There were plenty of eager faces filling up the Reid Community Centre in Mount Pearl this past Sunday.
Hacking Mount Pearl was a three-day event that took place at the Reid Community Centre throughout the weekend of Nov. 1 to Nov. 3.
The event saw teams ranging in sizes and skillsets aim to tackle any one issue from a list provided by the city of Mount Pearl.
These topics ranged from things like climate change and emission control, to citizen communication. Some teams even attempted to take on issues that they recognized within the City, such as the public transportation system.
Greg O’Grady, chair of the Newfoundland and Labrador Stuttering Association (NLSA), was in Mount Pearl City Hall Oct. 15 as the City declared Oct. 22 International Stuttering Awareness Day in the City of Mount Pearl.
O’Grady, a Gander native, organised “A Million Things I Need to Say”, a fundraising walk and run in 2012 while living in Ontario as a means of giving back to the Speech and Stuttering Institute of Toronto, where he had received treatment.
Monday night, Oct. 22, as you know, Canadians voted in the forty-third Canadian election.
Trudeau will be returning as Prime Minster, with his Liberals holding 157 seats— a loss of 27 seats from 2015, but still enough to form a minority government.
The Conservatives under Andrew Scheer earned 121 seats, an increase of 22 seats from 2015, but did manage to win the popular vote, winning 34.4 per cent of Canadians’ vote against the Liberals 33.1 per cent (which will likely stir debate about Canada’s electoral system, and who the Canadians truly want to lead the country).
For the last several months, Jane Green and Todd Skiffington’s basement has been filled with body parts.
Eighteen in total, and they’ve been growing them in jars.
They’ve since taken those bottles of fully-grown body parts and strewn them across their yard.
But if you pull up to their home on Sunrise Avenue, or happen to drive by, you might not notice them right away.
David Jones is one of a kind in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Literally.
He is the province’s only Christian Heritage Party (CHP) candidate.
“It’s too bad we don’t have candidates in the other six districts, but we don’t… so I’m hoping to make a difference if I get in,” said Jones from his Mount Pearl home.
While campaigning, Jones’ message is loud and clear.
Autumn, with its chill wind blowing, colourful fall leaves crunching underfoot, and jack-o-lanterns grinning from door stoops, seems a perfect time to tell ghost stories.
It’s the memory of crisp fall days and spooky October nights that inspired Mount Pearl author Geraldine Ryan Lush to publish Haunted Towns: Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador, a collection of ghost stories and paranormal tales from across the province.
The Mount Pearl – Paradise Chamber of Commerce hosted it’s annual job fair at the Reid Centre on Sept. 24.
16 different businesses and organizations, ranging from Tim Hortons to the Town of Paradise, had booths set up to meet potential employees.
“At the end of the day it really comes down to connecting people who are looking for employment with employers,” explained chamber president Dave Halliday.
Terry Martin of Southlands said that after mulling over the idea of a candidacy in the federal election, the passing of Bill C-69 was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Bill C-69, the “Impact Assessment Act.” would impose stricter environmental measures on Canada’s resource sector.
Mount Pearl— Southlands NDP candidate Anne Marie Anonsen says she has two responses to the question posed at the door, ‘Why should I vote for you?’
“I think I have been doing, all my life, work that has led me to here and now. I have been championing for people all my life. I’ve gotten really used to finding out what’s the real problem that’s stopping this person. It’s almost always political,” said Anonsen. “I know what people are up against. I know that fixes are possible. And I really know that those fixes are in the 109 pages of commitments that Jagmeet Singh is putting out there.”
The Mount Pearl Soccer Association (MPSA) Boys Under 13 team are the champions. The boys won the Newfoundland and Labrador Soccer Association NLSA Premier Youth League championship on Sunday August 25th.