- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor

This is the official portrait of Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent by Yousef Karsh. It was published on the front page of the first edition of Eddie Sargent's Owen Sound Herald, along with this greeting:

Remember that at this point in 1951 Eddie had been mayor of Owen Sound (population 16,500) for three years and had lost one election as the provincial Liberal candidate for Grey North. He would go on to lose two more elections, one provincial and one federal, before winning a seat in the Ontario Legislature in 1963 by 31 votes, and the next six provincial elections. He never again ran federally.

Page 4 (after the movie and bingo ads) held a similar greeting from Premier Leslie Frost. But then, he was a Progress Conservative.

Frost's greeting included this “The local press in Ontario has a very great function to perform in serving particularly the local interests in our communities. It is a pleasure indeed to note the increasing strength and prosperity of our rural newspapers.”

Publisher/Editor's note: Neither the founding publisher nor I received any greetings from politicians at any level, but if we do, you'll be the first to know.