Profile of Rudy Norman

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• Community Greenhouse Underway
  It's been widely reported and publicized that Actor/Comedian and Burlington native, Shaun Majumder, has a big plan for his hometown in rural ...
• Meeting the Cake Boss
  Carla Saunders has had a love for baking all her life, she says. Although, with a full-time job of being a mother to two young children, she ...
• Untapped Potential
  A study released recently as a joint venture by the Office of Applied Research with College of the North Atlantic, in partnership with the ...
• Showing his true colours
  It was a moment of time that life-long fans like Brad Doody were waiting so long for. At the end of last year's NHL playoffs, the Boston Bruins ...
• Pine Cove Officially Opens
  It was a dream that turned into an initiative, which took over 20 years to become a reality. Last week, Anaconda Mining officially opened their ...
• Not such a big deal
  The owner of one of the largest vegetation control companies in Eastern Canada is saying that the ban on cosmetic pesticides, set to come into ...
• Just like family
  It’s a long way from the streets of Toronto and Halifax to the gravel roads and no-lined pavement of Burlington.
• Money for Fire Departments
  Fire and Emergency Services are a growing concern for many communities in rural Newfoundland and Labrador, since access to funding for ...
• New Fire Truck for Ming’s Bight
  It’s been a hard fought battle, and one that the people of Ming’s Bight haven’t been willing to settle of for quite some time. That community ...
• Municipal Act changes mean improvements, says...
  It’s the rules and guidelines that govern every municipality in the province. The Municipalities Act is what towns and cities in Newfoundland and ...
• Bringing home the hardware
  The Newfoundland and Labrador Special Olympic Summer Games were held earlier this month in and two teams from Baie Verte participated, all while ...
• Local lawyer receives big honour
  It’s an honour bestowed to a mere 15 per cent of lawyers in the country, and now a local man can add his name to the prestigious list. Minister ...
• Tempers flare during town meeting
  Baie Verte Town Council says they’ve been working diligently with the provincial government to try and improve the town’s infrastructure since ...
• New fire hall, community centre for Baie Verte
  It was all cheers and celebration last week when MHA Kevin Pollard stood in front of a few hundred people at the 24th Annual Mining Conference ...
• Expressing “high interest”
  While he hasn’t reached a definite answer yet, a well known name in provincial politics has come forward and expressed what he calls “high ...
• Moose problem
  It’s a topic of conversation and complaints from people all over the province: the moose on our highways have dominated discussions for years, ...
• King of the Indian River
  He lives in a house that quite possibly is one of the oldest in Springdale, and maybe all of Green Bay, for that matter, he says. Built in 1901, ...
• Saved by the beep
  A fire in Seal Cove has destroyed much of a residence, but a woman is still alive today thanks to her smoke detector. Winston Maye, mayor of Seal ...
• Boil-up
  It’s a common phrase in rural Newfoundland and Labrador: the term boil order. It’s one that’s become familiar to just about every resident of an ...
• Cautiously optimistic
  It’s been over a year now since the Baie Verte Volunteer Fire Department lost its fire hall to the devastating fire last February. Since then, ...
• Faith amidst the rubble
  Slave Lake, Alberta, is the scene of utter destruction and chaos after wildfires swept through the town of under 10,000 people, and destroyed ...
• Economic initiatives
  The Emerald Zone Corporation is giving Majumder Manor two thumbs up. Randy Regular, economic development officer for the corporation, was in ...
• Social tourism
  Tourism operators from all over the Emerald Zone recently gathered at the Riverwood Inn in Springdale to talk about the latest emerging ...
• Feeling the warmth
  There are thousands of people in Newfoundland and Labrador who have been touched in some way by cancer and in turn could use a little bit of ...
• First time for everything
  The Baie Verte Minor Hockey Association had some new faces in their ranks this year – and they’re all very different from what they’re used to. ...
• Trades: Women wanted
  In Newfoundland and Labrador the need to find work and the difficulty doing so for apprentice trades people is at an all-time high. For whatever ...
• Can’t be stopped
  With the NHL playoffs well underway, the entire country is hockey crazy, it seems. The buzz around the living rooms and pubs from coast to coast ...
• Rising from the ashes
  It was a tragedy of epic proportions, and for a Port Anson man, it was a nightmare that became reality. On Sunday of last week at approximately ...
• A wish came true
  Hedley Rideout says his son, Jesse, has always been interested in electronics of all sorts. “No matter what it was, whether it was an iPhone, or ...
• The final salute
  The last remaining World War II Veteran on the Baie Verte Peninsula has fought his last battle. Ewen Gillingham passed away last week at the age ...