Dear Column Readers
The Vic鈥檚 View column will be no more. I have never liked the 13th and I have now been fired from the Lloydminster Source newspaper on a Friday the 13th. I have never been fired from any job in my life let alone twice in two months. Okay, I give up. The reason the newspaper fired me was because I criticized the co-op for taking the bulk fuel from Lashburn. The co-op told the newspaper, 鈥渃ancel my column or they were pulling all their ads.鈥� So, that is what happened. I have been asked by many readers, 鈥淗ey, I never saw your View, what happened?鈥� So in all fairness, I decided readers should know.
Every week I struggled to write a column that would be of interest, explain some farming practices, maybe put out my view on things that would make people think and find a clean joke to end the column. In total I have written 451 columns. Now that is it. I鈥檓 done.
I have one editor, I am fired by, one editor who sent me an email saying they were going in a different direction. Would take my column but not pay for it. That鈥檚 not happening. The last editor has a small paper that she only has room occasionally. I see no point in continuing.
I could keep going but what would be the point. It would be like writing letters to the editor but never mailing them. So I am going to quit. Thank you all for reading my column and sending emails back to me. Every week I sit in my office and write this stuff and I never know what people think or what the response will be. I have met some very interesting people, received great letters from people I don鈥檛 even know from all over the place. It was great fun and a pleasure most weeks to write and hear what others thought.
So as the saying goes, 鈥淪ee ya鈥� all in the movies, eh!!鈥�
Victor Hult
