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Prepare for Perrin: Wall of Chefs

Posted on January 24, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Arts & Culture, Business, Comedy, Entertainment, Food & Drink, From The Archives, TV, Web Exclusives

One of NL’s most celebrated celebrity chefs, Chef Todd Perrin, once again takes to “The Wall” to delightfully entertain and educate on Food Network’s Wall of Chefs
Chef Todd Perrin is well known in this province. As Executive Chef and Co-Owner of Mallard Cottage in Quidi Vidi Village, as well

Tags: competition, Food Network, Mallard Cottage, Newfoundland and Labrador, reality tv, Todd Perrin, Wall of Chefs, Waterwest

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

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