HALDIMAND MOTORS showing support for the Toronto Maple Leafs
"Only in Cayuga..."
Monday, May 13, 2013
Peter Worthington, Sun News
(1927 - 2013)
The devastating announcement of the Toronto Telegram closing in 1971
left staffers scrambling for jobs.
A small group including Peter Worthington, Don Hunt and Douglas Creighton
began plans to produce a tabloid eventually named the Toronto Sun.
"None of us had ever rented a building, found a press, bought newsprint or started a company. Hardly any of us had dummied a tabloid paper before.
"It has been argued that every successful enterprise requires three leaders; a dreamer, a businessman and a son of a bitch. Well, we had all three...I'll leave it to the reader to fit us into the proper category." ~ Douglas Creighton.
The Sun was to be "unintimidated, aggressive, accurate and irreverent." In his autobiography, Sunburned - Memoirs of a Newspaperman - THE SUN,* Creighton describes the dream, the trying days and weeks of establishing the new tabloid.
*Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited, 1993.
"Get dis shack cleaned up!" Mommy yelled "De mission boat's comin."
I was six and didn't know how to clean up yet. Clean up what? I glanced out the window and saw a large schooner coming around the point. The fancy hospital ship was carrying Dr. Charles Curtis. Suddenly, Spotted Island was alive with activity. People milled about in a frenzy, tidying up for the doctor. Mommy shouted at us to wash our faces.
"Racing to the porch washstand, I scooped cold water from the barrel into the basin, then took the corner of the already filthy towel from its nail and rubbed it over my face. It was cold and there was no soap, but I did the best I could and placed the towel back on the nail.
"Whass de doctor comin fer, Mommy?" Marcie asked.
"Donno, maid, he jus coms."
~ Excerpt from So Few on Earth. Dundurn Press, 2010.
Author Josie Penny explains that most people say that they have never met anyone from Labrador. "That's because there are so few of us on earth," she says. Josie lives with her husband in Dunnville.
Josie Penny will be in the bookshop
Thursday, May 16, 1:00 p.m.
"Everyone Welcome"
Coffee Pot's always on...don't miss it!
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