Terry;

But think of all the fun we had in Catholic School, with “paper drives”! We went from house to house in my Irish Catholic neighborhood in San Francisco, collecting newspapers. We then brought the newspapers to our local church. The church sold the papers to a company that chemically stripped the ink and reused the paper.

Now where do we get enough newspapers for a paper drive? Oh well, times change! :)

Tom


>I won't take a newspaper, ESPECIALLY the Sundays, because of the waste of trees. I get delivered a weekly news digest magazine that tells me, as its blurb contends, everything I need to know about everything that matters. It's not as if I miss out on the weekly doings - plenty of news on TV and radio.
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>It breaks my heart to see those mountains of newspapers and all their supplements scattered about someone's house or, worse still, in a mountain, unsold.
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>>>The Trib has become a very staid paper whose only vigor, unintended, is in shepherding its own obsolescence. Sad.
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>>Mike;
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>>This seems to be the direction all newspapers in this country are headed. My brother gets calls from the Oakland Tribune, offering one month free delivery of their newspaper. He says, "No thanks! I don't have a dog"! Then he hangs up. I think that newspapers of today are good for such things as pet droppings - be it dog, bird or whatever. :)
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>>Tom
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>>P.S. The physical size (height and width) of newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area has been reduced. How about the newspapers in your area?