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| Josie Penny |
The Neat Little Bookshop
Today, Thursday, May 16, 1:00 p.m.
Josie Penny
author of So Few on Earth
Refreshments, tea & coffee
Informal ~ Everyone Welcome
(Photo: Josie Penny at Selkirk Heritage Day, 2012. lbw)
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Sachem Offers Opportunity ~
There are many deserving Cayuga and District Businesses that would welcome recognition in the Sachem's 2013 Readers' Choice. Take a minute and nominate your favourite local business ~ imagine over 100 categories!
Throughout the year The Sachem has written stories, printed submitted articles and photographs for us. This is our chance to support this local paper in their efforts to recognize excellence.
www.sachem.ca
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| The Sachem |
There are many deserving Cayuga and District Businesses that would welcome recognition in the Sachem's 2013 Readers' Choice. Take a minute and nominate your favourite local business ~ imagine over 100 categories!
Throughout the year The Sachem has written stories, printed submitted articles and photographs for us. This is our chance to support this local paper in their efforts to recognize excellence.
www.sachem.ca
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!
Sunday, May 12, 2013
"...while I was a child her great affection for me, and her intense care for my welfare, made me love her and gave me that feeling of safety that children need...Her fearlessness, her public spirit, her contempt for convention, and her indifference to the opinion of the majority have always seemed good to me and have impressed themselves upon me as worthy of imitation."
~ Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970) British philosopher
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
(Photo: Cayuga Street, Sunday, May 12 lbw)
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