Del and I played hockey together back in the early seventies, he was a good guy.
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Del was a good guy indeed, and died far too young. My sympathies to Vicky and his children.

As a fellow Rotarian, I looked forward to his weekly rebutals to anyone who tried to take him on verbally. A joy to watch him joust with anyone and everyone, always with a wry sense of humour. It was the highlight of my week.

Yet he had a heart of gold and gave of himself in any way he could.

I only met the man once about 6-years ago. I was trying to find out why the PG Citizen didn't have better on-line content. He was completely up-front and explained that the paper figured if they moved more to on-line content then they would find their advertising revenue disappear in the paper and that could cut into their revenue to the point where the paper would no longer be viable. Although I didn't agree with that assessment I was happy that he was upfront with their reasoning behind that decision. I think opinion250 showed that the business model is doable, but considering his reasoning at the time I think he was probably right that this kind of web content could not have been done by a paper like his at that time, but was better suited for a private entrepreneur that would compete with the local paper (he gave the room for a site like opinioon250 to find its place IMO). I'm glad Ben was able to run with the idea, because I know with the work involved it might never have been me that followed through with this kind of idea. I appreciated Del's candid insights and agree he was a good man who's time came a little to early....

PS the web site I had been inquiring about was BCPolls.com which was going to be a on-line polling site for regional issues throughout BC providing blogs on voting issues for polls that gauge the publics informed perspectives rather then the knee jerk reactions the mainstream media feeds us. It proved to be more work than I had the time for considering I had no advertisers.

I apologize to the fellow readers for a couple of my prior posts that if taken the wrong way could be seen not to have much class.