20 years in the Korner

Twenty years ago this week I started working at the Rainy River Record.
Back then I was young, naive and very eager.
I remember my first story clearly. It was the toll going off the international bridge on December 31, 1988 at 10 p.m. The last paying customer was Dorion Ozykowski and the first toll-free customers were Stanley Selman and Andre Bremault.
It was a snowy night and I remember my dad and I walking across the middle of the bridge to take some photos of the event.
At that time no one was certain who was going to look after the bridge... its future seemed uncertain.
It took several years for the matter to be resolved with both Ontario and Minnesota equally sharing maintenance responsibilities. I joked at the time that I was hired for only one story and when it concluded I would leave.
Here I am twenty years later. That puts me at about 1,000 papers as editor.
During that time I have seen many changes.
Few papers were using computers to put their product out...now all are (we were the second one in Northwest Ontario to do so).
My very first Ken's Korner was not even called that. I wrote it for about four months with no name. Then I gave its name and here it is 20 years later.
I have had many great adventures through this job and many of them have been documented here in this Korner.
I appreciate all of you who have read and enjoyed it. Of course there are weeks where some of you do not like what I write and you tell me... but at least I know you are reading.
I have met a prime minister, television celebrities, covered happy times and sad ones. I have enjoyed the first twenty years here at the Record and look forward to at least another twenty.
–Until then,
Ken