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Enter The Expositor’s annual Valentine’s Day poetry contest for a chance to dine out!

The time has come, 
The Expositor said,
to sharpen your pencils
and get out the lead.

Our Valentine’s poetry contest
is soon to be here,
so, send in your rhymes
to honour one dear.

Send it by fax, email 
or phone;
Snail mail works too
to bring romance home.

So ponder your words 
and quality lines,
and perhaps you and yours
will go out to dine!

—Michael Erskine

MANITOULIN—That’s right folks, the annual Expositor Valentine’s Day Poetry Contest is fast upon us, bringing another opportunity to win a dinner for two at the Island restaurant of your choice.

Heartfelt poetry entries must be marked “Poetry Contest” and reach The Expositor by Sunday, February 9. As the poem above hints, you can send your entry by phone to 705-368-2733, by fax (yep, like doctors and lawyers, we still have one) 705-368-3822, or by email to editor@manitoulin.com. Our Canada Post address is One Manitowaning Road, Little Current, ON, P0P 1K0 (if you are using the mail, make sure you send it in so it arrives by Friday, February 7).

Make sure you include your name and phone number so we can let you know if you are the romantic winner.

The winners will be announced and published in the February 12 edition of The Expositor. Good luck and happy writing, we are looking forward to reading your entries.

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Michael Erskine
Michael Erskine
Michael Erskine BA (Hons) is Associate Editor at The Manitoulin Expositor. He received his honours BA from Laurentian University in 1987. His former lives include underground miner, oil rig roughneck, early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, college professor and community legal worker. Michael has written several college course manuals and has won numerous Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in the rural, business and finance and editorial categories.