The Labrador West Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has made their first catch this year of a person operating a snowmobile vehicle while impaired, according to Constable Bill Fitzgerald.

A 52-year-old male resident of Wabush was charged with impaired driving and operating a motor vehicle while his blood alcohol level was over 80 milligrams, states an RNC press release.

The Wabush town council hopes to add space to its business park by 2011.

In the Jan. 26 council meeting, Brian Hudson, town manager, explained the Wabush Business Park has no more space available for new enterprise, so he recommended the Town move forward on an expansion plan.

He said expanding the park will require some surveying and monetary resources, but Wabush mayor Ron Barron said it needs to happen.

The Town of Wabush is hiring a full-time municipal enforcement officer.

In the Jan. 26 council meeting, Coun. Leo Dillon, chair of the finance committee, introduced a motion to hire the full-time employee and all but one councillor - Edna MacDonald - voted in favour.

In a separate interview with the Aurora last Wednesday, Wabush mayor Ron Barron said he understands the councillor's position.

	The Labrador Motors atom team walked away with the silver medal at the fifth annual Steve Ramey Memo... »

The Labrador West ladies defeated RNR Plumbing in the Steve Ramey Memorial Hockey Tournament held in Goose Bay last weekend.

In the most exciting game of the tournament, Cordeilia Richards from the Labrador West female division scored the winning goal at 7:33 of the first overtime defeating RNR Plumbing 7-6.

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The Award winning Northern Lights Theatre Company is taking on challenging new roles in their third season running.

The Labrador West company pushing for even more success with their performance of Whose Line Is It Anyway? on Feb. 12 and are set to perform Margaret Edison's Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Wit on March 11-13 at the Labrador West Arts and Culture Centre.

Dear Editor:

A warning to caribou hunters in Labrador: Be absolutely certain you know where you can and cannot hunt.

I am one of a large group of hunters expecting charges for hunting caribou in a closed zone, near Churchill Falls last week. Whether we were in the wrong spot or not is up for the judge to decide, but I write this letter in the hope that hunters will avoid an awful experience such as ours last Monday afternoon.

Dear Editor:

Please allow me space in your paper to respond to the letter "Warning Required," as published in your Jan 25th edition. The author of this letter is right in stating that there is a lot of construction going on at the Ironstone River crossing for the Bloom Lake railroad tracks and it does pose a bit of difficulty for snowmobilers using that trail, as well as the groomers. Several times I have visited that site and put up signage to warn of the construction, trail on road signs and stop signs. I have talked to the supervisor on the site about the amount of gravel on the road where snowmobiles are crossing, talked to the supervisor of safety to keep the signage in place and make this as safe as possible for this season.

The White Wolf Snowmobile Club has many issues to deal with and a lot of it is due to construction in and around our town, which impact the trails at different places. Another track crossing on the golf course road and soon to be another by the Wabush highway. The trail from the gas bars to Little Wabush has been cut off, again due to construction. It seems like we are constantly rerouting and fixing trails around town.

On the soft, harbour ice a dark speck appears, then another. One of them disappears and simultaneously a third materializes. I pull the binoculars out from their spot behind the television. Maybe they are stored next to the TV because subconsciously I group together instruments for looking at things. Hmmm. Carrying the binoculars to the kitchen window, I hop to attention, thinking maybe that's another reason they are called hoppers. In Bonavista Bay they are called hoppers, short for hopera glasses. In this bay there are always extra H's to go around.

A scattered and wandering mind seeks to find order.

The specks viewed through the hoppers become three otters. They are frolicking across the ice where it is thick enough to support them, and plunging down through, where the surface thins, providing them instant access to a harbourful of herring.