ANOTHER MONTH,
another mag. (Well it's been six weeks actually but with the late- December doldrums and all, it seemed like a good idea to make one bumper final edition for the year.
It has been a good year for the Barkly News Pictorial and I thank all the supporters - readers and advertisers, who have made the magazine worthwhile.
Tennant Creek is going through a quiet time at the moment, what with Normandy riding into the sunset, at least for a while, and the general economic tightening that is affecting us all.
Hang on though, is that a train whistle I hear in the distance? I-think-it-will, I-know-it-will, etc as it pulls majestically into Tennant Creek Freight Interchange. I'd like to see a train line through here because I think trains are the obvious choice for transport in the ecologically-challenged future.
However, the reality is that when a scribe, such as myself, first sat to write of the possibility of the north-south railway he had to typeset his story by picking up the little lead letters one by one and locking the whole page together with clamps. Apart from that we do have something else in common - he was just about to enter a brave new century too, the twentieth!
Anyway, the future belongs to the young as they say. On the cover of this festive issue are three such specimens.
Michelle Sator, Samone Sallik and Sasha Greenoff were kind enough to pose shamelessly for our cover. Thanks girls.
That's about it. Take it easy over the holidays, come back in '99 refreshed and you never know there might be some life left in the old town yet.

Paul Cockram