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Show 'Clipper Weekend' will bring 'colorful' news to Davis County The newest, brightest and best newspaper to hit Davis County in 99 years, (The Clipper is 99-years-old) will debut this Saturday, Sept. 22. The Clipper Weekend will be delivered hot off the presses early Saturday morning. This is the first time Davis County Coun-ty will have its own up-to-the-minute news coverage of weekend sports. "This will be fantastic," said Cipprpublisher Gail Stahle. "We have always wanted to be able to report the news in a more timely manner and with our weekend edi tion we will do just that." In addition to stories and photos of Friday night sports events, the weekend edition will introduce a totally new look for weekly newspapers in Utah. "We were judged to be the best in the state last year, and we've made a commitment commit-ment to continue to grow and improve," im-prove," said Stahle. "This is just the beginning." One of the most exciting things about the weekend edition is the new full-color comic page that will be a regular feature. Clipper readers who responded to a recent poll said comics would be a welcome addition addi-tion to the publication. To expand on the success of the mid-week's highly acclaimed editorial page, the weekend edition will include an editorial and editorial cartoon, as well as a forum for readers' opinions. The new "Life" section will introduce in-troduce feature stories about local people who have accomplished newsworthy feats. Brides, missionaries. mis-sionaries. Eagle scouts and others who have reached milestones in their lives will be able to announce their accomplishments in the weekend week-end edition. An expanded business section should give new and innovative businesses a chance to announce grand openings and expansions. "We are very excited about the opportunity op-portunity to better serve our business busi-ness community," said Marketing Director John Rogers. "We can now provide the additional addi-tional service so many of our regular and new advertisers have needed. The weekend readers will be able to leisurely peruse the paper and take advantage of advertisers' specials." Classified advertisers are also looking forward to the opportunity of getting their message into the homes twice a week. Customers who are announcing garage sales, automobiles for sale, and real estate customers will be able to take advantage ad-vantage of the added day. The editorial staff is excited about the new weekend edition. "We've been gearing up for the new publication," said Editor Judy Jensen. "One of our biggest frustrations frustra-tions is having news we can't get out to the public for several days. Sometimes it seems everything exciting ex-citing happens in the middle of the week and we've already gone to press," she said. Jensen said the new schedule will allow the staff to report news of events that in the past were judged to be "old news" by the time the paper was published. pub-lished. The challenge of attending games See Clipper A-2 Clipper Cont. from A-1 until 10 p.m. and returning to the office to write the stories and develop de-velop the photos by midnight is a challenge sports writers. Tom Haraldsen, John Cannon and Brett Hart are "anxiously" awaiting. "We have a headline ready which reads, 'This space saved for sports,' just in case," joked Jensen. The Clipper Carriers have set their alarm clocks to awaken early on Saturday morning and deliver the new edition to all Clippe rsubscribers. Clipper subscribers will receive the new weekend edition along with the mid-week edition of the Clipper at no additional charge. The low yearly year-ly rate for both publications is just $15. Subscribers will receive twice as much news at no additional cost. Deadlines for the weekend edition edi-tion are Tuesday at 5 p.m. for stories with photos, i.e., missionaries mis-sionaries and weddings, and Wednesday at 5 p.m. for classified, and other news stories. The entire staff is gearing up for the "maiden voyage" of the new Clipper publication. "We've been planning for a long time to expand our news and sports coverage. We view this as just the first step in expanding our publication to meet the needs of our growing Davis County readership," said Stahle. |