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Watch for Lanark Era's subscription drive

It has been more than three years since I bought the Era, which means that it’s almost three years since we had our last subscription drive.
This subscription sale is very important to the newspaper, and therefore to me. It brings in much-needed funds to keep the paper going, and it keeps up our subscription numbers, which now stand at about 1,340 subscribers.
There will be a change this year from in previous years, when the Era hired a team of salesmen to canvass the area for subscriptions. This year, no one will come to your door – but you can still get the same great deal on a three-year subscription!
Expect to see flyers in the mail in Lanark Highlands, Balderson, Perth, and the Almonte area at the end of February, with the subscription drive running throughout March. During that time, you can get a three-year subscription, as a renewal or a new customer, for $135 – that’s $21 off of our regular three-year rate of $52 a year.
We’ll have full-page ads in the paper starting at the end of February and running through March, with all the details about the sale and how you can get in on the fun. We also plan to have some specials for cottage owners and students, who only want the paper for six months of the year, so be sure to ask us about those deals, too.
We appreciate all of our subscribers, and we’re always looking for new ones. Here’s to three more years!

School issues
It seems to me that Maple Grove Public School has gotten a pretty bad rap lately, especially when it comes to bullying. I’ve heard from various parents and others, talking about how bad the school has gotten and how they might consider sending their children to other schools.
I just think people should realize that while Maple Grove may have problems, it’s not alone. Trust me, bullies are everywhere. One particular goof and his two follow-along cronies made the short bus ride from Naismith Memorial Public School in Almonte to the high school miserable in Grade 7 and 8, taking my glasses and teasing and pushing and, at one point, cutting a chunk of my hair.
Note that this was not at Maple Grove, nor was it in the last couple of years (or even the last 20 years, horror of horrors). There are mean kids everywhere, and I think schools are always trying, and sometimes failing, to deal with it. Boys who push kids around, girls who freeze out former friends just for the fun of it (even in Grade 2!) – it’s something that parents and school officials need to deal with, rather than just laying the blame on the school itself.
As someone who is at Maple Grove on a fairly regular basis, first because I have a daughter there and second through taking photos for the paper, it really is a normal school. Some good kids, some troublemakers, teachers who try to keep the school going smoothly.
It’s never good when kids bully other kids, and I definitely think there should be consequences. But trash-talking Maple Grove doesn’t really solve any of the legitimate problems that may exist.

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It has been more than three years since I bought the Era, which means that it’s almost three years since we had our last subscription drive.
This subscription sale is very important to the newspaper, and therefore to me. It brings in much-needed funds to keep the paper going, and it keeps up our subscription numbers, which now stand at about 1,340 subscribers.
There will be a change this year from in previous years, when the Era hired a team of salesmen to canvass the area for subscriptions. This year, no one will come to your door – but you can still get the same great deal on a three-year subscription!
Expect to see flyers in the mail in Lanark Highlands, Balderson, Perth, and the Almonte area at the end of February, with the subscription drive running throughout March. During that time, you can get a three-year subscription, as a renewal or a new customer, for $135 – that’s $21 off of our regular three-year rate of $52 a year.
We’ll have full-page ads in the paper starting at the end of February and running through March, with all the details about the sale and how you can get in on the fun. We also plan to have some specials for cottage owners and students, who only want the paper for six months of the year, so be sure to ask us about those deals, too.
We appreciate all of our subscribers, and we’re always looking for new ones. Here’s to three more years!

School issues
It seems to me that Maple Grove Public School has gotten a pretty bad rap lately, especially when it comes to bullying. I’ve heard from various parents and others, talking about how bad the school has gotten and how they might consider sending their children to other schools.
I just think people should realize that while Maple Grove may have problems, it’s not alone. Trust me, bullies are everywhere. One particular goof and his two follow-along cronies made the short bus ride from Naismith Memorial Public School in Almonte to the high school miserable in Grade 7 and 8, taking my glasses and teasing and pushing and, at one point, cutting a chunk of my hair.
Note that this was not at Maple Grove, nor was it in the last couple of years (or even the last 20 years, horror of horrors). There are mean kids everywhere, and I think schools are always trying, and sometimes failing, to deal with it. Boys who push kids around, girls who freeze out former friends just for the fun of it (even in Grade 2!) – it’s something that parents and school officials need to deal with, rather than just laying the blame on the school itself.
As someone who is at Maple Grove on a fairly regular basis, first because I have a daughter there and second through taking photos for the paper, it really is a normal school. Some good kids, some troublemakers, teachers who try to keep the school going smoothly.
It’s never good when kids bully other kids, and I definitely think there should be consequences. But trash-talking Maple Grove doesn’t really solve any of the legitimate problems that may exist.