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I thought I'd been abandoned by the Liberals Friday afternoon in Stoneville, north of Gander Bay. Roger Grimes had a meeting at the fire hall. While he was inside I grabbed a phone and fed tape. When I came out. The bus was gone. The fire chief looked at me and said. "were you with them?" Yes. "They're gone to Birchy Bay," he said. (Yes I can see that, I managed to think to myself thankfully.) I phoned fellow reporter David Cochrane, told him what happened, and got the Liberal communications guru, Darryl Mercer's cell number. (Darryl, of course, was on the bus and was the one who had seen me setting up to feed at the fire hall.) As the cell phone rang the bus pulled back up in front of me.
Turns out they hadn't bothered to tell me that the premier had
finished his meeting, and they decided to take the bus for a run
through town to show the flag while they waited for me to clew
up what I was doing. More makeshift studios Last week, I was up against a deadline and editing a story on Roger Grimes' speech to the St. John's Board of Trade, while bouncing around in his bus. When I was finally ready to record my voice track I found the bus noise distracting. So when we pulled into a convenience store in Torbay I raced inside with my laptop and my microphone, and asked to use the washroom. I ended up recording sitting on the toilet (seat down) reading the script off the computer, which was balanced on my lap.
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