Profile of Danette Dooley

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• Making a difference
  When Lori Rogers saw the slum-like conditions some St. John’s residents were living in, she felt determined to do something to help. It was ...
• Dreams fulfilled for retiring Mountie
  Danny O'Keefe wasn't surprised when several classmates at the RCMP training depot in Saskatchewan mistook him for an instructor in 2000. At age ...
• Family reunited with dog
  After almost three weeks on the lam, battling sleet, rain, freezing temperatures and at least one winter storm, a black and white Shih Tzu named ...
• Deputy fire chief hangs up his axe after 36 years
  Jack Hickey often heard other veteran firefighters say he'd know when the time w
• Advocate skeptical of parking fine hike
  The executive director of the Hub says designated parking woes in St. John’s won’t improve until the city cracks down on people who share their ...
• St. John’s teen named Easter Seals ambassador
  Easter Seals Newfoundland and Labrador has named 13-year-old Liam Hickey of St. John’s the 2012 Easter Seals ambassador. The announcement was ...
• Making wishes come true
  There are two beds in Chelsea Caines’ room at the Janeway hospital in St. John’s. The fourteen-year-old’s roommate is her mother, Torina Caines. ...
• Ready to bust
  For Krista Pickett of Gander, Friday the 13th is about much more than superstitions. It’s a reminder of the day she was diagnosed with breast ...
• Looking to win medals and make friends
  Matthew Martin has two reasons to be excited. He’s competing in the 2012 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games in St. Albert, Alta. next week — an ...
• Return from Haiti
  By the time they leave Haiti today, a team of doctors, nurses and other health care providers from this province will have treated about 500 ...
• Living her dreams
  Laura Chubb’s interest in Africa dates back a decade when, as a 13-year-old, she read Lurlene McDaniel’s novel “Angels of Mercy.” The book is ...
• Mount Pearl woman wins on ‘Price is Right’
  Brittany McCarthy of Mount Pearl has been keeping a big secret for more than a month.The 21-year-old Memorial University student was a contestant ...
• Annual Gonzaga service remembers Ocean Ranger victims
  Gonzaga High School remembered the 84 victims of the Ocean Ranger Wednesday in a memorial service marking the 30th anniversary of the ...
• Teen raises funds for Thai students
  Sixteen-year-old Jaclyn Hynes of Dunville, Placentia Bay, has been saving recyclables for quite some time, knowing she'd hear about a good ...
• One man's experience with bipolar disorder sparks a...
  After battling bipolar disorder for two decades, 39-year-old Robert Bishop of Mount Pearl is sharing what he's learned with others. He ...
• Young Grasshoppers helping to keep Paradise clean
  The town of Paradise has been inundated with grasshoppers and there’s talk that it could spread to the nearby city of Mount Pearl and beyond. ...
• Back to Haiti
  With the second anniversary of the earthquake that struck Haiti just days away, a team of medical practitioners from this province is getting ...
• Local university prof climbs highest mountain in...
  After successfully climbing Antarctica’s highest peak in December, Memorial University professor TA Loeffler is just one mountain short of ...
• Personal protest
  Shirley Ryan held a quiet protest outside the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission in St. John’s early Wednesday morning, long ...
• Service remembers victims of suicide
  After hearing about an annual memorial service held in Northern Ireland to remember people who have died by suicide, Kim Kelly started a ...
• Cadets is about more than pre-military training,...
  Sixteen-year-old Stephen Connors of Goulds has been named winner of the 2011 Sir Leonard C. Outerbridge Award as the top air cadet in ...
• Parish leaves central site, moves church to suburbs
  After more than half a century on the corner of LeMarchant Road and St. Clare Avenue in St. John's, St. Michael and All Angels Anglican ...
• Families face tough parenting task
  Social workers face challenging circumstances when dealing with families where children have been taken into care because a parent has both ...
• Local retiree witnesses West Bank conflict
  Patricia Mercer of St. John’s returned from a five-month stay in Palestine in July. She is now talking about what life is like for the ...
• ‘A great role model’
  When Lt.-Col. Perry Grandy participated in Remembrance Day ceremonies in St. John’s Friday, he was likely thinking about the ramp ...
• Subsidized apartments built through church and...
  After working for over 50 years, Eleanor Grandy retired from her job as a receptionist at a local law firm, nine months shy of her 70th ...
• Community leaders band together to raise money for...
  The Canadian Cancer Society introduced its inaugural Relay for Life “Dream Team” at a luncheon at the Fluvarium in St. John’s Friday.The team, ...
• Remembering Madelyne
  Rachel Sutton understands she has two sisters. “That’s Charlotte,” the four-year-old says, pointing to her one-year-old sister in their mother’s ...
• Knocking down obstacles
  When Ashley Sullivan needed a device to help her get in and out of bed, she didn’t rely on someone else to come up with it. She designed one ...
• Different, not disabled
  Tom Jackman showed up for an interview with The Telegram toting a case full of books, movies, speeches and pamphlets about Asperger ...