In
September 1995, after 4 years with the Sunshine Coast News, I
went to Powell River to start Northern Light Publishing Inc.,
a bi-weekly community style newspaper (9,500 copies) in a 6 column
11.5" x 17.5" tabloid format distributed FREE through
the mail to the northern Sunshine Coast including Texada Island.
Three months after starting my paper, The Powell River Peak, backed
by the Lower Mainland Newspaper Group moved in, and immediately
got into a price war with the "Powell River News", the
other establish paper. Northern Light was caught in the cross
fire and had to close.
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