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    Coffee With...Wesley Oake

    November 10, 2011 - 10 h 56

    There are certain things Wesley Oake doesn’t like to talk about. He’d prefer not to answer specific questions such as those which attempt to elicit from him the number of people he may have killed in his lifetime. He doesn’t want to talk...

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  • Coffee With...Monnie Humby

    October 27, 2011 - 9 h 26

    Because she loves dogs. It was a simple answer to an opening question: Why did you want to become a dog groomer? The inside walls of the barn-type building alongside Monnie Humby’s home in Benton are lined with photographs of dogs of every...

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  • Copper collectors

    October 18, 2011 - 15 h 31

    When most middle school kids get up in the morning and head off to school for the day, it’s unlikely they’re preoccupied with what it costs to educate each of them for a month.

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  • Coffee With…Andrew Hicks

    October 13, 2011 - 10 h 25

    When we think of the first day of school, we think of students nervously walking through hallways, finding the perfect seat in the classroom, or even worst — eyeing a new teacher that nobody knows anything about. Will he/she be a good teacher?...

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    Harvest time

    October 6, 2011 - 9 h 16

    The sandy beaches of the Eastport Peninsula are renown locally as a great place to spend a sunny summer day, however there’s much more history in the soil of the area than just for relaxing recreation.

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    Diggin' Up Your Roots ... Greenspond

    September 27, 2011 - 12 h 13

    It has been called the capital of the north. At one point in the town’s history, Greenspond, was the centre of activity on this side of Bonavista Bay. The small island can only be reached by crossing a causeway from Shamblers Cove. Houses,...

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  • Coffee with … Dennis Simms

    September 10, 2011 - 9 h 55

    Dennis Simms was at the front of the line when it came to helping people on 9-11. He was a crash firefighter at the Gander International Airport at the time, as well as a councillor in his hometown of Appleton. The events that unfolded over the...

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  • Coffee With…. Steve Perry

    August 25, 2011 - 8 h 26

    You have probably noticed Steve Perry either at Beyond the Overpass in Hotel Gander or at various events around Gander. You just might not have known it was him. Mr. Perry might have been dressed up as Dini or Martha Gill.

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  • Through the kindness of strangers

    August 23, 2011 - 13 h 45

    Like she had done many evenings before, Stella Merkle went out onto the back porch of her Gander home to retrieve her prized lawn gnomes.

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  • Changing lives

    August 23, 2011 - 13 h 18

    As young people near the age of majority, they start thinking about a few things.

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