Random-Burin-St. George’s MP Judy Foote was appalled by the recent remarks by the Minister of Defence Peter MacKay. Mrs. Foote claimed the remarks brought into question the credibility of the women who have been speaking publicly about the objects they saw in the sky.
It was the worst kept secret in Marystown and the Burin Peninsula over the last several months. Even Mayor Sam Synard suggested he was unaware of the answer to the secret.
But Wednesday morning Sobeys Inc. issued a release, from its head office in Stellarton, N.S., it would open a new grocery store in Marystown this fall.
After 31 years in Marystown, Dominion closed its doors for the last time Sunday. Apparently unable to reach a suitable lease agreement for the space in Peninsula Mall, Loblaw Companies Ltd. held true to its word and closed the store, which had employed some 70 people. The store was an original anchor tenant of the mall when it first opened in 1979. Cashiers rang in customers during the final weekend at their checkouts. Paul Herridge Photo
It wasn’t a bird, plane or Superman. That much is certain. No one seems to know for sure just what three mystery objects were that appeared in the skies over the Burin Peninsula Jan. 25.
The provincial government has approved $286,200 to begin implementation of the Burin Peninsula Waste Management System. The bulk of the funds – $260,800 will be used to upgrade the Fortune-Grand Bank waste disposal site as an interim sub-regional landfill. The remainder – $25,400 will engage BAE-Newplan Consultants to finalize the conceptual design for the regional system.
The provincial government has reduced its number of planned new ferry constructions to four, from the original five. Auditor-General John Noseworthy Thursday identified this in his annual report on government expenditures and procedures as of Mar. 31, 2009.
In most regions of North America today, Feb. 2, is called ‘Groundhog Day’.But in Newfoundland and Labrador, the day was once called ‘Candlemas Day’ or ‘Calmest Day’.
The ‘sharp-shinned Hawk (juvenile)’ has been spotted near a bird feeder in St. Lawrence catching sunrays during the peninsula’s recent cold temperature spell.This small hawk is a regular visitor to bird feeders, where it eats birds, not seeds!
If the federal government, and more pointedly the P.M.’s Office, could dismiss Newfoundlanders and Labradorians as a pimple on someone’s backside it would.
The Taliban Trust Fund’s aim is to have ‘insurgents pledge to renounce violence and ties to al-Qaida, and embrace democracy’. The fund was announced in England last week following a meeting of UN countries.
On the soft harbour ice a dark speck appears, then another. One of them disappears and simultaneously a third materializes. I pull the binoculars out from their spot behind the television
This book began as a song written by Maggie Rose Parsons and her grandfather, Gary Collins. The lyrics and musical score are printed at the end of the book. I s’pose it’s the musical score; it’s a set of those lines with the squiggly musical notes on them – treble clefts or something ...
