Profile of Gavin Simms

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• Recycler says he's Governor of Georgetown
  Two front teeth wouldn't go astray, but all Wayne Skinner really wants for Christmas are bottles and cans. He's the self-proclaimed Governor of ...
• He's our man
  It's the end of November 1999. Vicky Hynes has just released her first album, and she's working the bar at The Ship Inn. The holidays are around ...
• Bleak house
  Well wishes and donations have come flooding in to The Telegram for the Wickham family following the publication of "Bleak House" in Tuesday's ...
• 12 months of Christmas
  It's as if Christmas '08 never ended for John Curran. The tree came down, the snow melted, but the holiday music kept playing. It's not that he ...
• Out of the rubble
  Bonavista - Sometimes salvation falls straight out of the sky, and it's a matter of being there to catch it. A man's saving grace can come from ...
• Home away from home
  Clarenville - On Ploughman's Lane in George's Brook, in the back of Effie Hodder's house, there's a refurbished picnic table with freshly-picked ...
• Head to head in Bonavista
  Longtime Mayor Betty Fitzgerald is facing a challenger in the Sept. 29 municipal election. Wayne Taylor served as a councillor from 1981-85, ...
• Return of the green invaders
  Clarenville - Extensive, criminal, worrisome, huge, serious, problem: these are a few of the choice words Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) ...
• Slipping through the Net
  Clarenville - Anne Barker is frustrated to be off the high-speed grid. "You will never see these small communities grow if we don't get the ...
• Where fishing matters
  Southern Harbour - Southern Harbour goes quietly about its business, if only because its business is fishing. With over 50 boats tied up at its ...
• It's the season for Rural Roots
  Clarenville - Bluegrass isn't a word many young folks use. It's an old-fashioned style of acoustic music one might consider the polar opposite of ...
• 'Sixty-five years he's been on my finger'
  Gooseberry Cove - "Someone's here from The Packet in Clarenville. … "Cus it's our anniversary, as you know. … "You knows that sure. ...
• Couple looks back on 66 years together
  Clarenville - It's mid-afternoon and VOCM is sputtering out static through a little black boombox in the kitchen. There's a report about an ...
• Spend a day on the food-fishing grounds with an old...
  Lower Lance Cove - Jack Marsh takes a boat with no name out onto the open waters of Smith Sound. On a midsummer day like this one, you might find ...
• Caplin scoop
  Clarenville - For most people, caplin fishing involves a trip to the beach with a dip net, and a goal of bagging a meal or two. For others, it ...
• Banking on faith
  Clarenville - Millions of people spend hours a day for years upon years, standing behind counters, serving up something to earn a living. Elaine ...
• Drama on the slopes
  Clarenville - It seems that we just can't shake the snow, but some make it work to their favour. This week, as the New Curtain Theatre Company ...