“The tried and tested ingredients of food and music are the great cementers of community and relationships,” says Sobaz Benjamin. The executive director of the community group In My Own Voice has been thinking a lot about those key ingredients lately, in planning—along with iMOVe team Kyle Hamilton, MJ Loppie, Delton Colley and Enze Yang; […]
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Former Value Village building site for Harbourview Weekend Market
The former Value Village building in downtown Dartmouth is soon to be home to the Harbourview Weekend Market. “It’s part farmers’ market, part flea market, part antiques,” explains owner Gary Janes, who successfully ran a similar operation in London, Ontario, before moving back to his native Maritimes. Janes says there will be 200 booth spaces available. “About a third of the space will be for farmers, and about a fifth for a food court,” he explains. He acknowledges that securing farmers can be difficult, “but that’s the key to it—farmers is what brings the customers back.” Harbourview Weekend Market will
