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I’m supposed to meet the editor and publisher of the Eganville Leader for a Friday morning interview, but as the paper’s receptionist explains, the news has once again hijacked Gerald Tracey’s life. An overnight fire in a nearby campground has heavily damaged two trailer homes. Article content

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The 72-year-old Tracey is at the scene to take pictures and get the story.

Tracey knows from his five decades of experience that a front-page photo of a car crash or fire sells more papers than a grip-and-grin of a prize winner or politician. It’s why the paper, in this quiet town 90 minutes west of Ottawa, is known by locals as the Eganville Bleeder.

Tracey is unreservedly proud of his paper’s winning formula.

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