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Familiar faces, online aces
If you’re reading this, it means you clicked my new button and arrived at the place where you’ll find the next secret disclosures. Welcome!
You already read secret No. 1 on the front page: Kelly Brewer, the former editor of the Record Searchlight, has joined Food for Thought. Kelly and I have divided Food for Thought duties. She will focus on local people, local news, the economy, local politics, mom and pop businesses, open government, fair access to health care, alternative energy. I will focus on local people, food and lifestyle topics. We’ll share some topics, and cross over into each other’s stories from time to time.
Revealed secret No. 2: Jim Dyar, the former D.A.T.E. editor for the Record Searchlight, has also joined the Food for Thought team. Here, he will resume his rightful title as the king of arts and entertainment with weekly columns, or blogs or podcasts or whatever he wishes. I can’t wait. Click on Jim’s button to read his first Food for Thought column.
Revealed secret No. 3: Phil Fountain’s work will appear on Food for Thought. You may know Phil as the incredibly talented newspaper cartoonist and artist. But you’re in for a treat when you read his columns, like the one he wrote especially for you today. Click on his button and see for yourself.
Revealed secret No. 4: Thom Gabrukiewicz, the former editor of the Record Searchlight’s award-winning Outdoors section, is back! Allow me to clarify. Thom did leave the Record Searchlight for a new newspaper job in South Dakota. But lucky us, he’s agreed to write for Food for Thought so we can get our Thom G. fix. Return to the home page and click on Thom’s name and picture on the photo strip to read his first column.
Revealed secret No. 4: Shannon Calder, formerly the queen of all things related to the Record Searchlight’s Book Club, is now writing her book reviews on Food for Thought. To read her insights about the book “Gentlemen and Players,” return to the home page and click on Shannon’s name and picture in the photo strip.
Revealed secret No. 5: Linda Woodcook, former Record Searchlight advertising representative, has joined Food for Thought as its advertising sales person. She’s a dynamo and a gifted artist, and we are so pleased to have her here with us. Advertisers may reach Linda at 243-8324.
Revealed secret No. 6: More to come. Stay tuned for additional new Food for Thought voices as we introduce yet more features. For example, Caitlin Elizabeth Moore of Shasta Lake will write about her battle over bulimia in a series of columns. And Carllene Marek will write about geneology in her columns, Relatively Speaking.
No secret: All these talented writers strengthen and enrich Food for Thought. All are great human beings. They join more than three dozen community writers, as well as Chico journalist Lauren Brooks, who writes the Happy Wanderer.
One reader put it so aptly when he said that Food for Thought has gathered a media dream team.
What a wonderful team. What a terrific dream — realized.
Thank you for coming. You’ll want to return often so you don’t miss anything.
By the way, click on the corresponding photos on the left side of the page to read material written by me, Kelly Brewer, Jim Dyar and Phil Fountain.
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Ohhhh. . .my jaw is still dropping, and I want to dance for you guys. GREAT!!!!!!!! surprise!
Wow! So many changes and new additions!! Love it!!!
Almost makes me wish I was still in the biz so I could write for you, too!
Wow — talk about a dream team! And you’ve even dragged Mr. A&E himself back to the trenches — kudos, Doni!
Laurie et al. @ Tripleshack
Of Course! Brilliant! I hit this site first thing this morning but didn’t have time to comment then. This is going to be so wonderful…it already is. We dropped the RRS yesterday (for the 2nd time); coincidence, huh? Free at last and all my favorite people are here. Now I have to dash to library and pick up my copy of Gentlemen and Players thanks to Shannon’s review. Onward and Upward Doni and Kelly. Way to go!
Sue Crandell
It is encouraging to see great folks work together to create a really cool website!
YES!!!! I had a feeling this is where you were going. A dream team indeed. Congratulations to all of you.
Marilyn Traugott
What talent, and all of you right here in Shasta County….thank you. Just wondering what going through Silas Lyons mind to-day?
What a great idea. And what a line-up of talent to carry it through. We’ll check in with you daily to see what’s going on.
Doni’s voice will really roar when the Shasta Sheriff’s office and the Redding Police department start giving all the news of the day for her to list. No picking out just parts and pieces, the whole enchilada. The same stuff that people would get if they listened to their scanners all the time.
It would only have to be put on the site once a day, but what an improvement from the newspaper that basically doesn’t give up any home-grown news Sunday thru Tuesday (and the other days, not much.)
Love love it! All our favorie writers back together again. Thank you so much.
I am so happy for all of you! Just goes to show, what goes around (RSL) comes around…FFT you ROCK! What’s the BIG guy at RSL thinking now? Big britches cannot always hold the package, if you get my drift…
Wow - lucky Reddingites!
Congrats to Doni, Kelly, Jim D and all of the rest of ya’s.
Ah ha! I had heard that Linda left the RS. She is great for the team. When I left the paper, it was said that enough skills had taken the buyout or just plain left to have another paper. Well, sure enough, they are resurfacing at FFT. Good go, mates.
Doni- THIS IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!!!! I am just THRILLED! I cancelled the paper a couple of months ago, and I do miss the feel of REAL paper with my tea in the morning. A week or so ago, I got a call from RSL with an offer of HALF PRICE delivery, and I accepted. I did though, get to tell exactly WHY I had cancelled. Short version: YOUR PAPER SUCKS after you, Kelly and Jim left! So to see that I can get you all now, is just too good for words. CONGRATULATIONS!
Kirsten
PS: How do I get in to read the story of “The Old Boys Club”?