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Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

Trivia

The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Clarenville Discovery Trail Gateway

The Trans-Canada

Clarenville is a town of approximately 6,000 people on the shore of Random Sound in Trinity Bay, central Newfoundland. It serves as the primary service centre for the Bonavista and Burin peninsulas and is considered the gateway to the Discovery Trail — the tourism corridor linking Clarenville to Trinity, Bonavista, and the remarkable fossil sites at Mistaken Point. Clarenville sits at the intersec

Clarenville is a town of approximately 6,000 people on the shore of Random Sound in Trinity Bay, central Newfoundland. It serves as the primary service centre for the Bonavista and Burin peninsulas and is considered the gateway to the Discovery Trail — the tourism corridor linking Clarenville to Trinity, Bonavista, and the remarkable fossil sites at Mistaken Point. Clarenville sits at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Route 230, which leads north through the Trinity Bay area and eventually to Bonavista. Because of this strategic location it has grown into a substantial regional hub with a full range of commercial services including a regional hospital, college campus, and Canadian Retail Strip. The town developed significantly in the twentieth century as a railway and later highway junction point. Clarenville was also an important site for early transatlantic cable communications — the landing point for undersea telegraph cables in the nineteenth century. The area around Clarenville is known for moose hunting and salmon fishing, and the landscape of Random Island and the Random Sound shores offers scenic coastal vistas. It is one of the few interior Newfoundland communities that has maintained stable population levels in recent years, supported by its role as a service hub and its offshore oil industry connections through nearby Come By Chance.

Fact

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road