Profile of Aaron Beswick

Biography

Aaron Beswick is a reporter with the Northern Pen.

All articles of Aaron Beswick

• Ignoring history
  There’s a lot of people. A lot of people to feed, a lot of people to accept and share rules, a lot of people who want a lot of different things. ...
• Steel, crafts and history collide at Norstead
  Is survival enough? Not for Freydis, nor for Jobjorn. Freydis demanded to live in comfort and dignity, Jobjorn wanted those too. But a ...
• Natasha Rousel
  It’s a sad old world. Amongst last week’s nightly news broadcasts were a few words on a woman from New Brunswick killed when her car went off the ...
• Heave away, haul away
  My teammate, Mike Boiduk, and I had made our own hoops by simply tying the ends of the rope together in a figure eight knot.Our 'wits' seemed to ...
• Rhonda and GP's excellent adventure
  "We're calling it Rhonda and GP's excellent adventure," said Allan Robertson, who with his 18-year-old daughter Julia drove their antique ...
• A future in Mary's Harbour
  Editor It'd do your heart good to be at the wharf in Mary's Harbour in May or June. Wet snow blowing out of a grey sky onto a tired old wharf ...
• 'But I got a lot to live for'
  Trent Byrne wants to walk his daughter down the aisle some day. "And dance with her when she's old enough." But she's five years old and he has ...
• 'They just got everything wrong'
  By Aaron Beswick/Editor A story on the front page of last week's Pen has Boyd Lavers worried about his livelihood. In the story, a veteran ...
• A glass-bottomed pond boat
  Editor Productivity is about to increase in Rex Saunders' shed. Mr. Saunders' son Denley, one of five children, is home. "Oh they're at ...
• Council, chamber, concerned citizens committee sue...
  Mayor Ern Simms arrived at Jim Bennet's law firm in Daniel's Harbour last Tuesday at 10:30 p.m., signed an affidavit, got back in his truck and ...
• More bad news for fishery
  Editor It just goes from bad to worse. The Northern Peninsula and Southern Labrador fisheries took another blow last week. "It means we're out ...
• Plants likely to operate part of the year
  It looks like there will be a shrimp fishery this year. While that's better news than many were predicting early in the season, there's also a ...
• Markets better, exchange rates worse
  It was the sun, not prices that had Bob Rumbolt and Calvin Tatchell smiling. The Castor River South small boat fishermen were applying fiberglass ...
• More than a fire department
  "The breaks are gone ... hold on," yelled Clarence Hedderson. Curtis Blake held on. "She just didn't slow down," remembered Mr. Blake. The ...
• Peninsula faces year of economic devastation
  Without a drastic change, there could be no crab or shrimp fishery this year. "In my 44 years fishing, it never looked so grim as it do now," ...
• Craig Pye Memorial Hockey Tournament remembers...
  The RCMP were all wearing the number eight on their jerseys. As they strapped on shin pads and skates, they shared memories of Craig Pye, who ...
• Peninsula reacts to air ambulance relocation to...
  Ern Simms wants to know how an 11 page consultant's report killed 55 years of air ambulance services in St. Anthony. "The minister is ...
• Exodus
  The view from here - The premier wasn't happy as he lay there in his bed. He was thinking of the morning, and of what the doctor said. "You have ...
• Civic centre waiting on cost estimate
  Editor The mayor's got his fingers crossed. St. Anthony Town Council will find out this week if the current set of designs for the new civic ...
• Older workers in Straits learning traditional crafts
  The crowd arriving at Great Northern Peninsula (GNP) Crafts in Shoal Cove West could see the seals giving birth last week. But they soon had to ...
• Searching for seals
  John Hedderson's memory goes back a fair sight father than the Canadian Ice Service's 40 years of charts. "And I've never seen nothing like ...
• Shrimp on ice
  The bad news has begun. Early last week the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union's (FFAW) negotiators met Ocean Choice International's (OCI) ...
• Parsons Pond exploration could start in months
  If you've got something to say about oil and gas exploration behind Parsons Pond, get it done by Feb. 22. After that, if the Department of ...
• It doesn't make sense'
  Linda and Terri White go everywhere together. But it's hard for both of them. "She wants to do the things other girls do - she wants to wear ...
• Fighting the FFAW
  A welder from Port aux Basques, a retired RNC officer, a former plant processing plant owner, a fisherman and a retired medical doctor are trying ...
• Coast Guard declares system obsolete
  Six federal jobs are leaving St. Anthony. The advent of the Global Positioning System (GPS) has made the Loran C system operated by the Canadian ...
• Winter's weird weather
  Goose Cove hasn't got many worries about forest fires - it doesn't have any trees. Well ... that's not completely true. Goose Cove does have an ...
• Small boat fisherman want to sell their own cod
  A 50 year old regulation forbids Dean Patey from salting his own fish to sell. The St. Anthony Bight fisherman and his brother, Dave Patey, ...
• For the love of literature
  If you stumble upon a Play Station or X-Box crying itself to sleep - be gentle, they didn't have a chance. Teachers along the Great Northern ...
• Custodial management dead: Byrne
  Hopes for custodial management of the nose and tail of the Grand Banks are dead, says federal Liberal fisheries critic Gerry Byrne. "Any and all ...