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Transcontinental Media signed a $30,000 contract Wednesday to become a Platinum Sponsor of the Newfo... » |
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Transcontinental announces partnership
In just a little over a month athletes from all over the province will converge in Grand Falls -Windsor for the 2010 NL Winter Games. As preparations continue and excitement builds in anticipation of the event, so does support from local organizations and businesses.
Transcontinental Media, publisher of two daily and 14 community newspapers throughout the province including the Advertiser, made a commitment of $30,000 on Wednesday to become one of the Winter Games' biggest sponsors. (more)
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The hood of his coat hides Glenn Alvin Scott Budgell as court officers lead him into Grand Falls-Win... » |
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Twelve new charges against local man
A Grand Falls-Windsor man has waived his right to a bail hearing until later this month.
Glenn Alvin Scott Budgell, 33, formerly of Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor, had previously been charged with assault causing bodily harm, failing to provide the necessities of life and two additional counts of assault after a joint investigation by RCMP and Child, Youth and Family Services.
A dozen more charges were laid against Mr. Budgell on Wednesday morning, bringing the total to 16.
They include four counts of assault with a weapon, one count of aggravated assault, one count of assault, one count of uttering threats and five charges of breach of probation. (more)
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The Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts Paul Roebothan and Clarenville Caribous Travis Chapman (left) jost... » |
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Post-season play
The Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts have finished up their regular season and tickets for the first round of the West Coast Senior Hockey League playoffs will go on sale tomorrow and Wednesday night at the box office of the Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium from 7-9 p.m. for $15.
Cataracts first round match-up will commence on Feb. 13 and 14 for games one and two in the best of seven series where they will take the road for games three and four on Feb. 20 and 21. Should they be necessary, games five through seven will return to the Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium for the weekend of Feb. 26. (more)
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Our liberties
We are inclined to avoid serious thought about freedom - as we do other fundamentals of life - until it is threatened. In view of what we see happening in the world today it is high time to ask: what is liberty? can we keep it? what shall we do to make sure we do keep it?
Doctrines our grandfathers held to be simple statements of fact are challenged in many quarters. Institutions painfully built up and guarded through centuries of struggle have been overthrown. The problem of keeping our liberties involves the whole of civilization. (more)
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Pie-throwing misses mark 1
It's been more than a week since a supporter for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals decided to apply an impromptu beauty treatment with a soy-based cream to the country's Fisheries Minister: a tofu pie in the face of Gail Shea while she was giving an address.
Most of us know the motivation for the loopy American woman's behaviour. She was either tied down and force-fed a TV diet of old Three Stooges shows complete with nyuk-nyuks, waaahs, three-fingered boings and pies in the face, or she bought into PETA propaganda, hook, line and sinker. (more)
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