An 11-year-old girl from Grand Falls-Windsor is in the Janeway Hospital in St. John’s today with critical, life-threatening injuries after she was hit by a car in the central Newfoundland town about 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Ambulance attendants, the Grand Falls-Windsor Fire Department and a medical doctor were on the scene Tuesday evening treating the girl who was transported to the Newfoundland Regional Health Care Centre before being airlifted to St. John’s.
The RCMP is investigating the accident with the help of an RCMP collision analyst.

	Grand Falls - Windsor business man Barry Murphy, expresses his discontent to designer Sarah Colven o... »

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"Cabot Road and the Mill Road will stay the same, the dummy is still there, just a little bigger and with a more structured roundabout," explained Sarah Colven, in a one-on-one discussion with one of close to one hundred citizens that came to view the architectural designer's conceptual drawings on behalf of Tract Consulting.

Ms. Colven and contract manager John Boutilier, representatives from the firm contracted by the Town of Grand Falls - Windsor, made no formal statements or presentation on the sketches and prints revealing for the first time the visual design for proposed downtown development plan.

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The paper machines are silent and the company has left the building, but former workers at the AbitibiBowater paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor were back in the facility on Thursday.

About ten members of the Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union Local 63 gained access to the facility and staged a protest last week.

	Brittany Antle (left) and Nicholas Fancey have been voted as youth ambassadors for the town of Bisho... »

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The committee bidding for Kraft Hockeyville in Bishop's Falls has appointed two youth ambassadors to get the energy of the young people in the community to get behind the bid in an attempt to come out on top.

Brittany Antle and Nicholas Fancey were voted into the positions and have already got their work well underway.

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In the wake of the mill closure in Grand Falls-Windsor, a plethora of people and groups have been attempting to find some means to replace the economic engine in the area that was the paper making industry. As part of this economic diversification we have heard of initiatives such as a wood pellet plant, cranberry farming with production eventually developing into secondary processing, and the downtown riverfront development (I am not sure what the job creation there will be, but that is for another day).

These initiatives have pros and cons to them and while they are worthy of investment, there are no guarantees as they are private ventures that are subject to the whims of the marketplace and the global economy. That is not a reason not to pursue them but we must take it all in context. Ultimately their success will depend on sound economic fundamentals and if they are there, so, too, will be the private investment.

Finally, the federal government seems to think there's more to life than professionals who buy suits at Harry Rosen and fashions at Holt Renfrew.

(At least we think that's where some of the style-conscious male and female MPs shop in the big cities, judging by the expensive cut of their clothes when they're seen on television.)