JEP stalwart calls it a day after 60 years

Saturday 29th August 2009, 2:57PM BST.

Mr Le Var with JEP managing director Jerry Ramsden.

A UNIQUE milestone was celebrated yesterday when Jersey Evening Post stalwart Dave Le Var retired after 60 years of employment with the newspaper.

Mr Le Var, who is 72, started as a van boy with the company in Charles Street in 1949 before starting his print apprenticeship three years later.

He went on to become production manager during a 20-year period from the mid-1970s period which began with the challenges of the paper’s move to Five Oaks and the transition to computerised print technology, then chose to switch to courier duties in 1993.

At a retirement presentation held at the company’s Five Oaks offices yesterday, JEP editor Chris Bright paid tribute to Mr Le Var’s ‘unique and magnificent achievement’ in serving the paper for 60 years, something which had never happened before and would never happen again.

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