The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
In the busy lives of reporters, it stands to reason that the odd typo will be made, that the occasional spelling error will slip through. Though it's not funny to journalists, the reading public has been known to get a kick out of such errors. Take for instance a case that occurred last week in the Winnipeg Free Press. In an article detailing a very serious matter Ð Snow Lake's concerns about the proposed bus service cutbacks Ð reporter David O'Brien made a humourous boo-boo. Somehow, the name of the community's mayor, Garry Zamzow, was printed as "Zam Zow." The second paragraph of a story published last Thursday read: "It will be absolutely devastating," said Zam Zow, mayor of Snow Lake, an isolated mining town of 1,100 about 700 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.
