CHARLES DICKSON
SHAWVILLE Sept. 5, 2018
It was another fun round in the See you in The Equity game at the Shawville Fair this year.
Once again, Equity readers from far and wide flipped through a year’s worth of saved newspapers, searched through online archives of past issues, consulted friends and neighbours and huddled in small groups to match faces to names in the popular game. One participant tacked yellow sticky notes on the two-page spread that appeared in the Fair issue of The Equity a couple of weeks ago, enabling her to rearrange them until she had it all figured out.
Dave Moore, The Equity’s award-winning layout man, selected the photos from Equity issues of the past 12 months.
While many contestants found this year’s selection to be toughest yet to identify, 30 participants managed to match all 100 photos correctly. From these, five were drawn at random to win the grand prize of $100 off anything sold at Pontiac Printshop – from printing, promotional items and passport photos to ads in The Equity, office furniture, stationery, signs, cleaning supplies and more. The five winners are Susan Ouimet of Ladysmith, Bill McCleary of Shawville, Nora Findlay of Bristol, Luc Dubeau of Shawville and Sean Marks of Gatineau.
Others prizes included online subscriptions to The Equity, providing convenient mobile, tablet and laptop access to news, opinions, social notes, advertising and more that together paint a picture of what is going on in the Pontiac every week.
And, of course, many participants won a See you in The Equity T-shirt, a continuing reminder to all who see it that we are among the shrinking numbers of people who live in, or hail from, a community that still has an independent and vibrant weekly newspaper. Many visitors to The Equity booth, mostly people from places where their local papers were in serious decline or had disappeared altogether, commented that we were lucky to still have a weekly paper in the Pontiac.
Truth is, the fact that we do is entirely due to the continuing support of and engagement in the paper by the people of the Pontiac, of which the fun had in this year’s See you in The Equity provides abundant evidence.
