David;
There have been many "Beach Banners" or Beach newsletters over decades, Gary Evans has even donated a chapter in his latest book to the topic.
Page 19 of the "Memories of the Beach Strip";
"Some of the oldest papers to have surfaced date back to 1926 when the
Burlington and Hamilton Beach Review was published every Thursday. Small in size, similar to a letter size piece of paper, the publication ranged from eight to 10 pages on a regular basis, with numerous ads."
Gary doesn't state if the paper was printed on the Beach, from the quality of the set-up, with the added pictures, I would guess that it was done by a printing company. (Edit; the Beach Review was printed by Allied Printing of Hamilton)
"The Beach Bulletin was published by the Hamilton Beach Citizens Committee starting in 1952", but Gary doesn't add who the publisher was.
I have posted a few scans of the Bulletin here;
http://hamiltonbeachcommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2295
"The Beach Ambassador came along about three years later"
But this time Gary found some more information in his research;
"Published twice a month by the Speedy Typesetting Company from it's office at 33 Brant Street in Burlington"
There wasn't a beach newsletter for many years until Beach residents Gwen Hall and Alice Selbie started the Beach Banner, first publication was in May 1993. This work was done in the resident's homes and then sent to City Hall for printing. At first the office of Alderman Fred Eisenberger printed the banner then Councillor Chad Collins has printed them ever since. The last publication for this banner was November 2007 and all of them can be found here, but they are in a PDF format;
http://hamiltonbeachcommunity.com/forum/threads/the-beach-banner.1641/#post-13941
The Beach Banner was then taken over by resident Jane Kruchka and still exists with the editor now being Lisa Witherington, the printing is still done by the office of Councillor Collins.
