April 2025 Issue

Letter from the Editor
By Brenda Duke

Most of you know that the North End Breezes has been published since 1972; that is an impressive fifty-three years! While many publications have gone digital only, we continue to be one of the only neighbourhood papers still in print. Over the past few years, we have added many features to provide quality, informative news to our readers: four colour pages to enhance our ads and articles, an updated website to promote our information, increased social media content and most recently our online store to sell branded merchandise. These improvements were made to increase our ability to meet operational costs.

Like many other things, the printing costs have increased to just under $1100 per month. As a    volunteer run community paper, we rely on ad sales, Community Partners and donations from our readers to meet our costs. Unfortunately, our income is not meeting our expenses and at this time, more than ever we need your help to continue printing.

How can you help?

• If you have an invoice, please pay it promptly within 15 days.
• If you belong to a not-for-profit organization, consider becoming a Community Partner.
• If you operate a business, consider advertising with us at reasonable rates.
• If you can donate any amount please do. It costs just under $5 for each resident to receive their paper. You can donate by check, e-transfer or credit card. Please see details on our web site or give me a call.
• If you’re proud to be a North Ender, consider purchasing a T-shirt, hoodie or any of our branded merchandise through our on-line store or in person.

Without your help, we risk being able to publish and will have to consider an online only option which leaves many of our residents without access to their community news. Our hope is that we can do what North Enders do best and come together as a community to support each other.

As always, reach out to me by email or by phone at 289-933-4810 if you have any questions. Thank you.
office@northendbreezes.com

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