Nursing Home Without Walls launches in Tantramar; plus a visit with GG award winner Thaddeus Holownia

March 14, 2025

CHMA News, Local Journalism Initiative, Community Radio Fund of Canada

On today’s show: CHMA reporter Clinton Davis finds out more about Nursing Home Without Walls and its mission to help people age in place at Tuesday’s official launch of a new Tantramar branch in the Drew Nursing Home.

Then CHMA’s newest reporter Lara MacMillan takes us out to Jolicure to speak with photographer Thaddeus Holownia, who just won a Governor General’s award for artistic achievement.

Plus in briefs:

The province spent $4.3 million on renovations to the Sackville Memorial Hospital to make way for a Beal University Canada nursing campus on site.
And the town of Amherst is tightening up rules at the Amherst Stadium as the Jr. A Ramblers get ready to play this Saturday in game one of divisional semi-finals for the Maritime Junior Hockey League.

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Nursing Home Without Walls launches in Tantramar; plus a visit with GG award winner Thaddeus Holownia

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