april_2018

138 139 comeausea.com sea scallops at their best! of Canada Get aTaste MSC-C-51620. This seafood has met the MSC’s global standard for sustainability. www.msc.org MUNICIPALITY OF ARGYLE, NOVA SCOTIA PREFERRED VENDOR n Comeau Seafoods www.comeausea.com bylaws and even had its own currency. Be- lieve it. Newcomers to Argyle say it has the best pace of living and ocean views. Long-timers tell you it’s the only place tourists can get welcomed into the house for a cup of tea. The construction industry is busier that it has been for some time. All the people are vol- unteers.When something needs to get done, they get together and it gets done. Municipal initiatives are focusing on engaging entre- preneurs and people who want to have their own business. There is freedom to do things –green spaces, recreation, and that elusive taste of home that’s missing in large cities. like Babe Ruth, Amelia Earhart, and Ernest Hemingway. The tuna stayed until the 1970s, and then dwindled, but since then it’s come back, and we’ve had the Tuna Tournament, once again, for the last five years.” Municipality of Argyle Clerk, Chris Frotten, speaks to the area’s environmental and sus- tainable initiatives. “Renewable energy is here, in terms of tidal, wind, and solar power.We had the first wind farm in Nova Scotia –17 turbines that have been running for almost 20 years now. The operation is owned by private interests but power is sold back to the grid. Argyle does have a green energy partnership with our two neighboring municipality units. We have two turbines from which we sell power to the grid as a revenue source for the municipality. And the group we’re part of is looking at solar power now, because that’s the next program the province is coming out with.” So, what makes Argyle “The Place People Are Proud to Call Home”? Here are just a few reasons: Tusket Island and Seal Island are havens for historical lore and descendants of the original Acadian families. These are the oldest regions inhabited by the French Acadians, where tall (but true) tales like this one abound: Back in the day, the island of Outer Bald was formally declared as the Principality of Outer Baldo- nia, and legally recognized by the province of Nova Scotia as a principality, with its own