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The St. Johns Sentinel PO Box 3316 Portland, OR 97208 Office: 503-287-3880 Ad Sales: 503-706-7190 Fax: 503-287-3880 (call first) info@stjohnssentinel.com www.stjohnssentinel.com The St. Johns Sentinel is published by SydHonda Media LLC, a locally owned non-fiction content provider that specializes in digital journalism for print, television, video and the web. The St. Johns Sentinel (formerly the In & About News) has been operating as a monthly newspaper since March of 2001. The Sentinel covers St. Johns, Sauvie Island, Multnomah Channel, Linnton, and the Greater North Portland area (areas of the City of Portland West of Williams Avenue). Here's who we are. Our Beloved Publisher and Managing Editor Cornelius Swart www.sydhondamedia.com  Swart owns the paper and oversees all production and business operations. Despite his appearance Swart has incredibly fresh smelling breathe. Swart graduated from New York University's Maurice Canbar Institute of Film and Television (also known as the equally difficult to remember acronym NYUMCIF&TV). Swart is best known for his 2002 documentary on gentrification in North/Northeast Portland entitled NorthEast Passage: the inner city and the American Dream. Age: 34 Turn ons: Fresh Breathe Turn offs: Needy Freelancers Perfect Date: I'm a romantic. A moonlit walk through St Johns. Just you and me and a loaded 9mm pistol, walking by the meth labs, past the dump, along the swamp by the abandoned prison. I'll look and see the flickering light from the off-gas flare of the sewage treatment plant reflected in your eyes. Who needs the world when we have each other and The John. News Editor Will Crow  Will Crow is in charge of managing and assigning hard news content for the Sentinel. Crow spent his formative years as a reporter for daily newspapers in the American Midwest. He moved to Portland in 1996, where he languished in market-imposed semi-retirement until he received a fateful e-mail from Cornelius Swart. A musician by training, he's also a self-described connoisseur of awkward metaphors, deep concepts, community policing and proper punctuation. Age: CLASSIFIED Turn-ons: Clean copy, sources who return calls, the upcoming Worldwide Socialist Revolution. Turn-offs: Capitalist hegemony, bougeoisie running dogs, rude people. Perfect Date: A warm fire; cold vodka; J.S. Bach on the stereo; a low, sultry voice reading passages from Marx and The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. Arts and Calendar Editor Laura Hutton  Hutton edits and assigns arts and culture related stories and compiles the Sentinel's monthly arts and community calendar. Laura Lie Hutton hails from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She received an English degree at Seattle University before moving to North Portland in the summer of 2005. Besides writing an editing for the Sentinel, Laura also currently works at a SMART Coordinator at Clarendon Elementary and Humboldt Elementary in North Portland, and is a vegan food slinger at the St. Johns market and caf?, Proper Eats. Age: 23 Turn-Ons: Bicycles, records, travels, photography, reading, writing, feminism, good wine/beer/whiskey/etc. Turn-Offs: Cars, milk, cigarettes, meat, Wal-Mart, evil empires. Perfect Date: Anything that involves a backpack and a sleeping bag and possibly a bottle/jug of Merlot. Assistant Editor Brett Olson  Brett Olson supports the editorial staff by coordinating, tracking, and managingwriting and photography assignments. Olson is a recent graduate from the Journalism and Communications School at the University of Oregon. Olson likes comparing things to baseball. Like if he’s surprised by something, he might say, "wow, that was a curveball." Or if he’s talking to a girl and it goes wrong, Olson might say, "strikeout!" He enjoys all things basketball, except for Kobe Bryant. Politics interest him, but on a purely observatory level, like watching a lion eat an antelope. Age: 22 Turn ons: Minor league baseball and happy hour. Turn off: Media conglomeration and Sudoku. Perfect Date: People date still? Copy Editor Michele Elder  Elder assures that everything is smelled spelled correctly and polices content for goofy grammar. Michele has been a Portsmouth resident since 1989 and comes to the Sentinel by extension of her role as proofreader for the North Portland Press. Her work has always involved words in some way, including 13 years of copy administration and proofreading at local ad agency BPN. She now freelances as a broadcast business affairs manager and proofreader/copy editor. Michele especially enjoys committing time every school year to be a SMART Volunteer at Clarendon Elementary. Age: 43 Turn ons: Happy kids, considerate people, Spongebob Squarepants Turn offs: Rude, selfish and/or grumpy people?in that order Perfect date: A Saturday afternoon movie at the mall with my daughter. Art Director Theresa Rohrer  Theresa oversees ad design and layout of the paper maintains the sentinel website and guides design decisions that affect marketing and collateral materials. Miss. Rohrer, was born and raised in the exciting little town of Boring, Oregon. She got her start in the design world through learning fine art and calligraphy at "The Hood", where she later graduated with a degree in graphic design. And after college she when on to work for a stone engraving company where she designed graphics for tombstones. In October of 2005 she got an internship at the beloved St. Johns Sentinel where she worked for a month before becoming the Art Director. She can still be seen working there, very hard, with her nose to the keyboard... well at least at the end of the month. The rest of the month she is employed at NW Media as an in-house graphic designer. Age: Not as old as I would like to be. Turn ons: I can turn on anything with a power button. Turn off: I can turn off anything I can turn on. Perfect Date: 8/15/1945 or 3/13/1967 or 7/21/1969 are all very good dates. Graphic Designer-Production Colleen Froehlich  Froehlich reviews layout and is in charge of file preparation and clean up. Colleen is also contributing to the re-design of the Sentinel's new paper template. Colleen has worked at the Sentinel since January 2006 when she started as an intern. She has 2 bachelor degrees, one from the University of Oregon's Journalism school and one in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Portland. Turn ons: intelligence, ambition Turn off: dishonesty, smoking Perfect Date:a walk along the beach/in the forest, cheese pizza, a movie and.... Contributing Writer Vanessa Harless  Vanessa Harless is a music freak with a penchant for all things 80's, and is currently in process on her debut novel, Tourniquet. She is a founding member of Portland's ITHeWBeT writer's group, and freelancer for the St. John's Sentinel and Wowgirl blog. She also authors the Oregonlive.com weblog- Writer's Block, a resource for the local writing community and is a contributing writer for PDX Magazine. Vanessa is collaborating with a local illustrator on her children's book, "I Love You More Than Artichokes," due to be completed this summer. Age: 34 Turn ons: Music and Musicians Turn off: cell phones, hummers and fake lawns Perfect Date: Sitting on a rooftop with a container of fried rice, two sets of chopsticks, and a cheap bottle of wine, accompanied by strange but stimulating conversation (i.e. Why Target commercials are single-handedly responsible for the apathy of America's youth) good tunes and a make-out session. Contributing Writer Julie Sabatier  Julie Sabatier is a freelance writer and radio producer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Willamette Week, Just Out, and The St. Johns Sentinel. She is also a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated Pacifica Radio program Free Speech Radio News. Her half-hour radio show, "DIY, Portland," can be heard on the third Thursday of every month on KBOO's Thursday Morning Radio Zine. The show is also podcast via Radio4All and iTunes. Age: 25 Turn ons: Good radio, plums, men in skirts Turn off: green peppers, indecisiveness Perfect date: A good meal and a good show, preferably one where my date and I get in for free. Contributing Writer Liz Fuller  Liz is a yoga posing, tango dancing, ex ballerina who finds time to write for the Sentinel among other illustrious newspapers near and far. In her spare time she studies to get a double major in sociology and French at PSU. She plans on applying her degrees to either the sociological study of hopscotch in Tualatin, or journalism. Age: 22 Turn Ons: Italian World Cup players with no shirts on Turn Off: Mushrooms Perfect Date: Yummy dinner (ex: Pambiche), dessert, then dancing Contributing Writer Vanessa Timmons  Vanessa is a writer who has spent over twenty years working with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Currently the Portland Organizer for the National Organization for Women she is dedicated to finding ways to use words and information to bring about healing. Age: forty something Turn on's: Sunny days Turn offs: As a Libra I hate when situations are out of balance. Perfect date: Well, any date when my husband of 17-years and I can sit quiet and alone is simply perfect. Photographer Joel Preston Smith  Joel Preston Smith is a freelance writer and photographer based in Portland, Ore. He is the author of Night of a Thousand Stars and Other Portraits of Iraq (Nazraeli Press: 2006). He currently serves as Chautauqua Scholar for the Oregon Council for the Humanities. His website is www.joelprestonsmith.com. click here to download production schedule
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