Profile of Paul Sparkes

All articles of Paul Sparkes

• Cupids reverie
  There could have been no lonelier night than the first one ashore in the chosen spot which is now known as Cupids. The comfort ...
• At your service
  Sometimes a remark in passing can launch a business. A friend of Jennifer Wellsman once said casually, “Oh my, I wish I had a personal ...
• Contractor supply facility opens
  It’s no secret that the capital city region is going gangbusters. Go away for a week’s holiday, come back and there’s a whole new street of homes ...
• Pressure to an unbearable degree
  It would have taken a superhuman effort to do the right thing on the bridge of the Titanic that night. When one of the two young men up in the ...
• At the boiling point
  Eighty years ago today, one of those very rare examples of what happens when Newfoundlanders reach the boiling point occurred in St. John’s. By ...
• Execution of British nurse riveted world attention...
  The British nurse standing straight before the German military tribunal was invited “to sign a petition to the Kaiser to reprieve her of the ...
• Catastrophe, trauma and the processing of loss
  As America awoke on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, a chain of events was set in motion that would bring horrendous death to thousands and grief ...
• ‘Oh my — the mummers!’
  Although happiness escapes many people, it is not terribly difficult to come by. To a person, the seniors who shared early Christmas memories ...