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: Classified Dept: Lynn Atkinson, Audrey Atkinson, Valerie .
Clarke, Ruby Beveridge, Terry Johnson, Olga Hawkes, Mary
- MacPhee, Berni Hilliard — _ 7 =
Top row: Bob Graham, Randall Hillhouse, Sam Stewart, David Jenneson. Bottom Row: Barrie Hutchinson, Jim
Woods, Kristi Vidler, Lori Warren ; . oo. ;
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_ . : Production Dept: Edna Tosse, Marna Leiren, Kate Wallace,
¥ . Mazoe Wessels, Faye McCrae, Leslie Wapenaar [missing _. . /
Linda Douglas, Evelyn Antoniak] ee ; ;
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Yvonne Champman,
| Photography. | . Circulation Manager | Me, oo. BO .
— : EO Cee re Office Staff: Donna Champion, Barb Keen, Sylvia Sorenson, . | oe , re : ° oo “
ee es Be | ' Leigh Ann Slym and Barbara Haywood | . re ;
: | The North Shore News was first published in February 1969 as the North ;
A ao Shore Shopper. It was conceived as’ an alternative to the traditional paid P ;
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: om subscription newspapers which dominated the North Shore at that time: i
iz een oo The paper has ‘changed a lot in’8 years. It’s now the News, for one thing and |
_ oe ee ee it’s grown from a monthly newspaper .to a weekly; from 6,000 circulation to — . :
- at ee Ad | _ 46,000; from a staff of 1 to a staff of 46 with over 350 carriers; from virtually . |
: nothing to a position of dominance in the local newspaper market. '
_ The North Shore News is at the forefront of the newspaper industry. More
| than 60% of the community newspaper's in Ontario are free distribution; in
_ B.C., more than 30%, and the steadily decreasing number of subscriptions
a | to all paid circulation newspapers means that figure is going to grow. |
| : eee ; estima ced scatile | | , ‘ : ; | . . man ier
: The confidence of our advertisers, the encouragement of our readers, and
| the imitation of our competitors have convinced us that we are certainly
| | Succeeding in reaching our objectives. ae | - a
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Editorial Dept: Rex Weyler, Noel Wright, Ellsworth Dickson, ; | 2)
gE Bill Lam