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Grand Falls-Windsor man pens book on central Newfoundland music history
Bruce Bishop still has the first drum kit he bought. The 1964 Ludwig kit sits among a collection of drums the 73-year-old amassed in his 60 years playing percussion. The collection takes up plenty of space in the basement of his Grand ...
How George Scott became senior hockey's voice in Central Newfoundland
As a play-by-play announcer, George Scott’s voice is his main tool. And, like any tool, the Grand Falls-Windsor broadcaster has to keep it sharp. The key is pacing himself during a broadcast. Scott only pushes his voice to its highest ...
Newfoundland sisters have experience of a lifetime on Family Feud Canada
Sitting in the parking lot of a St. John's bank with a cheque worth $10,000 was the last thing Dale Mercer expected to be doing on Feb. 13. She was getting ready to deposit the money she and five of her sisters — from Horwood in central ...
‘I like the quiet’: Inside an isolated Newfoundland community's single-student classes
The silence in the hallway of St. Peter’s All-Grade School in McCallum hits you first. There is nothing to break the stillness of the air. No school bell to echo from its walls. No crowds of students to fill it with the sound of footsteps ...
Sisters with Horwood, NL roots tabbed for Family Feud Canada
The Mercer sisters of Horwood moved away long ago to other parts of the province and the world. One lives in North Carolina, another resides in Ontario, while others live in various parts of Newfoundland and Labrador. So, when Family Feud ...
Memorial University folklore professor believes highway crosses hold many meanings
EDITOR'S NOTE: Highway memorials are prevalent along the highways of Newfoundland and Labrador. This four-part series aims to tell the stories behind the people some of them represent. Growing up in west Texas, Dr. Holly Everett always ...
'I feel he is with us:' Gambo’s Wayne Lush is not forgotten 38 years later after accident
EDITOR'S NOTE: Highway memorials are prevalent along the highways of Newfoundland and Labrador. This four-part series aims to tell the stories behind the people some of them represent. In the years following the accident Grace Pittman ...
Clarenville teen remembered as protector and prankster
EDITOR'S NOTE: Highway memorials are prevalent along the highways of Newfoundland and Labrador. This four-part series aims to tell the stories behind the people some of them represent. There are times as night sets in and snow begins ...
NICHOLAS MERCER: Newfoundland and Labrador's highway crosses and the people they represent
EDITOR'S NOTE: Highway memorials are prevalent along the highways of Newfoundland and Labrador. This four-part series aims to tell the stories behind the people some of them represent. The large rock monument sits between Gander and ...
Bikes for kids, woodwork for the stars. Gander man won't be 'beat down' by neuromuscular disease
In the early days of his diagnosis with Myasthenia Gravis, Cass Norman would have conversations about life with his younger sister. Talk would inevitably shift to the neuromuscular disease that robbed him of lateral eye movement, causing his ...
