Newmarket Public Library Digital History Collection

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), November 26, 1969, A02

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

J ft III ft J ksii Laura Rolling retires Irs Rolling who started from King Township to J of The Newmarket during the last week in October Sin vcmiI the Toronto during her long jour- for the honor by King Town- Mrs Rolling J King I ship for the Aurora lea was publisher filed news to Richmond Hill Liberal publisher Jack Smith and to Leavens of Bo- Enterprise as well as to the Express- from rural she often phoned During his period In die late One of the biggest news breaks career came as happens to most reporters by chance Mrs Rolling jiie to the in King City on a She had when she first no liniiiiy around the door of a gun at he the he glared down the Mrs Rolling said she wasnt afraid frustrated that she couldnt get to a telephone to call her newspapers papers playing no favorites Im never frightened or theres news story She got a front page byline in the Toronto daily for that story Her story she said was when she had to cover the flood dam age during Hurricane Hazel in was badly hit much of the Holland Marsh was under eight feel of water and over damage was done to King Township roads Although her background is school teaching Mrs Rolling comes by her interest in all phases of municipal and political life honestly Her father a Scott Township farmer was a great Liberal party worker anil all our fam ily were steeped in municipal provincial and federal politics The family farm was near a Clark family forbear Rollings maiden name settled and cleared a crown grant there in Mrs Rolling graduated from Pe terborough Teachers College and later studied music at Whitby Ladies College Education and music have re mained abiding interests in her life It was while she was working as a temporary teacher at Strange school in King Township waiting for an opening with the Toronto Board of Education that she met the man she later married Walter Rolling Walter was principal of King- horn school when its grades went from one to 10 a post he held for years

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy