The Pilot

BISHOP’S FALLS, NL – Inmates at the Bishop’s Fall Correctional Centre are helping those less fortunate improve their quality of life. Lions International’s Recycle for Sight program collects and recycles used eye glasses to ...

GANDER, NL – High-tech devices surround Frank Shapleigh at the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation’s (CDLI) operations in Gander. “We’re the best-kept secret in Gander, I am sure,” said Shapleigh, CDLI ...

GREEN ISLAND COVE, NL – The Green Island Cove Lions Club celebrated a milestone anniversary on Feb. 24 when it marked its 40th year of service to the community and beyond. Club charter president Calvin Mitchelmore estimates that over the past ...

Newfoundland Power president and CEO Jocelyn Perry, left, takes a tour of the upgraded chemotherapy unit at Carbonear General Hospital with Susanne Dohey, division manager for the medicine program. CARBONEAR, NL — The Carbonear General ...

More than 160 people came out to celebrate Winterfest 2018 in Springdale Feb. 23-25, and organizers are calling it a big success. The events began with opening ceremonies Feb. 23 and continued with skating, sliding, snow softball, other games for ...

LABRADOR STRAITS, NL – Nine-year-old Cameron Buckle was beaming with a smile as he slid along the ice. For the first time, he was skating with the rest of the boys and girls his age on the rink at the Labrador Straits Arena. The ...

BISHOP’S FALLS, NL – For the first time in its more than three decades of existence, there is a woman chairing the Lions Winter Carnival in Bishop’s Falls. Lynette McDonald is chair of the 34th annual Bishop’s Falls Lions ...

GANDER, NL – Physically and emotionally, it has been a tough day for Justin Anstey. But with each passing lap at the Swim for Hope cancer fundraiser in Gander on Feb. 23, the Twillingate man is honouring the memory of his father, Aubrey ...

GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, NL – Students and staff at Sprucewood Academy hosted their own mini Winter Olympics Feb. 21, but with an educational twist. “We basically wanted to get the kids involved with the Olympics that are happening right ...

GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, NL – For the first time in over a decade, Exploits Valley High students will take to the stage in a musical production at the Gordon Pinsent Centre for the Arts. The show is titled “The 25th Annual Putnam County ...