STRAIT AREA - Woodland themes abound in this week's edition of TELILE 24/7. 

At 1:46, we'll have full coverage of the annual ceremonies that see Nova Scotia cutting down a tree to send to Boston as a means of thanking New Englanders for their quick action following the Halifax Explosion in 1917. Among the government officials on hand for the ceremony at L'Arche Cape Breton's property in Iron Mines, Inverness County were Inverness MLA and Deputy Premier Allan MacMaster, Minister of Natural Resources and Renewables Tory Rushton, Cape Breton-Canso Member of Parliament Mike Kelloway, and Inverness municipal councilors Bonny Jean MacIsaac and John MacLennan. 

Beginning at 16:23, we'll take a deep dive into a special council meeting held by Richmond County to help determine the fate of the former West Richmond Education Centre building in Evanston. Inactive since its shutdown in 2013 by the Strait Regional School Board, the one-time school nestled within the forests of western Richmond County has been pitched as an affordable housing hub and a potential piece of infrastructure that could be useful in the drive to bring doctors to the Strait Area, given its proximity to the Strait-Richmond Hospital. However, despite a lengthy discussion over calling tenders for the building during the special council meeting, Richmond officials have now voted to table the issue until their regular council session on December 20 to give more examination to the situation.

And at 42:50, you'll meet Michael Yellowlees, a native of Scotland who has spent the past nine months walking across Canada with his Alaskan Husky, Luna, to raise awareness of the need for reforestation in the Scottish Highlands. The pair were greeted by Port Hawkesbury Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton on November 9 after they walked across the Canso Causeway, and their "Rewilding Journey" had its final night in Cape Breton on Monday, with the hopes of wrapping things up in Cape Spear, Newfoundland and Labrador, before the snow flies.