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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

WRITING WORLD | Something Fishy

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

With 80 years of living and an enviable career in the heat of things politically to bank on, former Port de Grave livyer Ray Andrews tells the tales that didn’t get away in his brilliant
tell-all, Something Fishy
Ray Andrews has led what most would consider an enviable life.

Tags: author, Newfoundland and Labrador, Politics, Ray Andrews, Something Fishy, Writing

Jim Furlong: Not a Clue

Posted on January 17, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Web Exclusives

At this time of the rolling year some pundits put forward some notions on what the New Year might bring. It’s hope in vain if something is expected from me.
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and I swear to God I know less about what is going on then

Tags: column, Jim Furlong, Newfoundland and Labrador, op-ed

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

Jim Furlong: Another Taste of Yesterday

Posted on January 14, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Web Exclusives

Taste and smell are very dramatic memory triggers. They can take you back to the past better than any photograph.
A few years ago, I brushed against a fur coat that was hanging in a closet. In an instant I was transported back to my childhood home and the soft

Tags: column, Jim Furlong, Newfoundland and Labrador, nostalgia, op-ed

WRITING WORLD | Life’s Worth Living

Posted on January 13, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Books, Entertainment, From The Archives, Web Exclusives

The author of Sick in Bed, Across Two Chairs, With My Feet Out Through the Window, shares his very personal battle with terminal illness while remaining positive
At 77 years of age, Grandpa Pike (real name Laurie Blackwood Pike), says he’s lived a good life. He’s an accomplished author with

Tags: Granda Pike, illness, inspirational, Laurie Blackwood Pike, Newfoundland and Labrador, positivity, writer

Pam Pardy: Fists of Furey

Posted on January 13, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Column, From The Archives, Web Exclusives

As of this writing, COVID once again has us huddled in our homes for school and work. Hours after the end of one snowstorm, with two more potential systems headed our way, there’s really not much to do but sit back and wait for all this – the worst of

Tags: column, Newfoundland and Labrador, op-ed, Pam Pardy

Ray Guy: Portrait of a Rebel

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

There was and will only ever be one Ray Guy. In his book, Ray Guy: Portrait of a Rebel, writer and friend Ron Crocker shares why that’s so
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In Arnold’s cove, the town where Ray Guy was born and raised, friends, family and fans of the late writer and

Tags: author, Newfoundland and Labrador, Portrait of a Rebel, Ray Guy, Ron Crocker, writer

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

Jim Furlong: The New Scribbler

Posted on January 10, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Web Exclusives

In school at the beginning of the year we got new exercise books. Now we have talked about that before. Renewal, a turning of the page, etc. This was a long time ago. We called the books scribblers.
They were actually called Caribou exercise books. They were made of dirt

Tags: column, education, Jim Furlong, Newfoundland and Labrador, nostalgia, op-ed, School, teacher