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ISSN
1480-2611
Government
should consult with teachers
Les
Walker gets honourary membership
MacKay
to retire
Enrichment
activities identify talent
Heritage
fairs highlight Canadian history
River
Hebert Elementary creates mining mural
From
the president
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River Hebert
Elementary's mining mural
Students at River Hebert
Elementary have recreated their village's historic Cochrane Mine through
a mural seen below. The full mural depicts miners coming out in coal
cars. Students performed a musical about mining in River Hebert, when
the mural was unveiled on Miner's Day, June 11 by retired miner Albert
Arsenault.
Teacher Dale Nogler wanted her students to learn more about their community.
"Through this project they learn about the history of mining in
the community, and in some cases about their own family's history,"
she says. Nogler wanted to create something for the students and the
school that will leave a permanent mark in the community.
"It will be permanently installed on the co-op building and the
children can one day show their children what they created and be proud
of it."
Oxford-based visual artist Eric Mosher, designer and coordinator of
the project, has worked with Nogler on other mural projects with other
schools including the Dominion Day 1913 mural by Oxford Elementary and
Wallace Elementary's The Quarry Story on the history of shipping and
the quarry in Wallace. For this mural Mosher collaborated with curator
Bud Johnston of Heritage Models and Judy Jollimore of the Miner's Museum.
Community partners and sponsors for the mural include Atlantic Toll
Highways, the municipality of Cumberland, the River Hebert Village Commission,
Laidlaw Transit Bus Company, and Harrison's Building Supplies.
Students also documented the project through film and video and learned
more about the history of mining in Nova Scotia from Joe Doucette of
the Cape Breton Miner's Museum.
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