The Review always had correspondents from the nearby communities, Spondin, Veteran, Fleet, Brownfield, Talbot, Hemaruka.
As the years went by, the number of correspondents were declining. There were a few reasons for this, sometimes it meant that the town of the correspondent was dying out, Bulwark for example. Sometimes the correspondent moved away and no one else would take over.
Brownfield had that problem in the early eighties and they found a wonderful solution.     They had the Brownfield Junior High School students do the job.
Apparently each student was assigned a few names in the community and they were to contact these people to get any news of their family. The Students would then put it all together and write it up for the paper. They did great work.
In Coronation we had our own Jessie Lowis doing a fantastic job of gathering the news of the day and writing it up.
Lottie Lang was in Talbot, and I think she was something special. This little bit from 1985 will tell you why.

May 1, 1985
“Talbot Correspondent
“Eighty year old Lottie Lang begins work this week for her fourth publisher.
She started writing Talbot News when Art Jenson published the Coronation Review, and continued for Howard Kroetsch, Gordon Keith and now Joyce Webster.
“The Review honours Lottie for her long service to the Talbot community.”

I would like to honour her also. Anyone who stays with something for that long really deserves to be honoured. Any 80 year old who stays that active in the community deserves to be honoured.

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Yes, this means that Joyce took over the paper in 1985, but it is hard to tell you about that since we can’t find the April 25, 1985 issue, which has that story.
There is something else that we don’t have and that is a picture of the water tower painted as a rocket ship. We would sure appreciate it if someone could help us out with that.

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