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Blockhouse in 2012: This was a non-profit, sustainability and community integration project. Working under the conditions of a lease granted by Lunenburg County Council, volunteers worked to show how an abandoned 16,000 sq foot municipal building could be
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Steiner education (referred to as Waldorf education in North America) should receive one. It offers K-9 education and is linked to the Waldorf-inspired Lunenburg County Independent High School, in Mahone Bay.
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