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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Timeless Story Telling With Your Help
Western Arkansas, AR
By: Mike Capshaw
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Photo(s) By: Kyle Danztler/MyActionPortraits.com
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To produce this publication each month, deadlines fall almost three weeks before one of these puppies is in your hands. It’s worth it. Just feel the paper. It’s higher quality than even Sports Illustrated.
To meet deadlines, stories are planned, researched and written as far as six weeks or more in advance, making your role as a reader and high school sports fan more important than ever.
With a monthly magazine, we can’t compete with the daily newspapers in terms of game stories and regular features (unless you check out Vype.com!), so the stories we tell in every issue must be timeless.
If someone picks up July’s issue in January, the content still should be engaging. Moreover, it should be entertaining to everyone regardless of hometown or what those daily news dudes would call a human-interest story because it appeals to a reader’s sympathy or curiosity.
That’s where you come in.
You know your communities better than anybody and know who is the best story, whether it’s the star of the team or the one who hands the star Dixie cups during timeouts.
Through our first year, the story ideas have been excellent and we want to keep them coming. As we said in the first issue, this is YOUR magazine and some of the timeless human-interest stories you helped us tell included Harrison’s Anne Mitchell winning a spot on the golf team despite playing with Down syndrome, Farmington linebacker Ryan Mahoney’s ability to overcome deafness to excel, Elkins coach Beverly Mabry’s amazing attitude while fighting leukemia and Katrina evacuees Roger Jackson of Siloam Springs and Allen Johnson of Fort Smith Northside. among others.
Those are the stories our great writers love to tell and the ones you and I both enjoy reading the most.
Keep them coming.
We want to give a special thanks to all of our readers who have submitted story ideas, our production team for making our pages look so superb each month and also to cover photographers Rainette Rowland (July), Tom Ewart (August, September, November, February) and Kim Singer (October, December, January, March, April, May) for their extra attention to detail over the past year.
We already have a boatload of awesome ideas for the upcoming year, but we know there are even more deserving ones out there that need to be told.
Even though the stories we love the most are timeless, the time they hit the newsstands is important. We can’t run soccer stories during football season (unless we’re in Mexico) in most cases, no matter how charming.
So if you know a story you want to see, don’t hesitate to drop us a line. Remember, we get going on these things weeks in advance and the more in-depth the feature, the more time needed.
The last school year was great, but let’s make next year even better.
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