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Tell Tale Harbour

Posted on January 10, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Don’t dare tell Alan Doyle he can’t, because he most certainly will! The musical Tell Tale
Harbour, based on the screenplay The Grand Seduction finds one of NL’s own not only co-writing the musical but starring in the lead role this summer in P.E.I.
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The Confederation Centre of the

Tags: Alan Doyle, Atlantic canada, Charlottetown Theatre Festival, Great Big Sea, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, PEI, Tell Tale Harbour, theatre

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

Keeping The Faith At Home

Posted on December 29, 2021
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Music, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

While gathering in a House of Worship was difficult during the worst of the pandemic, with a little faith, determination and creativity, fellowship flourished

The Salvation Army in Conception Bay South have faithful church attendees from all over the world these days, says Major Chris Pilgrim.
With

Tags: Christmas, Church, faith, Newfoundland, NTV, Salvation Army

Kindness Wanted

Posted on December 29, 2021
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

The Gathering Place’s motto, ‘kindness wanted,’ is never more compelling than at Christmas

Students and staff at Frank Roberts Junior High in Foxtrap organized what they called a Passion Project, raising $2,850 (and rising) so students could prepare cards and stockings for guests at The Gathering Place in St.

Tags: Christmas, Gathering Place, Giving, Paul Davis

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

Posted on December 29, 2021
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I am far from a prime example of Earthly perfection – if such a thing even exists – but I do try to be kind.
“If I can’t help, I won’t hurt,” is a long-held personal philosophy of mine, so is “kill them with kindness.”
With few exceptions, a dispute

Tags: Christmas, faith, Pam Pardy

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Shed Talk with Rick Mercer

Posted on December 21, 2021
By Dillon Collins
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, TV, Web Exclusives

The Herald talks with Rick Mercer about Talking to Canadians, plus all kinds of other grand yarn topics that come up while shooting the breeze in a shed
Having a gab with Rick Mercer while he’s hove off in his shed at home in Newfoundland is like talking with an ol’ buddy from

Tags: 22 Minutes, book, CBC, local, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ray Guy, Rick Mercer, shed, television, The Rick Mercer Report

‘It Fills My Heart’

Posted on December 16, 2021
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

Eddie & Susan Sheerr share what life’s like once the very popular and beloved NTV weather-go-to-guy is off air and heads home to family

NTV’s Chief Meteorologist Eddie Sheerr was visiting family in the states, there to celebrate American Thanksgiving, when we spoke via Skype for The Herald’s cover

Tags: Christmas, Eddie Sheerr, family, Newfoundland, NTV, Thanksgiving, Weather

The Missus Downstairs

Posted on December 15, 2021
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Music, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

Mary Walsh and Dave Sullivan join forces to weave the fabulous yarn of Sullivan’s adorably odd relationship with an honest-to-goodness actual Missus Downstairs

The Missus Downstairs is about an oddball friendship that grew between comedian/actor Dave Sullivan and his nosy – yet also preciously lovable and naturally comedic –

Tags: Dave Sullivan, Mary Walsh, Missus Downstairs, Newfoundland