News and Views
ELECTION RESULTS 2006
Where                Con                              Lib                          Bloc                 NDP           GRN               IND
Can                      124 seats                103 seats               51 seats         29 seats                              1
NL                           3 seats                  4 seats      
Dist                  15377 (Hynes)           19853(Simms)                                
Cottlesville           69 votes                         54 votes                                   14 votes      2 votes
Atlantic                 9 seats                          20 seats                                     3 seats

Map of NWI below
Gary, Monnie, Keshia and Kayla are moving to Barrie on Sunday, June 25.  Their house is for sale. Hope they  made  a good move. Will miss them here!

When you send pictures, have them sized at 50 - 60 k. This dialup is slooooow!
Attended dinner meeting with General Rick Hillier on June 7.

Monday April 10
Today the Pentecostal church voted in new pastors - Reginald and Lori Moulton.They have two children. Pastor and Mrs Head resigned on February 28.

Saturday April 8
It's a cloudy raw day. All the ice has melted in the harbour. At 1 pm my punt is launched. Jake, Troy and I paddle to Cottles Island.
Rex is aboard of his boat. Harry and Dorothy should be home from Florida today. The long liners have gone to the ice floes. We walk through  20 inches of snow through the mile long trail to the end of the island. We look out over the bay from  Cottles Island point. There's not a boat to be seen. We can seen Black Island, Expoits Island, Samson's Island, Cape John, Bridge Port, Store House, Varked Island and Puzzles Harbour. It's lonely but very relaxing.
Victor


High tide November 4, 2005. My wharf is under water.


Guess who!! Angela and Denika. Angela's daughters, Corinna and Keri-Lynn Hodder.



Matthew Rideout with his uncle Rex and former MHA Graham Flight.  Victor with former Premier Brian Peckford oct 12 2005






Joan O'Brian's granddaughter Katherine born Sept 7, 2004.  (see babies page )
Pearce Anstey and his very own version  of Bluenose!!!!!! (see boats page)

Peter O'Brien enjoyed his trip on the tanker rig.  (see boats page)
John Philpott in front of his cabin. ( see cabins page)

Congratulations to Melanie Anstey who placed third in her piano competition at the Kiwanis Music Festival in Gander on March 8.



Remember those days on the ice in winter.

Brian Flight                                                                  Jeremy Watkins                                                         John Flight
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Pot Cove "pot in the rock"                                     Pull wood "Alice Watkins photo"                                                                         Powder horn over 100 years old



Morgan  Watkins, Harold Perry and Jerry hauling crab.. Morgan and Harvey Hawkins unloading seals last spring. (Alices Wathins' photos)




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UPDATE on the OWL - see picture below.
On Thursday February 3 on a bright sunny day at minus ten degrees with a light westerly wind, people were enjoying the day on snow mobiles along the shore line and up through the woods here and there. Some people were breaking a road to their wood. In John Pryor’s garden cove near Little Harbour in Cottlesville a horned owl about forty centimeters high was spotted perched on a slender dry sprig extending out of the snow about a meter high. To the dismay of the passersby it was noticed that its left wing was hanging off. The owl remained there for that day. People wandered if it would survive. On Friday it had somehow moved to a stump extending out of the bank on the shoreline. People stood very close to it and it responded by opening its peak and a making an mild owl sound. On Saturday it could no longer perch and was on the snow on the shore. Crows were pecking off some of its feathers. At this point Stephen Barnes felt that it was time to contact wildlife at Lewisporte. He put it in a coat and brought it back to the community where Wilfred Burry from wildlife took it and carried it on to the vet in Gander. Wilfred said that it was a very young bird.

As of Thursday February 10 Dr Douglas Tweedie of Gander reports that the bird is recuperating. He felt that indeed that the bird might have been without food for a number of weeks. He feed the bird moose and rabbit meat by giving it very little at the beginning. The wing is damaged at a point equivalent to the human wrist. He feels that it’s very unlikely that it will grow back to normal. That being the case it will have to carried to the Salmonier Nature Park in the very near future

 Alex Burton and the Owl- photo by christine Barnes




February 4 is a beautiful day here. For two days now this owl has been sitting on a branch with a broken wing in John Pryor's Garden Cove up in Little Harbour. Junior Anstey stands there feeling sorry for the poor thing.  Junior Anstey, Doyle head and Hardy Troake looks on.




 
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