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2020 | April 5 – 11

Posted on April 5, 2020
By Herald Staff
on April | First Week

Celebrating in ‘Remarkable’ Style

Posted on April 3, 2020
By Herald Staff
on Entertainment, From The Archives, TV, Web Exclusives

Jesse Stirling’s Meetings with Remarkable People celebrates a milestone
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Jesse Stirling jokes that his show some shorten to MWRP has a somewhat challenging name to remember.
“I say congratulations for getting the name right whenever anybody does achieve that. It’s the hardest name to remember in the world. People

Jim Furlong: Strange Days Indeed

Posted on April 2, 2020
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

There are several advantages to being a senior citizen. The Coronavirus certainly is not one of them. When you hear all the warnings it certainly does “give you pause.” Once upon a time a couple of aspirin and a hot toddy would haul you through any medical unpleasantness that might

Head-Trippy Trip: CORONA Scare-Cation

Posted on April 1, 2020
By Herald Staff
on From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

When my daughter and I left for Orlando on March 6th, our greatest worry was getting out of Newfoundland before a pending snow storm I feared may ground flights.
With Coronavirus (COVID-19) being somewhat in the news, we packed a baggie of Lysol wipes to wipe down our plane seats

The Films of Fogo Island

Posted on April 1, 2020
By Herald Staff
on Entertainment, Film, From The Archives, Local, Web Exclusives

A team at MUN revisits a series of films that document the struggles of Fogo Island
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In 1967 filmmaker Colin Low, community worker Fred Earle and Memorial University’s Donald Snowden created a series of 27 films centred around the towns of Fogo Island in partnership with MUN’s Extension Program

COVID-19: Taking Action

Posted on March 31, 2020
By Herald Staff
on From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Web Exclusives

(Note: the following ran in our March 29-April 4 issue, which hit stands March 23rd)
We are living in unprecedented times. That was the message from Premier Dwight Ball on Monday, March 16 as the province closed all schools, child care centres and post-secondary institutions to prevent the spread of

Between the Lines: Keep Calm, Carry On

Posted on March 30, 2020
By Herald Staff
on From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

One of the built in defense mechanisms that comes with being a Newfoundlander and Labradorian is the ability to deflect worry and ‘real world’ concerns when the going gets tough. That’s not to say that we can’t have empathy or doubt when it comes to the global happenings that surround

The Problem with Pandemics

Posted on March 30, 2020
By Herald Staff
on From The Archives, Local, Web Exclusives

The Coronavirus has proved it has not only the ability to spread rapidly around the world, but to also make this a world as we’ve never known it. Even SARS and the catastrophic and devastating events of 9/11 didn’t disrupt day to day public life to the extent COVID-19 has

Community Matters: techKnowtutors

Posted on March 27, 2020
By Herald Staff
on From The Archives, Local, Web Exclusives

For those out there who are not able to avail of friends and family members to teach old dogs new tricks, the Community Sector Council of Newfoundland and Labrador has a solution
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A registered charity established in 1976, CSC NL has created techKNOWtutors, “a project … conceived in response

Jim Furlong: Now and Then There’s a Fool

Posted on March 26, 2020
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

We have all received those silly e-mails and phone calls trying to con us out of our money. I marvel at how people could be so gullible as to fall for those scams. When someone says “This is your Captain speaking and you have won a free cruise,” I hang