Louis was the former manager of The Woonsocket Call's Burrillville-Glocester bureau; They named the Harrisville Pond, North End's alternate name is named Louise Bleiweis Memorial Park.
Quote from his wife, Annette,
The Call - News - 02/07/2006 - Late journalist's 80-year legacy earns place in NEPA Newspaper Hall of Fame
www.woonsocketcall.com, 7 Feb 2006 [cached]
"Our dates were Burrillville hockey games," says his wife, Annette E. Bleiweis.
When calling hours were held for Bleiweis following his death, "it was an amazing thing -- like watching the life of Burrillville go by," his daughter says."There were hundreds and hundreds of people who came because he had written their name or taken their picture, or given them a job delivering the newspaper."
"(Their) stories were the reason he got up every day," she says.
Bleiweis got his start in journalism when he was a precocious 11-year-old who had just entered the ninth grade.After winning a school essay contest, Bleiweis was recommended by his English teacher to the editor of the Mamaroneck Daily Times in New York, and assigned to write school news.By 15, he had graduated high school and was a full-time sports reporter for the paper.After eight years there, he co-founded the former Mamaroneck Herald, a weekly, and later worked as the Westchester County correspondent for the New York Post.
From 1942 until retiring in 1981, Bleiweis was a reporter and bureau chief covering Burrillville and Glocester for The Call, and was a correspondent from those towns for another 25 years.
Quote from his wife, Annette,
The Call - News - 02/07/2006 - Late journalist's 80-year legacy earns place in NEPA Newspaper Hall of Fame
www.woonsocketcall.com, 7 Feb 2006 [cached]
"Our dates were Burrillville hockey games," says his wife, Annette E. Bleiweis.
When calling hours were held for Bleiweis following his death, "it was an amazing thing -- like watching the life of Burrillville go by," his daughter says."There were hundreds and hundreds of people who came because he had written their name or taken their picture, or given them a job delivering the newspaper."
"(Their) stories were the reason he got up every day," she says.
Bleiweis got his start in journalism when he was a precocious 11-year-old who had just entered the ninth grade.After winning a school essay contest, Bleiweis was recommended by his English teacher to the editor of the Mamaroneck Daily Times in New York, and assigned to write school news.By 15, he had graduated high school and was a full-time sports reporter for the paper.After eight years there, he co-founded the former Mamaroneck Herald, a weekly, and later worked as the Westchester County correspondent for the New York Post.
From 1942 until retiring in 1981, Bleiweis was a reporter and bureau chief covering Burrillville and Glocester for The Call, and was a correspondent from those towns for another 25 years.
Louis was the former manager of The Woonsocket Call's Burrillville-Glocester bureau; They named the Harrisville Pond, North End's alternate name is named Louise Bleiweis Memorial Park.
Quote from his wife, Annette,
The Call - News - 02/07/2006 - Late journalist's 80-year legacy earns place in NEPA Newspaper Hall of Fame
www.woonsocketcall.com, 7 Feb 2006 [cached]
"Our dates were Burrillville hockey games," says his wife, Annette E. Bleiweis.
When calling hours were held for Bleiweis following his death, "it was an amazing thing -- like watching the life of Burrillville go by," his daughter says."There were hundreds and hundreds of people who came because he had written their name or taken their picture, or given them a job delivering the newspaper."
"(Their) stories were the reason he got up every day," she says.
Bleiweis got his start in journalism when he was a precocious 11-year-old who had just entered the ninth grade.After winning a school essay contest, Bleiweis was recommended by his English teacher to the editor of the Mamaroneck Daily Times in New York, and assigned to write school news.By 15, he had graduated high school and was a full-time sports reporter for the paper.After eight years there, he co-founded the former Mamaroneck Herald, a weekly, and later worked as the Westchester County correspondent for the New York Post.
From 1942 until retiring in 1981, Bleiweis was a reporter and bureau chief covering Burrillville and Glocester for The Call, and was a correspondent from those towns for another 25 years.
Quote from his wife, Annette,
The Call - News - 02/07/2006 - Late journalist's 80-year legacy earns place in NEPA Newspaper Hall of Fame
www.woonsocketcall.com, 7 Feb 2006 [cached]
"Our dates were Burrillville hockey games," says his wife, Annette E. Bleiweis.
When calling hours were held for Bleiweis following his death, "it was an amazing thing -- like watching the life of Burrillville go by," his daughter says."There were hundreds and hundreds of people who came because he had written their name or taken their picture, or given them a job delivering the newspaper."
"(Their) stories were the reason he got up every day," she says.
Bleiweis got his start in journalism when he was a precocious 11-year-old who had just entered the ninth grade.After winning a school essay contest, Bleiweis was recommended by his English teacher to the editor of the Mamaroneck Daily Times in New York, and assigned to write school news.By 15, he had graduated high school and was a full-time sports reporter for the paper.After eight years there, he co-founded the former Mamaroneck Herald, a weekly, and later worked as the Westchester County correspondent for the New York Post.
From 1942 until retiring in 1981, Bleiweis was a reporter and bureau chief covering Burrillville and Glocester for The Call, and was a correspondent from those towns for another 25 years.
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