Upside Down Under: One grows, one shrinks

During the second half of the 1990s, I operated the newspaper in Langdon and often made short, 38-mile trips to Morden, Manitoba, for various reasons.

At the time, Langdon’s population was about 2,500 and Morden was just shy of 5,000. That has always been a snapshot in my mind, until a couple of weeks ago.

I was looking through some information about the Corn and Apple Festival in Morden and saw t...