Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
Sandy and Doug Hall have been watching their shoreline along the Belleisle Bay slowly disappear over time. The couple was quick to volunteer for a project aiming to mitigate erosion by planting 1,500 native trees and shrubs on private property throughout the Belleisle watershed in southern New Brunswick. "Because of the flooding that happens every spring, our beach is being taken away, so we were quite interested in what we could do to help preserve it," Sandy said.
