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Show To Everything There is a Season fers, delivery people, and one easily confused editor. Each week the tenuous chain of events threatens to fall apart and is patched together by some special effort on someone's part, overtime hours or a long trip for a part for the process camera or extra care for a difficult layout request. Then, no sooner is the paper finally out the door when plans must begin for the next issue. What, you might ask, makes it all worthwhile? You do. The fact that houses have been sold, lost dogs have been found, that we have seen FOCUS being carried under arms leaving the post office, that advertisers have gained responses from their ads, that someone said they "read it in FOCUS" that is why our second year has flown by so quickly and why we are looking forward to our third! NC The sound of the first snowplow scraping its way across the valley just before dawn always comes as a surprise, winter already? With the first sound of Christmas carols wafting down the department store aisles, even before Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, we shake our heads at the swift passage of another year. Could we be wrong, is November really almost over? Checking the kitchen calendar, we note not only is 1981 well into its fourth quarter but this week also marks FOCUS' second birthday. birth-day. We are forced to stand back in astonishment. Where has the time gone? Even with 52 issues as concrete evidence of where we have been, who we've talked to, how we have felt and vhat the weather was like, it is hard to believe that we are two. And the work is still exciting. This week, we will take a moment in front of the layout boards to marvel at the fact we have made 52 Tuesday deadlines more or less on time. And this editor, otherwise known as The Deadline Kid, will be reminded that those pages would be forever blank without the unending patience pa-tience of her staff without the confidence of her publisher publis-her The Deadline Sheriff, without the financial support of our advertisers and most of all without the willingness of those we 're written about to share their lives with all of us. Let it be known that the appearance of FOCUS in 11,500 mail boxes across three counties is the result of a series of small miracles performed by ad salesmen, layout artists, process camera ca-mera technicians, one of the speediest most accurate typesetters ever known, printers devils, section stuf- |
