Gilhula

BY VICKI GILHULA Every municipal election, candidates for city council and for mayor promise to make decisions for the common good of all citizens of Greater Sudbury.

This is the first issue of Northern Life's new weekend edition. We hope that you find it good reading and that you find the time over the next two or three days to get caught up on community news and information. We hope William J.

No one told me there would be days like this. How could my journalism professors, many who learned their trade in post-war Fleet St.

Newspaper editors receive a lot of weird phone calls. A couple of years ago someone phoned me to see if I could find out any information about something he remembers happening when he was a little boy in the late 1930s.

BY Vicki Gilhula [email protected] In the soundtrack of your mind go back to September 1973.

On Page 3 of today's issue you will meet one of the candidates who is running for provincial office in Sudbury. Over the next several issues, similar Meet the Candidate question and answer features will appear in the newspaper.

How will Nickel Belt vote Monday? I predict people voting with their hearts will support the New Democrats while crossing their fingers expecting Liberal Ray Bonin to be re-elected.

Covering elections in recent years has been predictable. It was no surprise that Jim Gordon was elected the first mayor of Greater Sudbury in the fall of 1999. In the last federal election, there was no real choice except the Liberals.

Many readers confuse me with Viki Mather, our In the Bush columnist. The other Viki was writing for the newspaper for almost a decade before I arrived.

In the late 1970s I worked at a radio station in London. CFPL had a popular call-in show. Sometime shortly before I began working there, a distraught man came to the station and demanded to be put on the air.