Hi, Constant Readers.
Professionals, tradesmen, and business owners in the Whitsundays are more than familiar with the characteristics of a small team: can do attitudes, grit.
And, often, being in a small team means doing the odd job around the workplace.
Those can range from things like vacuuming to – in my case – distributing newspapers across Proserpine last month.
That extra-vocational outing took me on a morning drive through the sugarcane town to, in effect, deliver the newspaper to you, Constant Reader.
That was one of two times recently where I was shown how much the newspaper means to people in the region – especially Proserpine.
As soon as bundles went onto the shelf at places like IGA, they started flying off again; there was even a queue developing at one point. Lots of people had two copies furled under their arms or popped into the trolley – one for them and one for their neighbours, mostly.
Sometimes you can’t see the scale of a thing until you spy its smallest part.
That was one of the sentimental moments in the past month that’s underpinned this profession with sweetness for me.
The next week, I was back in Proserpine chasing a story and ended up in the Museum’s archive room. It’s filled with boxes on boxes of Proserpine’s history, and amongst them I found hundreds of copies of Whitsunday Life newspaper.
When I saw that in amongst issues of the long-since gone Proserpine Guardian, it put into perspective what our paper means to people.
To become an integral part of people’s lives here when they read our paper each week, and a part of its history - that is a feeling I can’t express.
Thank you.
Declan
Quote Of The Week:
"There is a history in all men's lives.” – William Shakespeare
