A fine, noble, and tasty NFLD animal

A polar bear that wandered into town had to be shot by police. RCMP said that they watched the animal drift into the harbour on the ice yesterday around 5:00 pm. They thought the bear would have continued on north, but it came into the housing area, crossed the road and went up by a garage and lay down.

The decision to shoot the bear was made by wildlife for safety reasons.

An unrelated announcement was made latter in the day that there will be a Mystery Meat Potluck and Time at the Legion this Friday night.

Taken not far from where you can buy seal flipper pie from a truck.

From VOCM News:
Sightseers to the Southside Road got a close encounter of the fuzzy kind yesterday. A baby seal decided to crawl up and enjoy the view of the harbour, and people stopped their cars to take photos of the little guy. He stuck around for awhile and posed for pictures and seemed to enjoy the attention before he decided to retreat back to the water.

This one was just too good to pass up...

They grew up with it; they rode the Marine Atlantic ferries in it; they even sang about it; and today they held a press conference to tell the world that they have finally caught the wind.

"Well, it happened like this", said Con O’Brien, "we were down on the waterfront, walking along, enjoying the day, when we see this gust coming towards us from across the harbour... looked like a Southside Squall."

He continued, "Duncan pointed out that one of the docked fishing boats had a pail and cover sitting next to it on the dock and shouted for Graham and Rob to go grab it and stand ready."

"Next thing we knew, the byes were head into the squall and fighting to stay upright. That's when Duncan rushed over and managed to get it into the pale - and the byes fastened the cover down."

Mr. O'Brien then produced the 5 gallon salt beef bucket for the press to inspect.

UpAlong.org's local reporter, Buddy, got a chance to touch the bucket.

"She was vibrating sometin fearse, ole man... like dey had put in a hive of bees. Dat Southside Squall dey captured sure don't like to be locked up.", Buddy said.

The Irish Descendants plan to take the squall out to sea and release it.

On a slightly related story; the harbour has been enjoying a flat-calm ever since the Irish Descendants captured the wind.

Listen to the radio from 'back home'!

http://www.upalong.org/radio.asp

From Space - Snow blankets Newfoundland Island

You can't turn on the news these days without hearing about various governments bailing out various sectors and industries. Most news anchors report that this is the result of modern economics gone wrong.

Well, its not. The self-governing Dominion of Newfoundland went bankrupt in 1934.

Britain agreed to rescue Newfoundland's budget, and its nearly worthless bonds, but the price was the island's voluntary abandonment of democratic self-government. The British appointed a Commission of Government to administer the Dominion, led by a colonial governor.

Newfoundland has been sustained by a powerful survival mentality and cultural values that stress individual reliance under harsh conditions. The island regained its democracy and began its long climb out of poverty when it became a province of Canada in 1949.

Bail out - Newfoundland's been there, done that, and bought the T-Shirt.