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The Brussels Post, 1977-09-28, Page 4POST EDITOR — Mrs. Evelyn Kennedy is editor of The Brussels Post. Besides collecting and sorting the news stories that come in, she also takes classified advertising over the counter and the phone at the Post office. She's also author of the popular page one coltimn 'Short Shots'. (Staff Photo) 4—THE BRUSSELS POST, SEPTEMBER 28, 1977 People make the Post work Have you ever wondered what makes your local paper tick? Maybe you have had your' picture taken by .a Post photo- grapher or dropped off a baseball story at the Post office and next week there it is in the paper (or once in a while, it isn't). Pretty" simple,. eh, like switching on a lightbulb' N 3 tigin bulb, quite a bit happens on the way from that camera click or baseball notes to the finished pages of the BrusSels Post. From you to its final place on the page news for the Post can go .through the hands of eight different people. The person who collects most of those baseball notes and other information is the editor of the Post, Evelyn Kennedy. Mrs. 'Kennedy and her husband, Roy, owned and san the paper until 1972 when it was sold to McLean Bros.,Publishing Limited. Since 1932 She has- worked on, the Post since 1932 and says she would hate to ever give e job up. "I enjoy th . I like meeting peop e and I enjoy the contact with the public," Mrs. Kennedy says. Besides writing her popular column, "Short Shots", as well as gathering all the raw news material together and sorting through it, Mrs. Kennedy also takes down any classified adver- tising that is phoned to the Post office. Pat Langlois, though, takes care of most of the local advertising. Pat started working for the Post four years ago taking photos on a part time basis. Since then she has become much more involved with the paper., The job Of selling advertising for the PoSt means visiting each store in Brussels on a regular basis. Store owners give Pat the details they want in the, ad and What size it is to be. Most advertisers know exactly what they want, Pat 'says. Challenges •The job still has its challenges. "There is always something new," Pat says. "You never know if you're going to get bawled out or if you have really done well." Pat is still snapping pictures for the Post. The easiest group to work with is the little kids, she says. "They'd stand on their heads , for you. They are the cutest," she says. Pat's daughter, Susan, also takes photos for,the Post at times. Correspondents The rest of the raw material that makes up the Brussels Post comes from five rural corres- pondents. These people keep track of the local events and social news for their particular community and write it up into a weekly column. They are: Mrs. Allan McCall, Walton; Mrs. Lewis Stonehouse, Belgrave; Mrs. Mac Engel, Cranbrook; Mrs. Joe Walker, Bluev.ale and Mrs. Cliff Bray, Ethel. The work .that Mrs. -Lewis Stonehouse does in Belgrave typifies the job of the community , ,newspaper correspondent. Most of the news that fills Mrs. Stonehouse's reports every week is gathered over the telephone. "I Use the telephone, quite a toe she says. "And when Ilalk to my friends; I tell them if they have any news, to give me a call." She says her requests for news have worked. "Some days I get enough news that I don't have to do any calling." People often bring things around to her door to be included in •the Belgrave correspondence as well. Mrs. Stonehouse says she has never had any trouble getting people to contribute news items to her. She always asks people if they want their names in the paper if they've been to a wedding or had visitors, or any one of the numerous kinds of things that are included' in Mrs. Stonehouse's correspondence,' "and if they don't, I let it go." But that seldom happens, she says. Telephone calls On Monday mornings, Mrs. Stonehouse 'sits down with a pad and pencil, and calls people around the village for news. Afterwards, she reworks her notes into the neat longhand script that she sends to Brussels to be included in the Post: "I've had people tell me they lookforward to getting the Post to read the Belgrave News," she says. And some of the people who have told her that have come from as far 'away as. Toronto. Coming up with the items that she sends to the Post every week isn't hard, Mrs. Stonehouse says'. $,Belgrave is a pretty active little village really." community supper that raises One of the most important events in Belgrave is the annual money for the village arena. Men roll up their sleeves and the women pitch in to cook and serve fair, and other church and a turkey supper for up to 1000 people. There's also the church community activities to report on. All ofo whichuse vteernyd s btouskyeepeMverrsy, Stonehouse Mondayshe morning , has b e en i3eigravo's correspondent for more than five years now, and has no thoughts of giving it up. "I enjoy my work very much," she says. Mrs. Stonehouse thinks the work of the community cones. pondent is very important, especially for the older people in the village. Some who live alone get a lift when they see their names in the paper. It makes them feel good to know that the community cares about what they do. And that's what makes the job worthwhile, Mrs. Stonehouse feels. How long will she keep it up? As' long as there is Belgrave news, Mrs. Stonehouse, laughs, she'll be there to report it. To Seaforth Fictiires, advertisements, and stories all have to be gathered together by Tuesday and sent to the Huron Expositor in Seaforth, also owned by McLean Bros, There the actual composition and layout work is done. The newspaper printing method has changed vastly over the last .decade. At one time each letter was painstakingly set in hot metal. Now the process is much quicker. Typesetter The news copy is typed into a 'machine known as a compu• graphic typesetter. The lines of type are electronically set on photographic paper by the machine in such a way that the lines are all of the same length, or "justified." The paper is then fed through a proCessing machine and comes out in a long column. The news is "Developed" in much the same way that photos are. Once this has been dried and p ri ai of sl tr a? a( S fd GETTING THE. NEWS. Mrs:. 'Lewis Stonehouse it One of several community COrretPOndentS. who supply .news of their communities to be included .in the Post each Week, Each Monday' morning; Mrs. Stonehouse' phOnet her neighbours and friends in Belgrave for-news to be, included in ..het report', She. finds her .work reWarding, and, says the .hdPet to continue reporting the happenings in Bel' tasie for long time to come. (Staff Photo} GETTING THE ADS -,- Pat Langlois spends part of each week visiting 1 0dal MerChants to get their ad requirements. The information is then passed on to Seaforth, where the ads are designed and pasted together. Here She takes down details Of an ad of (*triple Restaurant Owner Bill Protripapad., (Staff PhOtO) ou on