offers an accessible coastal viewing opportunity making it something that everyone should and can experience. Once you are done exploring the beaches of Pictou County, New Glasgow offers visitors and residents alike big city amenities with small- town charm and friendliness. The Wellness Centre is 155 000 square foot, state-of-the-art, fully accessible sports and recreation complex with two ice surfaces and a conference centre that has hosted major regional, provincial, and national sporting and non-sporting events. New Glasgow offers a vibrant regional Farmer’s Market with an excellent reputation for offering local vendors and farmers the opportunity to sell their goods. The market attracts more than 2,000 people every Saturday morning allowing people to have the best farm-to-table experi- ence and get one-of-a-kind items from local craft and product makers. The Farmers Market takes you back to a time when people took the time to chat and get to know you and it is as much a social gathering as it is a place of commerce. New Glasgow is known for its spicy brown pizza sauces and its many longstanding signature events happening throughout the summer. This year the Johnny Miles Marathon takes place June 18th and kicks off summer. New Glasgow has been the home to this marathon since 1975. The event celebrates and honours the accom- plishments of its namesake who was a Canadian marathon runner who won the Boston Marathon in 1926 and 1929 but was also 1925 Canadian 5-Mile Champion, 1928 Canadian 10K Champion and Summer Olympic Finalist and made it to the Summer Olympics as a finalist again in 1932. New Glasgow also hosts annual Dragon Boat races, which are celebrating their 20th Anni- versary this year. The event happens from July 21st and 22nd and has over thirty-five paddling teams race in heats with more than 1000 par- ticipants and spectators viewing from the two shores of the East River and the George Street Bridge as onlookers cheer on the paddlers to raise money for local charities. For music lovers, the Jubilee or “Jube” as it is affectionately known celebrates 26 years this year. This music festival has built a solid reputa-
Located about 18 mins (22.2 km – 13.7 mi) from Pictou or Caribou is New Glasgow the commercial-service center of Northern Mainland Nova Scotia, but it is not all work and no play for this town that is located along the East River of Pictou County which flows into Pictou Harbour. A sub-ba - sin of the Northumberland Strait makes the area very much connected to the land and the water. Big and small businesses alike call it home. Art, culture, entrepreneurship, business and industry all coexist here with great lifestyle amenities and close proximity to fantas- tic beaches that make this place a must-stop when visiting Nova Scotia this summer and beyond. Just a short drive outside New Glasgow is Melmerby Beach Provincial Park, in Little Harbour (Route 289, 16 km / 10 mi north of Highway 104, Exit 27; follow signs) on the Nor- thumberland Shore. Known for its warm waters, averag- ing more than 19° Celsius (66° Fahrenheit) in the summer months, and an amazing 2 km (1.25 mi) of beach acces-
sible by boardwalks. The beach is supervised in the months of July and August and offers lots of space to enjoy the water, sun and sand, just remember your sun- screen. This beach park features include change houses, flush toilets, salt-rinse showers, picnic tables, a boat launch, and abundant parking. It also
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VOL 23 ISSUE 1 • SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE
SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • VOL 23 ISSUE 1
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