The Sanibel Sunset Detective by Ron Base

He wrote pieces for the Sunday newspaper’s magazine section and also did the weekly cover story for the paper’s TV guide.Īfter three years at the Sun, he left to work briefly at the Toronto Star, returned to the Sun, just as briefly, before leaving to write magazine pieces. Several months later, he was named the paper’s media columnist.Īfter five years at the Windsor Star, Base was hired by publisher Douglas Creighton as a feature writer when the Toronto Sunday Sun began publication in 1973. Three months later, he was hired at the Windsor Star where he wrote obituaries before being assigned to the night desk. While at the college, he wrote freelance pieces for the Ottawa Journal.Īlthough he did not graduate from Algonquin, Base landed a fulltime job as general assignment reporter at the Oshawa Times in the summer of 1968. He dropped out of high school at the age of 18 but was able to attend the journalism school at Algonquin College for one year in 1967-1968. He was also the Brockville correspondent for the Kingston Whig Standard. Based on his work for the weekly, he landed a part-time job at the daily Recorder and Times where he wrote a column for teenagers and worked as a general assignment reporter during the summer. He began writing for a weekly newspaper, The United Counties Packet, when he was 15 years old.

Here Base finished elementary school and then attended Brockville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School. His bank manager father, Eric, moved the family-mother Jean and younger brother Ric-from Belleville to Cobourg to Picton, and finally to Brockville, Ontario. Ron Base was born in Belleville, Ontario, Dec.

The Sanibel Sunset Detective by Ron Base