Dorchester Banner Nominated For Small Business Of The Year

The Banner was recently nominated as the Dorchester Chamber of Commerce’s small business of the year. Though the award went to another business, the nomination, made by the former city mayor, is a gauge of the change of attitude in Cambridge regarding the Banner and its position in the community.

The letter below here is further evidence of the active role the newspaper and its staff is playing in the community:

The Conscientious Carrier

The Conscientious Carrier

            Trying To Find A Green Dot

                                    Or Perhaps One That Might Be Red

            At Two A.M. Is That Morning Or Night?

                                    Either Way, You’d Rather Be Home In Bed

            But You’re Stuffing Papers In A Plastic Bag

                                    So They Won’t Get  All Soggy Or Wet

            Then Trying To Find The Right Paper Tube

                                    But You’re Not At The Right Address Yet

            Driving Down The Road On The Wrong Side

                                    To Try To Deliver It To The Right Place

            And The Sunday Addition With All Those Ads

                                    To Get The Route Done On Time Is A Race

             You Sleep When You Can In The Daytime

                                    ‘Cause It’s Dark When Those Papers Get Slung

            With Your Route List Or Using A GPS

                                    In Yards Or Paper Tubes Those Papers Are Flung

It’s The Saga Of The Paper Carrier

                        And Early Mornings Of Each Early Day

Getting All Of Those Papers Delivered

                        Is How Folks Like Us, Each Earn Our Pay

Original poem by Jim Conrad     Route Service Specialist                12 June 2013

July Birthdays

7/7, Angela Bridges,  Okeechobee News

7/9, Debra Friedl,  Independent of Arizona
7/12, Richard Naughton,  Valley Newspaper Printing
7/15, Richard Sullivan,  Delaware Printing Company
7/16, Lester Spencer,  Delaware State News
7/19, Patricia Brant,  Caloosa Belle
7/20, Louise Dowling,  Okeechobee News
7/22, Allan Ryder, Delaware State News
7/24, Josephine Sudler,  Daily Banner
7/25, Pilar Arias,  Apache Junction Independent
7/25, Donald Hawkins,  Delaware Printing Company
7/29, Van Eastman, Valley Newspaper Printing
7/30, Wanda Ford-Waring, Corporate
7/30, Zenaida Matute,  Valley Newspaper Printing

July Anniversaries

7/1, 1 YRS, Jose Santoyo, Valley Newspaper Printing

7/1, 27 YRS, Sylvia Windsor,  Daily Banner
7/2, 7 YRS, Donny Jacobs,  Valley Newspaper Printing
7/2, 27 YRS, Sandra Stokes,  Daily Banner
7/4, 41 YRS, Wanda Ford-Waring,  Corporate
7/4, 2 YRS, Timothy Menasco,  Delaware State News
7/5, 3 YRS, Ashley Dawson,  Delaware State News
7/11, 6 YRS, Terrance Thornton,  Northeast Group Independent
7/12, 8 YRS, Gerald Bradshaw,  Sun City Independent
7/16, 1 YR, Karen Adamski,  Delaware State News
7/16, 1 YR, Patricia Franze,  Delaware State News
7/17, 1 YR, Tyler Caime,  Valley Newspaper Printing
7/21, 11 YRS, Thomas Byrd,  Independent of Florida
7/21, 16 YRS, Burkey Emmons,  Delaware Printing Company
7/21, 16 YRS, Deborah Myers,  Sun City Independent
7/24, 7 YRS, James Hoesch,  Corporate
7/24, 1 YR, Katrina Sullivan,  Delaware State News
7/25, 25 YRS, Josephine Sudler,  Daily Banner
7/25, 2 YRS, Tyrell Sullivan,  Delaware Printing Company
7/30, 1 YR, Eleanor LaPrade,  Delaware State News