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Vol.22 No.15
Wednesday, April 4 2018
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Paula Gilbert heads to corporate job The Town’s Director of Human Resources, Paula Gilbert, has resigned. Gilbert’s last day of work will be Friday, April 6. Gilbert’s impending departure was rumoured for several days, and confirmed last week by Town Public Relations and Marketing Specialist Marc MacDonald, and Gilbert herself. In a report prepared for the Town Council meeting to have been held yesterday, Tuesday, April 3, Pelham CAO Darren Ottaway noted that Gilbert was moving on to become “Human Resources Director for the Sobeys grocery chain.” “Paula will be overseeing a direct reporting staff of six and eight hundred employees,” writes Ottaway. On the Sunshine List released in late March, Gilbert was the Town’s fourth highest-paid employee, earning a salary in 2017 of $134,675. In 2016, she received a pay raise of 26 percent over the previous year.
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Luke DelGobbo celebrating a big putt made on Augusta National’s 18th green on Sunday afternoon.
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Fonthill teen golfer places 5th at Augusta BY VOICE STAFF Fonthill’s Luke Delgobbo finished fifth on Sunday at the National Drive, Chip and Putt Championship at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, a remarkable ending for the 15-year-old E.L. Crossley Secondary School student.
Augusta National is the site of this week’s Masters tournament and perhaps the world’s most famous golf course. It is notably exclusive, with membership on an invitation-only basis. Passes for the tournament are coveted like dugout seats at Fenway Park, and even fewer people are allowed inside the ropes.
But on Sunday, Delgobbo was putting on the 18th green with a chance to win a trophy, if not a green jacket. He was second after the driving portion of the event, knocking his second ball over 260 yards. He was still in second after the chipping section with a See DELGOBBO Page 16
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F I R S T S AW M O N T Saint-Michel, the famous abbey in coastal France, built on a rocky outpost that becomes an island at high tide, in a film. Two characters speed along the twisting road to it in a convertible, the tide low, the sky grey, the Mont— jagged, medieval—even greyer, the only thing visible on a vast horizon line. The car hurtles toward it, then the shot cuts to them prowling about in the passageways on the island that lead up to the abbey itself. We see stone steps, looming overhangs, and narrow doorways off the clustering of buildings that make up the rest of the commune. The film doesn’t linger there, but Mont Saint-Michel lingers in the film. It is the wonder in it, and it was a wonder to me afterwards. When I was planning to travel in France several years later, I knew I had to go there. The Mont is disputed territory, with the provinces of Brittany and Normandy alternatively claiming ownership, but in any case it is on France’s western coast not far from where the English Channel becomes the Celtic Sea. See COLUMN SIX Page 14