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Remembering the Ocean Ranger

Posted on February 10, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Books, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Music, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

In this special commemorative edition of The Herald, we reflect 40 years after the tragedy of the Ocean Ranger with then rookie reporter, NTV’s Glen Carter. Carter, who is set to retire in March, 2022, looks back over his last four decades in television. Plus, Swept Away by Darrell Duke,

Tags: Atlantic Blue, Buddy The Puffin, Cardiac Month, Darrell Duke, ECHL, Glen Carter, Grates Cove, NTV, NTV Evening Newshour, Ocean Ranger, Ron Hynes, Swept Away, Video

TV | Rock Solid Builds – Take Two

Posted on February 8, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Business, Entertainment, FILM & TV, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Web Exclusives

It’s the highly anticipated second season for the feisty folks on HGTV Canada’s Rock Solid Builds and the Brigus-based construction crew are ready to rant and roar and show off the very best of ‘The Rock’
Rock Solid Builds, a home-reno show like no other thanks to colourful characters

Tags: Brigus, building, Canada, HGTV, inspiring, local, outport, renovations, Rock Solid Builds, television

Jim Furlong: The Right to be Wrong

Posted on January 26, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I was angry first and then sad. I had my COVID booster shot last week. It was just before those anti-vax protesters, operating out of ignorance rather than malice, shut down a COVID vaccine clinic on Topsail Road.
The clinic was for seniors, like me, over 70. I lined up

Tags: column, COVID-19, Jim Furlong, op-ed, pandemic, protestors

Get Rid of ‘Da Vid’

Posted on January 26, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Column, Comedy, Entertainment, From The Archives, Health, Inspirational, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

Dr. Janice Fitzgerald said everyone would eventually catch the virus. Still, when I saw that blue line on the rapid test just after the New Year, I was in disbelief. With all the travel and going I’ve done, you kind of get to feeling a little invincible, or at least

Tags: column, COVID-19, illness, op-ed, Pam Pardy, pandemic

A Stirling Covid Reality | PART 3

Posted on January 21, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Web Exclusives

COVID and its many variants has come with a cost both personally and beyond for so many, but one high-profile NLer believes that while COVID has so many negatives, it can be overcome
ewfoundland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, warned that, at some point, COVID-19 would eventually impact all

Tags: COVID-19, illness, inspirational, Jesse Stirling, Meetings With Remarkable People, Newfoundland and Labrador, NTV, pandemic

A Stirling Covid Reality | PART 2

Posted on January 19, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Web Exclusives

COVID and its many variants have derailed many well-laid plans, but one high-profile NLer is testament to the fact that COVID can have a much more personal cost

That most people will eventually get COVID-19 was one of the messages the province’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, laid

Tags: COVID-19, illness, Jesse Stirling, Meetings With Remarkable People, Newfoundland and Labrador, NTV, pandemic

A Stirling Covid Reality | PART 1

Posted on January 17, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Web Exclusives

In part one of our in-depth three part series, Jesse Stirling outlines his taxing battle with COVID-19
Many know Jesse Stirling as the face of NTV’s Meetings With Remarkable People. Grandson to the late, great Geoff Stirling, and son of the vivacious Judy Stirling and highly respected Newfoundland Broadcasting President

Tags: COVID-19, illness, Jesse Stirling, Meetings With Remarkable People, Newfoundland and Labrador, NTV, pandemic

THE LEGACY OF GIVING: By NTV’s Jesse Stirling

Posted on December 30, 2021
By Herald Staff
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Music, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

NTV’s Jesse Stirling recounts how the annual NTV/OZFM/Newfoundland Herald Teddy Toss came to be, spurring on years of generous and from-the-heart giving

What a year 2021 has been! The holiday season will be a welcome break for everyone. Stirling Communications (NTV, OZFM and The Newfoundland Herald) just celebrated our

Tags: Charity, Geoff Stirling, Growlers, Jesse Stirling, Mary Brown's Centre, Newfoundland, NL Growlers, NL Herald, Teddy Toss

The Story of Christmas

Posted on December 30, 2021
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

Christmas is pretty good you know. It isn’t all celebration. It is deeply religious. It has “Jesus” written all over it in our western world … It really is something beyond “Rocking around the Christmas Tree” or “I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”
Christmas and its spirit goes beyond too

The Keepers of the Facts

Posted on December 30, 2021
By Jim Furlong
on Column, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I was going to write about this a while ago when the Mayor of St. John’s appeared to be telling reporters what they could or could not write about in the ongoing controversy over the Growlers getting a temporary boot out of the newly named Mary Brown’s Centre.
I didn’t