Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-07-30, Page 39While the high and the mighty strut and Stamp across the world's stage, six women go out to visit the elderly' A small boy scores, the winning goal in a hockey game. An —amateur-theatre- gratirprattuaes'a-smalrhit7A own council passes an important new law. The real lives of real people. People who don't start wars, who don't build empilvs,, who don't go into the history books. But whose stories are exciting, interesting, vital and important. St9iies that should be told, , And I tell these stories every'Week. Because I am a community newspaper.. I am a community newspapei. My arena is not Parliament, " the. White House, the U.N.—it is the neighbourhood, The community. But what I have to say about it, touches my readers' lives every bit as much as that larger drama. Maybe even I am a community newspaper I am welcomed into hundreds of homes every week. Not as'an intruder, shrieking out the harshness,,violence and complexity of the vvorld. But as a-friend. A mirror of my readers' lives. Their joys, sorrows, accomplishment& Tam a community newspaper. I am proud, tough, independent. I know;when to, smile, when to grumble, how to chide, how to help. IR I am a community newspaper--in a great community. And I'm proud of it • •-•:-:,,, k ii , • t Together, .we proudly ialute Since 1848 the community of Dungannon. Congratulations on thipioccation of your 12,5th. May the festivities you've planned to commemorate this event go extremely well.