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Woke up to blue sky from my bedroom window (West up the mountain)

And cloudy skies oot our livingroom window (E)

We have had some wicked West coast deluge Spring rains :3
 
Wee! I'm in the dark. Our office lost hydro. On a clear, sunny, warm day. We went through a storm system with everything from freezing rain to massive lightning without a hitch yesterday but we went down on a clear, sunny day. Probably still storm related but feels weird, at least. Fortunately, the critical servers are hooked to a gas generator. Unfortunately, my office is not.
 
Hydro went out at Mike's place for about half an hour early this afternoon, for no apparent reason. Bit windy. Mine, 1.2 km away was fine. LAST
 
Remember all that hassle and havoc when Black Press upped the printing prices LAST year? Well, I just got a call from my press in Calgary and they were just told this week that the Calgary press will be closed effective April 30th. Apparently, the owners were shocked that they lost so many clients after the insane price increases and now are closing presses all over the country. I didn't know the SK press had closed LAST fall. I was asked if I had any alternative printing options (nope because all the quotes I got before were double what I was paying AFTER the increase)...they are going to get quotes for me and hopefully, I will be able to stay tied to the Red Deer Advocate (press I started with 23+ years ago) for timing and delivery ease.

I know that I will have two more issues for sure. The trouble is that I don't have the income right now to reimburse anyone (if it comes to that), nor to pay the current printing till I receive payments for ads at the end of May. Inhale....exhale.................................................................

It's soon getting to be that newspapers will be closing because there is no where to print them!
 
The printing press seems old-fashioned at times but it still has its place, eh. Hope people wake up and realize that. However, the cost of running one relative to a probably shrinking number of actual impressions being made is likely taking its toll which is why printing costs are rising. Outside of big press organizations like Postmedia here in Canada and similar companies in the US and UK, who have presses inhouse, I am not entirely surprised they are a dying breed. Not happy, but not surprised.
 
We had an active printing business in our town. They printed a weekly newspaper, obituaries, invitations to special events, posters for local events etc.. The newspaper owner retired and the business was bought by a big company. The paper ceased to be published locally and the viability of the press dropped. Technically we have a weekly newspaper, published elsewhere, containing no local news. Despite being free we never read it.
 
KayTheCurler said:
We had an active printing business in our town. They printed a weekly newspaper, obituaries, invitations to special events, posters for local events etc.. The newspaper owner retired and the business was bought by a big company. The paper ceased to be published locally and the viability of the press dropped. Technically we have a weekly newspaper, published elsewhere, containing no local news. Despite being free we never read it.
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Happens more and more
 
Waterfall said:
I'm remembering our church bulletin being done on a gestetner, lol.
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When I was a preschooler, I often watched mom do her varies copies for school on a gestetner...while I tossed lots, I still have loads of different paper work in this house that she copied on a gestetner.
 
Waterfall said:
I'm remembering our church bulletin being done on a gestetner, lol.
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Yeah, my mother was one running the Gestetner in our church until a new minister who was more tech-savvy got them a proper laser printer for stuff like that. I used them the odd time in school. Not fun.
 
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