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Uh, he said he can't be everywhere at the same time.

Uh, he wasn't far away, though, in his district on the west coast of the island, the Stephenville area, make an important, important announcement.

I would suggest re-announcements, of course, 'cause a lot of what was renounced or announced this week was in the budget, um, and won't happen right now.

There are things going to happen into the future, and there are promises for those things to happen, whether it's the MRI in Central or the long-term care beds in Corner Brook.

Here's where the story gets good.

Dave and Aubrey recorded Bartender's Sweetheart at Claude Sound Studios in Stephenville back in 1980.

Now, while they waited for the album to be pressed and the cover prepared, they sent a demo tape to RCA Records.

Now, according to Dave Pike, they never really expected to hear anything back, but they did.

And they are Halifax, Nova Scotia; Chelsea, Quebec; St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador; Burlington, Ontario; Ottawa; Montreal; Oakville, Ontario; Moncton, New Brunswick; San Francisco, California; and Frankfurt, Germany.

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Okay, fire away.

Um, yeah, so, uh, we're gonna have members of Second Battalion Royal Newfoundland Regiment who will be training in the, uh, Stephenville area.

Uh, this is gonna be a ruck march that's gonna happen from approximately 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM tonight.

And, uh, it's gonna take place from Cambria Armory to Igloo Road.

Just sticking with Brad for one second.

So I see four more shows, Stephenville, Corner Book, Grand Falls, and Gander.

Tell us about where those shows will be and what people can expect.

So those four shows are at the Arts and Culture Centers, and all the Arts and Culture Center screenings, the people at the Arts and Culture Center have decided to make those tickets for free.

So every Arts and Culture Center screening on the island is free, coming up starting on Thursday in Stephenville.

Then it's Friday night in Cornerbrook, then Grand Falls, then Gander on Sunday night.

And so we'd love to see people come out.

Thank you so

I think is right.

We're going to go to Gander, Cornerbrook, Stephenville and Grand Falls.

So we're going to have three tradeswomen social events.

So we have events for tradeswomen throughout the year.

what Canada could offer to the EU in terms of issues around transition to renewables, too.

And, of course, it wasn't that long ago, even before Mark Carney came, that we did have people like the Germans in Stephenville looking at potential energy options that were there.

Two last questions for you.

The first is this.

Not only that, uh, Gander will be utilized for that purpose as well, and possibly St. John's.

Scott Hurley is in Stephenville.

He gives me the latest on the situation there.

The Stephenville Airport have been advised that a number of American aircraft and international jets, uh, may be visiting the Stephenville Airport to touch down this afternoon.

Just moments ago, a British Airways 767 passenger jet landed at the Stephenville Airport, as did a Delta jet airliner.

Now, officials at the airport are saying that the airport traffic, the airspace, has been cleared for a number of other landings that should occur throughout the afternoon.

So needless to say, the Stephenville Airport, which is a former American Air Force base, has, uh, been put on standby to be ready to accept aircraft of, uh, all makes and, uh, uh, all sizes.

So already the Stephenville Airport is seeing the impact of the tragedy that has occurred in New York City and Washington.

I know media from all over are there, as well as other places, not to mention Gander.

The hundreds, maybe even thousands, I don't know, but I'd say certainly hundreds, you know, there may be others we don't even know of, but who quietly came here to reflect on those events, if they were here and happened to be here, stranded like others, not to mention, you know, just this time planned, as I mentioned earlier, thank goodness, and who would have thought, you know? that somehow in the midst of all the shock and the death and the horror and like just a terror of that day that this could in any way be turned into a feel-good moment but it was and you know the importance uh of that to those who ended up here on that day uh just ask them many have no words or have some words that they can barely get through the tears of appreciation right so In a nod to Come From Away, I would encourage, you know, Gander, Appleton, Gambo, Lewisport, Deer Lake, Stephenville, Goose Bay, St.

John's, wherever, take another bow.

You know, take another bow if you had anything to do with anyone and helping anyone on that day.

I heard it this morning.

Oh, it sends chills up your spine because you're starting to realize the enormity of this.

Then we started getting calls from Gander and Stephenville and Goose Bay and Deer Lake.

And we had reporters all over the province at that time.