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16 JANUARY 2008 THE INVERNESS ORAN PAGE 3
by Rankin MacDonald
The woman who always
made our lives more cheerful
has passed away.
Noted journalist,
director and playwright
Allena MacDonald passed
away on Monday morning
at 3:00 a.m. at the QEII in
Halifax at the age of 45.
She was the daughter
of Inverness County
Councillor Ed MacDonald
and Strait Regional School
Board member Mary Jess
MacDonald.
Mary Jess MacDonald
said she was stricken with
an aneurism on Friday and
rushed to hospital in Halifax
where she underwent two
operations to no avail.
“They did everything
they could to save her,” her
mother said. “We were all
there by her side when she
went.”
With a tear and a smile
is how we will always
remember Allena.
Memories of her wit,
her organized chaos and
her sense of humour helped
everyone to cope on Monday
when the news of her death
reached back home.
Her mother recalled
at the family home in
Queensville on Monday
evening how Allena could
always make them laugh.
She and Ed were celebrating
their anniversary last August
and were all “gussied up”
for the family photo. Allena
arrived late as usual, looking
like a million dollars, but
wearing a pair of rubber
boots.
A graduate of St.FX,
Allena excelled in both
journalism and theatre.
She was a gifted actress,
director and playwright and
served as artistic director
of Mulgrave Road Theatre
during which she introduced
many new works, including
Frank Macdonald’s
Assuming I’m Right. She
also mounted The Westray
Mine Disaster for Two
Planks and A Passion as its
artistic director and took it
on a cross-country tour.
She was adept at both
drama and comedy as an
actress, and in recent years
kept the Strait area laughing
with her Hoots which she
directed and co-wrote.
Allena was one of the
fi nest reporters to come out
of Inverness County and
was never afraid to ask that
diffi cult question.
Her reporting was
always fair, balanced, wellresearched
and well-written,
often straight from the
heart.
Over the years, she
worked for The Inverness
Oran, The Reporter,
Guysborough Journal, The
Hawk, CJFX, The Casket,
Cape Breton Post and The
Chronicle Herald.
As editor of The Oran
I could always count on
Allena for a great story, and
when we worked together
for different news outlets
her presence always made
the job easier because of her
sense of humour, intelligence
and wit.
Machines and clocks
were her downfall. At one
time or other her car, camera
and computer were either
broken or frozen.
She always arrived late.
“What I miss?” she’d
ask, and then tell you the
lengthy story about why she
was late.
She lived her life at a
breakneck pace, helped by
her coffee and cigarettes, of
which she was always out.
One time she had one
smoke left and had no
money to buy another pack.
She dug out a Hoot receipt
for $12 and was on her way
to pick up the money with
receipt in hand as she drove.
She decided to light her last
cigarette, and in doing so
she ignited the receipt.
God, how we’ll miss the
laughs.
One of her closest
friends in life and in theatre
was Roy MacKinnon of Port
Hastings.
It was diffi cult as he
remembered his dear friend.
“She was a wonderful
person; she had it all,” he
said. “I’ll always remember
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