The Peninsula Times
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-01-09
issued: 1978-08-02
description: Serving the Sunshine Coast.
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note: ** calls for action against local newspaper Area C Director Charles--Lee last Thursday urged the regional, board to retaliate against what he termed "a scurrilous so-called editorial in The Press." Lee argued for discontinuance of all Regional District advertising with the publication, eliminating "press privileges" for the paper's reporters and investigating the possibility'of legal action. He also called on editor Dick Proctor to'-mato'/a "complete withdrawal and applogy" for the July 26 editorial and a related July 19, column'item. The articles Lee objected to criticized local government officials for using public money, to pay for a joint village-regional district dinner at a Casa Martinez last month. The July 26 editorial alsatook issue with Lee for a letter to the editor he wrote in defense of the expenditure. Lee's recommendation was tabled to give several other directors who had not;, read the articles time to do so, ; Proctor later told the Times, "This is' the.summer silly season and I guess. Director Lee iS feeling the heat. �� j- Asked if he were considering printing a, retraction as Lee demanded, Proctor said,. "I have no comment on that." Area A Director Joe Harrison took" sharp exception to Lee's comments,-- saying it would be "absolutely immoral for a regional board, to use its power to" determine what can go in a newspaper." "'' Harrison said he did not agree with the criticism in the articles, but "The independence of the press has to be , protected. It is not within the moral rights of a public body to begin a .campaign of revenge for public statements. These have to be respected as the opinions of the publisher." Lee said a phrase in the July 26 2nd Class Mail - Registration No. Serving the Sunshine Caost (Howe Sound to Jervis Inlet), including Port Mellon Hopkins Landing Granthams Lan'ding Gibsons RobertsCreek, Wilson Creok Selma Pork Sechelt Halfmoon Bay Secret Cove Pender Hrb Madeira Park Garden Bay Irvines Landing, Earls Cove -Egmont Phone -8…
note: Frequency: Weekly Titled "The Sechelt Peninsula Times" from 1963-12-04 to 1967-03-01. Titled "The Peninsula Times" from 1967-03-08 to 1979-12-26. Published by Sechelt Peninsula Times Ltd. from 1963-12-04 to 1968-12-24 and from 1970-11-04 to 1971-03-10; by The Peninsula Times Ltd. from 1969-01-08 to 1970-10-28; by Powell River News Town Crier Sechelt Times Ltd. from 1971-03-17 to 1975-11-05; and by Westpres Publications Ltd. from 1975-11-12 to 1979-12-26. Dates of Publication: 1963 to 1980.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sechelt (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0186534
language: English
lat: 49.4716667
long: -123.763333
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sechelt, B.C : Westpres Publications Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Sechelt Community Archives.
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