`Best editor' calls it quits after 29 years.Twenty-nine years ago, Larry Perks agreed to edit the Niagara Anglican for a year. Recently, he announced his retirement so that he could focus on his health. Mr. Perks, 69, said that at times over the years, he has edited the paper from his cottage, from Ottawa while studying at Carleton University Carleton University, at Ottawa, Ont., Canada; nonsectarian; coeducational; founded 1942 as Carleton College. It achieved university status in 1957. It has faculties of arts, social sciences, science, engineering, and graduate studies, as well as the Centre for , and, for five months, from bed when he was laid up with a bad back. His long stint as editor is a record for any Anglican publication in Canada, and Mr. Perks said he has loved every minute of it. He also noted that the editorship at times has been a family affair. His two daughters have helped, and his wife, Roddie, is the advertising manager, photographer, and general errand person. Mr. Perks, who was born and raised in England, started work there as a reporter at the age of 14. He later moved to Australia and then Canada. He became the youngest city editor in Canada at the age of 29 when he edited the Moose Jaw Moose Jaw, city (1991 pop. 33,593), S central Sask., Canada. It is a railroad and distribution center, with oil refineries, meatpacking and dairy-processing plants, flour, lumber, and woolen mills, stockyards, and Canada's largest jet-training base. Times Herald, where Peter Gzowski Peter Gzowski, CC, LL.D, D.Litt (July 13, 1934 - January 24, 2002) was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio show Morningside. was one of his reporters. After a brief return to Australia, Mr. Perks returned to Canada for good. He worked at the Hamilton Spectator as an editor, and then taught journalism at Ryerson Polytechnic University Ryerson Polytechnic University Privately endowed institution of higher learning in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1948 and named after the educator Egerton Ryerson (1803–82). in Toronto for 20 years, while working part time for 13 years at the Toronto Star The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. as an editor and reporter. In the 1980s Mr. Perks was named by the American Press Institute (API) as the best editor in North America. Mr. Perks remains editor emeritus of the Niagara Anglican and is an honorary lay Canon of Christ Church Cathedral Christ Church Cathedral is the name of the Anglican Cathedral in several cities around the world, including the following: In Australia
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