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Senior News May, 2004 Vol. 25. No. 5
Published by the Humboldt Senior Resource Center in Eureka, California. HSRC is a non-profit community-based organization offering services for senior citizens, multi-generational families and caregivers.
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Senior News Unique newspaper hast been published for 23 years by HSRC by Barbara Clark Senior News was barely a gleam in anyone's eye when the Senior Resource Center began cooking and serving meals in the Arcata Community Center in 1974. But volunteer Opal Cantrell remembers when she and a handful of others in the late 1970s would type up stories, run the mimeograph machine and mail out 700 copies of the paper's precursor. Opal is still volunteering at HSRC. Then in 1981 Senior News became fire in the belly of two people - Yvonne Baginski and Sheila Forbes - who made it into an advertising-based concern fully contained within the nonprofit Humboldt Senior Resource Center - telling the stories of local seniors, publishing articles by staff professionals and tracking the ever-changing results of the Older Americans Act, the Older Californians Act, the beginning of the California Senior Legislature, and the establishment of the Area Agencies on Aging. When I took over this desk ten years ago, the editor produced all the ads and all the paper. The ad sales rep worked out of her home. We were in the basement of the Senior Center where Adult Day Health had gotten its start. We had one small Macintosh SE computer replaced immediately and one telephone which we shared. The ad manager couldn't work on the computer at the same time as I did. Two phone lines, two newer-model, faster computers and a move five blocks away now makes us look like the small business that we are. Our advertisers, subscribers and classifieds support the paper, a $75,000 annual budget. We're grateful to our community which keeps wanting more from us. Barbara Clark is editor of Senior News. |
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