Sharing a PDF version of the weekly edition of Siskiyou News that is found all around the county. The feed back has been wonderful, most importantly it is reaching people that are pretty much, social media free and little to no desire for the internet. (Yes, a shocking number actually.)
I really have enjoyed learning how to put all this together, the challenges are never ending but doable. Like the size of the paper? Well it’s the biggest printer I could source that would not leave us dependent on million dollar presses from a far-off place. But rather a paper printed on materials that can easily be sourced. A major limitation is postage expenses, I dream for the day of local youth delivering the papers a couple times a week.
It’s fun to dream, how else does one create new, design better, accommodate more.
I leave you with this from Bob Kaster:
Limericks, Limericks, Limericks
Did you know that National Limerick Day is coming up soon? It is observed each year on May 12th and celebrates the birthday of English artist, illustrator, author, and poet Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 – January 29, 1888). Lear popularized the limerick poem in his “Book of Nonsense” in 1846. A limerick is a structured short, humorous, nonsense poem. There are always five lines. The first two lines rhyme with the fifth line, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. Sometimes (often) they tend to be on the raunchy side:
A look at the printed edition: Every week Siskiyou·News try’s to have content from different parts of the county, a little bit of anything and everything from this vast and…
Never underestimate the impact of a single voice seeking the truth — sometimes you find the story, sometimes the story finds you... and occasionally, it trips you on the way out the door.
