Profile of Bill Westcott

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Bill Westcott writes from his home in Clarke's Beach.

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• Good Friday makes sense of the crucifixion of Christ
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - When I was a lad the season of Lent for me was depressing. I grew up in a fairly strict Roman Catholic home. Our ...
• CFAs may think Newfie jokes are funny, but columnist...
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Let's take a stand against that goofy Newfy handle! I am tired of CFAs looking at us as those cutchy-cutchy coo ...
• Is the Internet a threat to our individual security?
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - The Canada Safety Council says children get hooked on computers at an early age. Last November the Council chose ...
• Golden memories that will last forever
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Two memories that will remain etched into my mind forever are that terrible black Friday, Nov 22, 1963 in Dallas, ...
• Panic over swine flu 'pandemic' was unnecessary
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Was the H1N1 pandemic as dire as they said it was? Before Betty and I left for Florida last November the hype over ...
• When is the correct time to euthanize our pets?
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - There is no psychiatrist in the world Like a puppy licking your face - Dr. Ben Williams, psychologist There's a ...
• It's Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Day
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - It's time to get out those mixing bowls and start whipping. Today is Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Day, all whipped ...
• From 78 RPMs to IPods
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - The young man behind the counter at the Zephyrhills Wal-Mart here in Florida smirked when I asked him about an old ...
• The heart of the matter
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - "They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth." - William ...
• Record breaking Florida freeze
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to ...
• No time is a good time to have a heart attack
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps around the body to squirt blood 30 feet. - Source: The ...
• Young soldiers still making supreme sacrifice in...
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Another Canadian soldier arrives home in a body bag "He was everything Canadian There was nothing that could Get ...
• Time for those promised New Year's resolutions
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - It is not the strongest of The species that survive Nor the most intelligent, But
• Christmas can bring out the child in each one of us
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Gifts of time and love Are surely the basic Ingredients of a truly Blessed Christmas - Peg Bracken I get ...
• Columnist worships water Williams walks on
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Myopia and delusionary are wrong attributes for a pragmatic premier. I'd like to be a psychic and have on my books ...
• Surgeon viewed cigarettes as cancer sticks
• Make your list and check it more than twice
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Christmas shopping is already in full gear and has been for weeks. Department stores and specialty stores ...
• Time to re-open Vatican windows
  It seems I stirred up a small hornet's nest with my criticism of our Roman Catholic Church recently - A cancer inside The Roman Catholic Church ...
• Stay where you're to till I comes where you're at
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - The most extreme and recognizable of Canada's accents, the Newfoundland dialect is, these days, something to be ...
• November 11 is our time to remember
  Remembrance Day, also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day, after the actual event it commemorates and Veterans Day, is a special day to ...
• Old fashioned cures for colds and flu
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - I'm mesmerized by the flu shot chaos. I guess I've asked myself a dozen times the question on everybody's mind: ...
• Make tethering pets an indefensible crime
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Being such wonderful, uncomplicated beings, dogs need us to do their worrying for them. - George Bird Evans A ...
• The cancer inside the Roman Catholic Church
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - "Let us rejoice that we see around us on every hand the decay of institutions and instruments of power....For it is ...
• Thanksgiving - a time to give thanks
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Take a deep breath and be thankful Appreciate anew the marvellous splendour That our Creator has provided.
• A media full of negativity
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Don't you wish just for once you could sit and read your weekend paper and after turning page after page you lay it ...
• More Canadian casualties of a hopeless war
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - "Troops alone won't solve the war on terror." - Afghan President Hamid Karzai, CNN Sept.15 The carnage continues ...
• As summer bids farewell
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - It sure was a nice summer don't you agree? Our weather was exceptionally good compared to last season. It reminded ...
• Wise move for Harper to distance himself from former PM
• Pet peeves about pets on planes
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Hooray for Canada's two major airlines, Air Canada and WestJet, who have decided to allow pet owners to carry their ...
• Pet peeves about pets on planes
  Scribblings of a Corner Boy - Hooray for Canada's two major airlines, Air Canada and WestJet, who have decided to allow pet owners to carry their ...