The French police vessel ‘Fulmar’, from St. Pierre and Miquelon, was in Marystown last week undergoing some work at the Peter Kiewit Services shipyard. The former trawler was converted over to a patrol vessel for the Maritime Gendarmerie in 1997. Over the last decade vessels are an infrequent sight on the yard’s syncrolift. Paul Herridge Photo
It may sound counterintuitive, but the man at the helm of Ocean Choice International (OCI) is hopeful an exemption, allowing the company to ship more yellowtail flounder to China for processing, will mean a brighter future for the processing plant in Marystown.
A female resident of Burin has requested the Town Council help pay for damages to her vehicle, after rocks slid off the side of Paul’s Hill. Her request was refused.
Students at Sacred Heart Academy in Marystown learned pennies aren’t as worthless as one might think, during the weeks before Christmas.An effort to collect the coins was led by Grade 7 students Kaitlyn Farrell and Kayla Power, who were running for president and vice-president positions on the school’s student council.
A donation totalling $1,350 from proceeds raised during ‘Journey for Sight 2009’ in Lions Club District N-4 has been presented to the Burin Peninsula Health Care Foundation.
Fraudsters and scammers will use any variety of means possible to cheat people from their hard earned money. Not even Transcontinental Media’s newspapers are immune from their attempts at trickery.
The latest federal government budget is not getting a terrible lot of rave reviews, since Finance Minister John Flaherty introduced it to the Commons Thursday. Most observers, with Wall Street and Main Street in particular, are eying that $54 billion deficit at the outset.
We are seeking the assistance from the general public in the local area that would help the RCMP in its efforts to determine who was responsible for shooting out windows at our cabin, and another family member Clayton Grandy’s cabin, located on family property at Famine Back Cove, overlooking Fortune Bay.
In last September’s Targa Newfoundland, I had a message written in large letters across the hood of the car I was driving. Nothing unusual about that. The message read: ‘Save Our Rural X-Ray Clinics’.
