The Brentwood Bugle Celebrates 55 Years
by Lee Hunt
A salute to The Brentwood Bugle which celebrates its 55th anniversary this year!
Grateful thanks to all who have edited, reported, advertised, and worked on the other myriad of tasks involved in producing The Bugle over all of those years.
The Brentwood Community Association Archives holds a copy of “The BCA Newsletter” labelled Volume 3, March 1970, which is featured on this month’s cover. The Board of Directors List indicates Vera Krivoshen as “3rd VP – Newsletter”. Though Vera was unable to speak with me, a perusal of the edition was most interesting. Annual community membership for a family was only $8 and a children’s movie was shown twice each Saturday afternoon, such as Angel in My Pocket starring Andy Griffiths, Man Called Flintstone, and Tarzan. Most movies were free, though there was an admission charge of 50 cents to view the animated film, Heidi.
Also in the March 1970 edition, there was a request for volunteers to do finishing work on a planned extension to the community hall (now aka “The Old Hall”), plus the perennial call for “coaches for all age groups”. Some things never change!
The next edition in the Archives is the April 1972 copy – and by then, “The Newsletter” had been renamed the Brentwood Bugle. The April 1972 Bugle lists Bruce Fraser as Editor, Joyce Snell in charge of News and Classified Ads, with Marion Hopkins and Ina Waller soliciting Business Ads. Bruce told me that he and Joyce, “typed the articles, ran them off using a Gestetner (a very messy machine!), then pasted the copy together at my home.” The ads were re-photographed and glued onto pages. Once everything was in place, “We would drive it all over to the nearby printer.” That was Brentwood Printing run by Ted Kornak out of his garage.
For many years, The Bugle was hand delivered to Brentwood homes by youth groups and individuals. Throughout the 1980s, Bob and Jane Heward were named as being in charge of these deliveries.
A look at the 27 ads in the 1970 edition shows that only four of those businesses remain in Brentwood today. One grocery store ad still seems very appropriate today as it states, “It takes careful buying to make those food budget dollars stretch”.
Special thanks to those pioneers in Bugle editing – Vera Krivoshen and Bruce Fraser. Over the years, they have been followed by Marilyn Hawtin, Nancy Rutz, Charlotte Wegmann, Joyce Snell, Nicky Walker, Leanne and Kevin Shapkin, Darleen Ternieden, Cheri Macaulay, Shari Couture and Kristine Lutz (aka Goodall), Kelli Wreford, and currently Jonathan Jucker. Grateful thanks to all of them – being the Editor is a demanding and time-consuming job!
Thanks also to the many Brentwoodians who have written articles for The Bugle over the years and to the numerous companies that have advertised.
Happy 55th birthday to the Brentwood Bugle!
P.S. If you have any copies of The Bugle from January 1970 to March 1972 and would like to donate them to the Archives, please contact Linda at 403-284-3477 or [email protected].
Also, if you have any recollection of when/how/why “The Newsletter” became The Bugle, please let Linda know about that too. Thanks!
Early Bugle editor Bruce Fraser
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