Compare: Your top 5 stories from May 2021 and May 2020

Health and Safety manager Carl O’Brien is pictured with Craig Lovell and Stella, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary’s first support dog. This story was one of the top 5 stories from May 2021. Keep reading to find out where it placed! Photo: Vale Archive

Throughout the summer, we will publish readers’ five favourite Vale News stories by month – and then, we’ll compare them against the top five from the same month last year.  

Comparing where we were ‘then,’ with where we are now, allows us to see how far we’ve come with COVID-19 and our business; we can relive and reflect on our accomplishments, and we can think about how, and if, we’ve applied lessons learned along the way. 

Here are your top five stories from May 2021 and 2020. Click each link to (re)read them! 

Top 5 May 2021

Notable: Long Harbour Processing Plant snagged two spots out of the five!

5. Let’s hear it for our amazing LHPP colleagues for achieving this amazing feat

4. Here’s how Voisey’s Bay recruitment is shifting into high gear

3. Hello my name is… Stacey Roy

2. The LHPP team was treated to a special visit

and…

1. A toilet seat by any other name

Top 5 May 2020

Notable: Two stories exemplify our determination to outsmart COVID. 

5. Beacon of positivity: grocery fairy godmother Frances Meaney

4. Thompson concentrator shows off its (new) pipes

3. Beacon of positivity: Stacy Kennedy

2. Here’s how two Vale employees are fighting COVID-19 in 3D

and…

1. Creighton crew divides and conquers cage space

Do you know someone who is a standout colleague for their kindness or leadership skills? Nominate them as a Beacon of Positivity by emailing us here.