Check out my interview with Nicole Beatty! We chat about:

• Nicole‘s favourite things about living in Northumberland County
• About Nicole’s career in community development and resource development management
• What lead Nicole to run for council
• Nicole’s experience with being a young women running for town council
• Nicole’s vision for economic development in Cobourg
• Nicole’s vision for culture and tourism in Cobourg
• Nicole’s vision for sustainability in Cobourg (including the inflatable floating playground at Cobourg Beach)
• Nicole’s vision for affordable housing
• Nicole’s vision for engaging youth in the community (including all-ages show venues and a youth advisory council)
• Nicole’s advocacy work
• What community looks like to her
• Nicole’s favourite Cultivate moment ever
• Cannabis legalization, the role of municipal government in managing it, and looking to Indigenous communities to learn from them.
• What song Nicole is learning on uke

Local Organizations Nicole is Associated With:

• Local Food for Local Good
• Sounds of the Next Generation
• 100 Women Northumberland
• Cultivate Festival of Food & Drink

Featured Tunes:
Born to Love You by Ellen Torrie  (Click her name to check out her rad new website!)
I’ll Wait by Sweet Alibi 
Burn the Rapists, Not the Witches by Backyard Riot (From their brand new, locally written and recorded EP!)
Bro Hymn by Pennywise