This Ontario 8-year-old's love of writing and a rescue dog inspired her to launch a newspaper
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The Abby Post began when Frankie the dog pulled a muscle.
The rescue beagle was a regular sight around Port Dover, Ont., sniffing around with Abby Mitchell and her aunt, Carrie Sinkowski. But suddenly, in June 2021, the pair were walking solo, and friends and neighbours were wondering where he was.
Abby decided she needed a way to provide people with updates on Frankie, so she settled on a newspaper.
"I really, really, really like writing," she said. "I like telling ... friends your fun stories you created."
Eighteen editions later — the most recent celebrating Abby's eighth birthday — the Abby Post has become a staple publication for the town along Lake Erie.
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Abby has also been recognized with a 2021 Ontario Junior Citizen Award from the Ontario Community Newspaper Association (OCNA).
"It feels very, very exciting," she said.
Katie Sinkowski, Abby's mom, said her daughter has always been creative when it comes to drawing or writing, so seeing her passion for the paper take off isn't exactly a surprise.
"But that she's [eight] and able to walk up to somebody she doesn't know and ask them lots of questions is pretty ... bold," Sinkowski said. "I'm proud that I have a daughter that can do that, especially at that age."
The aptly named Abby Post almost ran under a different title.
Initially, the Grade 2 student pitched calling it the "Abby-Washington-Post-New-York-Times," her mom said with a laugh.
They settled on the simpler name in the end, but Abby's fingerprints are all over the finished product.
She picked the logo that tops each edition because she likes Tiffany blue and The New Yorker font, Abby confidently explained.
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