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Productivity Tips for local business
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At almost any workplace you go, there are
always conflicts between employers, employees and customers.
The workshop held recently in Harbour Breton titled High
Morale = High Productivity helps iron out some of these
conflicts for businesses in the Coast of Bays region.
Local business owners in the area attended an
informative workshop recently and learned that the fastest
spreading virus in a work environment is a negative attitude.
The South Coast Community Development Corporation invited
Pauline Pennell of Corner Brook to hold a workshop for
business owners in the area on Tuesday November 22nd at the
Lion’s Club in Harbour Breton. |
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Hermitage students win scholarships |
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Two students from John Watkins Academy in
Hermitage have won partial scholarships from Memorial
University.
Jeremy Hill and Jessica Nash each received
$1,000 from the university’s Endowment Fund Scholarship. Both
students graduated in from John Watkins Academy in 2005.
Earlier this year, Kevin Loveless, former graduate of
John Watkins Academy, won the Robert Gillespie Reid
Scholarship valued at $3,500. |
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Rape not a crime in Nain? |
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There is no crime more evil than rape.
Rape dehumanizes its victims and breaks them down from
the inside out and is as much an attack on society as it is an
attack on the victims themselves. As a society, we should
punish those who have such little respect for a human being
that they would throw them down and violently violate them
just to prove they have power.
In Nain, this month,
three men who beat and raped a young woman, were sentenced to
jail time. And though you may think justice has prevailed and
the perpetrators punished, this was not the case. |
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Under cover in Bay d’Espoir |
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Secret agents have infiltrated Bay
d’Espoir. Leaving little yellow tags by light switches left on
or banging on your door when you’re taking a shower, there
could be a Hydrowise agent in your neighborhood or even in
your house. Fortunately their job isn’t to spy on you, it’s to
make their households more environmentally conscious and
promote energy conservation.
As part of a pilot
project in the province, Newfoundland Hydro selected the grade
two and three classes of Bay d’Espoir Academy to help develop
their new program. |
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Falcons soar to victory |
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The Fitzgerald Academy Falcons soared to
victory in a boys' 2A volleyball qualifying tournament on
Saturday, November 19.
The tournament, held at
Fitzgerald Academy in English Harbour West, included the
Falcons and teams from John Watkins Academy, Hermitage; Point
Leamington Academy; and St. Anne's, Conne River. |
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Top Story::
| Frank Dominie was one of many
Belleoram residents watching the Coast Guard search for
three missing fishermen on Thursday, November 24. The
Mitchell and Marcus was reported missing on Tuesday
night when the boat failed to return
home. |
Chérie
Wheeler
The Coaster
The
bodies of two Belleoram fishermen were found on November 24,
two days after they failed to return home from the water. As
of Saturday, November 26, one of the fishermen was still
missing.
According to Christopher Fitzgerald of the
Coast Guard, the bodies were found eight kilometers from where
they found the Mitchell and Marcus vessel overturned in the
water on Wednesday.
Though they did not release the
identities of the bodies that were recovered at the time the
Coaster went to press, the Coast Guard did say Skipper Eric
Savoury, 45, Tim Poole, 17, and A.J. Cox, 18, were the three
crew members on board.
Mr. Fitzgerald says they will
be investigating the cause of the incident.
“It’s only
speculation right but weather and sea conditions may have
played a role,” he says.
On Tuesday night when the
vessel was due back, Mayor Steward May says there were high
winds and heavy rainfall. Though he says the weather was good
when the boat left in the morning, by the night it wasn’t fit
to be outside.
“When they left Tuesday morning, it was
calm,” Mr. May says. “I know because I was on my way to work
then. But later in the evening, the winds came up and the
waves were getting rough.”
That night, Mr. May says he
woke up to the sound of the Search and Rescue helicopter
circling over Fortune Bay.
“It sounded like they were
tearing the roofs of the houses,” he says.
When he
first heard about the lost fishermen, Mr. May says he thought
‘not again.’ A Belleoram man drowned in Fortune Bay only a few
months ago and the mayor says the community is still trying to
come to terms with that loss.
“This town has had a
rough fall,” he says.
Frank Dominie says he was
shocked when he returned to Belleoram on Wednesday evening
from Gander and heard about the missing boat. He says the
whole town is in a state of shock.
“It’s like
everything is standing still here,” he says. “People are on
the edge and don’t now what to be at.
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Leaning against his car door with a set of
binoculars, Mr. Dominie is just one of the many residents
watching the Coast Guard vessels search the bay. Scanning the
water from his perch, he says it is so hard on everyone
because people are so close in the small town.
“Everyone knows everybody here and a lot of people are
related,” he says.
He says it also makes is hard when
the town loses three of its residents at once, two of which
were still teenagers.
“One of the boys just got home
from the mainland a little while ago and he was out on the
boat just to get enough for him to get his stamps for the
winter,” he says. “It’s just not right.”
As of Friday
evening, the Coast Guard had two vessels still searching for
the missing fisherman. Mr. Fitzgerald says high winds
prevented a helicopter from returning to the area at that
time. |
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A PROFILE IN COURAGE
Who would have
thought that a half a century ago a young black girl would
have the courage to refuse to give her seat on the bus to a
white man?
The answer is no one, not even the man to
whom she refused. Perhaps you could try to imagine the anger,
the humiliation and his sense of shock as well.
For
hundreds of years, black people, especially in the southern
United States were accustomed, taught and even legislated by a
brutal law, which demanded that they be subservient to the
“white folk.”
The white man on the bus reported Rosa
Parks to the bus driver who in turn, did his level best to get
her to give up her seat. |
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