Profile of Aaron Beswick

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Aaron Beswick is a reporter with the Northern Pen.

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• Steel, crafts and history
  Not for Freydis, nor for Jobjorn. Freydis demanded to live in comfort and dignity. Jobjorn wanted those things, too.But a millennia ago, comfort ...
• By trace and by tiller
  You can feel the wind in your hair as you careen down into Cremaillier on New Year's Day. Racing before your komatik are seven huskies and ...
• Community raising funds for man's MS treatment
  Conche - Trent Byrne wants to walk his daughter down the aisle someday. "And dance with her when she's old enough." But she's five years old and ...
• Hail mighty the halibut
  So sang Homer Simpson when the famous cartoon father wanted to escape the cares of the world by living under the sea. But Homer's a bit stunned. ...
• Meet the other Gerry Byrne
  St. Anthony - "I was terrified," Gerry Byrne recalls of a formative experience in his life. "I didn't know what to think of it." "It" was a ...
• More than a fire department
  Noddy Bay - "The breaks are gone ... hold on," yelled Clarence Hedderson. Curtis Blake held on. "She just didn't slow down," Blake recalled. The ...
• 'I'll stay here'
  St. Anthony - "Please God, if I'm alive, I'll have her done by summer," muttered Roland Flynn as he clamped a riser against the ribs of his 13th ...
• Patience and time
  St. Anthony - "Here, I'll take that to father." Bethany McGonigle hands over the broken tape converter to Brad Johannessen, who rips the wire out ...
• Old boat, fresh memories
  Goose Cove - By rights, a boat is just a bunch of dead trees, some galvanized nails and a fair-sized amount of human ingenuity. It's the beating ...
• Ship Cove takes care of its own
  Ship Cove - The Hurleys' walls are covered in Christmas colour - have been since November. But it wasn't always that way. When Patti and Jim ...
• A future in the fishery
  Anchor Point - Markets be damned, the Genges will fish. They've been fishing since William Genge built his big house at Anchor Point some 200 ...
• 'Something's screwed up'
  St. Anthony - Competition is what Anchor Point's Ren Genge wants. The owner of the dragger B & B Mariner considers it necessary to the survival ...
• Shell Game
  St. Anthony - Dan Genge and his crew are fishing for less than minimum wage. It was a hard thought to stomach for the owner of the 65-foot ...
• No more trucking out
  St. Anthony - Isaac Tatchell couldn't have gotten better news last Friday. The Reef's Harbour forestry contractor learned he'll have a buyer for ...
• 'I'll get you a union, but I'll break your GD necks...
  Port au Choix - Holding his granddaughter Megan Taylor in his big hands, Joseph Plowman gives the impression of a man satisfied with life. He ...
• Crab in Conche's future
  Conche - Conche is waiting. And it's ready. Bearing names like Conche Flyer, Irish Connection and Lady Kearney, the brightly painted fleet tugs ...
• Daley's taking shrimp to St. Joseph's
  St. Anthony - There will be another competitor for Gulf shrimp this season - one that wants to truck it off the Northern Peninsula. Daley ...
• Recreating a miracle
  St. Anthony - Kirby Reardon recently spent a morning on an icepan outside St. Anthony harbour with Danish filmmaker Jesper Nielsen. "If we got ...
• 'I taught guitar lessons after rocket attacks'
  Cpl. Elton Adams' body and mind are making an 80-degree adjustment. From 60 C Afghanistan, the Roddickton native has returned to -20 C Halifax ...
• No need to panic
  St. Anthony - Migratory workers are largely responsible for a modest building boom in the Straits area this year. Houses have been going up in ...
• Roddickton pumped about pellet plant
  Roddickton - Things looked rosy in Roddickton last week - conversations over coffee at the town's gas stations were all about lumber and pellet ...
• Fishermen hope to net profits
  St. Anthony - Scattered snowflakes drift past the bridge of the North Queen as the crew talk ice and wind. Outside, a forklift and wharfhands ...
• Morris Biles turns out interesting creations in his...
  St. Anthony - Morris Biles keeps an 18-wheeler, a Volkswagen Beetle and an excavator in a room off his kitchen. It's a small room, but then the ...
• Forestry workers waiting for axe to fall
  Roddickton - When Holson Forest Products runs out of logs at the end of this month, it will shut down its mills and put 30 people out of work. ...
• Seal wars
  St. Anthony - Belgium and Holland have banned imported seal products. Germany, Italy and Austria have drafted similar legislation. There are ...
• Penning their own tale
  Gildas' first trip across the Atlantic on a schooner was an eventful one. The young, fictional French fisherman stood on the heaving deck ...