Our Dear Readers!

 As Chairman of the Board of Directors of The New Pathway Publishers, I extend a warm greeting to our readers and supporters on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of The New Pathway Ukrainian Weekly Newspaper.
The New Pathway published its first edition in Edmonton, Alta. on October 30, 1930. The first publisher was Michael Pohorecky. In 1933, the publication moved to Saskatoon, Sask., followed by a move to Winnipeg, Man. in 1942, and has been located in Toronto, Ont. since 1977.
From the onset, The New Pathway was a very popular newspaper and was printed entirely in Ukrainian. There were many changes over the years. In 1999, a new board of directors was elected by the shareholders of the publication and over the next ten years many changes were made to improve this treasured publication.
The newspaper was professionally redesigned. The font was modernized, each page went from 5 to 4 columns (making reading easier), and four colour pages were mandatory in every issue. A part-time English editor was hired and four pages were converted into English (less than 4% of over 1,200,000 Canadians of Ukrainian heritage read Ukrainian). New equipment was purchased, including a printer that could print out an entire page (no more “cut & tape”). In 2002, the Ethnic Press Council of Canada named The New Pathway as “The Best Editorial and Design Ethnic Newspaper in Canada’. There were in excess of 800 ethnic newspapers in many languages in contention for this coveted award.
More recently, we are now able to sell ads on our web site, Lesia Panko was promoted to Managing Editor, we retained four well-known columnists - Myron Kuropas from Chicago, Oksana Bashuk Hepburn from Gatineau, Que., Mykola Shot from Ternopil, and Serhij Hajduk from Kyiv), and our offices were newly-renovated. We also have several new directors with considerable business and journalism experience.
Looking to the future, our goals include increasing the number of pages in English without decreasing the number of pages in Ukrainian, and increasing the number of colour pages, and we must continue to upgrade our equipment on a regular basis.
Our top priorities are to increase advertising sales and circulation, in order to survive and become more professional. Revenue from subscriptions is only enough to pay the cost to mail the newspaper to our subscribers. Ethnic newspapers are expensive. We depend very heavily on press fund donations. 
We thank the Ukrainian community for their support and you, the reader, for your generous help for us to survive and grow.
 “We cannot do it without your assistance.”

Sincerely,

Leslie B. Salnick
Chairman, Board of Directors
The New Pathway Publishers Ltd.