E-ERA: If you’re an online reader of The Bradford Era you are
undoubtedly aware that we’ve been making changes to our website.
Please be patient as this is a work in progress!
Meanwhile, we are happy with a new e-mail form for RTS which
provides space for reader contact information including hometown
and telephone number.
Round the Square has been around for more than 50 years on the
front page of The Era – possibly the longest-running page-1
newspaper feature in the country – and it owes is longevity to you,
the reader.
Long before there was such a thing as a “blog,” Round the Square
offered a readers’ forum where people could exchange ideas,
memories, stories about Bradford and the region, history,
anecdotes, or even pose questions to one another. Mostly, we’re
just the middleman.
Even now, with one leg in the electronic age, we hope to
continue in this role as a facilitator of readers’ interaction with
one another. So keep those e-card and e-letters coming! And, as
always, we welcome those “old-fashioned” forms of communications –
cards, letters, phone calls and visits.
LUCKY SEVENS: If you’re of that bent, you’ll surely know today
is Friday the 13th. We only mention it because of the recent hoopla
over the supposed luckiness of 7-7-07.
Well, at least one of our readers can attest to its luck!
Mark Steffan had written an item which appeared on July 6 on our
editorial page concerning the memorial service a year ago for
Master Sgt. Thomas Maholic who was laid to rest in Bradford amid
some controversy over a group of so-called “protestors” from the
Westboro Baptist Church, Kansas.
Mr. Steffan is a member of the Patriot Guard which attempted to
buffer the grieving families from the protestors.
He writes this week, “I attended the memorial service, Girard,
Pa., for TSgt. Richard Sargent, WWII, MIA 63 years and laid to rest
7/7/07.”
“The interesting thing was I could have stood anywhere in the
flag line of approximately 100-plus PGR at the funeral home.
Happens I stood next to a Bradford couple, Kim and Jenny Lance.
They knew who I was as soon as I introduced myself by informing me
my comments were printed in The Era on Friday.
“They continued how touched they were reading the recap of
7/6/06. I now have two new friends who I may never had connected
with 7-7-7.”
