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Random Age-Friendly: Spreading the age-friendly communities message in P.E.I.
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Bill Dwyer, a legendary pioneer in Labrador West
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St. Anthony accepting applications for seniors housing
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Association for New Canadians hosting roundtable sessions in 10 N.L. communities
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Conception Bay North food banks benefit from big corporate donation
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Sharing Labrador generosity far and wide: High school student delivers baby clothes to Dominican Republic
A Christmas vacation in the Dominican Republic was more than a chance to get away from the cold of Labrador for high school student Maggie Drover and her family. Drover spent time last summer at a hospital in La Romana as part of the Gap Med ...
Hampden twins celebrate 20 years of kidney transplant
Identical twins Lana Parsons and Laura Guy are celebrating a special day, as Parsons donated her kidney to Guy 20 years ago today. It was the second transplant for Guy, who went through her first at the age of eight. Guy was born with a kidney ...
Eastern Health offering more flu shot clinics in St. John’s
Eastern Health has added two walk-in flu shot clinics for those who missed the first rounds of vaccination. The clinics are being held at the Church of the Good Sheppard in Mount Pearl on Tuesday from 3-7 p.m. and next Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 ...
School Lunch Association holds opening event at Clarenville Middle lunch service
It was an official launch event at Clarenville Middle School (CMS) on Jan. 23, as the School Lunch Association served students at lunchtime. With the program beginning this past October, CMS marked the first school with lunches served by the ...
Slow registration threatens St. Anthony Come Home Year
The venues are secured, the bands are booked and the hosts are ready, but St. Anthony Come Home Year 2019 may be in jeopardy of being cancelled. Marilyn Walker, who is heading up the committee for the event scheduled for July 20-27, told The ...
Meadows musician Jesse Hackett earns performance gig at Napanee Country Jamboree
Jesse Hackett is not sure how or why it happened, but he’s embracing his gravitation to country music with open arms. The 18-year-old from Meadows has been playing music since he was six or seven years old. His dad, Colin Hackett, showed ...
OUT & ABOUT: What's going on in central, Jan. 30
Out and About is your destination for community events in central Newfoundland. Space is reserved for non-profit groups and organizations. Please email listings to outandaboutcentral@gmail.com. Listings should be typed, 50 words or ...
Pasadena man becomes a different person when he puts on the Happy costume
It’s just two weeks to the start of Pasadena Winter Carnival and Tim Spicer is already wondering about what events he’ll attend. Tim Spicer For Spicer that’s causing some anxiety, but it will lessen once he puts on ...
Throwback Thursday — Looking back at the stories that made the headlines Jan. 26, 2004 and Jan. 25, 1999
15 years ago From the Jan. 26, 2004 edition Plant manager may become new owner High Liner offers buy-out option to Bruce Wareham High Liner Food Inc. has begun discussions with National Seas vice-president of Newfoundland operations, Bruce ...
Remembering Matthew Sargent: Annual tournament in Gander has been healing for family
In the scorekeeper’s box of the Steele Community Centre, Jan. 19, Gordon Sargent followed the play, waiting for the whistle to sound in the Gander versus Bishop’s Falls midget division matchup. As the game comes to a halt, he ...