News from a wandering son of Kamloops

Hello Mel: Glad to see you’re still stirring the pot and running a damned good newspaper. You must have one super-sized wall to fit all those achievement awards. Sorry to see you didn’t get the Senate job. Among my very large collection of tomes is “They’ve Killed John Ussher” which you penned and gave me in 1973. If you send me your address, I’ll send you mine “Cracking the Glass Darkly.” Keep creating and stay well. Happy Christmas to you and yours. Bob Egby, Chaumont, upstate New York.

From Mel: Hi, Bob, great to hear from you, and all the best in the New Year. For those of you who don’t know, Bob is one of the best news guys and writers around — he was my predecessor as editor of The Daily News which was, at the time, The News Advertiser. Bob was later a favourite on CHNL with his Eggers For Breakfast show.