VIDEO: Convocation 2018

Have video games, will travel. Stepping up into Stephen Lumsden’s mini bus is almost akin to walking into a live arcade. Gaming music emits simultaneously from four flat-screen televisions as strings of colourful lights add to the scene. Underneath the 43-inch high-resolution television screens are gaming consoles, while the floor of the bus has been covered with rubberized, interlocking mats of varying colours from blue to green, yellow, grey and red.

Boots are on the ground for a two-year applied research project into water quality issues in the Shelburne African Nova Scotia community. The project is being led by Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Research Scientist Dr. Etienne Mfoumou and his Engineered Technologies Applied Research Team.

When naming his current ensemble, Halifax bassist Tom Easley opted for the fairly self-explanatory Easley Quartet. And why not? It gets to the point and the musician himself is a known quantity for his work with the roots trio Hot Toddy and also performing with well-known jazz pianist and vocalist Bill Stevenson, who just happens to be his uncle.

 A little rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of the thousands of people who walked through Miner’s Marsh Oct. 17. With close to 400 carved pumpkins this year, the fifth annual Kentville Pumpkin Walk drew roughly 3,600 visitors to the downtown.

16-year-old Grace Hall never would have given a second thought to working in construction. But that was before her experience working with Roscoe Construction Ltd.

Anyone interested in learning more about what takes place at the Nova Scotia Community College is invited to stop by the Truro campus for an open house on Oct.18.