His political rivals may have been salivating, seeing longtime Harbour Grace Mayor Don Coombs with his head in the stocks during the town’s annual Pirates to Pilots Festival last month. But the genial head of council survived with his head intact despite the foreboding costumes and gestures of, from left, pirates Gunner and Atlantic Storm (better known as Pat Farrell and Jane West), and Deputy Mayor Keith Skinner. Olivia Bradbury photo
