Twenty Years of Local Reporting Ends with Gratitude
Terrie reflects on twenty years as hometown editor in Russell and area. She thanks community volunteers, officials, and readers, recalls key fights over water safety and school issues, celebrates local growth, and expresses pride in the region’s resilient people. She heads to Saskatchewan to run another paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.K
Lisa Pizza
Lisa Daneliuk
Russell
Pork Company
William J. Kayniuk
Silver Creek
Memorial Avenue
Saskatchewan
Jon Montgomery
Jon
Theoren
Cole
Beth Naylor
Main Street
Russell/Binscarth
Mary
Cheryl Lel
Park West
RCMP
Wes Anderson
Terrie
Waterloo and the myth of a decisive history changer
The piece argues Waterloo did not change history as dramatically as legend suggests. It emphasizes Leipzig as the real decisive battle, notes Napoleon's escapes and defeats, and highlights Britain’s rise and later global power shifts. It concludes victories are rarer and overrated in modern geopolitics.
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Waterloo
Europe
Leipzig
Germany
Paris
Napoleon
Elba
Italian
France
Belgium
Duke of Wellington
God
Voltaire
Britain
Russia
United States
Spain
Soviet Union
China
India
Grenada
Panama