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2022 | June 26 – July 2

Posted on June 26, 2022
By Herald Staff
on July | First Week

Fortunate Ones – That Was You and Me

Posted on June 24, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Arts & Culture, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Hope, healing and truths of place and purpose are at the heart of the emotional third studio album of award-winning duo Fortunate Ones
Who are we? What is our purpose? What do we do when that purpose is gone?
Those were looming questions Catherine Allan and Andrew James O’Brien –

Tags: album, Andrew James O'Brien, Catherine Allan, English Harbour, Fortunate Ones, inspirational, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, pandemic, rural

Growlers Basketball: Game On!

Posted on June 23, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Sports, Web Exclusives

Newfoundland and Labrador’s professional sports brand – The Newfoundland Growlers – has expanded to include basketball, becoming the 10th franchise in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL), and the 2022 season is on!
It’s game day and the excitement builds at Memorial University’s Field House in St. John’s. Deacon Sports

Tags: basketball, CEBL, Deacon Sports, Glenn Stanford, Mary Brown's Centre, Newfoundland Growlers, Patrick Ewing, Patrick Ewing Jr.

Fling out your Fleurdelisé!

Posted on June 22, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Fling out your Fleurdeliseé! Join the francophone community in St John’s for an event to celebrate the Feéte de Saint- Jean Baptiste, the national day of celebration of Queébec and francophone cultures across Canada.
On June 25, Spirit of Newfoundland will host a concert at the

Tags: Colleen Power, Fling out your Fleurdelisé!, Spirit of Newfoundland

ALBUM DEEP DIVE | Rachel Cousins – Aura

Posted on June 22, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Arts & Culture, Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Rising pop star Rachel Cousins delves into her emotive third studio album Aura in the latest in our album deep dive series
Growth. We adapt or we die, and for singer-songwriter Rachel Cousins, adaptation was the name of the game during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rising from promising artist to much

Tags: album deep dive, Aura, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, pop, Rachel Cousins, singer-songwriter

PAM PARDY | Cool Dads Rule

Posted on June 21, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Column, From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our June 19-25, 2022 issue
Those of us of a certain age know what it’s like to have had a baby boomer father. Those dads were cool. Pack of smokes in pocket with one smouldering from the jaw. They all looked like James Dean with a baby

Tags: column, father, Father's Day, history, op-ed, Pam Pardy, retro, throwback

Newfoundland Chocolate Company: Make Life Sweet

Posted on June 21, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Business, Food & Drink, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Web Exclusives

Christina Dove of the Newfoundland Chocolate Company shares how the family’s passion for sweets came from ‘Poppy’, and how giving back is where it’s at
One visit to the Newfoundland Chocolate Company’s Torbay Road location – which also just happens to be a café and chocolate factory besides hosting a

Tags: candy, chocolate, donation, local business, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland Chocolate Company, Ukraine

JIM FURLONG | Hello Dad

Posted on June 20, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally appeared in our June 19-25, 2022 issue
I did not “know” my dad in any real sense of the word. He’s dead a long time now and my last memory is 60-years-old or more. He was dead before I reached the age of 20. Dad was 55 years of

Tags: column, father, Father's Day, Jim Furlong, memories, op-ed, reminiscing, son, staff blog

2022 | June 19-25

Posted on June 19, 2022
By Herald Staff
on June | Fourth Week

Justin Fancy’s Daddy Daughter Days

Posted on June 19, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Arts & Culture, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Justin Fancy won Fans’ Choice at this year’s East Coast Music Awards, but while making music gets him top billing, it’s being dad that’s truly the best gig ever
Kayleigh gets her father’s full attention, and that’s the way it should be, opens singer-songwriter Justin Fancy. Fancy, who will headline

Tags: country, daddy, daughter, ECMA, Father's Day, Justin Fancy, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, singer-songwriter