Signal Hill

Visitors to Signal Hill National Historic site now have a chance to use new technology while walking on trails in the area. Up until September 15th, Parks Canada will try out cutting-edge multi media GPS devices to enhance the overall experience of visitors on the North Head Trail and the Burma Road to Ladies' Lookout Trail .

The new handheld devices, called Explora, will allow people to see their location on a map and interact with location-related text, images, sound, video and quizzes. Parks Canada says the pilot project is the first of its kind in North America and officials feel it will attract new visitors, particularly younger people, and technologically savvy Canadians.

The pilot project will be evaluated during the summer to assess its potential, so come on up to the Hill and do a little Explora of your own.  

The famous Fox Moth on the Exploits River

The Town of Norris Arm has celebrated the official opening of its new Fox Moth Museum, a project of the local Heritage Society. It's a replica of the hangar used in the 1930s by Captain Douglas Fraser, who flew his Fox Moth aircraft gathering vital information for the first transatlantic passenger flights between North America and Europe on the Flying Boats.

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Most Newfie's are born with a slice in their hand....
The famous Newfoundland Wild Boloney is now infected with the Asian Bird Flu, Garge and Buddy told us via cell phone earlier today.

“Des some sick looking, bye”, said Garge, reporting from his snowmobile, but not giving his location for fear that his rabbit snares will be discovered by the RCMP.

“We was out fer a ride when we comes up on des flock of wild boloney’s. Well, cocky, I tells ya dat dey didn’t even try to take to wing, or nothin’. Dey just stood der coughin’ and sneezin’. It was den dat Buddy said it must be dat bird flu dey’ve been goin’ on about on da TV. So we figured we’d best give you fellers a call”.

“We fellers” (upAlong.org), of course are the first to report this breaking news story about our beloved Newfie steak..

As a side note, Buddy has a column "Ask Buddy"on this site, and if Buddy, who is not a veterinarian, says the wild baloneys have the bird flu, then that is good enough for us.

After striking it rich in the 1980's when oil was discovered on his property, Frank McLean, also known as the Newfie Sheik, filed for bankruptcy in St. John's late Friday afternoon.

Mr. McLean, told UpAlong in an exclusive interview, that he lost a lot of money when his yacht broke its moorings during a gale and crashed into 12 fishing boats in St. John's harbour. The yacht sank and McLean has to pay for the repair of 8 fishing boats, and replacement of the rest.

"That was a bad day.", McLean said, "I had $30-million invested in that boat, and it cost me nearly $10-million to pay for the damages the yacht caused. Thank God no one was hurt."

Mr. McLean told UpAlong that whenever they would take him up to Ottawa, he ended up footing the bill for the royal suites and plane tickets.

"The hotel bills were high, but them airplane ticket prices, my son, that's what did me in! As rich as I was, I felt the pinch whenever I had to fly off anywhere. And without me yacht, I didn't have much choice but to fly."

Gower St United Church

In a surprise press release this week, the church announced today that God did, in fact, spend half and hour more creating Newfoundland.

“The church has known for centuries that God put a little extra time into Newfoundland’s creation”, said the church spokesman, “but it was believed that such knowledge could shake some folk’s faith if they learned this. This is why the church kept it as a closely guarded secret for all of these years.”

Carbon dating of granite from NFLD’s interior was compared to granite taken from several areas of the mainland. The results show that the NFLD granite is exactly 30 minutes younger than the mainland granite.

“Not only do we have concrete scientific proof that NFLD is 30 minutes younger than the rest of North America, but there are references to Newfoundland’s creation in the Book of Genesis”, the church spokesman stated, “Read the entire book and you’ll see it for yourself… it’s as clear as the nose on your face.”

Most anything you need

Old Brown's daughter, who runs the Brown family-owned chain of grocery stores, gave birth to a 9lb-3oz baby boy this week.

Mrs Brown told UpAlong reporters that she is very glad to finally have a heir to the Brown fortune, and to have someone to carry on the family business that her father started almost fifty years ago.

"My dad used to sell from off the shelf most anything you please, Jews harps for the little boys, lollipops and cheese.", Ms Brown said, "But then he got troubled with the gout. He used to grumble in the little parlour when he couldn't get out."

It was after her father took ill that Ms. Brown took over the family business. She grew the business from the original Brown's Grocery to a chain of nearly 20 stores - the most recent of which opened in Goose Bay, the only Brown's in Labrador.

The Brown's plan to name the boy Johnny.