Author Archives : rs


2016 Renaissance Sackville AGM

This year’s AGM will take place on Thursday May 19th Venue: Sackville Town Hall Time: 6pm Guest Speaker to be announced Tea, coffee and cookies served Phone: 506 850-9808 for more information


Doghitch

Dog Hitching!

  Our Summer student, Sam Bliss, identified a community need and addressed it! An avid dog-lover, Sam noticed that there were no places on Bridge Street to tie up his dog so that he could easily support our local businesses. He took it upon himself to get to work on a solution, got the support […]


Come to our 2015 AGM

  Learn more about our Guest Speaker: Gordon Stevens Our Guest Speaker Gordon Stevens will be sharing his experience as a serial entrepreneur, community builder and a great supporter of his local economy. Check out his work with the Uncommon Group. Please RSVP Janine to attend: orejan@hotmail.com     

Screen shot 2015-04-02 at 11.35.33 AM

YCY-Spencer Isaac

Youth Citizens of 2014

Local Youth Citizen of the Year: Emma Hicks Emma was nominated by Becky Partridge as Sackville’s 2014 Local Youth Citizen of the year. “She gives up her spare Saturday mornings during the Fall/Winter to spend it on the ice with Sackville’s Can-Skaters.  She is an incredible coach to these young skaters, for her only being […]


Puppet Making Report

  PUPPET MAKING AND PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP With the support of Renaissane Sackville, Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre offered a children’s puppet making and performance workshop from July 29 to August 2, 2014 with artist Barbara Safran de Niverville. The weeklong workshop was offered free of charge and took place at 7 Lorne Street […]

puppet_01

14982029705_42a04bc2d3_o

Beginner Farmer Report

With the support of Renaissance, local organization ACORN brought together over 160 Farmers from the Maritimes and beyond for an amazing event. On behalf of the board of Renaissance, we’d like to congratulate ACORN on a great success providing much needed support to rural economic development in our region! Here is their official report to Renaissance […]


Nominate Sackville’s Youth Citizens!

Youth Citizen of the Year Awards Renaissance Sackville is again asking for nominations for their Youth Citizen of the Year Awards, to be presented at the Fall Fair opening ceremony on Friday, Sept 19th. Two awards are offered each year: Youth Citizen - Must be a resident of Sackville; must demonstrate service to the community without […]

Youth Citizen Poster

IMG_20140809_070436

Our Summer Newsletter!

We have a Newsletter! Here it is online! Want some automatic updates? Sign up to receive updates regularly. If you are interested, our report to Sackville Town Council is available here too. Special Thanks to Scott Harris for training our crew of Community Bake Oven Trainers last Saturday! Training & events will be ongoing, so […]


Our 20th year AGM!

  Thanks so much for covering our Annual General Meeting, CHMA! Here’s CHMA’s audio coverage of our AGM including Jeff Schnurr’s  inspiring speech about how Renaissance Sackville affected his story and the future of his organization, Community Forests International.   Here is our Renaissance Booklet AGM, a list of Renaissance Past Projects, our Renaissance Sackville […]

20140612_193442

10494758_297202207107102_4804946487286055630_n

Bake Oven Launch!

After a long & rewarding process, Renaissance is proud to announce Sackville has a functional, outdoor bake oven on site at The Sackville Community Garden!     There was an excellent launch to celebrate! This year also marks the launch of a seed library at the SCG! Come on over and check it out and look […]