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  Use designated drivers, ride-share services, taxis, public transportation and spending the night are all safe alternatives to getting behind the wheel.

• Time to start sorting the garbage from Christmas

  Some gift wrap can go in the blue bag, but the heavy, inked paper goes in the trash.

• Kruger VP Talks about a $700M retrofit at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper

  Kruger Vice President Darren Pelley says it will start with the modernization of the Forestry, something Pelley says people will start to see early on as the first step is changing the way they harvest, providing saw mills with saw logs first. He says a lot of investment is needed in the mill through construction, new equipment and changes in process.  

• RNC to increase patrols during the holidays with a focus on impaired driving

  There will be checkpoints, radar enforcement and traffic safety stops to help ensure those behind the wheel are sober.

• Jim Fidler is out with a Christmas song he wrote 15 years ago

  This composer, arranger, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist was only nine years old when he lost his eyesight.