All is Quiet

The New Bridge?

All is Quiet on the Waterfront ~ Some wonder what is happening with construction of the new bridge...

(Photos:  Friday, May 17, lbw)

Lundy's Lane

"During the battle of Lake Erie in 1813, Perry's flagship, the Lawrence, was so badly damaged that he was obliged to abandon it and row to the Niagara.  after finally forcing the British fleet to surrender, Perry made no reference to the exigencies of the battle in the dispatch announcing his victory.  It read simply, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours."

{Perry's words are memorable, but have become immortal through the parody on them by Walt Kelly's inimitable cartoon character, Pogo: 'We have met the enemy and he is us.'}"

*Oliver Hazard Perry, (1785 - 1819), US naval commander.

~ THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF Anecdotes, 1985

(Photos:  Lundy's Lane, Niagara Falls, ON. Click on Photo for larger image. lbw)



Josie Penny Author

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)

Mount Olivet Lilac Drive-Thru~

Among the lilacs, Saturday, May 18, Pie Social, Silent Auction, Yard Sale.  Hot dog BBQ ~ a special day in the little country church.

Sachem Offers Opportunity ~

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

Everything coming up blue & white ~

HALDIMAND MOTORS showing support for the Toronto Maple Leafs

www.haldimandmotors.com

"Only in Cayuga..."

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.