Profile of Barbara Dean-Simmons

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• May 24 campers wake up to snow
  Campers who headed out to local parks to enjoy the May 24 long weekend woke up this morning to snow. The hardest hit area was central ...
• Adjusting the course
  "Ultimately, the impact of any attempt to reform education must be measured by the effects on students." So began the conclusion of a 1994 report ...
• Bonavista man dies while vacationing in Dominican...
  A Bonavista man in his late 40s has died in Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, while snorkeling with family and friends who were vacationing ...
• Celebrating 45 Years
  Today is a momentous occasion for The Packet. It’s the 45th anniversary for the community newspaper that’s covered the news and events in ...
• National and Atlantic Awards for The Packet
  Maggie Pippy of Champney’s West is in the running for a national newspaper award. Pippy, a high schooler who occasionally supplies photos for the ...
• The real legacy
  Do you hear that? It's the sound of public confidence shattering. These past few weeks ... government has proven to be not so wise and savvy as ...
• Further explanation needed
  "The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regularly consults with a broad array of industry, employer, community, special interest, the ...
• Seeking resolutions
  Unfortunately, however, a lot of the debate up until early this week was still based on speculation and hearsay. Two of the people are the centre ...
• Falling rocks near Hillview
  RCMP wish to advise motorists travelling on the Trans Canada Highway, east of Hillview, in Clarenville area that rocks and debris have been noted ...
• Biggest ever
  It began Friday afternoon and by the time the last medals were handed out, it was midnight on Saturday. The Clarenville Middle and High School ...
• How you can help us
  We're mind-readers. In fact, whenever we hire a reporter one of the first questions we ask is, "Can you read minds? Can you predict things before ...
• Roads slippery in Clarenville area
  Road conditions in and around Clarenville area are slippery this morning. Snow is still falling and Environment Canada is forecasting 5 cm to ...
• Well deserved
  She was awarded for her "fortitude and conviction in a fight that led to 58 widowed women gaining access to the pension benefits of their ...
• Beware the cracks
  Marlene Giersdorf is the example of what may happen to some people under the new Employment Insurance regulations. The single mother staged a ...
• Winter storm still battering island
  The power is still out in many areas of the island portion of the province and blowing snow are making for poor road conditions right through the ...
• St. Mark's students help others sleep better
• To 2013... and beyond
  It's a safe bet the majority of children in Newfoundland and Labrador this year received some kind of electronic device for Christmas. They're ...
• So now that you have extra time...
  So all the hype around the great Mayan mystery proved to be false. The world, as you know by now, did not end on Dec. 21. The predictions around ...
• Heavy snowfall creates driving hazards
  Motorists are warned of terrible driving conditions in the Clarenville area today, after more than 20 cm of snow fell on the area overnight. The ...
• They've saved their school
  Friends of Catalina Elementary scored a victory tonight. Their weeks of diligent protest against a recommendation to close the school and bus ...
• From our perspective
  To begin this editorial, we first of all offer our sincere condolences to the family of the 23-year-old woman who was killed in a motor vehicle ...
• Mummers, musicians and a jolly old man
  It was, by most estimates, the biggest Santa Claus Parade ever held in Clarenville. The parade stretched for at least a kilometer, from beginning ...
• Caribous defeat Cee Bees
  The Clarenville Caribous posted a 4-2 win over the Conception Bay North Cee Bee Stars at Harbour Grace this evening. The Caribous led 1-2 after ...
• Region hit with first snowfall
  The Clarenville region got its first taste of winter this week. Wednesday night, the area saw about 5 cm of snow mixed with rain, making for ...
• The missing pieces
  There's simply not enough information in the 24 pages of the Eastern School Board's "Multi-Year Plan 2011-14" to understand the reasoning behind ...
• Dear mother
  Fred Roper was one of several young men from Bonavista who enlisted in the First World War. He was the youngest son of Magistrate John J. and ...
• Time doesn't heal
  It was 55 years ago but Emma Drodge can still vividly remember the day she learned her older brother, Wilson, wouldn’t be coming home. She was ...
• Not just a number
  For every bit of reasoning and study that supports one argument, there is certain to be an equally logical study that supports the opposing ...
• Three-point weekend for Caribous
  It was a three-point weekend for the Clarenville Caribous in their first home games of the regular season of the Senior Hockey League. Arch ...
• Caribous, Cee Bees even up weekend series
  If this weekend is a sample, fans of the Cee Bees and Caribous are in for a season of high drama anytime these two face off. Fans at the Sunday ...