2013 | August 11-17 Under Dome

CONTENTSPUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 0040012044 REGISTRATION NO. 09027 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE ITEMS TO: THE NEWFOUNDLAND HERALD, P.O. BOX 2015, ST. JOHN’S, NL, A1C 5R7 Year 67 • No. 32 CHRIS PICCO FOLK FESTIVAL GROS MORNE COVER STORY Page 20 Page 24 Page 27 Page 35 WHAT’S UP… UNDER THE DOME? It’s the hot new show that’s got everyone talking. We take a deeper look at NTV’s ‘Under the Dome.’ INSIDE THIS WEEK 2 FROM THE ARCHIVES 43 ON THE SCENE 310F,R3O0 aMndTH40EyEeDarIsTOinRour past T4aLkiEnTgTmERy SbeTsOt shToHtE EDITOR 4‘T4heTAbiSgTmESusOicF’ hNitEs WthFeOstUagNeDLAND 7PuNbAlisThIOorNpAerLisMh USIC SCENE 8MaPrEiaOnPasLETrench 4K6abSoObsAhPotToAffLtKhe grill 1L3ocINalSaPnIdRAHoTlIlOywNoAodL cPeEleObrPitLieEs J19acNkiAe TWIiOlliNamAsL-CAoRnTnSolSlyCENE D47ayMtimOeM’sEhNotTtSesItNtoTpIicMsE QUOTE OF THE WEEK T2r0enCtOMVcECRlelSlaTnORY 4A7loSoTkRaAt NhiGstoErBy UT TRUE U23ndAeRr TthSeSDPoOmTeLIGHT “Everyone wants to do something N24ewHfoEuRnAdlLaDndScPaOrtToLoInGisHt JToseph Hewitt I4s8itPrUeaZlZlyLtEruSeA? ND BRAINTEASERS to change the world somehow no 2C7hrMisUPSicICco T5r1aWinHyAouTr’SbrGaOinIwNi’thOcNlever puzzles matter what your profession, but to 3N0ewNfoEuWnSdlIaNndBaRnIdEFLabrador Folk Festival 5U3pcToVmWinEgEeKvents around the province be a part of such a big change in the No evidence of active TB; blocking access 5Yo4uTrEgLuEidVeIStoIOthNe bWesOt RonLDTV this week world – we might not change the 3w1itNh EBWillS2I9N PERSPECTIVE whole world, but we change their 3T2heTWHiEndHsEorRcAaLrrDiaAgeRCHIVES world.” — Jackie Williams-Connolly, pg. 13 Meet Miss Newfoundland and Labrador 31599S5A-9L6UTE TO COMMUNITIES 5W5hSaPt’sOhRoTt SthHisIwGeHeLk?IGHTS FEATURES G39roWs MHIoLrEneTHE KETTLE BOILS R39emHeOmbReOriSnCgOmPyEfriend Bert 5A6ctiMonO-pVaIcEkeMdAspGoIrCts 13 HUMANITARIAN NURSING Y4o0uCr RlifIeMaEccFoLrAdiSnHgBtoAtChKe stars 7A7snHeOakT-pTeIeCkKaEtTmSovies on TV RN Jackie Williams-Connolly is in the Mistaken identity 9W3haTtH’sEnePwUZinZtLhEeaPtrAesGaEnd video stores running to become ‘Mom of the Year’ and 9G4etHyoEuRrApLeDncBilsOoOutK BONUS earning that title will also mean a charity INTER-PROVINCIAL RACISM Pg. 16 9Th5eCMOaMstIeCrSKey System dear to her heart will receive a big Captain Atlantis, Phantom, Archie, Spider- donation. man, Garfield, Amber Waves, Mister Breger, 16 INTER-PROVINCIAL RACISM? Cats & Dogs, Laff a Day, Popeye, In the A letter sparks outrage from many B10le0acKhIeDrSs’aCnOd ORNutEoRn a Limb Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, but is 1A0c2tivSiCtieEsN, EarSt OwoFrNk,EpWuzFzOleUs NanDdLmAoNreD there an element of truth in what was 1R0e4adLeArsSsTubLmAiUt tGheHir photos written? 24 LIFE’S ‘THE BEACH’ Local singer/songwriter Chris Picco is back with his compelling third solo album, ‘The Beach.’ 27 MUSIC IN THE AIR Tickle your funnybone The 37th Annual Newfoundland & CONTESTS Labrador Folk Festival is set to take the capital city by storm. While this year’s location might have changed, music lovers 33 LUCKY NUMBER can be assured of one thing; the music will 45 BABY OF THE YEAR be as good – or better – than ever! 50 SUPER CASH PUZZLE 35 GROS MORNE NATIONAL PARK 93 SNAPPY CASH PUZZLE Come and see the mountains. 103 PHOTO August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 1

From The Archives 39 YEARS AGO this week... Volume 67 No. 32 This week in history, Richard Paul Anka Cashin, president of the New- THE NEWFOUNDLAND HERALD. foundland Food, Fisheries and Published by the SUNDAY HERALD LTD., Allied Workers’ Union, made a state- Logy Bay Road, St. John’s, Newfoundland. ment opposing the completion of the Tel.: (709) 726-7060, Fax: (709) 726-6971. Harbour Arterial Road. As well as Mail: P.O. Box 2015, St. John’s, NL, A1C 5R7. questioning the value of the Harbour Arterial itself, Mr. Cashin points out E-mail:[email protected]. that the amount of money to be spent on it shows a com- Entire contents copyright 2013 plete lack of perspective when one considers the neglect © The Newfoundland Herald. All rights reserved. of the fishery and other needs of the province. In other SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Newfoundland and news, as predicted by The Herald, the Newfoundland fish- Labrador – 26 issues for $44.27 + HST, 52 issues ery is being tied up and more and more trawler crews go (1 year) for $82.63 + HST. Call 1-800-901-4901. on strike. Several plants have been affected now resulting in layoffs. In entertainment, Paul Anka’s hit, You’re Hav- PUBLISHING CREED ing My Baby, tops CJON’s Now 30 list. “If you abuse POWER you lose it, But if you do not use POWER you also lose it.” 30 YEARS AGO this week... Publisher: Geoff Stirling Cover Editor: G. Scott Stirling • This week in history, The Herald Editor-In-Chief: Mark Dwyer celebrates the songs of summer with a special NTV program, Solid Staff Writers: Pam Pardy-Ghent, Gold, featuring live performances of Heat Wave by Martha Reeves and Sarah Jane Sheppard Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys. Art Director: Shannon Cleary • In local news, the 158th Royal St. John’s Regatta is proclaimed an- Graphic Artists: Janice Keels, Laurene Slaney other huge success. While winds left the lake a little choppy for rowers, and preventing any record break- Contributing Photographers: Scott Bowering, ing times, the races were entertaining for the nearly 25,000 spectators who turned up. The Herald was pres- Bud Gaulton, Aamie Gillam, Sara Rostotski ent selling hats and ballons in support of Spina Bifida. Contributing Writers: Guy Davis, Danette • Internationally, the television show, The Dukes of Haz- zard is rated as a favourite among children and adults. Dooley, Jim Furlong, Valerie Morgan, NJR Ryan Sylvester Stallone is Hollywood’s hottest leading man. Contributing Artist: Danny Bulanadi Sales/Circulation Manager: Gary Oliver 570-5246 Sales Representatives: Debbie Gollop: 570-5263 Stephanie Piccott: 570-5215 Sylvester Stallone Pam Wall: 570-5205 Circulation Coordinator: Judy Furlong Chief Financial Officer: Ron Sparkes Credit Manager: Brenda Hussey Operations: Steve Dray, Roberta Noseworthy Promotion: Mike Greenland 10 YEARS AGO this week... PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 0040012044 REGISTRATION NO. 09027 • This week in history, The Herald cel- ebrates the 2003 Royal St. John’s Re- RETURN UNDELIVERABLE ITEMS TO: gatta. Can the OZ FM rowers break THE NEWFOUNDLAND HERALD their own course record again? The Herald celebrate the OZ FM ladies P.O. BOX 2015, ST. JOHN’S, NL, A1C 5R7 team on our cover. DISTRIBUTORS: • In local news, Newfoundland’s own, The Ennis Sisters, have been nomi- St. John’s, Mount Pearl, 570-5246; nated for Best Group at this year’s Canadian Country Music Association Awards, set for September 8 at Cal- Bayden Bown, Burin Peninsula, 279-0269; gary’s Saddledome. Wade Morgan, Trinity-Conception, 786-2539; Diane Arnold, Clarenville/Bonavista, • In entertainment, Bonavista native Michael Ryder will continue on with the Montreal Canadiens for at least 677-2702; another year. Cameron Diaz is latest in a long list of A- list celebs connected to Dana Giacchetto, a manager Allan Miles, Grand Falls/Windsor, 535-0290; who paid star clients with money stolen from investors. John Morgan, Placentia, 227-2622; Bruce Hulan, Stephenville, 645-2309; Ron Downey, Corner Brook/Deer Lake/ Pasadena, 632-5918; Tina Foley, Gander, 256-3853 Michael Ryder ISDN 0824-3581 We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage. 2 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

FROM THE EDITOR by mark dwyer TAKING MY BEST SHOT!THE NEWFOUNDLAND HERALD Golf has a strange effect on people. It’s intended with others – as soon as I plucked the club from my bag. for relaxation, a gingerly afternoon stroll along I’d bluff my way all the way to the tee-box, positioning manicured greens, the scent of foliage a summer my feet, staring at my target, as the pros do, asking lame perfume. In these parts, where winter grips you like a questions like I knew what I was doing – all foreplay to slicing a motley drive deep Hulk Hogan headlock, an af- into the forest … if I was ternoon on the links is sup- posed to be a break. The fresh lucky. I once hit a drive shorter air is intoxicating and cold than my inseam, which is say- beverages refreshing. Once the privilege of a chosen few – ing a lot. I’ve also thrown my clubs farther. mainly old coots in checkered I can pen this, though, pants with fat wallets – it’s now hip for all ages, all demo- with the knowledge that I’m a recovering wannabe, realiz- graphics, both genders and all ing, like other addictions, that colours. Golf loves everyone, right? the first step to recovery is ad- mission. There’s a tough road Nope. ahead, too. The urge arrives The friendly game with its angelic backdrop is really a when I’m surrounded by guys who can golf. I relapse, want- camouflage. It’s a sneaky little ing, hoping, pretending … devil that lures the weak, comforting the novice into believing there’s hope, sort of MINI-GOLF MISHAP like Nevada tickets and Unlike most bad impostors, yours truly didn’t need an in- Weight Watchers. tervention. Reality hit several summers ago in a game of CHEATERS & LIARS mini-golf against some friends, Golf changes people, turns them into cheaters and liars. including my wife. There I was, staring at a I’ve seen it. Honest people makeshift windmill, the hole somehow forget to count to seven, performing illusions looming about 10 long feet away. Choking one of those that would make even David You know they’re cheating, walking freebie putters, I cheated my Copperfield’s eyes pop. way to the pin. You know they’re cheating, Then it hit me. Who was I walking off the green reciting off the green reciting their troubled their troubled past to the pin, past to the pin, adding numbers cheating? Myself. adding numbers like The like The Count on Sesame Street. It suddenly made sense. I didn’t need to impress anyone Count on Sesame Street. I’ve known fellas who have kicked the ball further than – not my wife, my buddies or those guys “over there” in they’ve chipped it. You can spot a cheater, too, his the cart who eyeballed me at the tee-box. pocket full of Top-Flites. He’s usually bragging about My only desire, I reassured myself, was to enjoy the his score, using his words to compensate for, well, you game, appreciate it, and accept the pathetic skills I did know. They’re hackers, pretending to be legit. How do have. After that, the game, my game, was different. It be- I know? came less stressful, less objective, more enjoyable. I actu- Let’s just say my khakis used to be stuffed with Top- ally improved. Last year, for instance, on a sultry Flites. My pockets that is! Yep, I confess, I wanted peo- afternoon, this reformed little “Tiger” shot an 86 at The ple to think I was good. I had all the gear and no Wilds. Or was it a 90? No, a 93. Hmm? Anyone know conscience. Reality arrived, though – as it does now where I can get a cheap box of Top-Flites? Mark Dwyer, The Herald’s managing editor, can be reached at [email protected] August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 3

Letters to the editor BETWEEN THE CRACKS Dear Editor, got me off to the hospital where doctors Do you know what it’s like when every- told my family that due to the brain thing you do, every day is hard? To be bleeds and swelling I likely would not sur- searching your mind for vive. childhood memories Well, it turns out they and find only black were wrong. I awoke from holes? Or to suffer from the coma just in time to IT’S A FACT! debilitating migraines celebrate my 20th birth- almost every day? July day on July 20, 2008. 14, 2013, marked the Since this time I have For tourists keen on five year anniversary of struggled to regain both viewing whales and my battle. Fighting to be cognitive and physical seabirds it should be me again, to be “nor- functioning. I remember noted that they migrate mal,” to receive support On July 14, 2008, I was being in the hospital and north in the late spring with my challenges and having to really concen- and early summer – and all around fighting for a passenger in a vehicle trate on getting the tim- my life. Here’s my story: “t-boned” by a semi ing of breathing and can often be plentiful On July 14, 2008, I that had run a red light. swallowing right so that I through to early fall. The opposing southerly was a passenger in a ve- didn’t choke on my food. I iceberg migration allows hicle “t-boned” by a semi that had run a still mess this up sometimes. Today I am ! for brief intervals where red light. My lungs collapsed and I was working part time during the summer as all three may coexist. knocked unconscious instantly. The first a Child Development Worker and pursu- – icebergfinder.com responders to the accident intubated and ing a degree during the school year. If all GROS MORNE NATIONAL PARK, NL R.J. Hiscock Photo STHAE LHEURATLDES: SS ETHIE: – Back in 1919 the good ship Ethie got caught in a storm – “the biggest storm ever” – and was wrecked on a pebble beach. All 92 passengers 4 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013 were saved. And now, almost 100 years later, the debris is widely scattered along the beach in present day Gros Morne National Park. – WordPress.com (SEE more west coast wonders: pages 35-38)

Letters to the editor I paid for insurance and assumed that should the worst happen, my family and I wouldn’t be made to carry the bulk of the burden alone. Where are you now MPIC? I can’t adequately function in an “average” life, and I can’t seem to get the support I need from you; so what now? goes as planned I will It frightens me to think about where I would be be graduating from today without the amazing support of my family, university in De- cember with my Elementary B. Ed. minoring in friends, doctors, and teachers. Special Education. To most I appear “normal” This letter is being sent across Canada because but don’t let that fool you. I’ve spent a good although the accident took place in Manitoba, I part of the past five years hiding the difficul- don’t believe I can be the only one in the coun- ties in hopes of one day finding myself try fighting a battle like this. This situation is again and pushing my limits physically, wrong and Canadians deserve to know the mentally and emotionally to be the best I injustice that’s taking place in our coun- can be. It’s hard living with a personality and challenges try. you don’t recognize. There was nothing special about me, it could just as NO-FAULT PUBLIC INSURANCE ... easily have been you in the car that day. Some people will think that I should “just be thankful that I’m alive today” I’m writing to tell my story because there’s a dark side but to that I say, “No, this is my life.” As far as I know, I I believe people should be aware of. This accident took only get one so I deserve the chance to live it. I will not place in Winnipeg, Manitoba; a province with no-fault settle for just getting by with “good enough?” public insurance. This really isn’t a good combination when it comes to personal injuries, especially brain in- – Elissa juries such as mine where the full cognitive damage is dif- ficult to measure. Since the car accident I have been Newfoundlandia Trivia Quiz struggling with Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation (MPIC) to get help and support, with very minimal suc- BONAVISTA BAY, NL cess. The maximum entitlement for permanent impair- ment in 2008 was approximately $133,000 and to date Bud Vincent Photo MPIC has calculated my total entitlement to be $21,295.84. This includes a five per cent rating for the 1. Which 1990s’ band featured local musician Damian most severe level of concussion or loss of consciousness Follett on vocals? allowed, five per cent for my loss of cognitive function and a. Thomas Trio b. Lizband two per cent for the largest of the brain bleeds in my left c. Bung d. Rogues Gallery cerebellar hemisphere. Given the most recent informa- tion on both long and short-term effects of brain injury 2. Where did Newfoundland’s Jenny Gear place on and concussion, particularly on a youthful brain, this set- the first season of Canadian Idol? tlement seems sadly inadequate. The insurance plan is a. 3rd b. 4th also supposed to provide income replacement while you c. 5th d. 6th recover from your injuries but this has proven to be ex- tremely inadequate and an endless battle of letter writ- 3. The Great Fire, remembered as the worst disaster ing, appeals and meetings that have provided little results. ever to befall St. John’s, happened in what year? a. 1908 b. 1892 Most of the doctors’ recommendations have been ig- c. 1901 d. 1929 nored or I’ve been given excuses that are not only ridicu- lous but insulting. Excuses that imply I’m not damaged Answers: 1-D, 2-C, 3-B. enough to deserve help, my anxiety is caused from a ro- mantic break up two years after the accident or even that the reason I struggle is because I live too far away from my family. I paid for insurance and assumed that should the worst happen, my family and I wouldn’t be made to carry the bulk of the burden alone. Where are you now MPIC? I can’t adequately function in an “average” life, and I can’t seem to get the support I need from you; so what now? August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 5

letters to the editor INCOME INEQUALITY FALLING? Dear Editor, ticular year, which is the true change in income. Is inequality rising between the people in the top income Adjusting income for changes in wealth on an annual group and the rest of society? It may strike most readers as basis also prevents the income data from being distorted by silly to even ask this question. After all, it has become an ar- asset holders suddenly showing a large jump in incomes in ticle of faith in our society that the distribution of incomes a particular year just because they sold an important asset has become more unequal, although it is often accurately that year. For example, how much of the recent increase in noted that it is more pronounced in the U.S. than in Canada. high income earners in the U.S. is due to aging boomers However, what is not fully recognized is that most stud- leaving the labour force and selling assets to finance their ies of inequality exclude all forms of wealth and focus only retirement? on income. Income measures the money flowing to an indi- Some will argue that it is unfair to assume that a middle- vidual over the course of a year. But the total amount of re- income homeowner can access their home equity on a reg- sources available for an individual to consume doesn’t only ular basis. Yet individuals routinely re-mortgage their homes to finance everything from starting a new business to putting children through school. Such financing does not appear in the usual statistics on in- come, but clearly affect consumption patterns. While no one questions trans- fers to low income people lacking assets, is it good policy to increase taxes on upper incomes, as Ontario and Quebec recently did, to support transfers to peo- ple who have lower incomes but are sit- ting on valuable assets? By studying the distribution of both income and wealth, Burkhauser con- cluded that not only has inequality not While no one questions transfers to low income peo- risen in recent decades, but the lower and the middle class in the U.S. actually ple lacking assets, is it good policy to increase taxes on posted higher income growth than the upper incomes, as Ontario and Quebec recently did. upper income groups. The recent surge in house values in Canada suggests that include this year’s income flow but also the stock of wealth adjusting income for wealth would significantly alter the – including money in savings accounts, investments in perception of how our income distribution has changed, es- stocks and bonds, privately-held businesses, and real estate pecially when it is realized that 69 per cent of Canadians own – they accumulated over their lifetime. This stock of assets their home while 42 per cent of these homeowners are mort- reflects the accumulated savings made from past income gage free flows, set aside either in financial institutions or through Of course, the Burkhauser paper is not the last word on the purchase of assets like a home. research on inequality. It remains to be seen whether this Indeed, a recent article on Levels and Trends in U.S. In- finding holds up once the full impact of the real estate de- come and Its Distribution by Richard Burkhauser, Jeff Lar- bacle in the U.S. is factored in. And any paper that uses sur- rimore and Philip Armour calls into question the exclusion vey data for incomes risks errors in measuring the very poor of wealth. The authors demonstrate that an exclusive focus and the very rich. Analyzing inequality is extremely com- on income flows is misleading, and when the stock of wealth plex. It matters greatly whether you study individuals or the individuals possesses is included in the analysis, the trend family unit; use incomes before or after taxes and transfers; to rising inequality in the U.S. disappears. measure consumption rather than income; adjust incomes Most importantly, Burkhauser includes changes in the for wealth; and how upper and lower incomes are defined. annual value of these assets as income. Usually, these assets There is no simple answer to the question of whether in- are not reflected in income until the asset is sold. If your equality is rising, much as some reduce such complex mat- asset value rises over a given year, and you do not sell that ters to simple sound-bites. asset at the higher price, you have decided implicitly to save The important message is that, just as the adequacy of re- the asset’s increase in value. Adding together the flow of in- tirement savings must adjust pensions for wealth, properly come and the change in the stock of wealth shows the assessing trends in income distribution requires adjusting change in the resources available to an individual in a par- incomes for changes in wealth. Troy Media – Philip Cross is research co-ordinator at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada. Ian Lee is assistant professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. 6 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

FACING THE MUSIC:NATIONAL MUSIC SCENE MARIANAS TRENCH Marianas Trench return to Newfoundland on the heels of a monster year! BY DILLON COLLINS One of Canada’s hottest bands, Marianas Trench re- The Face the Music tour also brings an upstart artist turns to St. John’s for the Face the Music tour that has truly ignited in recent months. Vita Chambers, with support from upstart artist Vita Chambers, at only 20 years of age, has already garnered praise and August 6th at Mile One Centre. The band is touring on exposure on the heels of her single Fix You, which has the heels of their 2011 release Ever After, an album that earned her a Juno nomination for Best Dance Recording has spawned chart topping hits and garnered the band as well as breaking into the Canadian Top 40. Vita admits awards and nominations. It’s been a huge year. They re- to being excited to visit the island for the first time and cently won the Much Music Video Award for Pop Video of the Year for their hit Desperate Measures, Fan Favourite Video of the Year for Stutter as well as picking up a Juno Award for Group of the Year. Returning to Newfoundland will just serve as one more notch on the belt for a band that has taken huge strides in a short period. “IT IS AMAZING” “We love to play in Newfoundland,” says bassist Mike Ayley. “There is a weird kind of magic in the air there. I mean, we have only been there summertime but it is amazing. The people are really nice and it’s lots of fun.” “We love to play in Newfoundland. There is a Consisting of Ayley, as well as Josh Ram- weird kind of magic in the air there.” say on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Matt — Mike Ayley Webb on lead guitar and Ian Casselman on drums, the admits that the success she has received is all the sweeter Vancouver, B.C., natives have achieved more in their given the negativity of past detractors. short careers than many bands achieve in a lifetime. Ever “It’s exhilarating to achieve so much already,” she said. After marked the bands third studio album, which fol- “I had a lot of industry people tell me they didn’t believe lowed up the highly successful Fix Me and Masterpiece in Fix You, so it’s nice to see my fans prove them wrong.” Theatre, which spawned many chart topping hits. The bands success, as Ayley puts it, is some- “PAYING THEIR DUES” thing the guys take in stride. The boys in Marianas Trench were “I think the growth of the band has only too happy to have Vita on board. always felt natural and organic,” said “It’s really cool to have support acts Ayley. “The video and radio presence like Vita, who are working their way up has grown naturally too. The awards are and paying their dues, like we did for a sign that more people are aware of us years,” said Ayley. “I remember having now. It’s really a testament to the dedi- Carly Rae Jepsen open for us on a cou- cation and support of our fans.” ple of tours. Two years later … boom! The fans in question, which the band You never know what can happen!” so affectionately has named Trenchers, If past showings can offer any sense have come to be known as some of the of foreshadowing, then this tour should most dedicated and passionate in all of be a can’t-miss attraction this summer. Canada. This is their third trip to New- Marianas Trench offers an energetic foundland, and the guys are only too thrilled to be back and fan friendly experience that will have concertgoers in front of their diehard Newfoundland fans. clamoring for a return showing. For the band, returning “We are very lucky to have the kind of support that we to the “magical island” is nothing less than a pleasure. do,” said Ayley. “Our fans have been passionate from the “We can’t wait,” said Ayley. “It is important for us to beginning. There are more Trenchers now than there get to the only time zone in Canada that hasn’t seen this were in 2006, but the support we get from new members show yet. We love the extra half hour. (laughs) Only in a of the Trench family is just as special.” place as magical as Newfoundland.” August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 7

10 ‘HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE’ Did Jennifer Aniston just admit that during her have to become the parent when you’re a marriage to Brad Pitt she should have been younger person, you learn those in- in therapy? Glamour magazine certainly stincts.” thinks so after sitting down As for one of the toughest periods of with their August cover her life, Aniston says it was her thirties, girl, as she makes the a time where she dated, married and press rounds for her then divorced actor Brad Pitt. latest film, We’re The Millers. “BECOME HAPPY” In the movie, 44- “Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all year-old Aniston the s**t. Clean up all of the toxins plays a stripper who and the noise,” she says. “Un- pretends to be derstand who you are. Educate married with two yourself on the self. You can children to help undo a lot of things. If you’re complete a drug not happy, you can become deal, and tells the happy. Happiness is a choice, mag her current beau, Justin Ther- that’s the thing I really feel. oux, has great parental instincts. Like with friends who refuse to get happy, who refuse to “I know Justin, for example, has ex- rise above the discomfort of tremely amazing parental instincts where they’re at.” because growing up he sort of had to Perhaps one of those become the parent. I think when you “friends” Aniston is referring to is Pitt, who has openly ad- “Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean mitted to be in a bad place up all the s**t. Clean up all of personally during their five the toxins and the noise.” year marriage. – SJS – Jennifer Aniston ################################## 8 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

AUGUST 11, 2013 filed, “We decided to file for divorce and we ask for privacy at this time.” CATCH OF THE DAY! While Henstridge is keeping quiet Newfoundland’s own Natasha Henstridge is on the end, she is sharing other parts once again on the market – as that horrible of her life with fans. saying goes – as the blond bombshell is getting divorced from hubby Darius Campbell after two years of “Okay back in the homeland #canada and already eating our fa- marriage. Born in Springdale, the former Species star, 38, filed for vorites #crunchie #ketchupchips divorce on July 23, according yummy,” she tweeted, sharing to documents filed in a Los a photo of her boys, and Angeles county Superior “Asher driving #pops boat Court. As reported by Peo- for the first time in#new- ple, the papers reveal the foundland.” exes, who have no children Then there was this together, have actually one: “Oh my good- been separated since ness caught the April 10. The Secret Cir- biggest #cod today I cle star does have two thought I was reel- sons with actor Liam Waite, who was her companion ing up a whale;).” for several years: Tristan River, born October 1998, Looks like a great and Asher Sky, born September 2001. catch to us! All the Ex Campbell, 32, was the first to announce the more reason to love that news, telling The Daily Mail on the day they girl! – PG PRINCESS DIANA: FOREVER IN OUR ... GOSSIP? It’s been 16 years since Princess Diana’s tragic death in Diana’s true love was Pakistanian doctor Hasnat Khan, a Paris car crash, but ‘The People’s Princess’ still has whom she supposedly dated from 1995-1997. “Diana was a grip on the world’s interest. Forever in our hearts madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him, many would say, but it seems more accurate to say the ill- even if that meant living in Pakistan,” fated princess is forever a part of our water Jemima Khan, the former wife of Has- cooler banter. Case in Point: She is Vanity nat’s distant cousin Imran Khan, Fair’s September cover girl, with the tells Vanity Fair contributing headline, “Diana’s True Love.” editor Sarah Ellison. “And that’s one of the reasons we After her messy divorce from Prince became friends. She Charles in 1995, the press went wild wanted to know how hard with salacious stories about Di’s al- it had been for me to Dodi Al Fayed leged string of romantic relation- adapt to life in Pakistan, ships, both before and after her and she wanted advice on fairytale marriage hit the rocks. how to deal with Pakistani Leading up to her untimely end, she men and their cultural bag- was famously, and publically linked to gage,” Jemima explains. wealthy business man Dodi Al Fayed, In the end Khan says the whom she was vacationing with in Paris doctor that Diana adored could- at the time of her death. Fayed was also n’t handle the level of Lady Di’s killed in that horrendous car crash and fame. “Hasnat was a de- in the decade plus, since their cent, intensely Dr. Hasnat Khan deaths, rumours of the cou- ple’s plan to marry and private man from a traditional, con- even a secret pregnancy servative Pakistani family, and he was have overshadowed her worried about how it would work. memory. And he hated the thought of being in the glare of publicity for the rest of In an explosive his life.” story Vanity Fair says Rest in peace? It seems that is Fayed was only a still evading Princess Diana. – SJS quick fling and that August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 9

LADY GAGA AUGUST 11, 2013 BROKEN HIPSTER? my hip the size of a quarter, and the cartilage was just hanging Locked away in the studio working on out the other side.” her newest album, ARTPOP, sightings of Lady Gaga have been few and far be- Ouch! The injury forced tween over the last six months. As the album’s Gaga to shut down her Born release date gets closer fans are finally get- This Way Tour earlier than planned this past February ting a glimpse of the famously outrageous and she’s been reluctant to singer again, but Gaga let her “little monsters,” reveals she’s been bat- AKA fans, know what’s tling a major injury. been going on. “The sur- geon told me if I had It turns out she came close to needing done another show I a full hip replacement might have needed a after doctors found a hole in the singer’s hip. “My injury was ac- full hip replacement,” tually a lot worse than a tear. I had broken she says preparing to my hip,” Lady Gaga admitted in a recent in- release her new sin- terview. “There were giant craters, a hole in gle, Applause. ARTPOP, due to drop in November, is in such high demand, that iTunes is offering per-or- ders to fans starting Aug. 19. – SJS ## RUTHIE CAMDEN’S ALL GROWN UP ## She might be 23 now, but something still seems a lit- tle wrong about this picture, or should we say pic- tures. Mackenzie Rosman, best known for her role as little Ruthie Camden on the wholesome television se- ries, 7th Heaven, is back in the limelight again, this time for stripping down to her skivvies for a racy Maxim photo shoot. This isn’t the first time sala- cious photographs of a 7th Heaven star have made headlines. Jessica Biel who co- starred as Ruthie’s big sister on the show, controversially posed topless for the cover of Gear after she was told not to by executive producer, Aaron Spelling. While Biel has since admitted it was a bad decision on her part, at the time, it was a ploy to break her con- tract and leave the show. Rosman says she remembers the magazine being banned on set. “I sneaked a peek at it, though,” she tells Maxim. “It was racy gossip amongst the women of 7th Heaven.” Rosman, who played the youngest daughter of a preacher on 7th Heaven, admits people may be shocked to her in a sexy photo spread. “They might be. But you know what? It’s who I am.” Mackenzie Rosman’s latest work is a Sy-fy movie, Ghost Shark, due out on Aug. 22. – SJS 10 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

AUGUST 11, 2013 PAWN STAR GETS HITCHED! Rick Harrison, the star of hit reality like three times may be a charm for these show, Pawn Stars has gotten two, who truly seem head over heels. hitched! The Las Vegas native mar- When asked about honeymoon plans, Har- ried fiancé DeAnna Burditt in California rison said they’re going camping “some- recently, surrounded by 100 of the where in the west.” This was the Bride’s couple’s closest family and friends. It’s the third marriage request says Harrison. “I wanted to take for both, each coming into the her to the south of France or Fiji,” he union with three children from previous relationships. told the Review Journal. “She said, Burditt has three daughters ‘Let’s just go camping.’” and Harrison has three sons, one of whom, Corey, also The ceremony was officiated by stars on the show with the star of Counting Cars, Danny him. “It’s perfect Koker, who is apparently ordained symmetry. I’ve got three boys. She’s (who knew?) and Austin, “Chum- got three girls. lee” Russel, one of Pawn Stars We’re basically most popular personali- the Brady Bun- ties, served as ring ch,” Harrison bearer. Pawn Stars said. It seems follows the daily activities of a family run business. – SJS # DIAPER DUTY FOR SIMON COWELL # Infamous for making aspiring artists routine you can’t escape from. You’ve got to be up at and performers cry in their soup with a certain time. Got to listen. When all you want to do harsh and unforgiving criticism on is sit in a corner thinking.” show’s like American Idol and X-Factor, But perhaps their were signs the notorious mean guy there’s a very different job coming up for was changing his mind. Just last year when asked if he Simon Cowell. The British media mogul and reality star is expecting his still felt he same way about having kids, Cowell first child at 53, with the es- said, “Well … yes. And no. I do really, really tranged wife of his good like kids, because I can talk to them and friend, Andrew Silverman. listen to them. The problem has al- According to Us Weekly, Silverman and his wife ways been how much time you need Lauren have been on the to devote to bringing up kids. I’ve al- rocks for years, and dur- ways dedicated all my life to work, ing their divorce pro- and at 52, I’ve probably missed the op- ceedings she and portunity.” It appears you haven’t Mr. Cowell became ex- Cowell. But you’d better perfect those dia- tremely close; hence pering skills, we wouldn’t want anyone to the pregnancy. judge you. – SJS The news comes as a shock particularly be- cause Cowell has been avid in the past that having kids was of no in- terest to him. “God, no. I couldn’t have children. If I had them here drawing on the walls I’d go nuts,” he said in 2009. “With kids, you’ve got a August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 11

AUGUST 11, 2013 FORTUNATE ONES! HAVE YOU HEARD? MYSTERIOUS GLOBAL HUM If you have yet to hear the music of Fortunate Ones It is referred to as one of the top 10 unexplained phe- then get on Google right this instant! Andrew James nomena in the world; a steady droning hum or throb- O’Brien and Catherine Allan, the duo behind the band bing heard by pockets people, sometimes called with the fabulous name, sound “hearers” all across the world. The earliest reports of peo- nothing short of amazing. ple hearing ‘the Hum’ date back to the 1950s, an annoy- With songs like Thank You ing unexplainable sound that has nearly driven people and We Were a Boat, their insane. earnest blend of acoustic folk/pop and roots, bare-bones According to reports from around the globe the hum arrangements and delicately has several tell-tale factors: It is only heard indoors, is precise harmony allows for louder at night and is more common in rural areas, as the what’s being called an “inti- noise of crowded cities would likely drown out the sound. mate musical conversation.” “Only about two per cent of the people living in any given Oh, and the lyrics! The song A Hum-prone area can hear the sound, and most of them Light Will Come is magic. are ages 55 to 70, according to a 2003 study by acoustical O’Brien and Allan have been consultant Geoff Leventhall of Surrey, England,” accord- very busy this summer. “We’re ing to the Huffington Post. looking forward to hitting the Catherine Allan “IT’S WORST AT NIGHT” road in a couple of weeks for One of the most recent reports of the Hum is out of some dates in Ontario with Leeds, England, where 55-year-old Katie Jacques says it our friend, Amelia Curran. can sometimes feel like torture. “Sometimes, you just We’ve also added a show in want to scream,” Jacques told the BBC. “It’s worst at Toronto … with our pals, The night. It’s hard to get off to sleep because I hear this Dardanelles,” O’Brien wrote throbbing sound in the background … You’re tossing and on the band’s web site. While turning, and you get more and more agitated about it.” they are travelling with other Many times reports of the Hum are tossed aside as Newfoundland acts, they don’t nothing more than made up stories from troubled indi- have many local shows booked viduals, but in fact, scientists are beginning to recognize in the near future, though the phenomena. they did open for The Water- Windsor, Ontario, is considered a “hum hot-spot” and boys on three Atlantic Cana- now researchers from the University of Windsor and dian dates, including the one Western University in London, have been given a grant to at Holy Heart Theatre re- try and determine it’s cause. cently. Wrote O’Brien: “These Anything from military experiments to rare environ- are our first hometown shows Andrew James O’Brien mental events have been cited as possible theories. For in a long time and we are really looking forward to play- now, “hearers” do their best to escape the Hum with other ing for the crowd at home!” – PG white noise. – SJS 12 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

STORY BY INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE VALERIE MORGAN HUMANITARIAN NURSING RN Jackie Williams-Connolly is in the running to become ‘Mom of the Year’ and earning that title will also mean a charity dear to her heart will receive a big donation as well Petty Harbour’s Jackie Williams- Connolly has been active in her community, her son’s school, her church and with many organizations as a volunteer for decades. On top of that, she is a dedicated nurse for 23 years who currently works at the Janeway. “CARING FOR THE NEEDY” Her son Matthew nominated her for Walmart’s Mom of the Year Contest, writing in his entry that “for her entire life (Jackie) has devoted herself to oth- ers. She became a wonderful nurse de- voting herself to caring for the needy, she volunteered relentlessly with The MS Society, our church, my school, Tidy Towns and, of course, she made raising me her life. “Now that I’m grown, she has turned her attention to a much greater cause. She is rebuilding Haiti,” 23-year-old Matthew says. “When the people of Haiti were crippled by an earthquake in January 2010, their med- ical system was all but non-existent. “She (Jackie) is rebuilding Haiti … When the people Men, women and children were left of Haiti were crippled by an earthquake in January hopeless, dying and in desperate need of 2010, their medical system was all but non-existent. aid. Since then, mom has made numer- Men, women and children were left hopeless, dying ous trips to Haiti with Team Broken and in desperate need of aid.” – Matthew Williams-Connolly Earth to help hospitals, care for the sick and teach Haitian medical teams the skills (such as CPR) they need to operate independently.” Canada,” states their website brokenearth.ca. “We’ve quickly realized that the needs of the people of Haiti go $100,000 FOR TEAM BROKEN EARTH? beyond the devasta- Jackie says she was touched to hear Matthew wanted to tion of the earthquake nominate her, and even more excited when she heard that and that the state of being named a finalist gives her a chance to win up to healthcare in this rav- $100,000 for a registered charity of her choice, which of ished country is in course is Team Broken Earth. This organization was as- dire need. We are here sembled to help support the relief effort in Haiti after peo- to make a difference ple there were devastated by that natural disaster. for as long as it takes.” “Broken Earth is a volunteer task force composed of “Just the fact that physicians, nurses and physiotherapists from across Matthew would think Jackie says she was touched to hear Matthew wanted to nominate her, and even more excited when she heard that there is a chance to win up to $100,000 for a registered charity of her choice, which of course is Team Broken Earth. August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 13

INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE: JACKIE WILLIAMS-CONNOLLY “If you make it to the top eight the prize is $10,000 for yourself and $10,000 for your charity … And $100,000 could do so much for Team Broken Earth and for Haiti.” – Jackie Williams-Connolly prize for the charity is $100,000. And $100,000 could do so much for Team Broken Earth and for Haiti.” Jackie has been to Haiti with Broken Earth four times and is planning another trip for October. After speaking with her for a brief time, it’s obvious that the country and the people there have made their mark on the Newfound- lander, and she too has impacted many lives in the for- eign country through her volunteer work. “People ask me what I would do with my portion of the prize money. I tell them that every time I go to Haiti it (is expensive) – I have to take holiday time and I also buy supplies and I go with several suitcases of supplies. So that $10,000 would en- sure I can go to Haiti for a while. That $10,000 will even- of (nominating me) … I’ve been volunteering since I was tually go back to Team Broken Earth to get to Haiti.” 12 years old and everything I was involved in he was too so he’s seen all that and he appreciates what I do,” Jackie A GIVING SPIRIT says. “I mean, everyone thinks their mom is the best – That naturally giving spirit is ‘just the way she was that’s just the way it is. I’m no better than any other raised.’ And the country she has fallen in love with has mother, but to hear him say those things is amazing.” make a lasting mark on her life. She recalls a young man she met on her first trip TOP 20 MOMS! there who was diagnosed Jackie was selected as one with a disorder which causes of 20 semifinalists by a panel paralysis of the muscles. The of judges from over 24,000 drugs to treat such a condi- moms who were nominated. tion were not available in When she spoke with The that country. Herald, she was still in “Myself and Dr. Pridham ‘round two’ of the contest worked with my brother who where people could vote via is a pharmacist and we now Facebook from the list of 20 supply his drugs for that con- moms. You can find them at dition. So every time we go www.momoftheyear.ca. “I’m we bring his medication – if just delighted to be in the top not he would be dead by 20 out of that number of now.” moms.” This Haitian is now One person will be voted Matthew’s age and when into the top eight via the Jackie was in the country in Facebook votes. And the January she was able to at- other seven are chosen from tend his graduation. “To see the remaining 19 moms by a him walk across that stage panel of judges which in- “The Haitian people are so thankful for and wave to (myself and the cludes Canadian singer and everything you do. Some walk five or doctors in attendance) – his songwriter Chantal Krevi- six hours to the clinic to be seen by us mom was killed in the earth- azuk. Voting ended on Aug. 2 they have so little and they are so quake – there was no other and on Aug. 6 the Top 8 final- thankful.” feeling like it. So that’s why ists were announced. – Jackie Williams-Connolly this is my charity. “If you make it to the top “I’ve always volunteered eight the prize is $10,000 for yourself and $10,000 for and I always wanted to be a nurse but it gives me a differ- your charity. In October there is a gala in Toronto and you ent feeling when I’m there. Everyone wants to do some- go to that and they will announce the Mom of the Year. If thing to change the world somehow no matter what your you win that, the prize for yourself doesn’t change but the profession, but to be a part of such a big change in the 14 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE: JACKIE WILLIAMS-CONNOLLY “I wanted to go to Haiti once to say I did something like that and … I was shell shocked when I got there – nothing prepared me for what I saw. By the second day I knew it would- n’t be my only trip there.” world – we might not change the whole world, but we change their world.” “CHANGE THE WORLD” nursing. I was shell shocked when I got there – nothing prepared me for what I saw. By the second day I knew it That in itself is incredibly rewarding, Jackie adds. wouldn’t be my only trip there.” “The Haitian people are so thankful for everything you do. Some walk five or six hours to the clinic to “I’M IN LOVE WITH HAITI” be seen by us they have so little and they are so thankful. It’s so humbling to see people like that. It gives In between missions to Haiti, Jackie has spent her time you a different perspective on your own life.” home getting donations in order to buy equipment for the Haitian hospital. If anyone wishes to help Team Bro- Jackie has made life-long friends through her work ken Earth in any way, you can donate quickly and easily with Broken Earth, and it’s not just the patients that she online at brokenearth.ca. “They are a beautiful people – is impacting. A local nurse, Judith, is getting married in just so grateful and respectful and the children are a August. She had family members killed in the earthquake dream. I’m in love with Haiti,” she adds with a laugh. “It’s and had actually put off her wedding until now. She told so rewarding as a person and a professional. And you’re Jackie she was saving money and just wearing a plain doing it without modern medicine. You’re not guaranteed white dress so that she could have her family there. to have everything you need. I’ve fixed EKG machines with my lip gloss. It makes you resourceful and think out- “I came home and told my husband she is not getting side the box. It really is a beautiful experience.” married in plain white dress.” Every time the team goes to Haiti, they see the Jackie went online, found a gown for Judith, and got progress made by the medical staff there. “They are so her outfitted for her entire wedding – right down to a eager to learn and for Team Broken Earth, education is guest book. Chatters salon in the capital city also donated the goal in Haiti because that is what is going to help makeup, hair products and jewellery as well, and Jackie them. The last trip we did in January myself and Laila sent it off to the nurse in Haiti. “When she received it we Brown taught 104 people CPR. We taught everyone in the chatted on Skype and she said, ‘You have changed my life.’ hospital. And then to see them do CPR and see the pride I gladly sent it to her … that’s what it’s all about.” and joy on their face to know they had the skills to save lives – that makes it all worthwhile.” The humanitarian nurse says she is lucky for every- thing she has in her own life and working at the Janeway and in Haiti has made her realize what’s truly important in life. Helping others both locally and internationally has become her passion and something that also brings her great joy. “I wanted to go to Haiti once to say I did some- thing like that and had that experience of humanitarian Above: Volunteers from Newfoundland & Labrador on one of Team Broken Earth’s missions to Haiti. August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 15

SPECIAL FEATURE INTER-PROVINCIAL RACISM? A letter sparks outrage from many Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, but is there an element of truth in what was written? BY PAM PARDY-GHENT When a reader of one up-along newspaper un- from. My question is, if you like ‘da rock’ so much, leashed an anti-Newfoundland rant in a letter why don’t you go back there and get some more edu- to the editor, many (to use one outport say- cation as spelling and grammar do not seem to be a ing) pitched a fit. common Newfoundlander’s strong point.” “I was out for a drive on my way home today and “… JOB THIEVES, GET A LIFE …” what did I see, a whole crap-load of licence plates on run-down looking vehicles that aren’t from Alberta,” Upset yet? Keep reading, because there’s more. began a letter sent to the Calgary Sun dated July 28th. “Simply put, I am sick of seeing these interprovin- cial migrants that just cruise around from city to city The letter, sent by Shawn Mitchell (there are many looking to steal our jobs away. I have heard back east with the last name Mitchell in this province, though I folks are hard working and certainly many of them doubt Shawn’s related to any of them) went on. “Sure, are, but in my line of work, they are the biggest mak- people can say that they are here on vacation, but re- ers of puppies on company time and these job thieves ally people, who are we kidding here, these people are are the best at slitting the throats of hard working Al- bertans as we as Albertans are the ones in this damn here to steal jobs country that put in the most amount of hours worked away from us Alber- per province. Get some manners, job thieves, get a life tans. You really have and get some class: Pack up and go home because to like the ones with there isn’t any more room. I liked Calgary the way it ‘da rock’ on their was, before the boom.” bumpers as we all know where you are “My question is, if you like ‘da rock’ so much, why don’t you go back there and get some more education as spelling and grammar do not seem to be a common Newfoundlander’s strong point.” – Shawn Mitchell, AB 16 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

SPECIAL FEATURE: INTER-PROVINCIAL RACISM? ... Stealing jobs away? Alberta has long suffered from a shortage of skilled workers. That’s not our fault. And the fact that the cod moratorium drove many out-of-work fishers to trades school on the government’s dime? So, if your blood is boiling, you are not alone. At last But while this letter may be off the mark in a few areas, check, this letter generated more than 300 responses, there is a ring of truth to much of it as well. many of them expressing outrage like this one; “To Shawn Mitchell, you are an embarrassment to all Cal- This isn’t the first time that the Fly-in Fly-out model garians, Albertans and Canadians. It is you that needs of working (FIFO) that employ many from this province, to get an education and a life somewhere else. Your com- my husband included, has ignited heated debate. One ments disgust me.” mayor of an Alberta town has been very vocal in saying that FIFO can have a negative impact on regional devel- And this: “Shawn must be related to Ralph Klein, who opment as such workers have no incentive to establish OH so famously said … ‘Let the Eastern bastards freeze permanent residence, support local programs, or support in the dark!’” the local tax base. THAT ‘N’ WORD REASON TO WORRY But there were posts in support of what Mitchell had There’s reason for those up-along to worry. A 2012 mu- to say as well. It’s interesting to note that many of the nicipal census reported a population of 72,944 residents posts – both for and against – included use of that ‘N’ lived in Fort McMurray. Well, 70,964 lived there – and word so many of us have grown to despise. Newfie. The paid taxes there – 1,980 did not. Those 1,980 – which Al- local response? Some have said that this letter should berta refers to as their “shadow population” – included never have been published by the newspaper at all, claim- many Newfoundlanders. In one study, 17 per cent of the ing it is, at its core, a rant filled with discrimination. population of Fort McMurray originated from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Sure, there may be a few inaccuracies in the letter. For one thing, those “run-down” looking vehicles Mitchell Of course, those who FIFO are not the only problem. has seen are more than likely a cheap rig purchased for Many Newfoundlanders also work seasonally in Fort Mc- one purpose only – to ride around his Alberta town in. Murray, going up for eight or so months of the year, Rest assured, if that beater belongs to a Newfoundlander bunking with other Newfoundlanders all eager to make working away there is also a $50,000 truck parked in money that’s then deposited in bank accounts in this some shed back here on the Island waiting for its owner’s province. So, Fort McMurray’s boomtown problems, in- return. cluding housing prices and rents that are far higher than one would expect in such a remote area (in fact, they are And stealing jobs away? Alberta has long suffered from a shortage of skilled workers. That’s not our fault. And the fact that the cod moratorium drove many out-of-work fishers to trades school on the government’s dime? Well, not much can be done about that now. The education and spelling stuff? Well, you just sound bitter. Newfoundlan- ders and Labradorians have our own language. Main- landers, no matter how many episodes of Republic of Doyle they watch, will never totally get it. And a bad work ethic? Mitchell must have been hav- ing a bad day. That simply isn’t something Newfound- landers have been known for. Still, those weeks many spend on EI along with our historically high unem- ployment figures may have contributed to that ill- placed notion. Rest assured, if that beater belongs to a Newfoundlander working away there is also a $50,000 truck parked in some shed back here on the Island waiting for its owner’s return. August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 17

SPECIAL FEATURE: INTER-PROVINCIAL RACISM? Newfoundlanders and Labradorians may have been easy targets, paticularly since many of our own proudly adver- tise their roots … but chew on this for a while; Ontario has contributed more to the growth of Alberta’s population than any other province. the highest to be found in Alberta), does fall a little on live in Alberta communities and not in fly-in work our shoulders. And we should sympathize a bit with those camps, saying Fort McMurray should be a place who have attitudes like Mitchell’s because, trust me, we “where people live in, not simply cash in.” don’t want that stuff going on in our province either. Scary words to someone who’s been cashing in for Way back in 2008 the mayors of Labrador West said years. While my husband works in Alberta, he doesn’t they were not in favour of a fly-in/fly-out operation oc- spend a dime there. He takes everything he needs with curring at the IOC mine site. That attitude continues to him, including cigarettes. If my husband spends $100 a this day. year in Alberta, that’s about it. But the money he deposits in our Newfoundland bank account would curl your hair. Why? FIFO’s changes a town’s dynamics and suddenly (It certainly curls – and colours – mine!) attracting permanent families becomes a real challenge. EASY ‘PATRIOTIC’ TARGETS BOOM TOWN DILEMMAS So, I get that a tax-paying Albertian would be some- Perceived problems those local mayors listed would what rotted with us. But perhaps Mr. Mitchell needs to sound very familiar to anyone who knows anything about write yet another letter, this time targeting those from Fort McMurray. While high paying jobs are great, sud- another province. Newfoundlanders and Labradorians denly smaller businesses have challenges finding – and may have been easy targets, particularly since many of affording to pay – employees. Businesses close in boom our own proudly advertise their roots with “Da Rock” towns. It’s a fact. bumper stickers, but chew on this for a while; Ontario has contributed more to the growth of Alberta’s popula- And all this flurry of economic activity creates some- tion than any other province, including ours. One recent thing else … a housing shortage. In Labrador City home report showed that over the last 10 years, nearly 206,000 prices soared by 500 per cent in only a few years. Renters people from Ontario have moved to Alberta – about the can forget it. Newfoundland and Labrador do not restrict size of three Red Deers. In fact, more people moved to Al- yearly rent increases and opportunistic landowners reg- berta from Ontario than lived in Windsor, Ontario. In that ularly take advantage of that to hike rents to astronomi- same study, researchers found that Saskatchewan con- cal levels. In one apartment building in Labrador City, tributed a net of 23,000 folks to Alberta, and Newfound- rents for a two bedroom unit jumped 122 per cent. land? A measly 17,000. But who’s counting? If that wouldn’t infuriate you, I don’t know what True numbers be damned. Because they matter little. would. And drugs? An increased crime rate? Sound famil- Don’t think for one moment that letter Mitchell penned iar? In 2010 the mayor of Fort McMurray, Melissa Blake, couldn’t just have easily been written by someone from said she wanted to make sure any new oilsand’s boom this province moaning over the costs of housing, not only wouldn’t bring a repeat of the boomtown mentality that in Labrador, but in small communities near Bull Arm and Long Harbour. marked that city’s previous one. It’s coming. Just wait. As for Mitchell? And his so- called letter of hate? Like water off a duck’s back. No harm One of the things in letting up-alongers think we’re taking over the world on her agenda? Mak- with a few well-placed “Da Rock” stickers. Pissing off a ing sure developers scattered mainlander is not worth getting our drawers in do all they can to en- a bunch over. Before long we will no doubt be saying that sure their employees we liked Newfoundland and Labrador better the way it was – before the boom. No harm in letting up-alongers think we’re taking over the world with a few well-placed “Da Rock” stickers. Pissing off a scattered mainlander is not worth getting our draw- ers in a bunch over. 18 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

TRENT MCCLELLAN: NATIONALARTSSCENE LISTEN & LAUGH COMEDY TOUR Listen and Laugh Comedy Tour brings a Corner Brook man back to his home province BY PAM PARDY-GHENT McClellan is bringing his own brand of comedy back to where it all started for his first ever solo show on Oct. 5TH at Holy Heart! Like many a Newfoundlander and Labradorian, Trent what that guy spoke about.” McClellan now lives in Alberta. But he’ll be returning Living away from the province to this province soon, bringing his own brand of com- edy back to where it all started for his first ever solo show on has given him a greater apprecia- Oct. 5 at Holy Heart. tion for what happens here. “When you are in the bubble you don’t ap- McClellan, 40, explains that comedy is now his full-time preciate it or you look at stuff as gig. Still, while he has reached many professional mile- normal … you go, ‘I forgot that stones, bringing his solo act home is something he’s most missus at Mary Brown’s calls you proud of. “You just toss (dreams) out in the atmosphere. And My Love when your order is ready.’ this time it worked for me,” he says. That’s really alarming to mainlan- ders. I’m sure that woman … has probably broken up many While he has performed in this province before, having an marriages.” opportunity to do “a longer, fuller” show is a dream come true. “When you are doing (a comedy festival) it’s you and And then there’s The Rooms. “All this money pumped five, six, seven other comedians, so you do a shorter set. So into this beautiful archive and what do they name it? How it is nice to come back and … (do everything) the way you did that meeting go down? A bunch of people sat around say- want and end the way you want. The place is yours for the ing, ‘well, we have all these beautiful rooms and they have evening,” he says. McClellan’s comedy has a Newfoundland all this stuff in them, so what should we call it?’ And some- connection. “It’s the way (we) look at the world. We simplify one says, ‘The Rooms.’ And someone else goes, ‘Good, good, things – nothing needs to be complicated and I love that.” we’ll start there.’ And it never got any further. ‘Yeah b’y, it’s good. Let’s all go to the Sundance.’” COMEDY RELIEF McClellan says he was always class clown, but he walked But even seemingly non funny things can be funny too, on stage for the first time over nine years ago and he was he says. McClellan, who lives in Calgary, recently experi- well received. That first night, anyway. enced the devastation of that province’s floods. “I had five minutes, and five minutes is a marathon, but He was scheduled to do a show shortly after the flood wa- I had a respect for it right from the start. I didn’t think ters receded and was thinking about bowing out. “I because I was funny with my friends that I was thought, ‘this is insane. Thinking about going out going to go up and destroy on stage … There and being funny?’ But there had to be a greater was no swagger, there was all fear.” good,” he said. He was hooked from that first show, though he admits it wasn’t all smooth sail- This Newfoundland-born comedian donated ing. Still, funny always wins out in the end, his merchandise sales, and his fee, to the Red and he kept at it. Cross. And being from this province helps be- cause Newfoundlanders and Labradorians al- “… people wanted a break … If you had ways come to support him. “I feel one been volunteering it was the same thing – every- comedian described it well when he said, one needed a laugh … The shows were great, the ‘when you are from Newfoundland you are crowds were awesome and I could feel the relief in part of this prestigious club.’ You have this the room … I knew people in general needed that membership and as a result all the release.” members connect with one an- other.” RELATABLE COMEDY www.trentscomedy.com McClellan’s brand of humour “This is my first probably worked because it’s time headlining a often about the simple major tour … That things. was why this show is so exciting.” – TM “I love it when some- one goes, ‘yeah that’s me!’ Or, ‘That’s my mom!’ People leave the show … and they go, ‘yeah, that’s August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 19

COVER STORY It’s the hot new show that’s got everyone talking. We take a deeper look at NTV’s ‘Under the Dome’ BY SARAH JANE SHEPPARD Amysterious dome violently descends on a small No doubt Under the Dome’s sensational cast, including American town, trapping everyone inside. That’s Canadian Rachelle Lafevre, easy-on-the-eyes Mike Vogul the premise of NTV’s hot new summer series, and veteran Dean Norris, is playing a big part in the Under the Dome, based on a Stephen King novel of the show’s early success as well. A massive production budget same name. Cut off from the rest of civilization, as sup- doesn’t hurt either. Each episode reportedly costs in the plies dwindle and panic grows, the townspeople of 3.5 million range, making for a show that plays out like Chester’s Mill, Maine walk a fine line between helping one a series of weekly mini-movies. another survive and descending into madness. So where did the idea come from? Originating in the In its premiere season, Under the Dome, has quickly mind of famed science fiction author Stephen King, one gathered a large, loyal fan base, who can’t seem to get can only imagine, but surprisingly the story actually finds enough of the mysterious story line as it unfolds. Over 20 it’s inspiration in reality. million people watched the pilot episode. Some critics are comparing the show to ABC’s smash hit Lost, which aired POLITICAL PONDERINGS from 2004-2010, and kept viewers glued to their seats with the addictive story of plane crash survivors on a mys- King certainly knows how to tell a compelling story, terious island. having published over 50 novels, many of which have been turned into feature films, like Carrie and The Green Mile. As for Under the Dome, published in 2009, King says it’s a concept that began back in the early 1970s, but took him more than 30 years to finally put together. He cites the presidency of George W. Bush and specif- ically his war-time policies as a catalyst for completing the novel. “We live on this little blue planet, this is what “I thought, ‘what if you took this town, and you made it a microcosm of what’s going on. What if you have somebody in power that’s making bad decisions and you can’t get out? What if you have (di- minishing) resources – propane, gaso- line, medicine, water?” – Author Stephen King 20 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

COVER STORY: UNDER THE DOME; MONDAYS AT 8:30 PM ON NTV “that's really the cool, creepy, sci-fi part of it – when this dome is an ac- tual sentient being and it's got its own thing.” – Dean Norris we have right here. We live under a dome that’s an atmosphere and the resources that we got, are the resources that we got,” King re- cently stated in The National Post. “I thought, ‘what if you took this town, and you made it a micro- cosm of what’s going on. What if you have somebody in power Dean Norris plays Mike Vogul plays Rachelle Lefevre plays, that’s making bad decisions and James “Big Jim”Rennie Dale “Barbie” Barbara reporter Julia Shumway you can’t get out? What if you have (diminishing) re- dome at the end of the show,” Norris said after news of sources – propane, gasoline, medicine, water? So it was Under the Dome’s renewal. “You see the dome start to basically that idea and taking those characters and run- take on a character that’s much larger than has been ning with them.” shown so far. It’s really cool ‘cause that’s really Political ponderings aside, King, who the cool, creepy, sci-fi part of it – when this dome is also an executive producer of the is an actual sentient being and it’s got its own show, says Under the Dome is meant to thing.” entertain viewers not push forward a so- cial or political agenda. ‘GIANT FISH BOWL’ Like any page to screen transforma- The dome is like living in a “giant fish bowl,” tion, bringing King’s vision to life in as character Angie McAlister, played by Britt Under the Dome has come with its chal- Robertson, says in the pilot episode. As it fell on lenges. In the book, the events happen Chester’s Mills animals and people were killed by over a span of six days, which obviously being too close to it. For example a cow caught doesn’t work for a television series. This in the middle of the dome’s barrier as it lands is means adding secondary characters and cut in half. More carnage follows from outside adjusting plot lines. The book does provide a lot of source the dome, because it’s invisible. Cars, trucks and small material however, as the first draft manuscript weighed a planes are all seen crashing into the deadly barrier. whopping 19 pounds. Inside the dome, a struggle for power and survival en- sues. The main cast is made up of 11 characters, ranging THE MYSTERY OF THE DOME from a waitress, investigative journalist and army vet to Under the Dome premiered this June and has already a corrupt car salesman and his sociopath son. been renewed for a second season in the summer of 2014. Mike Vogul plays Dale “Barbie” Barbara, an army vet It’s clear the powers at work behind the scenes have found with a mysterious past, who becomes a key player in keep- the right concoction for success. ing the peace in the trapped town. This isn’t how viewers “We’re excited to tell more stories about the mystery of saw him in the pilot episode, where Bar- the dome and the secrets in Chester’s Mill, and are bie is seen burying a body, and attempt- thrilled to have the master storyteller himself, Stephen ing to leave town, stopped only King, tell the first one of next season,” CBS Entertain- by the earth shattering drop of ment President Nina Tassler said in a statement. the dome. As for the second season, Dean Norris who plays James Barbie becomes closely “Big Jim” Rennie, says things are going to get even more connected with Lafevre’s bizarre. “We’re gonna learn a lot about the mystery of the character, local newspaper Inside the dome, a struggle for power and survival ensues. The main cast is made up of 11 characters, ranging from a waitress, investigative journalist and army vet to a corrupt car salesman and his sociopath son. MONDAYS AT 8:30PM ON NTV IN HD August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 21

COVER STORY: UNDER THE DOME; MONDAYS AT 8:30 PM ON NTV “The Dome is our horror; the horror without reveals the horror within.” – Rachelle Lefevre why the show is enjoying so much success right out of the gate. “The Dome is our horror; the horror with- out reveals the horror within. Our show isn’t just one kind of show: It has the science fiction element, it has the mystery element, and it does have an epic they’ve really worked hard to make it like a mini-movie each Alexander Koch plays week. There’s something each week that will keep you James “Junior” Rennie hanging on and it’s also a really good character driven & Britt Robertson plays show.” Angie McAlister TWISTED CAST & CHARACTERS reporter Julia Shumway. Shumway takes an interest in As the residents trapped inside Chester’s Mill try and Barbie after he rescues a young teen separated from his figure out the Dome’s power source, a very clear rise of parents when the dome came down. Viewers become corrupt power is represented by Norris’ character, “Big acutely aware of the tense road ahead for the pair, when Jim.” Norris is a busy man as he also co-stars on AMC’s Barbie realizes the man he killed was Shumway’s hus- smash hit, Breaking Bad as D.E.A Agent Hank Shrader. band upon arriving at her home. On Under the Dome, Norris is on the other side of the law as “Big Jim,” a salesman with political aspira- A STAR ON THE RISE tions, who Shumway discovers at the time of the Lafevre, a native of Montreal, was thrust Dome’s arrival had been involved in illegal into the limelight as part of the immensely propane deliveries. popular Twilight Franchise. She played When the current Police chief, Duke scorned vampire, Victoria, in the first two Perkins is about to reveal a dark secret, his installments before being controversially pacemaker explodes, killing him, as he being replaced by fellow ginger, Bryce stood too close to the Dome. Big Jim Dallas Howard. takes over the position of top author- Despite the Twilight casting scan- ity of the town, and assembles a ques- dal, Lafevre’s star is on the rise, and tionable team of ‘law men’ to the gorgeous red head is more than support him. There are hints that proud of her latest project. Big Jim may have even had some- thing to do with the Dome that en- “... when civilization falls cases the town, as it works in his apart, people aren’t favour to climb to the top. who they say they are. LOCAL SOCIOPATH People are very compli- Big Jim’s son, James “Junior” cated and capable of a Rennie, played by Alexander Koch lot.” has his fair share of demons too. – Rachelle Lefevre Anyone who’s seen the show will agree, Koch plays a sociopath almost “The great thing about our too well. series and the great thing about But, as cast member Mike Vogul the concept of the dome, is that attests, he is “the nicest guy,” in real it serves to highlight that when life. This is a break out role for Koch, civilization falls apart, that as Under the Dome was his first audi- people aren’t who they say tion for a television pilot. Viewers im- they are. People are very com- mediately see Junior’s troubled plicated and capable of a lot,” nature, as his kidnaps local waitress Lefevre told reporters at this Angie McAlister, locking her away in an year’s Comic Con convention old bomb shelter. Norris says the trou- in LA when asked about the bles his on screen son face are no doubt complicated relationship be- the result of a corrupt father and an un- tween Shumway and Barbie. seen mother, whose impact is slowly un- She also gave her take on earthed throughout the season. 22 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

ARTS SPOTLIGHT NEWFOUNDLAND CARTOONIST VISITS HOME BY PAM PARDY GHENT Newfoundland cartoonist tle wonder – it’s a story about Joseph Hewitt, who now giant robots and superpowered calls South Korea his penguins! Their next release will home base, plans on visiting fam- be a science fiction anthology ti- ily on the island from Aug. 2-20. tled Alien Lives. But this trip back to ‘The Rock’ isn’t just for fun. On Aug. 9th He- LETS TALK! witt will be attending the Words and Pictures event in Deer Lake, Hewitt reached out to The which is being held by Page One Herald saying he is eager to meet Writers. Books from his own cre- fans from this province. “(We ation, Polar Bear Comix, will be can) talk about comics, teaching, living in South Korea, living next available for door to North Korea, or why dark purchase. rum is better than light rum,” he said in an email. In 2011 He- witt Hewitt is originally from Cor- founded mack, and after earning a degree in English Literature, he moved Polar Bear to South Korea in 1998. He was recently featured in a Comix, which publishes documentary about cartoonists on Sky News Asia. His comics in English and Ko- work has been shown at Scientific American Blog Net- rean. SnowCone City has work, Seed ScienceBlogs, and Comment is Free. been their biggest hit so far, and lit- August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 23

THE HERALD SPOTLIGHT STORY BY SARAH J. SHEPPARD LIFE’S ‘THE BEACH’ Local singer/songwriter Chris Picco is back with his compelling third solo album, The Beach There’s a story in every song. Some will make you Runners’ – as they are affectionately called among fans – wonder who he’s lost and what he’s gained, while have quickly grown into a popular act in the local music others will make you want to slow dance with your scene and beyond with their unique hybrid of rousing folk favourite person. Over 10 tracks, running 32 minutes, and rock and roll. As Picco admits, at the Long Distance Chris Picco’s newest solo effort, The Beach, is a testament Runners’ shows, the band and the audience is ‘running’ to the beauty of music without pyrotechnics, and a man on high energy and adrenaline. willing to put his life in a song; the good, the quirky, the heartbreaking. “A PERSONAL RECORD” It came at the perfect time. This is Picco’s first solo That is something you won’t hear on The Beach, and album in five years, as he’s been busy as frontman and it’s been a nice break for Picco, a songwriter with a qui- chief songwriter for the the Long Distance runners. ‘The eter, more subtle set of songs tucked away for a rainy day. In many ways, the album flows as one fluid song; you get to end and wonder how you got from Rodeo Girl to In Your Light and want to start all over again. On closer ob- servation of the lyrics, the songs stand out on their own. Some take on a funny, even satirical feel like, Real Estate Man or the instrumental track, Spaghetti Ride, while You’re so Real and The Beach seem to speak of great love, and loss. Picco stopped by The Herald recently to chat about the album, with his adorable two-year-old son Charlie in tow. Charlie quietly watched cartoons, while Dad took care of e This is Picco’s first solo album in five - years, as he’s been busy as frontman and e chief songwriter for the The Long Dis- tance Runners. 24 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

HERALD SPOTLIGHT: CHRIS PICCO “Over the last couple of years I’ve been talking about doing a more stripped down, kind of country folk record.” – Chris Picco business, and one couldn’t help but think, what a fitting reflection of a man whose music and life have changed since becoming a father. Charlie is even on the album, Picco tells me proudly. “Over the last couple of years I’ve been talking about doing a more stripped down, kind of coun- try folk record,” Picco says of his latest project. “So with the band in between records, I said well now is the time. I had some new songs that weren’t fitting into the Runners stuff, and I had a few older songs that were looking for a home. I wanted to do something a little different, that wouldn’t sound like the Long Distance Runners, more of a personal record.” LIFE ALTERING EXPERIENCES and put on some more guitars and this and that. I really wanted to do an album where all my vocals were live off It’s a goal Picco most definitely achieved with the floor. That was a challenge and it was something that The Beach, an album of songs shaped by life altering ex- in my mind makes the record more special to me. It’s a periences like becoming a dad and coping with the death little more raw. I was really happy with the recording of his mother roughly a year before his son was born. process of that.” Picco admits that to some, it may seem like an odd time to embark on a solo album, given the success of the Long The songs themselves vary not only in content but the Distance Runners. “We’ve just done two records, things manner in which Picco wrote them. When it comes to have taken off and we’re doing well. Some people would writing a song, he says “sometimes it’s just a feeling in think well why are you doing a solo record. I think it helps your stomach. You know you want to pick up the guitar. both me and the band,” Picco says of exploring a different Other times you just pick up the guitar because you know side of himself artistically. you have to do it. Some songs come spontaneously, oth- ers are a work in progress. I could spend years working on “With the Runners, I get an adrenaline rush. I can sing one song, other songs you could finish in a half hour.” in a different voice with a bigger vocal range,” he says, Songs like Your So Real and Let’s Talk About Love on this adding, “And sweat on stage,” with a laugh. record came together really fast Picco says. “This record, and this music, lets me sing in a different As for his favourite tracks, Picco singles out In Your voice. There’s more open space in this music. It was a nice break. It keeps things fresh,” he says. Picco and the Runners are currently recording some demos, getting ready to record a third album, and with some down time spent on his solo work, Picco is excited to get back to his adrenaline seeking alter ego with his bandmates. ‘A LITTLE MORE RAW’ This album has allowed for some other fresh changes as well, that being the recording process itself. The Beach was actually recorded live off the floor in St. John’s over two days making for a very ‘real’ sound. “The band is live and there’s minimal overdubs,” Picco says. “That’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Most of the time you overdub your vocals after the fact “It felt easy to write the words, coming from a real place, nothing feels forced in those songs for me.” – Chris Picco August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 25

HERALD SPOTLIGHT: CHRIS PICCO Light and The Beach; two choices that easily shoulder most see coming. It’s really fun and would be a perfect sound- of the emotion on the record. “It felt easy to write the track for the scene in a country western film, where du- words, coming from a real place, nothing feels forced in elling cowboys stare each other down, hands hovered over those songs for me,” he says. For listeners, title track The their guns in anticipation. Beach, is both calming and sad, tug- You’ll hear anything from country ging at an emotion you can’t quite and folk to bluegrass on The Beach, put your finger on. the favoured genres of some of Picco’s major musical influences. EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE “Ron Hynes of course, my good For Picco, the emotion behind friends Sherry Ryan and Mark Bragg, writing The Beach is very specific. my brother Dave,” Picco says of those “Mom was sick with cancer at the that inspire him in the local music time, and I was just trying to write a scene. “When we look at the other song to her but I never did finish it legends, they would be Johnny Cash, in time before she passed away,” he Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle. I says. “I wanted to play it for her, but was pulling more from those influ- never got the opportunity.” ences for this record,” he adds. Finishing the song and using it as the title of his latest album is no MUSICAL VETERAN doubt a tribute to his mother, but un- Picco is a veteran of the local derstandably it can be a difficult song music scene, and he says things have to perform. Like the stars we burn definitely changed from his early bright, then we’re gone’ and ‘wait days, when he often played three don’t leave so soon, don’t want to shows a week. He says things were lose you are just some of Picco’s You’ll hear anything from more “cloudly” then. “You’re trying lyrics that speak of his immeasurable country and folk to bluegrass to make a name for yourself, trying loss. on The Beach, the favoured to build up some kind of ‘cred’, now “It was kind of a painful song to genres of some of Picco’s I’ve retreated somewhat. I have my circle of friends, I do get out to go back to and I do find that one hard to play. It was inspired by want- major musical influences. shows here and there. I find I have ing to say something to her. We my own little thing going on.” spent a lot of time at our cabin up in and Eastport and the And even though the business of selling records has beach. We all have that connection, take me back to my become a lot more complicated, Picco says he loves mak- childhood, those good memories of spending that time ing music. “I feel like the more you put out there, the on the beach with her and my father and my brothers. more you build up your reputation. I love making records Writing a song like that just makes me feel better about and making music. That keeps me going, it’s not the the whole process. Just saying those words, ‘everything money; there’s not much money in it. I just want to leave must drift away, for it to come again’. Whatever that is, it’s a body of work I can feel good about.” my therapy, my way of dealing with it,” Picco explains. No doubt becoming a family man will help him do just While many of the tracks do touch on personal, emo- that. “It’s made me work harder, I don’t have much pa- tional experiences for Picco, there are still lighter, even tience now to just let things drag on,” Picco says of be- surprisingly comedic songs on The Beach as well. coming a father to Charlie. “It makes you open up a little Spaghetti Ride is a great example. It’s a 1:40 minute in- more with your feelings and putting things out there; not strumental track smack dab in the middle that you won’t feeling ashamed.” Not only has being Charlie’s Dad made for a finer tun- ing of his focus as an artist, Picco says he’s become a lot less concerned with what people might think about him or his work. On the track Johnny Came Home, Charlie, who has the most gorgeous blond curly hair, is simply in the background laughing. “He loves dancing to the music,” says Picco. “I love making records and making music. That keeps me going, it’s not the money. There’s not much money in it. I just want to leave a body of work I can feel good about.” – Chris Picco 26 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

STORY BY LOCAL MUSIC & MORE PAM PARDY-GHENT Music in the Air ... The 37th Annual Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival is set to take the capital city by storm. While this year’s location might have changed, music lovers can be assured of one thing; the music will be as good- or better- than ever! John Drover, President of the Folk Arts Society, says that unites music lovers and celebrates traditional song. the annual Folk Festival is the society’s biggest event We are really excited about the line up over the two and of the year, and while this may be his first as presi- a half days and we have a couple of different stages and dent, music lovers can rest assured that this will be one tents and stuff to set up, so I am really looking forward to amazing musical celebration. seeing how things play out this year,” Drover says. “THE EVENT OF THE YEAR” “START FROM SCRATCH” “We love our regular Wednesday nights at the Ship The first item on his agenda when he took over the role Inn, and quite a few big names in folk music go through as president was the change in venue, but Drover says that ever year, and then the big event we have in January while there were challenges, they seem to have “every- with kids is called Young Folk at the Hall. But the annual thing figured out.” Folk Festival is certainly the event of the year and it is al- ways highly anticipated,” he begins. “We knew this year the event couldn’t be held in Ban- nerman Park, and that’s where the festival has been for so This year’s line up is an impressive one with Corner long. While there was still a lot of work involved, you Brook’s award-winning Sherman Downey and the Am- biguous Case, and Nova Scotia’s celebrated Joel Plaskett performing with his father Bill Plaskett. Other perform- ers include Pilot to Bombardier, A Crowd of Bold Share- men, The Good Lovelies, Ireland’s Sunday’s Well and many more. Another special treat is that this year the event, which will take place from August 9 -11, will be live from Bowring Park. “The annual Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival is St. John’s premiere cultural event, one “The annual Newfoundland and Labrador Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case Scott Grant Photo Folk Festival is St. John’s premiere cultural event, one that unites music lovers and celebrates traditional song.” — John Drover August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 27

LOCAL MUSIC & MORE: THE 37TH ANNUAL NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR FOLK FESTIVAL “Our 2013 line-up features a balancing act between headliners and up-and-coming artists that make the Folk Festival unique and appealing to so many people. It is everyone’s festival.” – John Drover where the stage in relation to everything else that’s going on should be, but we seem to have figured it all out.” “LAST MINUTE DECISIONS” Another thing that’s difficult to plan for are numbers. Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are known for “making last minute decisions about buying Joel & Bill Plaskett tickets to anything,” says knew what to expect and you knew Drover. Still, the event has had the steps and you knew the possible as many as 12,000 show pitfalls. But this time we had to start from scratch and you start to think up, so they are planning for a good turn out. Folk about things like, well, where are we music just has a way of going to get electricity to do that The Good Lovelies and we didn’t have some of the nat- bringing people together, he says. ural barriers that might be available in Bannerman Park “I was born in ’71 and the folk music revival in New- and we had to think about how to fence everybody in and foundland, just like everywhere else, happened in the ’60s THIS YEAR’S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD The Newfoundland & Labrador 1964 until 1975, and has been Folk Arts Society, organizer of featured on many television the 37th Annual Newfound- and radio shows in a career land & Labrador Folk Festival, has spanning nearly 50 years. He announced that the festival has se- has contributed to many recor- lected renowned Newfoundland ac- dings and concert tours for per- cordion player Ray Walsh as the formers John White, Joan Mor- recipient of this year’s Lifetime rissey, Kevin Collins and many Achievement Award. Walsh has more, and in 1995 formed the greatly contributed to the cultural Walsh Family Band with his fabric of this province through his brother Gerard, son Greg, and talent and passion for the music. daughter Michelle. Says Tom Power, board member Walsh has toured exten- of the Newfoundland & Labrador sively, playing as far afield as Folk Festival, “Ray Walsh is one of Mexico and Ireland. He is a the best known and most recognized strong proponent of Newfound- accordion players in Newfoundland land’s traditional music, having & Labrador. He has always been a Talented NL Accordion Player Ray Walsh served on the board of the New- proud advocate of traditional music in this province, foundland & Labrador Folk Arts Society, and has been however, there is nothing more wonderful than listen- featured on the main stage of the Newfoundland & ing to the passion and enthusiasm which Ray shares Labrador Folk Festival on numerous occasions. He has through his performances.” released six albums of Newfoundland, Irish and Scottish Walsh has been playing traditional music in New- music, and continues to entertain audiences in New- foundland for almost as long as he can remember. As a foundland & Labrador and beyond. young man, Walsh played at dances and gatherings in The Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Arts Society say Bay de Verde, Conception Bay; he was a featured per- they are delighted to honour Walsh as this year’s recipi- former on CBC Television’s All Around the Circle from ent of the Lifetime Achievement Award. 28 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

LOCAL MUSIC & MORE: THE 37TH ANNUAL NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR FOLK FESTIVAL “This year, the festival joins together a diverse range of the very best in tradi- tional and contemporary folk arts ... ” — John Drover and ’70s … and I can remember being a kid and sitting in my grandfather’s living room, listening to his old folk music records, Harry Hibbs, Pamela Morgan, Anita Best and … even Tales from Pigeon Inlet … I’d play them over and over must have had (the albums) worn out. I loved the music so much.” Drover hopes to recreate those feelings for the thou- sands of fans who will attend this year’s festival. “EVERYONE’S FESTIVAL” A Crowd of Bold Sharemen particularly pleased to have his name as- Fans are in for a treat this year, stresses Drover. “This sociated with celebrating the achieve- year, the festival joins together a diverse range of the very ments of young talent. best in traditional and contemporary folk arts … Our 2013 line-up features a balancing act between headliners and In addition, sessions in the Francoph- up-and-coming artists that make the Folk Festival unique one Tent, the Cultural Diversity Tent, the and appealing to so many Oral Traditions Tent, Instrumental Tent, people. It is everyone’s Homemade Jam Tent, and Dance Work- festival. We know atten- shops held throughout the weekend pres- dees will once again be ent exceptional opportunities for every- delighted by the diversity one to experience folk traditions. of folk genres and ener- getic performances.” Each year, the Newfoundland and Lab- rador Folk Festival, which is the second This year, the atten- oldest continuously running folk festival in Canada, dance is expected to in- brings thousands of people together to celebrate the best crease with a lineup that in traditional and contemporary folk music and dance. features Newfoundland Drover says he can feel the excitement build as the date & Labrador’s finest per- of the event grows closer. “I’m really excited. I think this formers both on the is going to be one amazing event.” Main Stage and on the Pilot to Bombardier Neil Murray Stage for youth performers. This Stage is devoted to young per- formers at the Festival. Neil Murray (1943-1988) was a Rhodes Scholar, poet, writer, historian, volunteer and bon vivant who passion- ately promoted Newfoundland’s culture. As a great en- courager of and friend to musicians, Neil would be Tickets are on sale now and are available online at ticketpro.ca, by phone at 1-888-311-9090, and in person at the MUN SU Copy Centre, University Centre, O’Brien’s Music Store, Heritage Shop in the Avalon Mall, and Brewed on Bernard in Corner Brook. August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 29

NEWS IN BRIEF NO EVIDFERNOMCAEROOUNFDAOUCRTPIRVOVEINTCEB Eastern Health has announced that it is nearing the completion of the tuberculosis (TB) investigation at our public health staff have fol- Holy Heart of Mary High School in St. John’s and so far lowed-up with all contacts includ- ing the three individuals who need there is no evidence of active TB among those tested. The to complete the testing and have investigation was prompted when a case of active TB was made any necessary referrals. confirmed in one of the students in May 2013. “So far, there Through our investigation we de- termined there is no cause for NTV Photo concern for the general popula- tion of students and teachers of Holy Heart.” DR. DAVID ALLISON Often, people with positive tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) have dormant or latent TB, which is not infectious. How- ever, because there is a small chance of becoming active over time, individuals with latent TB may be recommended medication by their family physicians to be taken over a “We determined there is no cause for concern period of time to prevent disease. for the general population of students and teachers of Holy Heart.” – Dr. David Allison Tuberculosis is a disease caused by bacteria called My- cobacterium tuberculosis. Active TB usually infects the lungs, but can also infect other parts of the body, includ- has been no evidence of active TB among any of the contacts ing the kidneys, spine and brain. The disease-causing bac- followed to date,” said Dr. David Allison, Medical Officer of teria are spread in the air, such as through coughing, Health for Eastern Health. “The testing shows that six indi- laughing, sneezing, singing or talking. Symptoms may in- viduals have been exposed to TB at some point in their life; clude a cough that lasts for two weeks or more, chest pain, however, exposure may not have been related to the con- loss of appetite, fever, feeling weak and night sweats. Treat- firmed case of active TB. Information about the six individ- ment to cure TB normally involves taking medication for a uals has been forwarded to their family physicians so that period of time, which may range between six to 12 months. decisions can be made about preventive treatment. Our TB Most often, exposure to TB results in non-infectious latent investigation at Holy Heart High School will continue until TB, which can remain dormant or hidden for many years. BLOCKING ACCESS WITH BILL 29 NDPJustice Critic Gerry Rogers, the MHA for St. John’s Cen- attorneys, social workers, victims and offenders.” tre, says government has used Rogers noted Minister King faced harsh criti- Bill 29 to block her ability to access the internal assessment of the Family Violence Intervention cism from how he handled the Justice portfolio Court (FVIC) which government commissioned during the Dunderdale government’s deep cuts in 2012. to the province’s budget. He was eventually forced to backtrack when faced with pressure from pow- Rogers filed an ATIPP request for the infor- erful professionals inside the legal system. mation earlier this month. In response govern- ment refused to release the assessment citing “The cuts were clearly arbitrary, which was cabinet confidentiality. The FVIC was slashed in quite obvious when he quickly reinstated them,” said Rogers. “Unfortunately, the victims of family government’s April budget. violence were not able to place the same kind of “I spoke with many people pressure on government. Even though the court was working well, government cut it in a desper- in the system who said the ate bid to save money. Now, due to government’s FVIC was doing an excellent use of Bill 29 we will never see the reasons why. job helping the victims of family vio- “Government has not shown any evidence that cutting lence stay safe,” said Rogers. “It was sup- this vital program will save money, as a matter of fact it ported by judges, prosecutors, defense may not and with Bill 29 we may never know.” “Unfortunately, the victims of family violence were not able to place the same kind of pressure on government.” – Gerry Rogers 30 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

NEWS IN PERSPECTIVE THE NEWFOUNDLAND HERALD by jim furlong THE WINDSOR CARRIAGE The birth of young Prince George Alexander Louis of the long walks from Pleasant Street over to The Blue Puttee restau- House of Windsor certainly grabbed the world’s attention rant at Rawlins Cross – or “the Putt” as the called it. last month but when the international media grabbed and clawed at the story of an heir to the British throne born to the They would wheel my brother and myself in the Windsor Duke and Duchess of Cambridge it came as no surprise to me. carriage across LeMarchant Road. My aunt had her son with her but not in a Windsor carriage. Memory is a funny thing isn’t Throughout my life I have watched and been part of a fasci- it? nation with all matters royal. That the young eight-pound prince is a direct (third in line) heir to the throne only height- Now you must know that all childhood memories, even royal ened the frenzy. Young Prince George won’t be king for a while. ones, are pleasant. My first encounter with the royal story was It will only be after Elizabeth dies and then Prince Charles, her for me the death of King George VI. I remember the news re- first born, dies and then Prince ports on the radio that the king was dead. Those reports said William, the baby’s father dies, that he will go to Westminster Abbey to be that it was Prince Phillip who broke crowned. That is presuming a normal the news to his wife who was, at the sequence of events. Given the propen- time, Princess Elizabeth. The Prince sity of the Windsor family to live long and Princess were on holiday and out lives it might be another 60 years or of the country at a game preserve. more before George sits on the They were actually staying in a tree throne. No hurry, we will wait. house at the time on the reserve. I even remember that. For me in 1952 ENDURING INTEREST I would have been six years old and this was my very first encounter with death. The very notion of somebody’s I can’t fully explain it but the at- father dying was quite disturbing. It traction to and fascination for the was something that had to be wres- British royal family has been, if noth- tled with and understood. ing else, enduring. I know it is some- thing that has been part a large of my BOX OF TOFFEE own life for a long time. Perhaps our The next year was the coronation interest is in the fact that the ups and of Elizabeth. We all received a box of downs of the royals represent sign- toffee and a commemorative coin to posts in our own lives and that some- ROYAL FAMILY PORTRAIT, AUG. 22, 1951. mark the event. It is said that the how links us to the Royal Family. From left: Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, coronation marked a turn in the road Many of our readers will remember Princess Margaret, the Duke of Edinburgh, for Britain. It was psychologically the things like the marriage of Prince King George VI and Princess Elizabeth. end of the tough times of World War Charles to Diana. They will remember Princess Anne is in the baby carriage. II. Remember the end of the war did- her untimely death in a Paris tunnel n’t end hardship. Rationing in Eng- and the odd outpouring of emotion at her funeral. Those read- land of things like sugar and meat didn’t end until into the ers will also remember the marriage of Charles to Camilla 1950s. A new Conservative government elected in 1951 and the Parker-Bowles and of Prince William to Kate Middleton. It is all Coronation of Elizabeth were the brackets around the end of part of an ongoing fairy tale the latest chapter of which is the the tough times. birth of a young prince. Why do we want to hitch our wagon to a Royal Family star? That brings me to the Windsor baby carriage. I remember Why are we so fascinated by lines of succession and by births the birth of Prince Charles because I am older than many of and deaths and marriages and divorces of people we don’t even you and I remember well the pram that was part of my own not know? We understand the monarchy in logical terms is a waste so royal family. It was the same as Prince Charles and Princess of money but that doesn’t stop its grip on us. Perhaps we seek Anne used and was called a Windsor baby carriage. Its formal some form of immortality. We know that name was a Silver Cross Balmoral pram stroller. My brother, the Royal Family “goes on” even as we four years younger than myself, used it. I can’t say if I was raised know that we, as individuals, do not. It is in it or not because there is no one left to ask and there are no an interesting question and a baby pictures that I am aware of. That is the way of the world. I do stroller that we called “a Windsor car- know my mom and my aunt, Agnes, would sometimes go on riage” is part of the puzzle. Given the propensity of the Windsor family to live long lives it might be another 60 years or more before George sits on the throne. NTV’s Jim Furlong can be reached by emailing: [email protected] August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 31

THE HERALD ARCHIVES STORY FIRST PUBLISHED JAN. 20, 1996 HDAONIUELSLEE DanielleHOUSE Meet Miss Newfoundland and Labrador 1995-’96 STORY BY KATHY DICKS There’s no excuse for not making your dreams come true – a valu- able lesson in self-confidence Danielle House knows all too well. Last fall the 19-year-old Daniel’s Harbour native was crowned Miss Newfoundland and Labrador – the first person from the Northern Penin- sula to ever clinch the title. Prior to the pageant, held annually at the S.W. Moores Memorial Stadium in Harbour Grace, House had never attended a pageant, let alone partici- pate in one. “I really didn’t know what to expect,” she recalls. House, a second-year student at Memorial University was encouraged to enter the race by St. John’s model- ling scout/instructor Isabelle Fry. “No I couldn’t. I wouldn’t stand a chance,” she said. REAL POTENTIAL Fry on the other hand saw poten- tial in the somewhat shy young lady and ultimately won out. It was only a week before the pageant that House finally made her decision. Frantically she searched for the perfect wardrobe, scrambling through the rooms of friends at Paton College for every- thing from swimsuits to shoes. Recalling the rather large suitcase she dragged to the event, House says, “I didn’t know what to take with me, so I packed everything I could find.” Danielle House, a Daniel’s Harbour native, was the first person from the Northern Peninsula to clinch the title of Miss Newfoundland and Labrador. 32 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

THE HERALD ARCHIVES: DANIELLE HOUSE “I didn’t want it mentioned to very many Each evening, during The NTV people because I didn’t want people Evening Newshour and The knowing.” — Danielle, on entering the Pageant NTV Sunday Evening New- shour, join Danielle Butt to The only wardrobe obstacles she encountered was see if the number on the finding an evening gown. No one she knew had anything cover of your Newfoundland that fit. “I looked everywhere and the night before I was Herald matches one of the due to leave I found a dress at My Fair Lady.” three LUCKY NUMBERS on screen. If so, the first person She quickly laughs that if it hadn’t been for her fa- to call NTV at (709) 722- ther’s Mastercard, her chosen gown of hunter-green vel- vet would still be on the rack. 5015 within 30 minutes will... House is the daughter of Dan House of Daniel’s Har- * Every eligible qualifier must provide bour and Madonna Brown of Rocky Harbour. Pageant NTV with the winning Herald Cover. week was “extremely nerve wracking” for House. “I can honestly say I don’t know if I could ever go through it August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 33 again.” THE CROWNING Following a series of interviews and stage shows rang- ing from casual wear to swim wear came the final night – the crowning. “When they named the first runner-up (Colleen O’Brien of Paradise) we were all kind of shocked because she’s the girl we expected to win. When they called out my name, I was stunned. All the other girls kept staring at me and finally I said, ‘Oh my God’.’ Danielle House is from the small pictur- esque community of Daniel’s Harbour.

THE HERALD ARCHIVES: DANIELLE HOUSE Facial flaws encountered from childhood play were demons that constantly fol- lowed her. She says there were many times her father would sit her down and tell her she had to deal with her prob- lems and insecurities head on. night before she left for Harbour Grace. It was her room- mate who informed her mother. She in turn called her daughter during pageant week. “I didn’t want it mentioned to very many people be- cause I didn’t want people knowing.” As for her father, who works with Caribou Valley Out- fitters, he didn’t know his daughter was vying for the crown until his boss radioed him that she had won. “I asked his boss to tell him that I was entering the pageant and he forgot,” she says. “You can imagine his shock when he heard I had won.” House says she can’t describe the excitement she felt COMMUNITY PRIDE & TOUGH LOVE that night. “It’s something you have to experience for yourself.” She’s also made her community proud, with the Daniel’s Harbour Community Council presenting her OFFICIAL MISS NL BUSINESS with a special award during her Christmas vacation. Her first official function as Miss New- Growing up in this former mining town, House was foundland and Labrador was to insecure. “When it came to looks I was just average.” screech-in Miss Community Gar- dens of Prince Edward Island, the Facial flaws encountered from childhood play were pageant’s special guest. demons that constantly followed her. She says there were many times her father would sit her down and tell her Up until this point, House’s she had to deal with her problems and insecurities head entry into the pageant was on. The one thing in her life House was confident about virtually unknown to her was getting an education. “I thought I’d leave Daniel’s family. She had mentioned it Harbour because I wanted a university degree.” to her grandmother the She wants to become a registered nurse. “I want a job where I can see results, one that will give me a feeling of self-worth.” The Miss Newfoundland and Lab- rador Pageant was the therapy she needed to help her achieve her goals. Being yourself, portraying honesty and integrity and al- ways believing you can accom- plish what you set out to do are things that have made House a better person. AT DOMINION RECYCLING LTD. WE PAY TOP PRICES FOR: Dominion • Copper • Lead • Brass • Stainless Steel • Aluminum • Batteries • Radiators • Converters Recycling Also suppliers of structural steel and tubing 100% NEWFOUNDLAND “Support Your Local Metal Dealer” OWNED AND OPERATED Derm Power, owner/operator Limited 377 Empire Avenue, St. John’s, NL A1C 5M5 Tel: (709) 753-6158 • Fax: (709) 753-6136 • e-mail: [email protected] 34 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

THE NEWFOUNDLAND S TO CHERALD PRESENTS ALUTE OMMUNITIES NL Tourism Photo WEST COAST WONDERS The Herald profiles the Majestic Mountians of Gros Morne National Park Gros Morne National Park is a world heritage site Stevens and Harold Williams, include oceanic crust and located on the west coast of Newfoundland. At mantle rock exposed by the obduction process of plate 1,805 km2 (697 sq mi), it is the second largest na- tectonics, as well as sedimentary rock formed during the tional park in Atlantic Canada. The park’s name is actu- Ordovician, Precambrian granite and Palaeozoic igneous ally derived from a French phrase meaning fo ‘large rocks. mountain standing alone,’ or more literally “great somber,” and was named after the second-highest moun- Sounds like a jumble of words hard to pronounce, but tain peak (at 2,644 ft/806 m) located within the park. Gros the uniqueness of the rock formations makes the land- Morne is a member of the Long Range Mountains, an out- scape in Gros Morne like no other. lying range of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching the length of the island's west coast. It is the eroded remnants FRESH WATER FJORD of a mountain range formed over 1.2 billion years ago. There are many areas of Gros Morne to visit. Western The Gros Morne National Park Reserve was established Brook Pond is a fresh water fjord which was carved out by in 1973, though it wasn’t until Oct. 1, 2005 that the Na- glaciers during the most recent ice age from 25,000 to tional Parks Act was applied to the reserve, making it a about 10,000 years ago. Once the glaciers melted, the Canadian National Park. land, which had been pushed down by the weight of the ice sheet, rebounded and the outlet to the sea was cut off. The park’s rock formations, made famous by Robert The 30-kilometre long narrow “pond” then filled in with August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 35

SALUTE TO COMMUNITIES: WEST COAST WONDERS The Tablelands, found between the towns of Trout River and Woody Point in Gros Morne National Park, look more like a barren desert than a tra- ditional Newfoundland landscape. NL Tourism Photo mantle. It is rock that was forced up from the depths during a plate collision several hundred million years fresh water. The water in the fjord is extremely pure and ago. Peridotite doesn’t have the usual nutrients re- is assigned the highest purity rating available for natural quired to sustain most plant life, hence its barren ap- bodies of water. Pissing Mare Falls, the highest waterfall pearance. Along the coast of Gros Morne are forests in eastern North America and 199th highest in the world, of stunted and twisted spruce and balsam fir trees, flows into Western Brook Pond. known locally as “tuckamores,” many battered by storms and winds blowing in from the sea. Looking for THE TABLELANDS peace and quiet? You’ll find it here amongst the wildlife. Wildlife in the park includes lynx, black bear, caribou, The Tablelands, found between the towns of Trout arctic hare, marten and a booming population of intro- River and Woody Point in Gros Morne National Park, duced moose. The coastal region also can be a great spot look more like a barren desert than a traditional New- for whales watchers and bird enthusiasts alike. foundland landscape. Such an appearance is due to the ultramafic rock — peridotite — which makes up the re- Margie Pennell Photo gion. This rock is thought to originate near the Earth’s COZY COMMUNITIES Rocky Harbour, the largest community in the region, is located in the heart of Gros Morne National Park. No visit to Rocky Harbour is complete without a visit to the unique eatery Java Jack’s. Java Jack’s comes recom- 36 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

Norris Point Lookout and Jenniex SALUTE TO COMMUNITIES: WEST COAST WONDERS Heritage House are known as a photographers delight as they gowesternnewfoundland.com Photo both offer breathtaking views of Norris Point and the Tablelands. mended by The Lonely Planet, Fodor’s and by Where to Eat in Canada. Situated in a heritage house in the heart of Gros Morne National Park, Java Jack’s started as a cafe in 2000 and turned into what is described as a “fun” and “funky” café three years later. PICTURESQUE COMMUNITY Point encompasses three areas, Curzon Village, Woody Point and Winterhouse Brook. It has a total population Norris Point, a picturesque coastal commu- of around 400 residents. nity located at the doorstep of Gros Morne Na- tional Park, gets its name from the man, Neddie There is a system of community walking trails to enjoy Norris, who is credited with being the first white man to in Woody Point which includes the Discovery Trail, which settle in this area. Norris Point Lookout and Jenniex Her- goes from Bonne Bay Academy, to Gros Morne National itage House are known as a photographers delight as they Park’s Discovery Centre. The trail affords a spectacular both offer breathtaking views of Norris Point and the bird’s eye view of Bonne Bay, the Tablelands and Gros Tablelands, an area designated a World Heritage Site in Morne Mountain. 1987 because of its geological diversity and striking bar- ren shapes. Woody Point is another beautiful and historic town lo- cated in the heart of Gros Morne. The Town of Woody While in Rocky Harbour, we hope that you take time to explore our town, visit with locals, and learn about our rich history dating back to the 1700s. Rocky Harbour is nestled in the centre of Gros Morne National Park and hosts a variety of accommodations, restaurants, stores and hiking trails. When your day is complete, there’s no better way to end your day than to sit and relax along the water’s edge and enjoy a picturesque sunset melt into the ocean. August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 37

SALUTE TO COMMUNITIES: WEST COAST WONDERS Owen Russell Photos Over in Cow Head entertainment awaits at every cor- Interested in architecture? Especially those con- ner. In 1995 what started as a one time dinner theatre in structed in the late 18th and 19th centuries? Then visit honour of the Cabot 500 celebrations, went on to inspire Woody Point. The area has many heritage buildings. Five what is now known as the, Gros Morne Theatre Festival. structures in the area are registered Newfoundland and This year the ever popular Neddy Norris Night and Labrador Heritage structures. These Who’s Darkening our Door are: The St. Patrick’s Church built in series will be back, bringing 1875, the Hezekiah House built in audiences the best tradi- 1870, the Woody Point Heritage The- tional music of Newfound- atre (formally the Loyal Orange land and Labrador. The SS Lodge) built in 1908, the John Effie Dinner Theatre is also William Roberts House built in the back inviting audiences to early 1900’s and the Roberts Tradi- “join Captain English, tional Fishing Shed built also built in Cassie Brown and First Mate the early 1900’s. Gullage along with the colourful crew as they recreate the tale of how she came UNDER THE SEA to rest on the rocks of Martins Point 94 years ago.” Show- casing some of the province’s most talented actors, plays Want to know more about the ocean? The Bonne Bay like Two and The Belle of Bonvista Bay are a must-see. Marine Station, located in the community of Norris Two has been reciving rave reviews, as the theatre’s web- Point, is Memorial University’s newest marine research site explains why. “From sparkling comical characters to station. The station serves as a teaching centre for ma- sparring couples and lovelorn singles, this pub is the rine biology students, operates as a research complex and heart of the community. As stories unfold and memories is a marine interpretation centre for the public. This state are shared, the smiling faces of the hosts begin to crack of the art facility is a huge draw in the area, and many exposing the tense and fractured relationship under- hands on activities are available. And, like most every- neath. Funny, fast-paced and poignant!” thing there is to do in the Gros Morne area; from hiking, to eating and sightseeing, this is an all ages facility. Fun, as they say, for the whole family. Want to know more about planning a visit to Gros Morne? Visit www.grosmorne.com 38 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

WHILE THE KETTLE BOILS REMEMBERING MY FRIEND, BERT BY GUY S. DAVIS Ican honestly say I was the only friend Bert had, and when he died a part of me died with him. Bert never home to die. A social agency knew the family he was born into. His mother was an found him a place to stay and he alcoholic and died when he was five. He was able to get a small pension. never knew who his father was. Up to Soup kitchen and flop houses became the time he was 16 he spent his entire a way of life, alleyways and life in an orphanage. Being shy he kept parking garages were his home. mostly to himself. DOWNWARD SPIRAL Shortly before his passing he confided in me how much he regretted never having a family. Bert died as he had Desperate for stability, Bert married lived most of his life, alone. I scattered his ashes to the the first girl who showed an interest in wind, he would have wanted that. him. Their first child was stillborn, the second and last died of meningitis. His wife – unable to accept the loss of two children – committed suicide. That was the beginning of Bert’s downward spiral. Unable to hold a job for very long, he drifted from place to place, always moving on. Soup kitchens and flop houses became a way of life, alleyways and parking garages were his home. Growing older and tiring of wandering, Bert came SAGITTARIUS: ASPECTS H HFAVOUR ACTION ERALD OROSCOPES ARIES (March 21 to April 19) There can observe what’s happening around situation brightens thanks to all your might still be some uncertainty about you. hard work. Now, spend some time re- the decision you made. But a quick VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) It’s a good pairing a personal relationship you check of the facts should reassure you time to expand your outlook by getting might have neglected for too long. that you’re doing the right thing. out and around, whether you do some SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) As- TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) The tidy long-range travelling or just explore pects favour action in the workplace. Taurean needs to be a little more flexi- the great things to see closer to home. Line up your facts and show your su- ble about accepting some periors why you’re the one they’re looking for. CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS!changes to those carefully made CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Your hard work pays off on plans. You might be pleasantly # #surprised by what follows. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) the job. Personal relationships Consider stepping away from also can benefit from more of your concentrated focus on your your time and attention. Spend new project for a bit so you can the weekend with loved ones. get some perspective on what # AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) you’ve done and where you plan Early feedback on your project to take it. MAGGIE LAWSON CASEY AFFLECK JENNIFER LAWRENCE might be disappointing. But CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The AUG. 12, 1980 # AUG. 12, 1975 # AUG. 15, 1990 don’t be discouraged. Use it to understandably angry Crab make needed adjustments, BORN You have a wonderful sense of who you might not want to accept the THIS WEEK: are. You are a shining example to others. then submit it to your superi- reason why someone might have ors again. tried to hurt you. But at least you’ll LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Your wise PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Flattery have an insight into why it happened. counsel continues to be needed as that could lure the otherwise sensible Fish LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) There might family situation works itself out. Mean- into making an unwise decision. Be be some facts you still need to know be- while, the decisions you made on your careful. All that praise might be an at- fore leaping onto centre stage. Best to job begin to pay off quite nicely. tempt to reel you in before you can move carefully at this time so that you SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Your job learn the facts. August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 39

IDENTITYMISTAKEN A store holdup turns into a nightmare On March 28, 1978, Fred Ery, 26, the co-owner of Andy’s Carry-Out in Perrysburg, Ohio, was chatting with a customer. It was 9:30 p.m. and business was slow. Debra Koehler was the only customer in the store. hadn’t acted speedily enough. A shot rang out. Fred fell to She stood facing Fred with her back to the door. the floor as the masked man ran out the door. The friendly conversation was interrupted by a man bursting through the door waving a sawed- DYING DECLARATION off shotgun. The holdup man, wearing a blue jacket and ski mask, was a tall, blond individual who sent shivers up John Bondelier was the first police officer at the scene. and down Debra’s spine. The intruder shouted com- Fred was seriously wounded. Blood spread over the floor mands. Debra would later state she didn’t understand of the convenience store as Bondelier cradled the what he said, but thought Fred had either disagreed or wounded man’s head in his lap. He asked Fred if he knew the assailant. Fred whispered, “It looked like Buzz, but it couldn’t have been.” Police made inquiries around town and soon learned a man named Floyd Fay, who had been an occasional cus- tomer of Andy’s Carry-Out, was nicknamed Buzz. He im- mediately became a prime suspect in the shooting. Buzz Fay was located within a few hours of the shooting. He was asleep in his mobile home when the phone rang at 4:00 a.m. Some nut, thought Buzz, was on the other end of the line telling him that his home was surrounded by police. Debra and Fred’s friendly conversation was interrupted by a man bursting through the door waving a sawed-off shotgun. 40 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

MAX HAINES CRIME FLASHBACK Half asleep, he figured someone was playing a practical The subtle difference in wording was important. The joke on him or that a drunk had picked his name at ran- penalty for aggravated murder in Ohio at that time was dom out of a phone book. He slammed down the phone. It death. Poor Buzz. He was eager to take the test. rang again. This time Buzz was awake and fully grasped that this was no joke. A police officer commanded him to exit his home with his hands raised above his head. “BUZZ DID IT” Buzz Fay, 26, a robust six-foot two-inch blond, rubbed the sleep from his eyes, dressed and walked out of his home. Four police officers, with weapons drawn, were waiting. After they took him into custody, the officers proceeded to search his home. Buzz had no idea what they were looking for. Whatever it was, they didn’t find it. He was hustled off to jail, where he was told Fred Ery had died of his wounds. The scuttlebutt around the police sta- tion was that Fred had identified his killer as he lay on the floor near death. His state- When the prosecution offered a deal, Buzz jumped at it. ment, “It looked like Buzz, but it couldn’t He would submit to a polygraph test. If it indicated he have been,” had been shortened in the re- was telling the truth, the charges would be dropped. peated telling. Now it was reported as, “Buzz did it.” As far as the police were con- cerned, the victim had identified his killer. A check of You see, he knew he was innocent, so he didn’t have a Buzz’s background was disappointing. He was a carpen- worry in the world. The nightmare would soon be over. In ter of some reputation and was highly thought of by his a few days he would be joking with friends about the ter- employer. Buzz had no criminal record and had once at- rible mistake police had made. tended the University of Florida. A ski jacket was found in Buzz’s mobile home. It was UNEXPECTED RESULTS FOR BUZZ placed in a lineup with other jackets. Debra Koehler said Buzz failed the state’s polygraph test. He then took an she would remember the killer’s jacket if she saw it again. independent test. It too indicated he was lying. At trial, he She picked out two jackets she thought were similar to refused to plead guilty. The results of both polygraph tests the killer’s. Neither was the one taken from Buzz’s home. were used against him. On Aug. 11, 1978, Buzz was found guilty of aggravated murder, the equivalent of first-de- GUILTY AS SIN? gree murder in most states. By sheer luck, only a month All in all, the police hadn’t gathered a very strong case earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had declared Ohio’s death against Buzz and he knew it. When the prosecution of- penalty statute unconstitutional. Buzz was sentenced to fered a deal, Buzz jumped at it. He would submit to a life imprisonment. polygraph test conducted by the state. If it indicated he was telling the truth, the charges would be dropped. Should it indicate he was lying, another test would be conducted by an independent private operator. If the in- dependent operator’s test differed from the state’s, nei- ther would be used at the trial. There was more. If both test indicated he was lying, he could plead guilty and the polygraph tests would not be used against him. Should he, for any reason, refuse to plead guilty to murder, he would be charged with aggravated murder. Buzz failed the state’s polygraph test. He then took an independent test. It too indi- cated he was lying. At trial, the results of both polygraph tests were used against him. August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 41

CRIME FLASHBACK MAX HAINES In prison, Buzz went to work, attempting to prove his pealed to the Ohio Court of Appeals. On June innocence. He obtained the charts from the two polygraph 25, 1979, the court inexplicably confirmed his conviction. tests he had taken and sent them off to four of the country’s Four months later, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to top experts. hear his case. In the midst of Buzz’s legal battles, his lawyer was contacted by a man named James Sharp, who had quite a story to tell. A former friend, Clifford Markland, had been a lookout at the Ery killing. Sharp couldn’t care less that an innocent man was serving time for the killing. He wanted to get back at Markland, because his estranged wife was now living with Markland. Sharp even produced a tape that he had secretly recorded of Markland’s mother admitting that her son and two other men had been in on the Ery killing. THE REAL TRIGGERMAN Buzz’s lawyer checked out Markland. He learned that Markland was a small-time holdup man. His buddy, Ted Goodman, had an extensive Apparently, Ted Goodman had been the driver of gun collection. An old girlfriend of Markland’s the getaway car, and that a big blond hoodlum, told police he had been the lookout, Goodman William Quinn, had been the triggerman. had been the driver of the getaway car, and that a big blond hoodlum, William Quinn, had been the triggerman. The ex-girlfriend gave the lawyer the They were unanimous in declaring that neither of the name of another individual, who backed up her statement tests proved that Buzz was lying. In addition, all agreed about the three men. The new evidence was presented to that the tests were conducted incompetently. the appropriate prosecutor, who realized a miscarriage of justice had taken place. Quinn was easily located. He was BUZZ’S LEGAL BATTLES serving time on a drug charge. All concerned were Because the tests were flawed, the experts agreed the amazed at his startling resemblance to Buzz Fay. jury should not have been informed of the tests or their Goodman was traced to the U.S. Army in Germany. The results. At the time he took the tests, Buzz, like many county prosecutor, accompanied by a detective, flew to people, believed they were infallible. Later, he realized Germany and made a deal with Goodman. He was offered that the conditions under which the tests were conducted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testi- and the competence of the operator were crucial in de- mony. He confirmed that Quinn had been the triggerman termining the results. and Markland the lookout. Buzz’s lawyer filed a motion In Buzz’s case, the results of the tests were the domi- asking for his client’s release. The presiding judge, when nant factor in the jury finding him guilty. There was so faced with the preponderance of evidence pointing to little other evidence against him that, without the test re- Buzz’s innocence, immediately ordered his release. Good- sults it is quite possible that Buzz would never have stood man was never charged with any crime. Quinn and Mark- trial. With the assistance of a public defender, Buzz ap- land pleaded guilty to the charge of murder and were sentenced to a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of life imprisonment. Buzz Fay was released from prison after serving two and a half years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Had he been tried more promptly, he would have been sentenced to death. In 1988, he re- ceived $25,000 compensation for his time spent in prison. Buzz Fay was released from prison after serving two and a half years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Had he been tried more promptly, he would have been sentenced to death. 42 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

H“TIHTSE TBHIGEMSUTASIGCE” THE NEWFOUNDLAND HERALD: ON THE SCENE THE WATERBOYS Any band that has a hit single titled Fish- ermans Blues is a guaranteed hit for music fans in this province. When word spread that The Waterboys, composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England, would be performing in this province for the first time ever, fans of the six piece band went wild. The Waterboys didn’t disappoint, and for two nights they held audiences captive at the Holy Heart Theatre. If seeing The Waterboys perform wasn’t enough, then the fact that local duo the Fortunate Ones were opening sealed the deal. LEGENDARY JAZZ GUITARIST John Scofield’s guitar work has influenced jazz since the ’70s and judging from his re- cent performance in this province, it is still going strong today. Possessor of a very dis- tinctive sound and stylistic diversity, Scofield is a masterful jazz improviser whose music has been described as falling somewhere be- tween post-bop, funk edged jazz, and R & B. Scofield, who toured and recorded with Miles Davis, was here for the Wreckhouse Interna- tional Jazz and Blues Festival. Organizers said they were “proud to present one of the greatest jazz guitarists of (Scofield’s) genera- tion.” They also called him a “living legend.” That wasn’t simply faint praise. This veteran BY HERALD STAFF; PHOTOS BY BUD GAULTON of the jazz world has recorded on over 30 dif- ferent albums, collaborated with music leg- Any band (namely the Waterboys) that has a hit ends like Herbie Hancock, Joe Lovano, and single titled Fishermans Blues is a guaranteed hit Bill Frissell. Local audiences welcomed him for music fans in this province. warmly. JOHN SCHOFIELD The Wreckhouse International Jazz and Blues Festival organizers said they were “Proud to present one of the greatest jazz guitarists of (Scofield’s) generation.” August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 43

TASTES OF NEWFOUNDLAND BY JANICE KEELS [email protected] HOT OFF THE GRILL: Kabobs are super quick to prepare and make for a filling summertime meal The whole premise of having a wonderful summer is to sit back, relax and take time to enjoy life. We still far more than our share of hot, humid weather. There is have work, camps and summer activities to bring still lots of summer left to enjoy and with any amount of our children to but there isn’t as much chauffeuring nec- luck, Mother Nature will be kind and grace us with lots essary during summer as there is throughout fall and more great weather. We are hoping that this fabulous winter. We try to fit in as many day trips to the beach, summer weather will continue well into autumn. parks and trails as we can. We use the warm summer days to get out and explore much of our beautiful province. It is with this hope that I went searching for some We also try to relax and sit back and enjoy life. quick and easy meals for the grill. Taken from Campbell’s Easy Summer Recipes here are two kabob recipes that We’ve been blessed with an abundance of sunshine and are sure to curb any appetite without having you spend hours over a hot stove. HERBED CHICKEN KABOBS 1 envelope dry onion 1/4 tsp. pepper 1 green pepper, cut soup mix 1/8 tsp. garlic powder into one-inch 1 lb. skinless, bone- squares 1/2 cup water 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil less chicken 1 red pepper, cut 1/2 tsp. dried thyme breasts, cut into into one-inch one-inch pieces squares leaves, crushed In glass bowl, combine first six ingredients. Add chicken; toss. Cover; chill at least one hour. Remove chicken; reserve marinade. On four 10-inch skewers, thread chicken and peppers. Grill kabobs directly on grill, uncovered, or until chicken is no longer pink, turning often and brushing with marinade. TERIYAKI PORK KABOBS 2 Tbsp. cornstarch 1/4 tsp. garlic powder 12 medium fresh 1 14.5 oz. can ready- 1/4 tsp. ground ginger mushrooms to-serve beef broth 1 lb. boneless pork 1 large red onion, 2 Tbsp. soy sauce loin, cut into one- cut into 12 wedges 1 Tbsp. brown sugar inch pieces 4 cherry tomatoes In saucepan, stir together first six ingredients until smooth. Over medium heat, cook until mixture boils, stirring constantly. On four 10-inch skewers thread pork, mushrooms and onion. Grill kabobs directly on grill, uncovered, for about 20 minutes or until pork is no longer pin, turning and brushing with sauce. Place tomatoes on kabobs. Heat remaining sauce to boiling. Serve wit kabobs and hot cooked rice. Garnish with fresh chives. 44 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

BABY OF THE YEAR ENTRY FORM THIS WEEK’S WINNERS Baby’s Name OH GIRL! OH BOY! Parents’ Name(s) Residential Address Child’s birthdate MF Telephone number QUINN MERNER GRAYSON MacDONALD Please note: If family members other than par- Daughter of Autumn and Son of Sylvia and Andrew ents send photo of child, you must include a Mitchell Merner, Glovertown MacDonald, Petty Harbour written permission slip from parents or the child’s guardian. Send your completed entry HONOURABLE MENTIONS form and photograph to: Claire Payne Cayden Foote Georgia Royal BABY OF THE YEAR CONTEST Kelligrews Mount Pearl St. John’s c/o The Newfoundland Herald A THOUSAND SMILES P.O. Box 2015 Send in your child’s candid St. John’s, NL, A1C 5R7 moments and share your family’s or email [email protected] happiest moments with our readers. RULES & REGULATIONS SMOTHERED IN KISSES! Enter your baby’s picture in the annual New- Isaiah, son of Sarah and Derrick Rogers, Hare foundland Herald Baby of the Year Contest. Fill Bay, obviously got plenty of kisses from out the entry form above and send us a recent Mommy before this adorable pic was taken! photograph of your baby. Or you can email in- formation and a high-res photo to lslaney@nfld- herald.com. Babies must be under the age of two by Dec. 31, 2013. Two babies – a boy and a girl – will qualify every week. Our Baby of the Year will be chosen from all weekly qualifiers. The overall winner will appear on the cover of the first issue of The Newfoundland Herald in 2014. CONTEST RULES: • Babies must be under the age of two by Dec. 31, 2013 (born in 2012 or 2013). • Photos must be larger than wallet size, be clear and unobstructed (the less accessories the better). • No photos will be returned. • Photos must be received on or before Oct. 31, 2013. • Employees and immediate family members of The Newfoundland Herald and its affili- ated companies are not eligible to enter. • Winning babies must reside in Newfoundland and Labrador. • You may enter as often as you wish, though once your child is chosen as our weekly win- ner, they aren’t eligible to win again. • The judges’ decision is final. August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 45

SOAP TALK A SNEAK PEEK AT THE LATEST NEWS RECAPS BY FROM NEWFOUNDLAND ’S TOP SOAPS DANA BLOCK Just as fans settled into the idea of having Eileen Davidson her back, Days of Lives veteran Eileen ence in Salem until at least November of 2013. Davidson (Kristen DiMera) is off again. “The Kristen story wrap-up is just fantas- Davidson returned in 2012 after a 14-year- hiatus from Days, although in that time she tic; she was just glorious,” Corday told Soap also appeared as Ashley Abbott on The Young Opera Digest. No bad blood apparent here and the Restless. though, as Davidson took to Facebook to con- firm her departure from the show. “I have in- Not only is Davidson leaving, she’s already deed left [Days of our Lives]. I’m taking some gone as Days executive producer Dan Corday time off to enjoy my family, however I am not confirmed that she wrapped her final scenes retiring. But I am looking forward to figuring on July 16. The scenes were taped well ahead it out! Thanks to all of you for your support of time, so fans will be seeing Kristen’s pres- and love. I’ve had an incredible time on DOOL this year.” THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS have a lot of common interests. Liam became suspicious of Wyatt’s intentions. Caroline withheld distribution of Jack planned on proposing to Phyllis if she was re- “Room 8” from Rafael unless he helped her get Rick back. leased from the hospital. A bartender remembered seeing With Forrester Creations in jeopardy, Eric gave Rick a Neil with Rose back in 2007. Cane was accused of being a goal that he must achieve in order to remain president of hypocrite after bringing Hilary with him on a business the company. Wait to see: Donna feels caught between trip. Daniel returned to Genoa City to visit Phyllis. Noah her two sisters. told Summer that he didn’t care what a DNA test said and that they’ll always be brother and sister. Leslie suggested GENERAL HOSPITAL to Neil that he undergo hypnosis to get his memory back. Wait to see: Jill told Hilary to stay away from Cane. Michael admitted to Carly that he was attracted to Kiki. While Molly was hopeful that she could patch DAYS OF OUR LIVES things up with TJ, Alexis was resolute that her Sami was touched when Lucas and Will relationship with Shawn was over. When Rafe showed their support. Chad was thrown when heard of the potential reconciliation, he told Stefano gave his word as a DiMera that he did Molly that he was the right guy for her. Mor- not send Bernardi in to kill Rafe. Cameron con- gan asked Michael to be his best man. Silas sulted with Kayla about Chad’s CT scan. Will decided to find out for himself whether or not worried that he was preventing Sonny from liv- Kiki was really his daughter. Duke told Anna ing to his true potential. JJ used his Uncle Lucas to his concerns about the Jerome family. Ava and get what he wanted. Theresa tried to get to know Derek met – evidently not for the first time. Wait Daniel better, while Jennifer wondered if she was doing the right thing by pushing Daniel away. to see: Port Charles is shocked by front-page Wait to see: Theresa has a new ally. news. THE BOLD AND THE ALL MY CHILDREN BEAUTIFUL Online: Angie tried to reach Cas- Feeling as though his sandra before she made a life-al- mother betrayed him, Wyatt tering decision? Someone posted packed up his belongings and moved out of the home. Jesse’s bail, but there was a catch. Brooke called Katie to tell Miranda found herself drifting her about the recent addi- even further from AJ. Colby tion to the Spencer clan. Over a family dinner, Bill made a drastic move that will learned that he and Wyatt turn Celia’s night at the big Chandler Media Gala upside Liam became suspi- down. cious of WYATT’s intentions, this ONE LIFE TO LIVE week on The Bold and the Beautiful. Online: Viki was horrified to see the depths that Clint had sunk to. Matthew became uneasy with both Dani and Destiny’s new relationships. Dorian figured out that Jack might be seeing someone. 46 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013

HJOilLlLJYaWcksOonO’sD STRANGE… BUT TRUEBYSAMANTHAWEAVER T BY TONY RIZZO he Lone Ranger was taken It was George Bernard Shaw who made out of production because of the following observation: “The longer I its original $300 million live the more I see that I am never wrong price tag. Johnny Depp’s Pirates of about anything, and that all the pains the Caribbean films grossed bil- that I have so humbly taken to verify my lions of dollars for Disney; even notions have only wasted my time.” so, execs should have gone with their first instinct on this one. Those who keep Jerry Bruckheimer cut $50 mil- track of such things say that the lion from the budget to get Disney Rolling Stones’ song Satisfaction to put it back into production. is played on the radio in North JOHNNY DEPP Still, didn’t the mouse house America more than 300 times every day. think $250 million was too much for a Western? How much can horses, open range, a couple of actors to play One of the most notorious bad guys and a mask for the title character cost? And magic tricks performed by what about that outlandish make-up Depp chose for professionals is catching a bullet in the mouth. Tonto? People complained they had to look away every It’s said to be cursed, due to the fact that, over the time he had a close-up. When Disney balked at Depp’s past 400 or so years, at least 15 magicians have over-the-top Jack Sparrow in The Pirates of the died in the attempt. Some of them mistakenly Caribbean, he refused to tone it down. They were relieved used live rounds instead of blanks, and one jeal- when Jack Sparrow was applauded. Shooting The Lone ous wife swapped out the blanks for live rounds. Ranger cost $250 million, while promoting it cost $150 One of the earliest attempters of the trick was million (for a total of $400 million). But it made less than beaten to death by a mob who believed he was in $124 million worldwide, and with little interest overseas, league with the devil. Cursed, though? If some- no wonder it’s considered a bomb. one is trying to catch a bullet in the mouth, it hardly requires a curse to result in a violent end. • Aug. 12, 1856: Anthony Fass patents the accordion. You might recall Glenn Ford, • Aug. 12, 1964: Charlie Wilson, part of the gang who pulled an actor from Hollywood’s Golden off the 1963 Great Train Robbery, one of the biggest heists of Era, from such films as 3:10 to Yuma, its kind, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, Blackboard Jungle and The Big Heat. England. Several men broke into the maximum-security fa- You probably didn’t know, though, cility to free Wilson, who was finally recaptured in Canada that when he was born in Quebec he in 1968. was named Gwyllyn Samuel Newton • Aug. 12, 1992: Canada, Mexico and the United States an- Ford. The inspiration for his stage nounce completion of negotiations for the North American name was the town of Glenford, Al- Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). berta, his father’s hometown. • Aug. 13, 1977: Randy Bachman quits BTO and they dis- Originally, the best man was supposed to serve as a band. sort of armed guard, in case the bride needed to be kid- • Aug. 15, 1960: CFL’s Calgary Stampeders move into McMa- napped from her disapproving parents. hon Stadium Modern dietary trends notwith- • Aug. 16, 1958: Madonna Louise Ciccone, the entertainment standing, raw vegetables have not al- ways enjoyed the healthsome icon later known around the world by her first reputation they now have. In me- name only, is born near Detroit. The dieval times, in fact, provocative performer, who often tack- veggies would al- led sexual and religious themes in her ways be cooked; raw work, also became famous for her ever- ones were considered to changing hairstyles and fashion sense, be bad for the humours. as well as her personal life. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.” – Dorothy Fuldheim August 11, 2013 The Newfoundland Herald 47

THE NEWFOUNDLAND PUZZLES & BRAIN TEASERSHERALD’S WEEKLY EACH WEEK TRAIN YOUR BRAIN WITH CLEVER PUZZLES! Unscramble the countries in Part 1 and match them with the appropriate fact about them in Part 2? – braingle.com PART 1: 1. HCAIN; 2. GRIINAE; 3. PAJNA; 4. SUKTROOAEH; 5. MIKUDITDNENGO; 6. HUFAIORSACT; 7. MNAAORI. PART 2: 1. The world’s most populous country. 4. The capital of this country is Seoul. 6. The capital of this country is 2. The capital of this country is Abuja. 5. This country is a great industrial Pretoria. 3. This is the only country to ever suf- power despite the fact that it must 7. Dracula’s home, Transylvania, is in fer an attack with atomic weapons. import many resources. this country. STICKELERS SNOWFLAKES ANSWER: There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Figure B. Place the numbers 1-6 around each of them. Answers – 1. China; 2. Nigeria; 3. Japan; 4. South Korea; 5. United Kingdom; 6. South Africa; 7. Romania.No number can be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle. © 2013 King Features Syndicate. All rights reserved. © 2013 King Features Syndicate. All rights reserved. CryptoQuote ANSWERS/SOLUTIONS To check your answers, flip this © 2013 King Features Synd., Inc. page upside down. 48 The Newfoundland Herald August 11, 2013