Officially recognized

The Nova Scotia House Of Assembly has unanimously recognized the community of Digby for the Vaughn Vantassell Memorial Park. It was brought forward by Harold Theriault Jr. MLA to the House of Assembly "Where As on September 26, 2009, the Vaughn Vantassell Memorial Park in Digby rose from the ground with the assembling of playground equipment, gardens, shoveling and raking of sand and pea gravel and building a chain link fence by nearly 275 volunteers and where as the playground is named for and dedicated to Digby's former Fire Chief the late Vaughn Vantassell for his 40 years of commitment and dedication to the town and where as Vaughn Vantassell loved children and worked to promote a physically active lifestyle and would have been happy to be involved with the building of this playground." It appears on page 478 in Hansard, the official record of the Legislature of Nova Scotia.

Keith Trimper Memorial Playground

A new playground is being built at our Elementary School Sept 25, 2010. It will be named after Digby's much loved youth who died in an accident at the red cliffs 2 years ago, Keith Trimper. He was a great athlete and touched many lives with his positive presence. It is wonderful that our community will be able to honor him in this way.



The playground committee needs your help to accomplish this great project. Whether you are able to help on build day or you are able to donate to the playground. Every little bit helps. For more information and to sign up to help on build day go to the Keith Trimper Memorial Playground site to "Join the effort".

Park now has benches

Now that Spring has sprung the park has new benches around the playground. Anyone needing a place to sit and relax has the option of 3 benches. These benches were built by Cory Harris and the wood was donated by Happy Harry's. Thanks!

Anyone wishing to sponsor a bench can have their name (person or business) placed on the bench for a $200 donation. There are 2 benches left to sponsor, red and blue. Please contact Crystal at 245-2916 if you would like to make a donation.

Easter Egg Hunt hosted by Digby Elementary School

A fun day for the kids of DES at Vaughn Vantassell Memorial Park and the school playground. Preschool kids got to have their own egg hunt at the Vaughn Vantassell park and was enjoyed by many. The hunt lasted about 20min for the little ones and then they joined the kids at DES playground to claim some prizes.

The Home and School hosted both egg hunts for the kids and drew numbers for some prizes. In an effort to create awarness for the new playground being built at the DES this coming September 25th, the playground committee went around talking with the parents at the egg hunt about the project. Anyone wishing to help with this upcoming park is asked to contact the Playground Committee at http://www.digbyns.ltbk.ca/