Sometimes I get a note from a reader that troubles me so much I can’t shake it, and I can’t solve it.
I have an email from a reader who now lives outside Kansas. Her mother died in April 1991 when a tornado struck the Golden Spur mobile home park in Andover. Since then, she’s kept copies of The Eagle from that entire week (starting April 27, 1991) to look at every year on her mother’s birthday.
She’s discovered that among the things stolen in a home burglary was a box of her mementos, including her newspapers from that week. We no longer have copies of those papers here around the newspaper building.
I know it’s a longshot, but if any reader saved newspapers from that week and no longer wants them, I know somebody who would love to have them. Thanks.
2 Comments
Sherry:
Your sense of priorities never ceases to amaze me.
No wonder most Sedgwick County citizens refuse to subscribe to the Eagle becasue it is a joke. Does the McLatchy Corp. management ever commission any market research opinions polls to compare the public opinions about their local newspaper in the Wichita market to the other McLatchy newspaper markets. I think it would raise a few red flags about your leadership and priorities.
Bill McKean
kiakahahaha@yahoo.com
293-6079
Bill – Sherry didn’t put out a front page ad asking for anyone who might have a paper. Editors can’t be people too or what? I happen to like it that the editor of our paper thinks about real people. Maybe you should try it sometime.