Mini-paper

I have an interview with a very cool caricaturist from Toronto tomorrow who has recently moved to Chilliwack. I sent him a photo of the mayor so I'm hoping he'll do us a freebie. His stuff is here: gobestimpression.com/Pross and this, obviously, is one of his of Freud. Cool eh?

Another production day today. The smallest paper since I've been at the Times at 28 pages, but still provides a lot of work when Mike is on holiday.

I made the mistake of trying to do something I did last year, but last year it was done fore me. That thing was a map of construction projects in the city. Given how much paving and road construction is going on I figured we should let people know what's up next. But I had to make the map in Adobe Illustrator because the city didn't do one as they did last year. Always good to learn something new, but kind of not my normal expertise.

Another story I did for tomorrow's paper, well, I didn't really do it, but took it from our news service, was a very sad one about a Chilliwack woman and her seven-year-old girl who were killed after being tossed off a boat in the Northwest Territories last week. Her 13-year-old boy survived. He was found on the shore two days later. Brutal.

But my page one story on the local woman who just reunited with her son she was forced to give up at three years old after 33 years is a nice positive one. Turns out good ol' Facebook was the connector. Oddly this guy, who has lately been a missionary in the Czech Republic, was raised by his adoptive family in Burlington next door to me and he is my exact same age. He went to Pearson. I laughed with him that if he had played junior soccer in high school I might have played against him.

One more paper until my two weeks off. Although this is a three-paper week and Mike and I are both away on Friday, so I'm going to have to do some serious extra story filing so the editor, Ken, doesn't have a heart attack all alone with Aidan our new sports reporter on Friday.