September 3, 2019 at 3:17 p.m.
Feedback enhanced summer series
Editorial
Every once in a while we ask for your help.
It may be with suggestions for one of our special sections. It may be for questions for a sports column. It may be for letters to the editor about a specific topic.
We generally get a few responses, sometimes with a little extra prodding needed. But rarely, if ever, have we received the level of feedback that we got from this summer’s series about young professionals.
When we decided on young professionals as this year’s summer series, staff members sat around the office tossing out names of possible subjects. Drew Houck quickly came to mind. A financial consultant at Edward Jones, Drew has been deeply involved in the community, most notably now as president of the United Way of Jay County board of directors, since returning home after college.
Others included Maggie Neal of Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition, Jay County High School math teacher Zach Keller, Williamson-Spencer and Penrod Funeral Home funeral director Nick Leonhard
Beyond specific names, we also came up with a list of jobs — nurse, police officer, teacher — that we might like to include.
Those names and jobs built the foundation of the series. But we also asked, with each story that ran, for your suggestions of other young professionals that we might have overlooked or not know about at all.
You came through. While we haven’t keep exact count, we have probably received at least 25 suggestions.
Several of those — Bob and Sons insurance sales representative Mackenzie Ingram, Lids director of distribution Isaac Poole and Portland Forge Premier Forge Group engineer Clayton Eley — became part of this summer’s series.
Saturday’s story about Eley was the last of this year’s series. But there remains a stack of young professional suggestions on a desk in our office.
For that reason, this is a series we will be revisiting. It may be next summer. We may take a year off and come back to it in 2021. A firm decision on timing has not yet been made. But one way or another it will be back.
So, please keep your young professional suggestions coming. (For your reference, we decided “young” would be defined as 30 and younger.)
And while you’re at it, if you have ideas for other potential summer series or story topics, let us know. We’re easy to reach at [email protected].
Your feedback serves to make us better. — R.C.
It may be with suggestions for one of our special sections. It may be for questions for a sports column. It may be for letters to the editor about a specific topic.
We generally get a few responses, sometimes with a little extra prodding needed. But rarely, if ever, have we received the level of feedback that we got from this summer’s series about young professionals.
When we decided on young professionals as this year’s summer series, staff members sat around the office tossing out names of possible subjects. Drew Houck quickly came to mind. A financial consultant at Edward Jones, Drew has been deeply involved in the community, most notably now as president of the United Way of Jay County board of directors, since returning home after college.
Others included Maggie Neal of Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition, Jay County High School math teacher Zach Keller, Williamson-Spencer and Penrod Funeral Home funeral director Nick Leonhard
Beyond specific names, we also came up with a list of jobs — nurse, police officer, teacher — that we might like to include.
Those names and jobs built the foundation of the series. But we also asked, with each story that ran, for your suggestions of other young professionals that we might have overlooked or not know about at all.
You came through. While we haven’t keep exact count, we have probably received at least 25 suggestions.
Several of those — Bob and Sons insurance sales representative Mackenzie Ingram, Lids director of distribution Isaac Poole and Portland Forge Premier Forge Group engineer Clayton Eley — became part of this summer’s series.
Saturday’s story about Eley was the last of this year’s series. But there remains a stack of young professional suggestions on a desk in our office.
For that reason, this is a series we will be revisiting. It may be next summer. We may take a year off and come back to it in 2021. A firm decision on timing has not yet been made. But one way or another it will be back.
So, please keep your young professional suggestions coming. (For your reference, we decided “young” would be defined as 30 and younger.)
And while you’re at it, if you have ideas for other potential summer series or story topics, let us know. We’re easy to reach at [email protected].
Your feedback serves to make us better. — R.C.
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