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Shown here are the angels of Rose Blanche: (front, from left) Mildred Hatcher, Edith Leamon, Judy Hardy, Rita Currie, Joan Herritt, Valarie Pink, Alice Billard, (back) Maxine Edwards, Lesley Hardy, Violet Clarke, Lena Penney, Erna Buckland, Phyllis Horwood and Victoria Savoury. Missing from photo are Judy Francis, Ruth Deveaux, Audrey Best, Diane Hardy, Sylvia Munden, Diane Munden and Wanda Anderson.

Sewing love, cheer into every stitch

Artist Adam Young is often inspired by fishing stages.

Island of inspiration: Artist Adam Young paints vibrant scenes of East ...

Rooted in Christmas tree traditions

Roseanna Boyd is the president of the Hants County Christmas Angels Society and spends the holiday season helping others. She’s shown here with K-Rock 89.3 radio host Darrin Harvey.

Holiday help at the ready

Rose O’Keefe won The Telegram's Choice award for her Rose’s Raisin Molasses Bread recipe.

Recipes for the holidays

Using baker’s twine and miniature clothespins, you can easily clip up Christmas cards as they arrive.

Decor, function go hand in hand with this DIY holiday project

Get cosy on the couch this Christmas and enjoy a festive movie marathon.

Must-watch holiday movies

CINDY DAY: Evening stroll leads to fun chat with some locals on St. John's Battery Road

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Cindy chats with life-long Battery Road residents about weather and tourists on one of the capital city's most rugged neighbourhoods.

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The Tasty Treat Grand Lake Road location will no longer sit idle after an Ontario couple purchased the restaurant. Plans are for the restaurant to re-open this month.

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Shawna Gallant, left, a staff member at Mountain View Retirement Centre in Corner Brook, helps resident Wayne Noseworthy write a letter to Santa. Noseworthy is asking for some new slippers. The letter writing activity held last week was one of many that will take place at the home during the Christmas season.

Corner Brook seniors write letters to Santa

Battery charge and alternator output have one of Jim Kerr's readers puzzled.

AUTO ADVICE: Solutions to instrument cluster, alternator problems

Sue Mercer, right, and Pastor James Martin-Carter of Trinity United Church in Botwood next to a photo of original event organizer Jim Edison.

Botwood church ensures no one goes without a Christmas dinner to enjoy

The Vincents, who are both from Newfoundland, sit on a rock with the Rift Valley in the background. The Salvation Army officers live in a gated compound in western Kenya with 15 other families. Security is essential for leaders in the country. There is a guard posted at the gate 24/7. CONTRIBUTED

Three years working in tropical Kenya, Salvation Army officers enjoying winter break in Triton

Exchange students, from left, Victor Fioretti and Erick Souza of Brazil, and Jannis Kamp, Germany, will be spending Christmas with host dad Darin Boone in Grand Falls-Windsor, taking in his traditions, as well as some from Newfoundland. KRYSTA CARROLL/SPECIAL TO THE CENTRAL VOICE

International students ready to experience a Newfoundland Christmas in Grand Falls-Windsor

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Former Liberal Bonavista MHA appointed for temporary assignment with Transportation and Works

The Royal Canadian Navy's first Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship, the future HMCS Harry DeWolf, is assembled at Irving Shipbuilding's Halifax Shipyard in December 2017.

Three ministers to work on options for creation of the new Defence Procurement Canada

Christmas on the Boardwalk in Bishop's Falls is starting to take shape and is scheduled to open on Dec. 20.

Bishop’s Falls opens Christmas on the Boardwalk Dec. 20

In this file photo, the New Waterford Sharks and Glace Bay Miners play a novice hockey game at the New Waterford and District Community Centre. For the second straight year, New Waterford Minor Hockey has offered free registration to first-year players from novice to midget.

New Waterford Minor Hockey Association sees increase in first-year player registration with new program

Mexican Senate approves changes to North American trade deal