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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1986-10-29, Page 26THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1986. PAGE 27. Many have helped paper to be a success Continued from page 6 a mailing-crew and so on until today there is a staff of full-time and part-time people that totals 10. And that number doesn’t in­ clude many other people who contribute to the paper each week. There are the hard-working, sel­ dom-recognized correspondents in the villages and hamlets across our seven-township coverage area who each week send in the news from their community. There’s Pat Langlois who has provided so many photographs over the last year from the Brussels area. There are the people like Dorothy Foxton and Gary Walden who have helped us increase our council coverage. There’s Marilyn Higgins who writes the People Around Brussels column each week and Melda McElroy who turns in many stories in Blyth with the provision that her namedoesn’tgoon them and there is Lois Me Arter in Brussels who The Citizen team Continued from page 6 Marie, former principal of Walton Public School, came to our aid. LISA SHERRITT, Assistant to the advertising manager: Lisa brings two skills to The Citizen. As assistant to advertising manager Bev Brown she is in charge of making all the advertisements as attractive and compelling as possi­ ble. She is also trained in graphic arts photography and has helped us in our latest acquisition, a new graphic arts darkroom and process camera. On top of all that, Lisa also looks after the office duties in the Brussels' office. We’re sure glad she and husband Len decided to settle in Brussels last spring. BARBARA STOREY AND NAN­ CY GRE1DANUS, mailing crew: Barb and Nancy have been life- savers, almost literally. During the first months of operation the staff would stay up late getting the paper ready for press Monday night, work under the stress of deadline until the paper was off to Goderich to be printed, pick up the printed papers and go back to work until late Tuesday night as well, putting the subscribers names on the papers, bundling them, putt­ ing them in mail bags and driving about 60 miles to deliver the mail keeps readers up to date on just about anything that happens a- round the arena in Brussels. And of course we can ’t forget that mystery media star of last winter, Rusty Blades who made the “Killer B’s’’ a household name in Blyth. At the same time, the first year has been harder than expected because of an unexpected pro­ blem: two actually. First of all, the idea of people from the community investing in their own newspaper proved too popular. People stopped our peo­ ple on the street to say they wanted to invest. We soon had 80 people who had sent in money to buy shares. The problem is that under Ontario law, you can’t have more than 50 shareholders unless you’re listed on the stock exchange which costs mucho bucks. That problem was eventually solved when money was refunded to enough share­ holders to keep us from breaking the law. bags to the various post offices so readers could get their papers Wednesday morning. Barb and Nancy have taken over that work and saved us from all that and saved our sanity as well. TOBY RAINEY, staff reporter: Toby is the newest key member of the team that puts out The Citizen. Starting with us Sept. 1, Toby brought with her a wealth of experience in various aspects of weekly newspapers gained on newspapers in northern Ontario and across the West. She also brings a love of the newspaper business and Huron County and a tremendous dedication to making The Citizen the best newspaper around. Her skills in the darkroom and in taking news pictures are also much appreciated. KEITH ROULSTON, Editor and Publisher: Tenyears older than when he started this job a year ago, he has shown toughness to survive both 60 - 80 hour work weeks and factious municipal politics. As a former editor and publisher of weekly newspapers and monthly magazines, as a theatre admini­ strator and as a writer he has the experience to handle just about every emergency, and he’s needed it. The other problem came directly from our success. After The Citizen first appeared, a writer from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record came up to do a story on what he thought was a unique newspaper. Other daily newspapers must have thought the same thing because soon there were stories from coast to coast and even in southern U.S. resort areas about The Citizen. All that attention also brought us to the notice of the Ontario Securities Commission in Toronto. Seems to do what we’d done requires a prospectus, approved by the Securities Commission. The hitch is that getting such an approved prospectus costs more money than what we wanted to raise in the first place. The matter is still tied up in bureaucratic red tape as the Securities Commission people keep changing their mind as to how we can undo our horrible actions. Meanwhile lawyers get . rich. While the first year can only be termed a tremendous success, the biggest challenge is ahead. Having long ago reached our initial goal for subscribers, we’re now shooting for new heights. Somedayinthe next few weeks we expect our combined circulation of subscri­ bers and newsstand sales to reach overthe2,000mark. Within the The Tn---• Triple K K Restaurant BLYTH 523-9623 •Breakfast specials •Special meals every day •Weekend smorgasbord Open6a.m.-11 p.m. Fri. & Sat. till 12:30 | Maitland Restaurant Everyday Special Licenced LLBO 194 JosephineSt. WINGHAM I 357-3341 •Light lunches •Afternoon tea [and coffee] •Delightful desserts HOURS: Noon to 4 and 5 to 8 Thursday through Sunday Blyth 523-4880 Restaurant 132 JOSEPHINEST Wingham, Ontario 357-1633 Award winning dining room Openyeararound THE LITTLE INN o/BAYFIELD For reservations ______519-565-2611______ at Olfrc iBlitljE Spirit Cki tluiinn A taste treat Bartliff's Bakery k and Restaurant /Home cooked ) meals f‘Fresh baked goods daily DOWNTOWN CLINTON 482-9727 next year we’re hoping to sell our 2,000th subscription. We’re hoping the paper itself will see some more indepth, thought-provoking features. All of this, of course, depends on the continued support of the community. Right now we have a snowball going downhill: the more subscribers we have, the more advertisers we can attract, the more space and money we have to provide a better newspaper which in turn means more people will ST. JOSEPH’S & ST. MICHAEL’S Annual Social & Dance MUSIC BY Anytfiing Goes Saturday, TP November 1 Blyth Community Centre BUFFET LUNCH--EVERYONE WELCOME TICKETS$5.00PER PERSON AVAILABLE AT DOOR OR BYCALLING 523-4866 want to read the paper and means more people read each advertise- mentbringing more money into our various communities instead of having it trickle off into cities and neighbouring towns. If we can keep the snowball rolling we all benefit, subscribers, advertisers and, of course, our staff. So thanks to you all, you subscribers, advertisers and shareholders, for making it an exciting, if tiring, first year. Let’s do it again next year. Church of God active The Blyth congregation of the Church of God has its fall activities well under way. The Childrep’s Club for Public School Children, which meets each Wed­ nesday after school had 14 enthusi­ astic children in the first week, with more expected to join the ranks of the two competing teams, namely the “Go’s’’ and the “Getter’s”. The Youth group launched its first activity with an invigorating Scavenger Hunt on October 11 and those involved were thrilled with theco-operationand help given them as they called in various homes in the area in search of their designated items. Other activities, such as Youth for Christ, Christian films and Blyth Swinging Seniors meet The Blyth Swinging Seniors met in the Memorial Hall on Wednes­ day, October 22, for their regular meeting. With Ruby Philps at the piano a lively sing-song opened the meeting. Happy Birthday was sung in honour of two members with October birthdays. President John Hesselwood con­ ducted the business period. Secre­ tary Mary Wightman gave a brief account of the Eleventh Fall Rally of Zone 8 United Senior Citizens of Ontario which was held in Dun- videos, making puppets and plann­ ing a puppet show, and social outings like bowling and skating, are being planned for the fall and winter months, under the direction of the Youth Co-ordinators Leslie and Jackie Cook. A recently-formed Bible Class meets each Sunday morning at 10 a.m., Pastor Cecile Barnhart is in charge of the worship service. On Oct. 19 missionaries from Tanzania, Rev. and Mrs. Stan Desjardine, were in charge of the Sunday School hour and the 11:00 a.m. service, showing slides and telling of their work there. Following the service, a time of fellowship was enjoyed by all over a pot luck dinner. gannon Seniors Centre on October 16. Nora Kelly gave a financial report. John mentioned that the Legion hold a Euchre party every second week starting on Saturday, October 25, at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome. There was then a music program with Aubrey Toll singing a number of enjoyable songs. Cheryl Cronin accompanied him on the piano. Following this George Harrower showed three comic films and one depicting life in Fiji. A lunch brought an interesting meeting to a close.