• New Dawn 2012

  January 6, 2012 - 16 h 55

  0 Comment

   

• Dancing with the tree

  January 2, 2012 - 16 h 07

  1 Comment >>

   

• Dear George

  November 10, 2011 - 11 h 07

  I have walked past you for years and have grown accustomed to your face. Yet, most days I hardly pay any attention to you in your time frozen, straight ahead, stare.

  0 Comment

   

• Outer space gizmos

  October 27, 2011 - 11 h 38

  A guy stands before a judge awaiting sentencing. The judge says, "Do you have anything to say?” The guy turns his head aside, lifts his shirt collar and says, "Beam me up, Scotty!"

  0 Comment

   

• Imitating the Greeks

  October 13, 2011 - 15 h 45

  A Monday deadline for this column means the provincial election is a tomorrow's event. Was it a Tory landslide as expected by the polls? Any unexpected winners or losers? Was the turnout better or worse than 69 per cent that voted in 2007?

  1 Comment >>

   

• It's the economy stupid

  September 29, 2011 - 9 h 59

  At a municipal convention in Gander in 1985 a town councillor from Trepassey asked me, "What do ye do in Grand Falls for a living"? That jaw dropping question had my big head almost clunk over on the table with astonishment!

  0 Comment

   

• Whose footsteps?

  September 15, 2011 - 13 h 25

  In my boyhood summers, quite often, after the 7 a.m. Sunday morning Mass, we went fishing across the river with our Uncle Jerry Humber. Once out of the boat on the other side we would head in country. But we weren't quite sure of the way to go, so...

  1 Comment >>

   

• 1 and 22

  September 2, 2011 - 11 h 56

  Week after week, loads of people ever so willingly fork over their hard earned cash to buy lottery tickets - hoping, maybe even praying, their lucky numbers will pay off. It rarely happens. But, surprisingly some winners only need one number.

  0 Comment

   

• Dying breed

  September 1, 2011 - 1 h 30

  The first Labour Day celebrated in Grand Falls on Aug. 10, 1918 couldn't have been an overly joyous day with the First World War still in progress. The small town of around 2,000 suffered an incredible 62 casualties by the war's end. (Canada, with...

  0 Comment

   

• Moose on the loose

  August 25, 2011 - 9 h 45

  Some years ago my grandfather, Louie John, told about the first moose killed in the Conne River area. People came from miles around to see the unusual animal, as caribou was their choice of big game for food, clothing, canoes and housing.

  1 Comment >>

   

Other news

• July 22, 2011 Spotlights along the Exploits
• July 7, 2011 School's out!
• June 23, 2011 Another kind of PIIGS
• June 9, 2011 Chooky pigs
• May 26, 2011 No, Uncle Ted
• May 12, 2011 Bloody cat
• April 14, 2011 Reasons to be
• March 31, 2011 No reason to be
• March 18, 2011 Louie John Part II
• March 3, 2011 Louie John - Part I
• February 17, 2011 Death and taxes
• February 3, 2011 Checklist, please
• December 28, 2010 Merrily, count your blessings
• November 25, 2010 Being negative
• October 1, 2010 The river