Profile of Danette Dooley

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• 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 ...
• Event’s caterer takes home top honours
  As owner of Café Mocha in Mount Pearl, Colinda Gosse supervised a catered three-course meal at the Mount Pearl-Paradise Chamber of Commerce Best ...
• Going public with psoriasis
  Marjorie Brinston of Old Shop, Trinity Bay has been living with psoriasis since she was seven. “As a kid, having psoriasis was just normal ...
• Going mobile
  Sitting home on a stormy night last year, David O’Keefe’s mind wandered back to the great times he and his buddies had playing video games in ...
• Flying high
  Travis Buckle earned his private pilot’s licence this summer — an accomplishment that costs thousands of dollars but didn’t take one dime out of ...
• Placentia begins to boom
  Placentia Mayor Bill Hogan said he’s seen a marked improvement in the economy in his town over the past 12-18 months.Sales of housing have ...
• Friendship from 9-11 tragedy
  Peggy and Leonard Kirschner of Arizona will be in St. John’s on Sept. 11 to mark the 10th anniversary of al-Qaida terrorists’ attacks on the ...
• A little like a refugee
  A unique exhibit featuring an outdoor reconstruction of a refugee camp is coming to Bannerman Park in St. John’s.Aid workers and volunteers will ...
• A lasting legacy
  Annette Sparkes remembers the Christmas her twin girls were two years old, and their sister just a year older. Santa filled the living room with ...
• ‘Could not have happened to a better person’
  Colleen Quinton of Catalina, Trinity Bay, has been nominated for an Emmy — a trophy touted as the highest award in television. Quinton is ...
• Lessons from Noah
  Twelve-year-old Douglas Hanlon says his family was “a little sad” when they found out that his younger brother, Noah, has autism. Noah was three ...
• Taken for a Reid
  A woman from the St. John’s area was delighted recently to find tickets online to the Aug. 12 Johnny Reid concert at Mile One.But her excitement ...
• Something to sing about
  Members of the Stella Burry Inclusion Choir spent more than an hour Wednesday afternoon practicing for their biggest performance since the ...
• Meeting the mayor
  Joshua Geary celebrated his 11th birthday last week at St. John’s City Hall, a guest of Mayor Dennis O’Keefe.The meeting and tour of council ...
• Bell Island woman earns two literacy ­awards
  Connie Newell of Bell Island says she quit school in Grade 6 because students would tease her about her epileptic seizures. But when you sit and ...
• Only skin deep
  Watching two-year-old Jackson Leonard play with his drums, Thomas the Tank Engine trains, and bright red smooching Elmo, it’s easy to forget this ...
• ‘It can’t always be somebody else’
  MHA Paul Davis is battling cancer. The member for the district of Topsail has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.During an interview at ...
• A mother forgets, a daughter remembers
  Shannie Duff has dozens of black-and-white photographs of her mother Helena Frecker — a vibrant woman who excelled academically. It’s the ...
• Revisiting the War of 1812
  Plans are underway in this province to mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812 , in which hundreds of Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldiers died ...
• MS and the Facebook effect
  Social networking sites highlighting the benefits of the controversial Zamboni procedure for multiple sclerosis have politicians and funding ...
• Street sleep a wakeup call
  At 7 a.m. Wednesday a handful of young people with knapsacks on their backs and hoods tied tightly under their chins made their way up Duckworth ...