There are some exciting new additions to the Free Lance starting
next week.
Each Monday, we will be featuring high school student columns,
one from San Benito High School and the other from Anzar each
week.
There are some exciting new additions to the Free Lance starting next week.
Each Monday, we will be featuring high school student columns, one from San Benito High School and the other from Anzar each week.
This will give some of our young people in the community a chance to write whatever is on their minds. And don’t be surprised if it starts a journalism or writing career down the line.
I would like to especially thank our education reporter Michelle Hatfield, a San Benito High grad herself, for organizing this effort. We are also grateful for the help from the teachers and administrators who helped coordinate it as well.
Check out “Baler Chronicles” and “Hawk Talk” every Monday.
The Free Lance welcomes writing from our school children of all ages. The letters from the fourth graders at Tres Pinos School to our heroic veterans that were published this week were awesome. So were the letters to Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger from R.O. Hardin students.
We feel it’s very important, especially these days, to provide a forum for our young people.
We will, however, have an adult write our new weekly Wine column that will appear in our Food and WIne section every Thursday. Valerie Brockbank of San Juan Bautista will be featuring our excellent San Benito County wineries and some of their offerings each week.
Good timing with the holidays just ahead.
Valerie will literally be on the same page with our popular Food column each week by Dorothy McNett.
I barely know how to heat up a can of soup without setting the smoke alarm off in my apartment, but I never miss a word of Dorothy’s columns and recipes.
And everyone who has met her knows what a great person she is.
When I have friends visiting me in Hollister, Dorothy McNett’s Place is a definite stop on my tour. I couldn’t drag my mom out of there when she was in town.
Now for some sad news. Jed Logan is leaving the Free Lance. His last day is today.
Jed is one of the nicest guys I have ever worked with and he will be missed at the newspaper and certainly in the community and county, where he covered so many different stories and events over the years.
