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When the comment was made that I had been writing this column for some 29 years, non-stop, it was suggested that perhaps it was time that I told the story of how it all began. That’s an awfully long time, so maybe I had better dig into my files and check it out. But first, a bit of the background of this old guy who has just celebrated his 95th birthday….
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Well, my GREAT grandfather homesteaded up on Portage Creek in 1871; my grandad and grandmother were married in High Bluff in 1892; they bought a house on Lyon Street in the east end of Portage, but both died early, leaving four orphan sons. Charlie, my dad, started working at the age of 12 for the Review newspaper, and after he came back from The War, he went to work for a Mr. Pickell in his printing shop. He happened to meet Gracey, who was one of four type-setters at the Daily Graphic, and they got married in 1921,