NSCC Chef Claude Aucoin has no children of his own. But he is from a large Cheticamp family, and, at 58, has already mourned the loss of not just his parents, but two brothers.

The new principal of the Strait Area Campus brings an extensive background in the marine industry as well as post-secondary experience to his new post. The Nova Scotia Community College recently named Vivek Saxena as the new principal at the Port Hawkesbury campus.

Fred Tilley, principal of the Nova Scotia Community College’s Marconi campus, said staff and students at the post-secondary institution are using creativity and co-operation to make the best of a bad time as the school’s campus remains closed during the ongoing COVID-related state of emergency.

Halifax-based screenwriter Nick Morris is anxiously awaiting the debut of his first film “Becky", a horror film which stars Joel McHale, Kevin James, and Lulu Wilson. Morris’s love of storytelling led him to take the Radio and Television Arts program at the Nova Scotia Community College in Kentville, N.S., graduating in 2000.

Tim Webster, a research scientist with the Applied Geomatics Research Group at Nova Scotia Community College, has helped model what sea level rise could look like in the province.

The new principal of the Strait Area Campus brings an extensive background in the marine industry as well as post-secondary experience to his new post. Nova Scotia Community College recently named Vivek Saxena as the new principal at the Port Hawkesbury campus.