HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.
Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay "them."
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain be idle. "An idle mind is the devil's
workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen..... Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who
is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets,
keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,
improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next
county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away.
We all need to live life to its fullest each day!!
FRESHWATER BAY (Bonavista) - A very picturesque inlet on the west side of Bonavista Bay. The great Northern mail road in process of construction passes the head of the bay, but it is not sufficiently made for travelling. The Gambo Ponds discharge their waters into this bay through the Gambo brook, and the land is well wooded. Distance from Salvage by boat 23 miles. Mail weekly. Population 55(Excerpt from Lowell's Newfoundland Directory 1898).
Monday, May 28, 2007
How to stay young
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Do you really know how to send emails
“News From Roderick”
Sunday, May 27, 2007
This came to me direct from a system administrator for
a corporate system.It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails.
Please read the short letter below ..
Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer.Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit.That's right, all of that over a nickel! How do you stop it?
Well, there are two easy steps:
(1)When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message(at the top). That's right, DELETE them. High light them and delete them, backspace them, cut them,whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes asecond.You MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the
message.If you don't click on "Forward" first,
you won't be able to edit the message at all.
(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one
person, do NOT use the To: or Cc:columns for adding
e-mail address. Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy)
column for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the
way that people you send to only see their own e-mail
address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on
where it says To: and your address list will appear.
Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it,
it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your message
will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients in the
"TO:" field of the people who receive it.
(3) Remove any "FW:" in the subject line. You can
re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.
(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual
e-mail your reading. Ever get those e-mails that you
have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the
information on it? (Sister Janet put this one on the map)
By Forwarding from the actual page
you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to
open many e-mails just to see what you sent.
Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It
states a position and asks you to add your name and
address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your
entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and
on and can collect thousands of names and email
addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually
worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer
because of the wealth of valid names and email
addresses contained therein. If you want to support
the petition, send it as your own personal letter to
the intended recipient. Your position may carry more
weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of
names and email address on a petition.
So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses
Roderick B
Toronto
Friday, May 18, 2007
Gambo
the rights to these rivers.
By 1836 there were permanent settlers in
The earliest settlers in the area probably came to
In the Nineteenth Century salmon wardens regularly reported on the progress of this fishery and commented particularly on over-fishing. The fishery was prosecuted mainly by fishing servants who, having fished the brooks over a period of years, were regarded as the independent, sole proprietors of these waters. It was highly competitive, and even large firms jostled for the right to exclusive ownership with the year-round inhabitants of the brook sides. In 1856 it was noted by an irate warden, who supported the local fishery, that “at Gambo or Fresh Water Bay there are three considerable Brooks discharging into it their waters, viz: Gambo Brook, Middle and Taverner’s Brook . . . the heads of which no one but the occupier of the Brooks should be permitted to fish for salmon” (JHA: 1857, App. p. 345).
Settlers in the Gambo area .by 1871 were Edward Barrow, David, Jacob, Joseph and James Golong (Goulding), Alfred Inder, Jacob and Robert Oakley, Samuel Pretty and Job, John, James and William Pritchett, all fishermen (Lovell’s Newfoundland Directory: 1871). Most of these family names have earlier associations with Greenspond qv (E.R. Seary: 1976), and the Greenspond firm of Brooking and Company was known to be active in the salmon fishery. According to Seary the Pritchett family reputedly settled at Domino Point (Dominion Point),
1832.
One source of local oral tradition (M. Pond: 1973, p. 3) maintains that the first inhabitants of the Gambo area were a Micmac family named Joe, who were encamped at
Five male members of the Pritchett family were listed as salmon fishermen on the
Between 1876 and 1906 Gambo changed from a small fishing-farming area to a bustling group of communities with large sawmills and a burgeoning population. In 1878 a family from St. Brendan’s dammed a small pond at Dark Cove and built a sawmill. A second family from Greenspond settled at Doleman’s Point, Middle Brook, and a sawmill was constructed which utilized the waters of Middle Brook for power.
The beginning of commercial lumbering in the Gambo area in the 1870s was the drawing card for many settlers from the older headlands and island communities of
from 1870 to roughly 1920, and from 1955 to 1965. As related, families from St. Brendan’s and Greenspond moved to Dark Cove and Middle Brook in the 1870s. In 1892 the railway running north from Placentia Junction reached Gambo and roads were constructed by 1894 linking Dark Cove, Middle Brook and Gambo. After fire destroyed the Mint Brook mill in 1907, the residents of that community abandoned it and moved to Gambo. During this era increasing local and world markets for timber, the coming of the railway and Gambo’s increasing importance as a regional administrative and service centre, attracted other new residents. In 1891 Middle Brook numbered ninety-three people; Dark Cove had thirty residents and Gambo River seventy-nine (Census). By 1911 Gambo had 344 residents (many from Mint Brook), Dark Cove had 242 and Middle Brook had a population of 281. The next major rise in population occurred in the 1950s, when twenty Bragg’s Island families resettled in Dark Cove mainly in three areas, known locally as “the Marsh,” “the Waterfront,” and “Pauls’ Hill (Head: 1964: p. 97). According to Head (p. 97) and Handcock and Sanger (p. 46), settlement in the area tended to follow denominational lines established in the first phase of large-scale settlement, with the majority of the Roman Catholic residents settling at Gambo, Anglican and many United Church families tending to settle at Dark Cove and other United Church and Salvation Army residents living at Middle Brook. In the early 1950s the nearby communities of Hay Cove and Mann Point qqv were abandoned and their residents moved to the Gambo area to be close to sources of employment and services. Other families from Fair Island, Deer Island, Gooseberry Islands, flat Island and Bragg’s Island qqv resettled with government assistance throughout the area in the late 1950s and early 1960s, mainly according to family ties and religious denominations, as had been the case with the initial Bragg’s Island to Dark Cove move in 1955 (See Iverson and Matthews: 1978). In 1956 the populations of Dark Cove, Middle Brook and Gambo stood at 808, 681 and 414 respectively. By 1966 they had reached a combined total of 2,446 and by 1976 they stood at 2,977.
M. Pond (1973), D.W. Prowse (1895), E.R. Scary (1976), JR. Thoms (1967), Census (1836-1981), Harbour Grace Standard (Oct. 9, 1872), JHA (1851; 1857; 1873), Newfoundland Gazette (Oct. 3, 1980), Royal Gazette (Jan. 1964), Lovell’s Newfoundland Directory (1871), Rounder (May 1979; Mar.-Apr. 1982) Newfoundland Historical Society (Gambo). Map G. JEMP
- submitted by R. F. Brentnall
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
"They also served" by Tom Curran
For more information please contact the following:
Centre For Newfoundland Studies
Queen Elizabeth II Library
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NF
Canada
A1B 3Y1
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Newfoundland Media Links
Television
CBC-TV - Here & Now
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NTV - St. John's
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Telephone: (709) 722-5015 | Facsimile: (709) 722-3207
news@ntv.ca
NTV News - Corner Brook
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Radio
CBC Radio - Corner Brook (CBY 990-AM)
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CBC Radio - Gander (CBG 1400-AM)
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CHMR Radio - Memorial University (93.5-FM)
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CKXG Radio
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Coast 101.1 FM
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K-Rock Radio - Corner Brook
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Telephone: (709)634-1340 | Facsimile: (709)634-4081
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OKalaKatiget Society
P.O. Box 160 Nain, Labrador A0P 1L0
Telephone: (709)922-2955 | Facsimile: (709)922-2293
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OZ FM
466 Logy Bay Road, P.O. Box 2020
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VOAR Radio (1210-AM)
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VOCM Radio - Gander (CKGA)
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VOCM Radio - Marystown (CHCM)
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VOCM Radio - St. John's (VOCM 590-AM)
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VOWR-Radio (AM)
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Newspapers/Print Media
Advertiser, The
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Aurora, The
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Tax
Tax
Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table at which he's fed. Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think. Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries then Tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways to tax his ass. Tax all he has then let him know you won't be done till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers, then tax him some more, Tax him till he's good and sore. Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he's laid.
Put these words upon his tomb, "Taxes drove me to my doom..."
When he's gone, do not relax, It's time to apply the Inheritance tax.
COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, And our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class In the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What happened? And I still have to "press 1" for English?