The Our Town - Clarenville Blog by Paul Tilley

  Bare Mountain is one of the prominent features of the Clarenville's skyline. It towers some 156 meters above Clarenville’s harbour .  You can reach the peak of Bare Mountain relatively easily along the Bare Mountain hiking trail that can be accessed at numerous points in the town.  At the top, you can overlook most of the town, Random Island and Smith Sound as it leads into Trinity Bay.   Beyond Clarenville residents, people are familiar with Bare Mountain because of the prominence of the large star that sits at its top.   Each Christmas season the star is lit - making it visible from the Highway many kilometers beyond Clarenville's boundaries.   The Bare Mountain Star was a 1967 Centennial project of the Town of Clarenville. The original Centennial Star was designed, welded, wired and assembled by students and faculty in drafting, carpentry, electrical, welding and pipefitting programs at Clarenville campus.  They e...

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