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THE HERALD Wednesday November Paget Gone are the days when the Baton catalogue was lust about the only exciting piece of null the family ever received Today a mall includes bright brochures catalogues galore newspapers the Inevitable flood of bills and yea occasionally even a letter The mall system to handle the change has changed too Helping It struggle that long uphill road regardless of Ice snow or steer have been the men known as the rural mall carriers Rural mail delivery In the Georgetown area began In 1910 along a route which eventually wound Its way to Be I Una fad Instead of hard trips to the Georgetown Post Office the service offered its rural customers the convenience of home delivery something which town residents receive until 1959 Georgetown now has five rural mail routes set up throughout the surrounding area The biggest of the routes consists of customers and Is Jack Morrow Kenneth Kirk wood handles the homes on white John Davidson takes residents Ed Hancock handles both and which include a total of residents As If to make the rural mall carriers Jobs a little brighter residents along their routes nave gone out of their way In adding variety to the assortment of mailboxes Into which each day s assortment of news Is stuffed According to rules and regulations a mailbox must be four feet off the ground accessible from the side of the road and should be able to the mall you normally receive But as far as the customers in the Georgetown area are concerned that s where all similarity to normal mailboxes ends Vandalism Is taking toll however both In the boxes already dotting and In the desire by residents to create new ones Fewer custom boxes can be seen now Winter creates further excitement when the old game of find the box begins anew re under a pile of that snow left by the snowplow is your mailbox If you re lucky you may find it before the spring thaw Carriers too suffer with winter Many a carrier has returned from his route nursing a frozen arm STAN KRUGER picks up the morning mail from the box that he Built to resemble his own home INSTEAD of the con decided to hang the the snow off the road and ventlonal wooden post box off the road by two long leave the box Intact George Camplln of RR2 chains Snowplows can push At a THE when building the box turned out an almost exact duplicate of their home Lacking win doors and garage the eighth line box does have nicer Georgetown chimney than the real house The Paxton home Is on the THIS WEATHERED box of hill Just outside Glen G Green RR4 Williams Georgetown stands on the PERSONALIZING by decorating with paints and can make a work of art out of a plain metal box Del d chose the Canadian Flag to decorate the family mailbox In front of his home The flag seems to be a popular decoration for many rural boxes GIORGF IRONSIDE stands by the four mailboxes across from his home on the sidcroad which were knocked down by vandals three weeks ago were ripped off and the supports for the boxes were completely destroyed Other boxes were reported damaged along the Eighth Line the Congrats Youve got the Johnston Seal of Approval Hello Georgetown Listen I want to tell you something about yourself You re not bad Yup you got the Johnston Seal of Approval and believe me there aren t a lot of places that have got that But why me you may be asking yourself After all you re probably thinking I nothing but a great big bedroom from which bright and early every morning my fellow citizens and I trundle off to Toronto How can I say a bedroom a great place to be Welt ignoring the obvious direction I could take that statement I going to ex plain Georgetown why I think you re a pretty good place to be Sure got your Highway strip filled with drive Ins and pizza parlors Nothing different from a lot of towns Sure you ve got a nice mixture of new homes and old homes Having wandered around some of your side streets I would have to say you ve got some extremely nice and here s a word you haven heard for quite some time elegant homes But when it comes right down to it your homes are not really that much different from those found in 22 other towns I can think of Sure you ve got plenty of stores The razzledazzle of the shopping centre is a perfect counterpoint to the quiet and convenient collection of family stores in the heart of town But again there no great difference here between you and a lot of other southern Ontario towns So okay what the difference Let stop for a moment while I tell you a couple of stories It was Day One in Georgetown I came down three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon to browse around and see what store To pick up a paper and wound up talking about the town with a fellow JOHNSTON behind the counter When I mentioned that I was new to the town he flashed a big smile whipped out his hand to shake mine and said Welcome to Georgetown I hope you 11 like it here I always thought those words you only saw flaking from a dirtcovered sign on the outskirts of town Not bad to hear them Day Two in Georgetown Day One at the Herald Introduced to the staff We came to this woman who was barely visible over the top of our front counter Name Val Welcome to Georgetown Bill she says I hope you 11 like it here Do you get the point Georgetown The thins I like about is you People They re great Took a walk downtown on Hallowe en People were smiling walking around greeting others having It s nice to see that Regardless of Toronto bedroom psyche High vay neon glamour BIG drive Georgetown is still by heart a small Ontario town Hello Georgetown I glad to be here Comment of the week If you were downtown during the en fun and festivities you probably saw the two men dressed upas mummies Heard u yelling em Hey do your mummies know where you are By now I would hope that you ve noticed the Herald new look If you haven 1 11 warn you there going to be a very going to bed tonight with a tear in his eye This is just one of a few signs you 11 notice around that something going on down at the Herald Call it a new life Call It a second wind Call it another in the paper long history The is inaeed changing However scrape away our new looks our new ideas even our new happy face in our office and you find that we re still your Herald the home newspaper of this community We re here to serve you better than ever before Having come from Canada oldest weekly paper it not hard to appreciate the importance a newspaper plays in the history of a community Look through the Herald files The Herald has chronicled Georgetown s major events her days of glory her low Boots her births her deaths her everyday life The Herald has been an Important part of this town life for many years and we aim to continue for many many more