The Our Town - Clarenville Blog by Paul Tilley

2018 marked the thirteenth year of Clarenville's free outdoor concert series, Arts Under the Stars.  The 2018 season got underway on July 5th with the amazingly talented Kellie  Loder, and was followed by some great shows from established and up-and-coming artists.   Check out these selections by clicking on the photo... Aug. 16 - Brad Tulk Aug. 9 - Dave Panting & Greg Simm   Aug. 2 - Rick Fines and Morgan Davis July 26 - Janet Cull July 19 - Celebrating Local Talent for Clarenville Day Kathleen Fillier & Andrew Best  Gerry Organ & Mackenzie Baird The Lazy Daisies (Kira Skinner & Grant Pelley)  July 12 - Jordon Harnum Video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/F7vKt5n5tTLE7GAq7 July 5 - Kellie Loder Video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/izVvZ746GhVAB9mM8 Arts Under the Stars is made possible because of the generous contr...

The Town of Clarenville has a lot to offer and unfortunately, not everybody knows that. Clarenville also has the geographic advantage of being the "gateway" to the Bonavista peninsula - one of the largest tourism destinations in the province. Over the course of 2018, I've been putting together a series of short videos about Clarenville's (and the region's ) "must see" places that I have entitled "In Our Backyard".  Each video has been shot with drone. If you have any suggested places, let me know ;) iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Ps7eOQHy8M" width="560"> iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"...

Here is a link to our collection of Drone Videos and Photos over Clarenville, NL Canada . This file is updated regularly.  CLICK THE PHOTO TO ACCESS ALBUM

My sister Ann and my nephew Andrew in the Notch Mountains area of  Buchans Brand new 1980 Elan in Buchand NL Christmas Tree fetching at Oriental in Buchans, Christmas 1980

You can watch the broadcasts of this year's Clarenville's Council public meeting linked here. Thanks to the Packet for recording and broadcasting Meeting 1-7. Meeting #9 -May 8, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/134170426640511/videos/1813311718726365/ Meeting #8 -April 24, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/134170426640511/videos/1798077740249763/ Meeting #7 -April 10, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/NLPacket/videos/1882728781746187/ Meeting #6 -March 27, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/NLPacket/videos/1867511536601245/ Meeting #5 -March 13 , 2018 https://www.facebook.com/NLPacket/videos/1851669324852133/ Meeting #4 - Feb 27, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/NLPacket/videos/1835245813161151/ Meeting #3 - Feb 13, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/NLPacket/videos/1819408188078247/ Meeting #2 - Jan 30, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/NLPacket/videos/1804169972935402/ Meeting #1 - Jan. 16, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/NLPacket/videos/1788878904464509/ ...

You've got to wonder - Why are some many towns having such trouble attracting a competitive slate of candidates for this coming September's municipal elections? This question has always been in the back of my mind - but on Tuesday, at the conclusion of the Clarenville municipal election nomination period, it came full frontal. Despite the fact that we have an excellent slate of new Councillors (I hope I am near as good as the rest), I was floored when I found out that Clarenville; the 12th largest town in the province - a town that has always had a competitive slate, and frankly, a town with many, many "engaged" citizens - would not have to hold an election because only seven names were put forward for the seven available seats (Clarenville normally holds a separate ballot for the single mayoral seat and for the six council positions). Wow! There are many potential reasons for why this could have happened.  Poor timing,  lack of interest,...