Good day sir:

I’ve been reading your stories since they first appeared in Community Voices. Am I ever glad that you joined this team of story tellers. Now I see that we have the good fortune to have your stories appear in the Sat. edition of the Nugget. You’ve had some very interesting things happen to you throughout your life. Thank you for sharing them with us. You fill the shoes of Mr. Hakala very well as I had read his stories for a few years but never took the opportunity to thank him. I just read your story about Grey Wolf and his bear friend, “awesome”, to say the least. Please keep up the good work. Bart

This Saturday in the North Bay Nugget my story is about my younger days on Go Home Lake which is located just off HWY 69 south of Perry Sound.  The folks that raised me along with myself put in a road back to the lake years ago a real job for sure.  The lake actually was named after me, well sort of. The way it came to being was one day Reg and Laura was sitting chatting on what to call the lake now that it was open for folks to see.  “Well said Reg after giving it a lot of thought, one of these days George here will be going back home with his real Dad, so lets call it…. Go Home Lake.  And well, that’s what they did and today if you happen by the lake along  HWY 69 and you  see the sign, you will have a heads up on how it all came about.  So don’t forget pick up a copy of the Saturdays North Bay Nugget. Talk soon.

This week in the Community Voice my column is about Woodworking I have a few of them that I will share with you in the coming weeks.  So if you see a copy pick it up,  as there is a lot of good wisdom there and not only my story there is others also, along with Dawn Clark the Editor,  a real nice lady, she sets up the paper and in my books does a real fine job.  Talk Soon.

Just to let you know how much we enjoy reading your articles in the North Bay Nugget.

We are a couple in our 70’s and it takes us back in time as we can relate to many of these incidents.
Thank you.

Betty

Enough broken promises George, today is the day to finally tell you how much I enjoy your writing.  Every time I read your column, I always promise myself faithfully,  “One one of these days, I am going to send him a short note to say thanks”. That day is today.

Your words are always interesting, well-written, well-placed and very thoughtful. Observers of humankind are usually good writers – judging from most of the stories you tell, I don’t think much goes by you. Keep em coming.

Coincidentally, I also wrote a column for our local weekly paper  for many years and enjoyed it very much . . . reading your stuff nearly gives me the bug to start writing a column all over again realizing the heavy duty commitment to meet 52 deadlines a year. Have spent the last four decades as reporter-photographer, author, historian, researcher, communications specialist, yada, yada, yada. I am now a full-time historian with a very heavy work load.

Think I’m going to lay down now till the feeling about writing a column goes away.

Keep it up.

Wayne