I get a lot of complaints every day about the content of the newspaper.
It's usually the same refrain: "How come there is so much negative news in the Daily Times every day."
Some callers just can't resist referring to us by the nicknames that often accompany conversations about our content - the Daily Crimes, or even the Daily Slime.
Today will not be one of those days.
For that I can thank Peggy Witmer, the Prospect Park Termites youth football team, and the Interboro community.
Earlier this week I got an email from Vicki Neill about a special event that was taking place Wednesday.
Frank and Peggy Witmer were icons in the Prospect Park and Interboro communities. Avid football fans, they were ardent supporters of the Prospect Park Termites as well as the Interboro Bucs.
Yesterday the community decided to repay the favor.
Members of the youth football team marched to the Witmer house to serenade Peggy Witmer on her 99th birthday. Frank, who passed away several years ago, no doubt was looking down with a huge smile on his face - and an Interboro jacket on his back. You can read all the details here.
They actually shut down the street where Peggy Witmer lives so the kids could march from Prospect Park Elementary School to her home.
I have said many times that the most important decision I get to make every day is the story that dominates our front page. Of course, these days, that gets expanded to the story that holds the lead position on our website. That online story changes throughout the day. It's one of the things I like most about delivering news online. We can change it constantly, literally delivering news 24 hours a day.
In print, we get one shot.
I guess a lot of people would wonder if today's story on the "Parade for Peggy" would qualify as the most important story in Delaware County yesterday.
Maybe not.
But I decided to do it anyhow.
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Witmer.
Great idea, kids.
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