Hi everyone! Okay so I am well into the first week of my internship. My editor, which I told you all about when I did my "good writing" piece, is going to Mayo Clinic for up to 3 months this summer for a stem cell transplant. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. So in light of her absence she has dubbed me the "project coordinator" of a new weekly news magazine entitled "Pentwater This Week". In case you are not familiar with Pentwater, it is a top tourist spot over here in West Michigan rivaled only by Silver Lake. So I am going to be running the show for the most part on this and I was hoping that some of you could offer any insight or ideas that could be helpful in my quest. This project is a such large undertaking and because of this I will not really have my hand in the regular newspaper (Oceana Herald-Journal) until probably July.
My project begins tomorrow with a trip to the Pentwater Historical Society to dig up some "gems" for locals and tourists to enjoy reading about/seeing in this little town. Then I am off to interview the asparagus queen (not joking). She is very nice, a lawyer with five kids, I just have to find out what her plans to help the community are. That is another one of my tasks, to layout and design the "Asparagus Advocate". It's a special section that runs the Thursday prior to the National Asparagus Festival which will be in my hometown of Shelby this year, about a mile and a half from my house.
Hope all of your summers are going great, I am looking forward to any suggestions you could give me or what your internships/study abroad/ jobs are like so far.
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Amanda: What a sweet post! Good luck this summer, and on your special projects. Your story and Mary's email are on my desk, and I'll be hoping for the very best for her too as she travels for treatment.
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