• 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!"

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• 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?

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• That's 30

  October 6, 2011 - 10 h 25

  Thirty. It is an important number to print journalists, since it tells the editor that he or she can stop slashing with the red pen - the story is done.

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• 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!

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• 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...

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• 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.

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• 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...

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• 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.

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• Spotlights along the Exploits

  July 22, 2011 - 11 h 19

  The spotlights on the stage at the Shawnadithit Centennial Field (it's official name) have been turned off and the over 20,000 fans who attended the Kiss concert have gone home.

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• Watching from the break

  July 11, 2011 - 11 h 42

  When I was faced with the task of resurrecting this column for a while as our newest reporter got her feet wet, I panicked a little. It has been years since I followed the local sports scene, and I have to admit the prospect of passing my opinion...

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• 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 9, 2011 Our view of the valley
• March 9, 2011 Our view of the valley
• March 3, 2011 Louie John - Part I
• February 17, 2011 Death and taxes
• February 14, 2011 "Please, Sir, may I have some more?"
• February 7, 2011 The science of coaching
• February 3, 2011 Checklist, please