Weather-related closures list: November 23, 2011
Posted Nov 23, 2011 10:29:53 AM.
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The following is a list of closures and cancellations related to the snowstorm for Wednesday, Nov. 23. This information is updated as it is received.
THIS EVENING:
– HRSB Board meeting rescheduled to November 30, 2011.
– Meeting at Gordon R. Snow Rec Centre re: paving of gravel roads is rescheduled to Thusday, Dec. 8.
– RCMP Community Engagement meeting in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia has been cancelled.
– Public Information Meeting & Open House: Dartmouth Municipal Planning Strategy & Land Use By-law Amendments pertaining to the Former Penhorn Mall, Dartmouth Scheduled to be held at the Alderney Elementary School gymnasium, 2 Penhorn Drive, Dartmouth, 7 p.m.: Cancelled. (HRM)
– Public Information Meeting at City Hall re: Case # 17198, 7 p.m.: Cancelled. (HRM)
– Cancellations from Capital Health: St. Margaret’s Bay Blood Collection, The APTS event scheduled for tonight (8 p.m.) at the Cobequid Community Health Centre, “Changing Our Culture of Alcohol Use: What Can We Do?” with Dr. Robert Strang, has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
– Capital Health prenatal classes cancelled.
– Tonight’s cooking class at the Italian-Canadian Cultural Association, on Agricola St. in Halifax is cancelled. Classes will resume next week.
EVENTS, PLACES & ACTIVITIES:
– All HRM skating programs WILL proceed as scheduled for tonight.
– Canada Games Centre closing at 5pm.
– All HRM libraries will be closed at 5pm. Earlier library closures: Musquodoboit Harbour, Tantallon, Dartmouth North, Captain William Spry Public Library, J.D. Shatford & Sheet Harbour.
– HRM Recreation programs and services will close at 3 p.m.
– Mic Mac Mall & Halifax Shopping Centre closing at 5pm.
– Sunnyside Mall in Bedford closing at 4pm.
– Bedford Place Mall closing at 3pm.
– Discovery Centre closing at 3pm.
– Bingo at St. Pius X Church has been cancelled for tonight and rescheduled to Nov. 30th.
SPORTS:
– Tonight’s AUS basketball games (StFX at SMU) have been postponed.
– Halifax West vs Sir John A girl’s hockey game CANCELLED for today @ 4 pm, Centennial Arena.
SCHOOLS:
– Chignecto Central Regional School Board dismissed students two hours early this afternoon. Buses to match dismissal time.
– All schools in Digby and Yarmouth counties closed for the day.
– All South Shore Regional School Board schools now closed.
– All Annapolis Valley Regional School Board schools (Annapolis, Kings, West Hants) closed for the day.
– The CSAP schools in Clare and Argyle are closed for the day.
– The Centre for Arts and Technology and the Centre for Health Studies will close at noon. All classes and labs this afternoon and evening have been cancelled.
– The Atlantica Centre for the Arts will not have afternoon classes.
– NSCC Annapolis Valley, Middleton, Lawrencetown, Digby and Kingstech campuses closed for the day.
MORE:
– Collection of garbage, organics, and recyclables will be delayed and postponed for some areas of Halifax Regional Municipality: details at HRM web site
– HRM issued a snow-removal update at 4:30 today;
“As of 4pm, approximately 15cms of wet snow has fallen. Forecast has another 15-20cms falling by midnight.
Currently there are 85 plow salt trucks working on HRM roads, mainly on the Priority 1 Arterial and Transit routes. Roads are slushy, snow covered and passable with caution.
Approximately 45 additional loaders are working throughout to open up the Priority 2 local streets to allow access. Clean up and push back on these streets will begin at midnight and all street should be completed within the 24 hour service standard. Crews will not be pushing back beyond the curbs to mitigate possible damage to infrastructure with no frost in the ground.”
