New Horizons for Seniors Call for Proposals
We are looking to the senior members of our community to gage interest in developing a project for the New Horizons for Seniors Program, making use of our space here at the museum and the Avon Spirit Shipyard.
A recent visit to the LaHave Islands Marine Museum (where we discovered an Avondale connection!) left us inspired by what a group of retired community members could accomplish with access to our resources and funding support.
New Horizons for Seniors projects must be community driven and come from the elders, so we would like to hear your ideas. Are there any like minded folks in the area who have been looking to contribute their time and energy back into the community?
If this sounds like you and your friends then we want to hear your ideas!
Stop in to the museum anytime between 10 and 5, Wednesday through Sunday to chat about your idea or send us a note with your project pitch at infoavonriver@gmail.com.
A recent visit to the LaHave Islands Marine Museum (where we discovered an Avondale connection!) left us inspired by what a group of retired community members could accomplish with access to our resources and funding support.
New Horizons for Seniors projects must be community driven and come from the elders, so we would like to hear your ideas. Are there any like minded folks in the area who have been looking to contribute their time and energy back into the community?
If this sounds like you and your friends then we want to hear your ideas!
Stop in to the museum anytime between 10 and 5, Wednesday through Sunday to chat about your idea or send us a note with your project pitch at infoavonriver@gmail.com.
About New Horizons for Seniors
The New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) is a federal grants and contributions program. It provides funding for projects that make a difference in the lives of seniors and in their communities.
Program objectives
Community-based projectsCommunity-based projects are eligible to receive up to $25,000 in grant funding for 1 year. Grants up to $25,000 for Community-based projects
The application period for the 2023/2024 Call for Proposal for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and the New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) is from August 1st, 2023 to September 14th, 2023.
Program objectives
- Promote volunteerism among seniors and other generations
- Engage seniors in the community through the mentoring of others
- Expand awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse
- Support the social participation and inclusion of seniors
- Provide capital assistance for new and existing community projects and programs for seniors
Community-based projectsCommunity-based projects are eligible to receive up to $25,000 in grant funding for 1 year. Grants up to $25,000 for Community-based projects
The application period for the 2023/2024 Call for Proposal for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and the New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) is from August 1st, 2023 to September 14th, 2023.
The Vera Mae & the LaHave Islands Marine Museum
A recent visit to the LaHave Islands Marine Museum led to the discovery of an Avondale connection and inspired us to engage our community to start dreaming up their own ideas for a project that compliments our facility and the work we do here.
Here is a recap of this visit on July 17th of 2023, submitted by our Facility Manager and Artist in Residence, Tacha Reed.
Here is a recap of this visit on July 17th of 2023, submitted by our Facility Manager and Artist in Residence, Tacha Reed.
So what does a museum manager do on their day off? They visit a museum of course!
Actually we were headed to the south shore to put our toes in the ocean and get some relief from the ongoing heatwave and "relentless" (to quote the weather report) humidity. Unfortunately the moment we put our feet down on the sand at Crescent Beach the skies opened up and forced us back into our car.
I'm embarrassed to say, but for the first time ever when approaching the LaHave Islands Marine Museum (after doing this drive at least a few dozen times over the last decade, always one of us asking "should we stop?") we finally made the turn into the parking lot and started to explore a small boatshed while the rain passed.
I was immediately drawn to a barrel of cork, recognizing the material as the same used in the Rotundus life jacket that we have among our collection of local mementoes dedicated to the Avon River.
Reading through the interpretive material I was surprised to see that the restored Vera Mae boat beside me had made its way back to LaHave Islands courtesy of an "Avondale Historical" group (even more evidence that we should just call ourselves the Avondale Museum). Within a few moments I recognized the Avon Spirit Shipyard and the old barn that used to sit across the street from our museum. Right on cue, as if delivered by fate, a volunteer named Doug arrived to tell me all about the wonderful project taken on by local seniors back in 2006 thanks to funding from New Horizons for Seniors. Doug then encouraged us to further explore the museum, which has been located within the former Methodist church since 1978.
Now this is my kind of museum! Mementos of memories left behind by members of the community fill the space from floor to ceiling (over 4000 to be exact), with wonderful stories and artwork speckled throughout.
We could have spent hours there, but the museum actually became quite busy with visitors while we were there, so I was only able to capture a wee sampling of some of the items that caught my eye in this eclectic museum, nestled in a perfectly picturesque cove just past Crescent Beach in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
Actually we were headed to the south shore to put our toes in the ocean and get some relief from the ongoing heatwave and "relentless" (to quote the weather report) humidity. Unfortunately the moment we put our feet down on the sand at Crescent Beach the skies opened up and forced us back into our car.
I'm embarrassed to say, but for the first time ever when approaching the LaHave Islands Marine Museum (after doing this drive at least a few dozen times over the last decade, always one of us asking "should we stop?") we finally made the turn into the parking lot and started to explore a small boatshed while the rain passed.
I was immediately drawn to a barrel of cork, recognizing the material as the same used in the Rotundus life jacket that we have among our collection of local mementoes dedicated to the Avon River.
Reading through the interpretive material I was surprised to see that the restored Vera Mae boat beside me had made its way back to LaHave Islands courtesy of an "Avondale Historical" group (even more evidence that we should just call ourselves the Avondale Museum). Within a few moments I recognized the Avon Spirit Shipyard and the old barn that used to sit across the street from our museum. Right on cue, as if delivered by fate, a volunteer named Doug arrived to tell me all about the wonderful project taken on by local seniors back in 2006 thanks to funding from New Horizons for Seniors. Doug then encouraged us to further explore the museum, which has been located within the former Methodist church since 1978.
Now this is my kind of museum! Mementos of memories left behind by members of the community fill the space from floor to ceiling (over 4000 to be exact), with wonderful stories and artwork speckled throughout.
We could have spent hours there, but the museum actually became quite busy with visitors while we were there, so I was only able to capture a wee sampling of some of the items that caught my eye in this eclectic museum, nestled in a perfectly picturesque cove just past Crescent Beach in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
