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Jeff Green | Dec 20, 2012

Back to HomeFeature Article - December 20, 2012Christmas Message From the Newsby Jeff Green

After 50 weeks of publishing, it feels like there is not much left to say as we head to our annual two-week hiatus over Christmas and New Year's.

Once again this year we have been supported by our readers and the kind, and sometimes critical, things they say about the stories we cover from week to week.

This week’s paper, which is brightened up by children’s artwork, and contains Christmas recipes and thoughts from a range of sources, like all of our issues, is brought to the public by our staff and volunteers, and through the support of the advertisers who make it all possible.

Be they commercial businesses, service providers, municipalities, social service agencies, groups promoting their events, readers making announcements about births, deaths, and the accomplishments of their family members, or people selling sundry items in the classified section, all of the advertisers are crucial to our ability to keep our little paper afloat.

All we have to sell to our advertisers are the eyes of our readers, and it is our job to make the pages worth looking at. It is our pleasure to continue to work at that.

The coming year is sure to see many changes: school construction in Sydenham and Sharbot Lake; a concrete step forward in the 22-year-old Land Claims process; changes in provincial and municipal politics; and the everyday efforts of our readers to keep their communities alive and thriving.

We look forward to sharing those stories with you.

Have a Happy Christmas and New Year.

See you on January 10, 2013.