Nine-year-old Dawson Burns is a student by day at Maple Ridge Elementary School in Lantz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But at night, and on weekends\u2014in between his playing hockey of course\u2014he spends his time sharpening the skates of many customers who seek his service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dawson does the skate sharpening without much if any help from his parents, mom Angie and dad Preston, an East Hants RCMP officer, at their home in a Lantz subdivision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”67″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dawson has been sharpening skates for the past three or four months he said in an interview with The Laker News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has a good reason for starting his business. Plus, who wouldn\u2019t like to have their skates sharpened for only $5 a pair?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI wanted to find a way to give back to the community,\u201d said Dawson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is also using all the money he collects to pay for his own hockey costs with the East Hants Penguins\u2014as much as he can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am trying to make as much as I can, so I can give some to the animal shelters for the animals, pay for hockey camps, hockey sticks, and everything in general for hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He thinks other kids his age could start businesses as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty fun to do,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if kids want to make some money and support their own passions they should do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dawson said he does it all himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe only reason mom and dad would help me is if I started to struggle a little bit,\u201d said Dawson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He wanted to say thanks to everyone for their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI definitely want to thank everyone in this community for doing all you can to support me and my business,\u201d said Dawson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you need your skates sharpen, leave them at the side porchdoor at 55 Towerview Court in Lantz. It is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. as long as they are home. $5 left in the pair of skates at drop off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Drop off during the day and pick up in the evening. There is an area inside the porchdoor for convenient drop off and pick up .<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”93″] LANTZ: A budding entrepreneur is making sure the skates of East Hants residents are staying sharp this winter. Nine-year-old Dawson Burns is a student by day at Maple Ridge Elementary School in Lantz. But at night, and on weekends\u2014in between his playing hockey of course\u2014he spends his time sharpening the skates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12,957],"tags":[6012,196,50,595,48,6013,4658],"class_list":["post-42178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","category-news","tag-dawson-burns","tag-east-hants","tag-halifax","tag-lantz","tag-n-s","tag-skates","tag-skating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/419355650_359805510098421_8387262815784975724_n.jpg\")