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Vol 35 • No 01
Pet of the Year Contest
Relive CHY ’66
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life is better Published monthly in St. John’s by Downhome Publishing Inc. 43 James Lane, St. John’s, NL, A1E 3H3 Tel: 709-726-5113 • Fax: 709-726-2135 • Toll Free: 1-888-588-6353 E-mail: mail@downhomelife.com Website: www.downhomelife.com Editorial Editor-in-Chief Janice Stuckless Assistant Editor Nicola Ryan Editor Lila Young Art and Production Art Director Vince Marsh Illustrator Mel D’Souza Illustrator Snowden Walters Advertising Sales Account Manager Barbara Young Account Manager Ashley O’Keefe Marketing Director Tiffany Brett Finance and Administration Accountant Marlena Grant Accountant Sandra Gosse Operations Manager, Twillingate Nicole Mehaney
Warehouse Operations Warehouse / Inventory Manager Carol Howell Warehouse Operator Josephine Collins Retail Operations Retail Floor Manager, St. John’s Jackie Rice Retail Floor Manager, Twillingate Donna Keefe Retail Sales Associates Crystal Rose, Jonathon Organ, Elizabeth Gleason, Erin McCarthy, Marissa Little, Kim Tucker, Heather Stuckless, Katrina Hynes, Destinee Rogers, Amy Young, Emily Snelgrove, Brandy Rideout, Hayley Rogers, Zoey Gidge, Ashley Pelley, Haylee Parrell
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Founding Editor Ron Young Chief Executive Officer/Publisher Grant Young President & Associate Publisher Todd Goodyear General Manager/Assistant Publisher Tina Bromley
To subscribe, renew or change address use the contact information above. Subscriptions total inc. taxes, postage and handling: for residents in NL, NS, NB, PE $45.99; ON $45.19; QC, SK, MB, AB, BC, NU, NT, YT $41.99. US and International mailing price for a 1-year term is $49.99.
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welcome back
Contents
JUNE 2022
58 Stories from the Kyle A conversation with storyteller and model boat builder, Heber McGurk Dennis Flynn
64 Save the Date Burgeo’s Sand and Sea Festival is among a number of favourite events returning this summer after two years of pandemic postponements Nicola Ryan
68 What’s in a Name?
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Dale Jarvis uncovers interesting stories on local community names
94 Everyday Recipes Desserts for Dad
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JUNE 2022
homefront 8 I Dare Say A note from the Editor 12 Letters From Our Readers Good reads, great laughs and gorgeous handiwork
20 Downhome Tours Downhome readers explore Australia 22 Why is That? Why do flamingos stand on one leg? Linda Browne
24 Life’s Funny Two Cents Worth Alice Evans
20 down under
25 Say What? A contest that puts words in someone else’s mouth
26 Lil Charmers First Mates 28 Pets of the Month Just Dandy! 32 Reviewed Denise Flint reviews Kevin Major’s latest murder mystery, Three For Trinity.
34 What Odds Paul Warford steps in a tourist’s shoes
26 mini mates
36 Fresh Tracks Wendy Rose reviews Reclamation by Clare Follett. 40 Adventures Outdoors Q&A with the Grandkids Gord Follett
44 What’s the Score Happy Days of Summer Kevin Lane
46 Building on a Legacy Margaret Peckford 4
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72 protecting nature
52 still life from life
features 52 Drawn From Nature A St. John’s artist brings local scenes to life in a creative, colourful way. Linda Browne
explore 72 Nature and Nurture The Indian Bay Watershed and its protectors Marie-Beth Wright 78 Monuments to a Tragedy New memorials to a 1978 plane crash on the northeast Avalon Kim Ploughman
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home and cabin 84 Stuff We Love Road Trippin’ Nicola Ryan
86 Come on Home Marie Bishop’s tips for creating a proper welcome
90 The Everyday Gourmet Black Bean Burgers Andrea Maunder
100 Down to Earth Recipes for Beautiful Hanging Baskets Mandy Keeping 6
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memories of ’66
reminiscing 106 Flashbacks Classic photos of people and places
108 This Month in Downhome History 110 Come Home Year 1966 Readers look back
114 The Gale and the Breaker About the cover Cabot Tower was the symbol of NL’s first Come Home Year in 1966, so it seemed fitting to ring in Come Home 2022 summer with the same tower that still overlooks the capital city.
A daring rescue in December 1945 off Sable Island, NS John P. Christopher
118 Years Ago in Rock Harbour Arabella (Brown) Lewis
Cover Index Desserts for Dad • 94 What’s in a Name? • 68 Perilous Rescue at Sea • 114 Welcome Home • 64, 84 & 86 Pet of the Year Contest • 30 Relive CHY ’66 • 110
124 Puzzles 136 Colouring Page 138 Classifieds 140 Mail Order 144 Photo Finish
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i dare say
What were you doing in June 1988? I was finishing Grade 11 at J.M. Olds Collegiate in Twillingate, NL, and looking forward to just one more year of high school. After that, I had no idea what I was going to do. My only ambition was to write. My future was wide open and I had no clear plan for navigating it. My meandering career path, as luck would have it, eventually intersected with another Twillingater with a passion for words. That same June, when I was starting my last high school summer break, Ron Young was launching a magazine, The Downhomer, in southern Ontario for homesick Newfoundlanders and Labradorians like himself. A poet and general wordsmith, Ron loved to spin yarns, write jokes, create word puzzles and attract other like-minded souls to help fill the pages of this unique publication. At just the right time, that included me. It’s been 34 years since that first magazine went out into the world; 22 years since I joined Ron and all the other talented, dedicated folks he’d rallied for the cause. Ron passed on his torch a few years ago, leaving me and others in charge of keeping it lit. But while the staff might be manning this ship, the readers fuel it. We’d go nowhere without you; your devoted membership drives us and your contributions sustain us. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for creating in Downhome what Ron dreamed for it years ago. Starting with this issue, we’re taking a nostalgic look back at what other people were doing in 1988. Every month, we’ll print a Downhomer story from exactly 34 years ago. Read the first one on p. 108. What were you doing in 1988? Send me some photos and stories – you could see your history in a future issue. Thanks for reading,
Janice Stuckless, Editor-in-chief janice@downhomelife.com
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Submission Guidelines and Prize Rules
You could WIN $100! Every reader whose PHOTO, STORY, JOKE or POEM appears next to this yellow “from our readers” stamp in a current issue receives $10 and a chance at being drawn for the monthly prize: $100 for one photo submission and $100 for one written submission. Prizes are awarded in Downhome Dollars certificates, which can be spent like cash in our retail stores and online at shopDownhome.com.*
Submit Today! Send your photo, story, joke or poem to
Downhome, 43 James Lane, St. John’s, NL, A1E 3H3 or submit online at: www.downhomelife.com *Only 1 prize per submitter per month. To receive their prize, submitters must provide with their submission COMPLETE contact information: full name, mailing address, phone number and email address (if you have one). Mailed submissions will only be returned to those who include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Downhome Inc. reserves the right to publish submissions in future print and/or electronic media campaigns. Downhome Inc. is not responsible for unsolicited material.
Hidden somewhere in this issue is Corky Sly Conner.
Can you find him? Look carefully at all the photographs and in the text of the stories. If you spot Corky, send us your name, address and phone number, along with a note telling us where he’s located. Your name will be entered in a draw and the winner will receive a coupon worth 25 Downhome Dollars redeemable at our store, or through our website.
Send your replies to: 43 James Lane St. John’s, NL, A1E 3H3
Congratulations to Hedley Parsons of Oro-Medonte, ON, who found Corky on page 51 of the March issue.
mail@downhomelife.com www.downhomelife.com Deadline for replies is the end of each month.
Congratulations to LeeAnn Levesque of Bradford, ON, who found Corky on page 110 of the April issue.
Corky Contest
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Submit your favourite photos of scenery, activities and icons that best illustrate the down-home lifestyle. We’re looking for a variety of colourful subjects – outports, wildlife, laundry lines, historic sites, seascapes, hilltop views, and so much more – and photos from all four seasons. This is your chance to get in on our most popular reader contest and try to woo the judges into choosing your photo for the 2023 Downhome Calendar. These calendars are seen by tens of thousands of subscribers and displayed all year long.
What are you waiting for? Submit today, using one of these ways:
by mail: Downhome Calendar Contest 43 James Lane St. John’s, NL A1E 3H3 online: www.downhomelife.com/calendar Must be original photos or high quality copies. Digital photos must be at least 300 dpi, files sizes of about 1MB. We can’t accept photocopies or photos that are blurry, too dark or washed out. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you want your photos returned.
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homefront lil charmers
Checking Nets Rylee Blanchard and her pop, Gordie Morris, check nets on the Grand River in 2016. Kristen Hamel St. George’s, NL
First Mates Little Jigger Rebecca Brennan jigs for cod with her great-grandfather Aubrey Wells. Shauna Brennan Fortune, NL
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Making Waves Jake Maddox has a great day on the water with poppy Ron Fitzgerald. Trina Maddox Toronto, ON
Fresh Fish Nash Eddison of Gunners Cove, NL, shows off his catch with poppy Boyce Roberts. Michele Wiest Quirpon, NL
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Tell us about the pet that “changed my life.”
We’re looking for heartwarming stories of all kinds: heroic pets that saved a life, emotional support animals, and furry (or not furry, or feathery) friends that make your life better for whatever reason. The pet whose influence impresses us the most will be featured in an upcoming issue of Downhome and declared Pet of the Year. Your beloved buddy will have their life story told and become a magazine star.
How to Enter
Write a story (500 words max.) and include a photo (must be about a current, living pet). Submit one of these ways:
Email: editorial@downhomelife.com (Subject: Pet of the Year) Mail: Downhome Pet of the Year 43 James Lane, St. John’s, NL, A1E 3H3
Deadline is June 30, 2022
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life is better Colour palette of downtown St. John’s, NL Bailey Parsons, Stephenville, NL
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reminiscing
As we head into our 35th year
at Downhome, we’re taking a trip down memory lane. Every month for the next 12 months we’ll unearth a little snippet of Downhome history to give you a glimpse into what was on our radar way back when. Here’s one of the stories we ran in June 1988, our premiere issue.
Emile Benoit to receive degree
Emile Benoit, one of Port au Port’s most famous citizens, will receive an honorary degree at the spring convocation at Memorial University on May 27. Jim Hodder, MHA for the district, said Emile will receive his honorary Doctor of Laws degree and will then be known as Dr. Emile Benoit, LLD. He said Emile has become a well-known ambassador for the Port au Port Peninsula and for Newfoundland. “He is an acknowledged master of the fiddle, both as a player and composer. He has played in festivals across Canada, the United States and France, and has just recently returned from a festival in New Orleans,” said Hodder, who added that his personal preference is the first album in which Emile composed and recorded the Jim Hodder reel. The MHA said Emile is well deserving of this honorary degree.
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The drawing on the opposite page
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