Profile of Ray Burns

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• Affleck takes pro game to Morocco
  Brian Affleck uses a simple story to illustrate the differences between the Florida golf tour he was playing on and the eGolf Tour he's playing ...
• Daughter alarmed over hospital ordeal faced by mom...
  NEW GLASGOW – Kelli Cruikshank says the health care system needs to be reworked so patients won't be sent home following a dose of pain ...
• Company making steps in coal-bed methane exploration
  STELLARTON – East Coast Energy is marking a milestone this week with the drilling of a core hole not far from Highway 104 east in its quest ...
• No big spill, minor injuries to driver in Hwy. 104...
  MARSHY HOPE – It looks like the driver of an oil truck and Mother Nature were both lucky on Monday afternoon.The 44-year-old driver of a Blue ...
• Province provides $450,000 loan to help Pictou Lodge...
  BRAESHORE – Economic and Rural Development Minister Percy Paris could barely speak, thanks to a cold, but that fact couldn't hide the ...
• Christmas goods delivered to families of prison inmates
  NEW GLASGOW – Christmas in a box, that's what the Daybreak Prison Ministry provides.The Christmas Grocery Box drive has been going on for 20 ...
• Affleck wins first pro golf tournament
  Brian Affleck didn't wait for Santa to bring him what he wanted for Christmas - he went out and got it for himself.Affleck, a Sutherlands River ...
• Time for the Scotians to make a move
  TRENTON – If the Pictou County Scotians want to see the post-season they have to make a move now. Head coach Pat Dunn said the time has come ...
• Running with a great idea: Man's goal is to run...
  For 20 years the idea of running around the world was never more than a few hours from Tony Mangan's waking mind. He toyed with it on and off ...
• New Heritage Property Act allows more time to...
  NEW GLASGOW – The provincial government's changes to the Heritage Property Act could have a positive impact on development of ...
• Wind project taking off – ahead of schedule
  BROWNS MOUNTAIN – Wind turbine towers in various stages of completion dot the rugged landscape at the Glen Dhu project.Four towers are ...
• Sellers advise ways to keep trees fresh through season
  NEW GLASGOW – There may be up to 200 trees on display at the Pictou County's Best Christmas Trees lot but oftentimes a buyer will find him ...
• Barge tugged to Pictou Harbour for inspection
  PICTOU – The operation to salvage the barge stranded on a reef in the Northumberland Strait went off pretty much like clockwork thanks to ...
• Buzz builds about park: New Albion Place marketing...
  STELLARTON – At the time of year when most of us are spending like drunken sailors the commercial real estate market isn't quite so free ...
• Pro golfer from county getting more confident on...
  NEW GLASGOW – Pictou County's pro golfer, Brian Affleck, finally earned himself a couple of paydays on the golf course.The Sutherlands River ...
• Back in their own barn
  NEW GLASGOW – It's home sweet home for the Weeks Jr. A Crushers on Thursday.The Crushers are back on the ice at the John Brother MacDonald ...
• Special focus helped team win
  TRENTON – The Pictou County Scotians have been working on their special teams and it showed on Sunday night.The Scotians were trailing 4-2 going ...
• Colon cancer screening kit launched, to go out to...
  NEW GLASGOW – The challenge has been made and it is coming to households across the Pictou County Health Authority coverage area over the ...
• Lessons outside classroom for Grade 9 – in the...
  NEW GLASGOW – Child labour didn't come back into vogue on Wednesday despite the fact that young people were quite noticeable in workplaces ...
• Ryan likes Team East for world championship run
  Troy Ryan knows a thing or two about building a successful hockey team.One needs look no further than the success he had with the Weeks Jr. A ...
• Coast-to-coast road trip
  NEW GLASGOW – Last season Harley Palmer was the equipment manager for Team West as part of the World Jr. A Challenge hockey tournament when ...
• Students bring Monarch butterfly project into classroom
  SUTHERLANDS RIVER – Saying 'the dog ate my homework' doesn't really go over too well with teachers. Well how about 'my homework flew away to ...
• Group judges a book to reuse the cover: annual Y's...
  NEW GLASGOW – Reuse, reduce, recycle and re-read.That fourth R dominates the Y's Menettes Book Sale which is in its 37th year.The sale does ...
• Expect 'vanilla winter,' says almanac: not much to...
  NEW GLASGOW – Canadians like to talk about the weather.We complain about how cold it is, or hot, or wet, or windy, or snowy….The Canadian ...
• 'Tar spot' on maple leaves tough to remedy, but not...
  MacLELLANS BROOK – It could almost be considered an attack on our national pride, a treasured symbol of the country defaced.In reality, it's ...
• Here and there and back again
  NEW GLASGOW – Ask the Weeks Jr. A Crushers on Sunday if good things come in threes.The dust will have settled by then on a weekend with home ...
• Hard work pays off for Weeks Major Midgets
  NEW GLASGOW – When the season started Weeks Major Midgets head coach Dave MacIntyre had his fingers crossed. MacIntyre's team was a young ...
• Albion Place Power Centre: fledgling commercial park...
  STELLARTON – A new big box retailer will begin construction at the Albion Place Power Centre within days and that's just the tip of the ...
• Pieces being set in place for Glen Dhu Wind Farm
  BROWNS MOUNTAIN – It is not difficult now to envision what the Glen Dhu Wind Farm project will look like when it's flowing power into the ...
• Sometimes it's fun, but routine day for police is...
  STELLARTON – What a difference a week makes.Last Monday morning two people were killed and three injured on Highway 104 in a three-vehicle ...