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This edition of Lambton Local marks one year since your new local newspaper commenced publishing. I’d like to express my thanks to the local community for welcoming the Local into their homes. I won’t easily forget that wet week in April last year when I had sold, written and printed edition #1 and set off to deliver it single-handedly to more than 3,700 letterboxes in Lambton and North Lambton. I can admit now to being just a little worried I’d bitten off more than I could chew and that perhaps I should make it a one-off publication. Every time I dropped in at home for more copies to deliver however, I had one or more email or voice mail messages to return offering help with future editions or deliveries, enquiries about advertising, story ideas or people just wanting to say “Thank you”. I knew then that Lambton Local was being well-received and there had to be more than the one edition. I have a few ideas to improve on what
Lambton Local already does, but a newspaper belongs to its community more than its publisher. So if you have ideas on what you’d like to see in your local paper drop me a line, either by email to lambtonlocal@gmail.com or at PO Box 130, Lambton. If you enjoy receiving and reading Lambton Local I ask just one thing in return. Please support the businesses that advertise here, for without their support it wouldn’t exist. I cannot thank local businesses enough for their support over the last year. I’d also like to acknowledge the correspondents and regular contributors that have provided so much valuable and entertaining information for the readers. I know I could not fill the pages without their continued support. I look forward to bringing Lambton Local to you each month for the coming year and beyond. Enough from me, please enjoy the 13th edition of Lambton Local. Mark Brooker - Publisher
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