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E a S usual __ . s ‘ .. g CANADIAN cumrtou STAFF. ' g‘ ' . . ~ g . ' ' ~ _ I , ‘ . ., ‘ ‘ s. . . , 4 t ‘ ' “ .‘ ' ._. - . .' \ .y _ u . . ' v Newspaper as Old as the town itself irn Dills did everything «hiring his the. with the Cmtadianm 7 tering those three little worth mous with newspapers. ' ‘Stop the presses!‘ It happened just once in the three-plus decades his family ran the local paper â€" perhaps ever, acâ€" cording to h's research â€" and Dills remembers it vividly. “The hospital‘s director of nursing had been dis- missed montls earlier (for alleged incompetence) and the board chose not to change its decision. but then reversed that and reinstated her in a midnight _vote,“ recalled the former Champion publisher. 5 “That was a great problem. We were set to come out that day (with story on board holding to her dis- missal) and I thought ‘My God. we can‘t come out with this.‘ But the presses were going and the papers ‘ were rolling out.” ' With Dills at the wheel. editor Roy Downs sat shot- gun. writing furiously with the typewriter on his knees â€" heading to the Acton plant for a lat-minute. front-page redo. “We were scrambling. but the paper got out just a few hours late. The women all helped out msem- bling papers. It was important to be right." . This marked one of the more memorable chapters in the history of the Champion â€" Milton’s oldest continu- ing “Wt ‘ Originally published in Georgetown in 1854 but res- urrected in Milton in 1861 by first publisher James A Campbell.theChampionâ€"likeanypaperatthetime . â€" was produced in time-consuming. labour-intensive fashion. Milton Newspaper Pages and People. a Milton Historical SocietypublicationoampiledbyDills.ollersawindow tLUâ€"IRIENDLV WATER BASED PAINTS