concerns. Community volunteer Darren Wood was working to put together more than 200 Christmas meals for those in need around Arnprior, but the local health unit stopped it. The Renfrew County and District Health Unit said that because the meals were being prepared in unlicensed kitchens they could put people at risk. “The main sticking point was that the main part of the meal, the turkeys, were cooked by myself and volunteers in our homes, as opposed to in an inspected kitchen,” Wood told CTV News on Wednesday. “This is how it’s been done, though, for the last 12 years.”