Blackhead residents not fans of campground proposal

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More than 50 people attended a public meeting at St. John’s City Hall Tuesday night to discuss an application to develop a park and campground on Blackhead Road. — Photo by Andrew Robinson/The Telegram

Blackhead residents not fans of campground proposal

Those who attended a public meeting Tuesday night to discuss a proposal to develop a private park and campground on Blackhead Road leading to Cape Spear had a lot of problems with the proposed...

Andrew Robinson
June 19, 2013

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Joel Quenneville

Hawks’ goals are just that: They need to start scoring

There is no panic or frustration. But Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville acknowledges his team is in a tough spot going into tonight’s Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final. “You lose...

The Canadian Press
June 19, 2013

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Mark Winsor is the owner of Critters N’ Things, which has been in business since 1986. — Photos by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram

Business Bio — Critters N’ Things

Critters N’ Things (11 Commonwealth Ave., Mount Pearl) is a family business that has moved a handful of times within a small area of the city, growing as it went to incorporate more aspects of...

Daniel MacEachern
June 19, 2013

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Marla McLean as Lady Windermere and Martin Happer as Lord Windermere in this summer’s Shaw Festival production of “Lady Windermere’s Fan.”  — Photo by Emily Cooper/The Shaw Festival

‘Luscious’ production of ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ a likely...

While recently visiting Niagara-on-the-Lake, I attended three plays in this year’s Shaw Festival line-up. The first, “Major Barbara,” with St. John’s actress Nicole Underhay in the lead...

June 19, 2013

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Author Frank H. Mason, whose drawing of an Elizabethan carrack is reproduced here, says that at sea these vessels, built with a lot of top-heavy structure, including poop decks and forecastles, rolled and pitched excessively “and were entirely prevented from making any headway other than before the wind.” — From The Book of British Ships (1911)

‘We were upon them unawares’

“They knew not the danger before they felt the same; too late to recover it … soon after they struck a ground and had soon after her stern and hinder parts beaten to pieces.”   Despite...

Paul Sparkes
June 19, 2013

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