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The Richmond Sentinel: who we are and what we are all about
Published 1:47 PDT, Fri October 13, 2017
Welcome to our Health Edition, where we
tackle health from different angles, including the safety of young workers,
advances in sports concussion protocols and arthritis research, as well as
local health and fitness options.
Since February, we have strived to provide
local residents with something different to read, while giving them a bit of
the familiar too in terms of what they’ve come to expect from a down-to-earth
traditional community newspaper.
By now, hopefully most of you have seen and
read a copy of The Richmond Sentinel, if not delivered by Canada Post to your
mailbox, then at a local library, community centre or mall.
While we’re the new player in town, we bring
a much-missed old one back to Richmond.
Though our name is The Richmond Sentinel, at
our heart both literally and figuratively, we’re infused by the values of The
Richmond Review, which closed to the disappointment of many in July of 2015.
Many of our staff members are former Review
employees.
Award-winning sports reporter Don Fennell,
supremely talented photographer Chung Chow, and Jaana Bjork, The Review’s
expert production manager when it closed shop, all eagerly agreed to join me on
this journey to build a new independent non-profit newspaper from scratch.
(Also joining us are veteran newspaper marketing consultant Don Grant, a
long-time Steveston resident, and fellow long-time local science reporter
Lorraine Graves.)
We’re all committed to creating something the
community can be proud of, both in print and digitally (richmondsentinel.ca).
The Review earned a stellar reputation for
its commitment to the community, under the strong leadership of publishers Mary
Kemmis and Lois Hourston and the many others who came before them, dating back
to the earliest work of pioneering Review editor Ethel Tibbits in the early
1930s.
That community dedication, of course, was
routinely expressed through The Review’s team of writers, sales consultants and
circulation staff and demonstrated by the team’s active involvement in the
community. Those values endure with the like-minded team at The Sentinel, and are reflected every day in the
stories the Sentinel publishes, but also in the way we take leadership by
offering to sponsor and participate in local events. That includes the
inaugural Community in Motion event organized by Richmond Cares, Richmond
Gives, which raised nearly $30,000 last summer, and our ongoing supporting for
the great research done at the Arthritis Research Centre on No. 3 Road.
We hope you like what you read, and tell your
neighbours about us.
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