Show We Lose A Valued Aid With this issue we see the final work of Rebecca Petersen on the Messenger She has been reporting news for the paper since we purchased the business almost eight years ago and has come to be a part of the Messenger in inthe inthe inthe the eyes of the people of our city In these past eight years Rebecca has has' been been- invaluable to us Sh She has contributed a goodly part of the paper each week and on weeks when we Ave have been tied up with mechanical mechanical mechanical ical work or job printing h she has practically edited the whole local news section Her news has contained many human interest facts you dont don't get from a lot of reporters and she has always been interested in that little extra detail which might make a news item Hem something special And in these eight years we have had not one complaint com coin plaint on Rebecca From time to time a reporter inadvertently inadvertently inadvertently offends somebody but we have never had a subscriber subscriber subscriber sub sub- 1 scriber give us any such real complaint on Rebecca In fact many have told us that her cheery Thank you at the end of every conversation made her calls most pleasant But Rebecca and Jay are arc leaving and others will be gathering social items for the Messenger As she leaves we wish to express our thanks to her for her faithful service faithful service I Ith th these se past years In looking for future reporters we will win probably probably probably pro pro- bably always find ourselves judging them in the light of how their work compares with that of Rebecca I j. j 4 N 1 i. i J |