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McHENRY PLAINDEALER Section A Friday, Auaust 9.19S5 Pag* 5 Community A short summer as school looms / It seems like wily yesterday that teens and tots were pushing and moving to get out the doors of McHenry schools. There was summer fan ahead and there wasn't one who didn't want to get there first. How, then, can it be possible that Back-to-Schoo! brochures are in our mailbox and notices of opening dates are finding their way into newspapers and church bulletins? And wasn't it just a few days ago that we were buckling up behind the wheel for the first time and doing our share of grumbling? Is it possible it was over five weeks ago that we felt the sting of this new legality, a sting that has lessened only slightly? This week marks the first time we have thumbed through the pages of the Plaindealer to chuckle at the humor of So I Hear and found it gone. We don't remember its start, but are reminded, with some surprise, that it was 14 years ago Louis Blomgren joined the newspaper staff as be started delivery of the news to various stands twice weekly. Uwie, too, left for retirement this past week. He leaves a void that very special people have a way of doing when they are no longer part of something to which they gave their time and interest in good measure. All of these memories are reminders that it was Just 10 years ago this week that the news team was joined by every other department of the Plaindealer in publishing our centennial edition. Reporter Barb Gilpin joined us in this major undertaking, aided by a reading public interested in assembling and presenting community history to be preserved for future generations. For seven months, we researched the minds and memories of long­ time residents to accumulate the 136-page edition that hit the street Aug. 6,1975. The task was gigantic for a small crew, but if ever there was a labor of love, this was it. Just 10 years later the hometown newspaper would go daily, but that was far from our mind as we worked to record all the happenings of 100 years to present to our local world. There were 10,000 copies printed and went on the newsstand for the usual 15 cents. This represented 1,360,000 pages, using 19,000 pounds or 9.5 tons of newsprint. We proudly let our readers know that if the pages were extended end-to-end they would stretch 490 miles. We told them about Editor Jay Van Slyke, who came to McHenry County from the East to work at the Woodstock Sentinel, which was usin' &, anderin BY the first paper in the county. A few years later he moved to McHenry, and in 1875 opened the McHenry Plaindealer. It was the fourth newspaper in the county, following Woodstock, Harvard and Marengo. This was a time of personal journalism where editors quarreled with each other through the columns of their publications. The few hundred resident of the town were priveleged to read what since has disappeared as a matter of policy. They were living in an era of vigorous verbiage. But we remember today, with an introduction of the newspaper as a daily publication, our own part in steering the activities of a busy newsroom in 1975. Names and faces appear before us with fond memories, including both co-workers and the public. Unlike some other endeavors, newspaper life is rarely dull. Neither is it easy, for in serving the varied tastes of an entire community, we are attempting to please thousands of people who feel, and rightly so, that this is their hometown paper and they have a vested interest in how it is run. To please is the aim of every newspaper. The fact that the Plaindealer has survived the past 110 years is proof of some measure of success. 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