1967

Radio Operator Doubles as Spare-Time Newsman

 

Brochet, Manitoba - What do radio operators - especially those serving in remote outposts - do with their spare time?

 

Ken Slyziuk, who graduated from the Air Services Training School in Ottawa last May and was posted to the radio­meteorological station here, started a small weekly newspaper in this northern Manitoba village.

 

Ken said he found that life can get "quite boring with nothing to do" once an operator completes his shift and most of the boys turn to their hobbies to keep themselves busy.

 

"I have done some writing in my life and I was asked to provide a small paper for the village people," Ken said in a letter to "The DOT" in which he enclosed a copy of "The Brochet Weekly Tribune."

 

The result of his off-duty efforts is a six-page carbon-copied potpourri of news, local events and sports that reads with the lively flavor of Canada's northland and sells for just 10 cents.

 

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