Sunday, October 25, 2009 Counter Point by George Dobie
There will be a "Celebrate of Life" at the Schubert Centre in Vernon at 1 pm on Sunday Nov 1. If you can not attend and want a message read instead, please email dougdobie@shaw.ca.
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George Dobie - The "Sage" of Vernon
That is the link that I have on this blog for a great gentleman and one of the most accomplished reporters and columnists that I have known. I only met Mr. Dobie about 4 or 5 years ago when he was free lancing and showing the youngsters Scott Neufeld and David Wylie the ropes with the Vernon Daily Courier. We continue to exchange ideas on the politics of the day and kept in touch through our mutual blogs. I enjoyed our occasional coffee meetings over the last year as we bantered and criticized each other about our respective views about local politics and personalities. He particularly liked my phrase "prolific if not proficient" that I had coined about one of our local media writers many years ago. Well George's lifework in the journalism field could only be described as "Prolific and Proficient". He will be missed.
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This is a modest recap from George's blog about his career:
George Dobie has worked in newspaper journalism all his life, starting out as a reporter with a weekly publication in Vernon, B.C. After three years he vaulted to a position with the Canadian division of the world-wide United Press news agency, covering stories across Western Canada. Ten years later Dobie became UPI bureau manager in Vancouver for three years before joining the editorial staff of the Vancouver Sun. He worked with The Sun for 28 years, including a decade as its labour reporter. He finished his small-c career as an information officer for the provincial government in Victoria before retiring back in Vernon where has kept up to current events as a free lance writer and now an Internet blogger.
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