(To view our September/October 2014 issue of ClubWEST online, click here.)
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
I got a ton of comments on my buddy Ben’s quote above, so I think I will leave it there for the first year.
Well, thanks one and all for the fine reception for Niagara West’s original lifestyle magazine.
There is no need to bore you with an overview of pleasantness, but we have run a smattering of some letters we received.
Much appreciated, by the way.
But, as Ivan Carruthers duly notes in this edition, what is happening in the future? Where are we going and how best do we get there?
I had a very long chat with Ivan, his stepson Steve Ecker and Steve’s wife Mary about all things Carruthers Printing and West Lincoln as a whole. I love history and Ivan has been there done that when it comes to the community for the last six-plus decades. What an impressive man. It is great to see good things happen for good people. So many things about what Ivan said proved the old adage that one can achieve anything with a little elbow grease.
And if you happen to stop for a glass of wine while achieving those goals along life’s highway, who better to share a glass with than John Howard.
John’s business and life goals, while different, are very much centred in the exact same area as Ivan’s. Both men have an intense love for this area. John could live anywhere in the world.
He has business interest in France, yet, Vineland is the centre of his business universe as is Niagara in his personal life as it also houses his daughter and her child.
Her decision to return to Niagara after studies abroad was not lost on John, who has made a conscious effort to develop what he has right here in front of him in Niagara West.
Again, similarly, Ivan continues to do this same sort of thing taking on the role as West Lincoln Chamber of Commerce’s president for a fourth time, nearly two decades after he “retired”. He still invests in his community.
Not to be outdone by the boys, we have Margaret Andrewes, Lincoln’s own whirling dirvish. Having dealt with Margaret on many occasions over the years, when she was wearing one of her many hats, she lives the “if you need something done, give it to a busy person” adage.
These people, and their efforts over decades, do not magically appear like a rabbit which local magician extraordinaire Calvin Cutts can so consistently produce. Just as Calvin has crafted his reputation as the area’s premier children’s entertainer, these other story subjects have continued to do great things to make everything around them better.
We could use a dozen – or three – more just like them, wouldn’t you agree?
Publisher, ClubWEST Magazine
Mike Williscraft
