The Gazette keeping pace with progress

Approaching its 150^th year as Prince Edward County’s own newspaper, The Picton Gazette has not only recorded the progress and development of the community over the years, but has also been an integral part of that progress.

Many changes in the technical and production facilities have taken place in the publishing business and The Gazette has continually adopted these to remain a modern printing and publishing business.

Publisher Joseph Cembal has announced that the newspaper will soon adopt an entire new printing process known as “offset.” Instead of casting all the news stories, letter by letter and word by word into metal type through linotype machines, all copy will be reproduced by the new photo-chemical process which will result in a substantial improvement in the quality and appearance of the paper for both words and pictures.

And indicative of growth in the county’s population is Gazette circulation which, recorded by the audit Bureau of Circulation, within recent weeks has reached 5,195—an increase of 250 new subscribers over the same period last year.

Taught several Picton generations; Mary Dunkley dies

Miss Mary Dunkley, Picton’s “grand old school marm,” passed away last Thursday at the Picton Manor Nursing Home. A widely-known and highly esteemed lady, Miss Dunkley marked her 102^nd birthday on September 14^th of this year.

Miss Dunkley was responsible for the education of several generations of Prince Edward County students, and she has been fondly remembered by scores of former students on her birthdays over the past few years.

She spent nearly 50 years as a teacher at the old Mary Street School, served as the first female member of town council, and was highly active in community affairs.

Among her last official acts prior to retirement was a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Picton Public Library.

She was buried in Glenwood Cemetery.