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Delta Throwback: Visiting the Optimist

The South Delta group explored many areas of the community
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The club tours the Optimist’s operations in 1971. The paper was almost 50 years old at the time. Delta Optimist file

Let’s head back again to February 1971 when the Optimist newspaper got some special visitors.

Members of the Explorers of Tsawwassen United Church watch Ken Grafton explain the operation of an offset press during a visit to the publication’s plant.

It was a printing technique that involved the transferring of an image from a metal plate to a rubber roller or blanket before being printed on the newspaper.

The newspaper celebrated its 100th anniversary two years ago.