Chair’s report
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The Applegater is developing a new logo! Alyssa Prophet, of Prophet Solutions and our Jackson County ad rep, designed it. The board, of course, had to approve it, and there were, of course, differences of opinion about which design was best, so it’s still, of course, in progress. But we’re close enough to agreement that we can promise to show it to you in the fall issue.
AND—we have, or will have soon, a new website, which Alyssa is also designing. It should be ready for you to visit by the time you receive this issue or shortly thereafter.
When our longtime and generous webmaster, Joe Lavine, told us he wanted to retire from that job (see article on page 1), we thought it was a good time just to revamp the whole thing. We are excited about the new site, which has the same address: applegater.org. We hope you’ll visit it soon and often. For those of you who love us because we’re a print source and haven’t caved in to the digital age, don’t worry. Print will always be our first emphasis.
We can’t say emphatically enough how much we appreciate Joe’s work to keep our website up-to-date and workable for so many years—ever since he developed it in the first place, decades ago.
While I’m handing out kudos, I’ll give special and heartfelt recognition, again, to our treasurer, Roger Wirth, who has spent hours and hours and hours straightening out the tangled mess of our finances and financial records and establishing a workable process for handling ad sales. Along those lines, thanks to Alyssa Prophet, too, who helped create that process.
And then there is the thank-you to our volunteers—writers, contributors, photographers, columnists, distributors, and others, without whom there would be no Applegater. Last year’s volunteer thank-you party got waylaid (organizational problems), but we are pursuing it again with renewed energy, so volunteers, stay tuned. We appreciate you and want to recognize your contributions to the Applegater in this way.
Thanks to you all for reading the Applegater.
Diana Coogle
Chair, Applegater Board of Directors