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Throwback Thursday

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 2003. The Dec. 31, 2003 front page proclaimed Dr.
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The Dec. 31, 2003 front page proclaimed Dr. John Bayne as the paper’s Newsmaker of the Year for his unsuccessful recall campaign of Delta South MLA Val Roddick.

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 2003.

The Dec. 31, 2003 front page proclaimed Dr. John Bayne as the paper’s Newsmaker of the Year for his unsuccessful recall campaign of Delta South MLA Val Roddick.