Profile of Sue Hickey

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• Calculating carbon
  The province’s municipalities are being asked to become allies in the battle against climate change. At a Municipalities Newfoundland and ...
• New CEO, new opportunities
  For 10 years, a region 20 km northeast of Buchans was the centre of a tug-of-war between two junior mining companies Canstar Resources and ...
• Last stages of divesting
  The saga of the Botwood port may be finally coming to an end. The issue is ownership: the Town of Botwood has wanted to take over the federal ...
• Local soldier receives recognition
  Joe (Joey) Alteen is giving his mother something to worry about, so to speak.The 33-year-old has been in the Canadian Forces for 10 years. While ...
• Sea cadets celebrate
  “Ships Company, Fall In!” That would have been common words heard by members of the 67 Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps (RCSCC) Windsor from their ...
• Another paper legacy
  Botwood Mayor Jerry Dean had been employed as a stevedore with what was then Abitibi for approximately five years, helping to load paper on board ...
• Stage burns down
  The 16-year-old male has not been charged, but he has been tagged as the prime suspect. There were other witnesses, according to RCMP. The ...
• Make Canadian, buy Canadian
  Various Western firms outsourced to this factory - Loblaws did so for its Joe Fresh clothing; various department stores like Wal-Mart did so as ...
• Care won't decrease
  Central Health is on the Opposition radar. The provincial Liberal Health critic, Andrew Parsons, said there was a good reason to present a ...
• Water levels up on Exploits
  Thanks to heavy rain in the area over the weekend, and snowmelt in the backcountry near Buchans, water levels were very high in Red Indian Lake. ...
• Bringing gold home
  Students and staff at Botwood Collegiate are still basking in the glow of the gold as they get ready to take part in a national skills ...
• Teck it up
  Teck – in central Newfoundland its formal name is Teck-Duckpond– has been organized with a successful mining venture for the company and the ...
• One ramp up
  For Cynthia Faulkner and her son Justin Bradbury, Christmas came early this year – only Santa’s elves were in the form of a group from the ...
• Justifying offer
  Tom Marshall wants to clarify the provincial government’s decision to help Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited with a $90 million loan. It’s not ...
• Funding needed to complete Beothuk DNA research
  Genetic research on Newfoundland’s extinct people, the Beothuk, is far from complete, though the Beothuk Institute would like to see more work on ...
• Up in arms
  “We think our school district is good enough to stand up and fight for.” Those were the words of one school board trustee, John George, with the ...
• Why Boston outrage, when others are slaughtered in...
  The bombings at the Boston Marathon this week were awful, to be sure. Three people were killed, including an eight-year-old boy, and more than ...
• NLC makes small concession
  When it came to businesses like restaurants and bars selling alcohol, Newfoundland was the only province in the country that didn't charge ...
• Who made these?
  Do you know the identity of the unknown man from Botwood who worked at a lumber camp?Whoever he was, the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and ...
• Time to dance
  Many around the world know the power of dance to lift spirits and in some cases, even inspire dramatic change.As American political activist Emma ...
• College cutbacks don’t make sense
  Why, government? Why? What logic motivates the reasoning behind the cutbacks to programs at the College of the North Atlantic (CNA)? What should ...
• The budget ‘Three Cs’
  There continues to be fallout from the provincial budget – and post-secondary students appear to be bearing the brunt.This time, the cuts include ...
• Teachers speak out on cuts
  Most people have heard the news that the province’s five school boards will be merged into two, one English and one French.How many know, ...
• Working on the Bond
  The first stage for replacing the Sir Robert Bond Bridge crossing the Exploits River wasn’t the actual work, but the announcement in September of ...
• Nova Central hopes student successes will remain...
  Thanks to the budget, the province’s education system is undergoing a change akin to plate tectonics – though in this case, school boards are ...
• Once again, rural Newfoundland gets the short end of...
  Hmm, what appropriate Shakespeare quote can we borrow to deal with the provincial budget? No matter what you say, the budget itself seems to ...
• Something's rotten in Peterview
  Peterview - one of the oldest communities in the Exploits region, is a traditional outport, located on the water, with the tangy scents of salty ...
• Going organic
  The label "organic," when it comes to food, often brings positive images: free-range animals, farms where pesticides and insecticides aren't ...
• Mining industry slumps, but company on rise
  News for many in the mining industry wasn't good at the recent PDAC (Prospectors and Developers Conference) in Toronto, but the Buchans Minerals ...
• Wooddale caribou not being surveyed
  The provincial Department of Environment and Conservation is counting caribou in some parts of the province this year by marking the animals, but ...