Profile of Gavin Simms

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• Building bridges
  Soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces and Reserves helped link up communities in the Trouty to Bonaventure area last week by building this ...
• Nearly a done deal
  It's pretty well a done deal. At its regular meeting on March 30, Clarenville council made a motion to adopt its new municipal plan. The ...
• Charlottetown residents stage Good Friday protest
  Big Trout Pond was the site of a peaceful protest last Friday. Over 150 residents of Charlottetown brought signs and information pamphlets to ...
• It's showtime
  The ghost of the Garrick Theatre has waited in the wings long enough. Come April 5 the spirit of the cinema will be brought back to life under a ...
• Another struggle
  Crab fishermen in Bonavista are once again stuck idling between a rock and the hard Atlantic sea. "Same ol' go every year," says skipper Terry ...
• Seeking a right of way
  Charlottetown is surrounded on three sides by Terra Nova National Park. The fourth side is ocean. The small town sits in the centre of the park, ...
• Hobo without a home
• Mandolin Man
  His fingertips slide past the frets of his elderly instrument like a storm over the ocean, making not a wave. Hands, that once chorded ...
• 'Our hearts are there'
  None of them will ever be the same again. The five Bonavista women who recently embarked on a missionary trip to Uganda returned with a weight ...
• Ghosts of Bonavista
  Wilson Hayward of Bonavista has never seen a ghost, but he's heard enough stories about them to believe. "Years ago, a lot of people would be ...
• Art of Amherst Cove
  There's a house in Upper Amherst Cove that a colony of puffins calls home. They're made of fabric, not feathers, and are the creation of textile ...
• Blake's battle
  "I didn't know why I was sick," young Blake Shelley of Bonavista admits. Fresh out of the Janeway hospital, where he spent six months being ...
• Bonavista man carves himself a new life
  Sometimes salvation falls straight out of the sky. And it's a matter of being there to catch it. A man's saving grace can come from any ...
• Temporary pain
  Felix Dooley of Sweet Bay is soured. As the result of a recent injury he sustained, Dooley's left arm limits him to what he can physically do. ...
• Two by-elections in the making
  Bonavista - With six seats to fill on Bonavista's council, eight would-be councillors will be disappointed come election day. While last 2005's ...
• In Otter News
  It's not a glamorous job. But someone's got to do it. Last week biologists at Terra Nova Park embarked on a North American river otter ...
• Seniors and 50 Plus Club share their stories
  Memories don't last forever. And so the Trinity North Seniors and 50 Plus Club have compiled a book of old stories aptly titled Childhood ...
• Mill money
  "My dad always told me, 'don't worry about what's behind you, worry about what's in front of you'." Kevin Sexton, President of Sexton Lumber ...
• To the ground
  An investigation is continuing into a house that burned to the ground along the boundary between Musgravetown and Bunyan's Cove Aug 26.. The ...
• Harry's fire
  Harry O'Gay is one of 12,000 around the world. When the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay reaches Clarenville on Nov. 14, he will carry the ...
• Hard road easy
  Life must go on. Earle Adams is a testament. His only son, Patrick, was killed in a motorcycle accident July 24, 2008. Earle has since grappled ...
• Green invaders return
  Extensive, criminal, worrisome, huge, serious, problem... A few of the choice words FFAW Projects Manager Harvey Jarvis uses to describe the ...
• The Novaks are coming!
  Arts Under the Stars will wrap up a week later than scheduled this year. An Aug. 20 show has been added to the bill for The Novaks who were ...
• Slipping through the Net
  "You will never see these small communities grow if we don't get the broadband." Anne Barker, who lived in the small community of Open Hall, ...
• On schedule
  It's on schedule. Frazer Russell, chair of council's finance committee and chair of the Regional Arts and Recreation Centre Corporation, has ...
• Where fishing matters
  Southern Harbour goes quietly about its business, if only because its business is fishing. With over 50 boats tied up at its shores, the town ...
• Leon's life
  About town - It's early in the afternoon and Leon Ivany's slowly lifting the liquor out of his soup. He's quietly on edge about a neighbour who ...
• Picture plants
  Vida Simon swears she recently heard a flower squeal as she removed it from the ground. For the past few weeks, Simon, a visual artist from ...
• To the dogs
  The old ball field out along the Trans-Canada Highway has gone to the dogs. Clarenville Town Council has committed to turning the once busy ...
• Life off the land
  Like most people, Gordon Lambert has a bathtub in his house. Unlike most people, he has 66 in his backyard. They're his garden. Each tub is a ...