Stagg Editorial- June 1995

EDITORIAL JUNE 1995

SALUTING OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST

The Downhomer braintrust was force-marched out to an early Saturday morning N.A.L.C.A. meeting in early May. This organization of Newfoundland expatriates in Ontario is dead set on honouring the best of the fine lot of transplanted Newfoundlanders who have found fame, success, achievement and even a bit of fortune on the mainland.

Names like iconoclastic broadcaster and critic Rex Murphy and actor Gordon Pinsent sprang to the lips of the robust directors gathered around their heaping plates of beans and baloney. The idea is such a good thing that plans are afield to ask the readers of The Downhomer to suggest some worthy candidates for an event tentatively scheduled for late fall. The plan is to select various worthies in different vocations and haul them up in front of a large crowd so they can be properly celebrated. Readers should not be shy about suggesting candidates. Just because some of our friends and relatives are modest and loathe to brag about themselves and their achievements is no reason to allow them to go unnoticed by the enthusiastic bunch at N.A.L.C.A.

In all sincerity and seriousness, let us have your written nominations for these expatriate honours. Please pay special attention to our elders ,especially those who are war veterans in this fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War Two. Many Newfoundlanders have ventured far and wide over this globe and too much modesty denies us the chance to boast about their fine accomplishments to the rest of the world. Tell us about your heroes.

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