“I saw similar sites across the country and I thought that seems like a very Yellowknife thing to do so I created it. That only involved pushing some buttons,” Falvo said. “The rest has taken care of itself.”
Falvo said the name of the site was a play on words from ‘scare mongering’ or ‘fear mongering’, something that has been discouraged by officials and others since the virus became as serious as it is now.
“The response has been more than I expected, with more than 400 members in the first 24 hours after it was created,” Falvo said.
John has been in the broadcast journalism industry since the 1980s. He has been a reporter in Yellowknife since 2012 and joined CKLB in January of 2018.
John covers the crime and court beat as well as reporting on other areas including politics, business, entertainment and sports.
He won seven national community newspaper awards while he was a journalist with Northern News Services Limited (NNSL).
John worked in Ontario before coming North including stints as a TV sportscaster in Peterborough and senior news writer for CBC and CTV in downtown Toronto.