Summer 2025
Eggs and bacon, a simple breakfast. Also an apt metaphor for the difference between being concerned or involved. The chicken’s eggs are frying in the pan? The hen is “concerned,” but the bacon provider is “involved.” Let’s apply that to WCN newspapers. Which are you? Here’s my story.
In the fall of 2018, I picked up my first “free” issue from a local restaurant’s rack. On a few more visits, more such issues, as I was “concerned.” I decided to subscribe, and began getting “involved.” If you regularly pick up “free” issues, then paying for a subscription, if you can afford it, is the least you can do.
I also sent a Letter to the Editor, wanting to get more involved. Publisher Rob Pue kindly informed me that his limited resources did not allow for handwritten letters as mine, as they would all need to be typed by hand to work with the publishing software, a time-consuming task, what he has no staff to help with. My flip phone was no good, my secondhand computer was not connected to the internet.
God intervened. My dear friend, Mike, offered an unused tablet. As a wary fish or fly, I had tried to keep out of the “net” or “web.” He explained tha ...
