WE DID IT AGAIN!!!

By Joe Ingino Editor/Publisher ACCOMPLISHED WRITER/AUTHOR OF OVER 800,000 Published Columns in Canada and The United States “I live a dream in a nightmare world” Always Remember That The cosmic blueprint of your life was written in code across the sky at the moment you were born. Decode Your Life By Living It Without Regret or Sorrow. - ONE DAY AT A TIME - This past week. We received some great news. The email read: Congratulations on being selected and approved for the CBRB Best Businesses In Canada 2024. This is presented only to businesses that have maintained an exceptional proof of customer satisfaction. Representing the Best Businesses in Canada, the CBRB Canadian Business Review Board Inc. has found that your business meets strong consumer satisfaction standards. Thank you to all our readers. Thank you to all our contributors, associates, advertisers, columnist, partners, fellow associated news agencies and network services. Thank you to our staff. Without your contributions, encouragement and support through the years, we could not be number one today across the region. The Central today could not enjoy the benefits of hard work by being Durham's only in print newspaper. Durham's largest regional newspaper, bringing communities together. Durham's Premier newspaper. It took The Central 29 years to accomplish number one. Together we did it. Through the years The Central has been recognized by all major news agencies. Received numerous awards for the involvement in internet technologies specifically in radio and newsprint. Just this past week the CBRB has recognized The Central as National leader in the industry. Success, comes many lessons. Some pleasant and some very costly. I remember the first few issue we published. Uncertainty should have been the headline. The Central staff was freshly formed. Many of those working back then worked for the former Oshawa Times. Publishing a hard copy back then was a very costly feat. I remember the thousands of dollars that it cost The Central to just lay out the pages. Forget the cost of print. I remember the nights I would go without sleep. Inputting a 24 page publication in to a computer. A blue screen with yellow letters. Then uploading it to a pre-browser space on the net. It would take up to 10 minutes to just hook up to the internet. During those days. The readership online consisted of government, financial institutions, post secondary institutions and the few thousands across the planet exploring the new world of the internet. The long hours training staff. The many people wanting to help. The laughs and cry when things went either well or not so. I remember the many critics, always denouncing progress. Still today. Critics and haters are a dime a doze. I don’t mind the critics. I ming the cowardly haters. Those that hide behind fake social media post and take cheap shots. In part, I have learned to use the haters as a tool that they are. The more the haters, hate. The more I know we are on course. Presenting topics that hit home. Articles that create discussion. Columnist that challenge psychological stability in the readers and arouse intellectual inquiry. The more the haters, hate. The more newspapers we sell. This most recent award is an attestment to our hard work. To the dedication and sacrifices we all have made at the Central over the years. Every step is a mountain. Every mountain is a paramount point that we strive to conquer every day we show up to produce your community award winning newspaper. Thank you to the readers, staff and the community at large for making us #1