I am searching

for cool people and good stories.

As many of

you may have realized, I am no longer the sports editor. My duties now

include writing stories for the weekend section, covering Tyrone Town

Council and several Peachtree City meetings, and writing features, which

I love doing.

Feature stories

let me go out into the community and meet people from all walks of life.

Afterwards, I write a story and introduce them to you. This has been terrific.

Over the years

I have had the opportunity to do some interesting features. You may remember

stories on a former baseball player with the Washington Senators, an old

rodeo clown, the young man who biked from Washington state to Washington

D.C., local authors, a street luger, a champion handcyclist, the man behind

Silver Hair Ministries, and many, many more. I also have some features

coming soon, including one on Ralph Woolfolk, a young man at Our Lady

of Mercy who was on a Nickelodeon sitcom, and Speech, one of the founding

members of the hip-hop group Arrested Development. I sought out the Speech

interview myself because I am a fan, but people had to lead me to the

other subjects.

That is where

you come in. I need you to lead me to feature stories. Tell me about the

cool and interesting people you know and we might be able to do a story

on them in an upcoming issue. I want to meet people who have done amazing

things or attempted to do amazing things. I want to meet people that are

positive influences in the community and try to make this world a better

place. I want to find out about things that you are interested in and

get you interested in things you don't know much about.

So, you tell

me. Do you want to know the whereabouts and what's going on with people

that used to live in the community? Want to know what a normal day is

like for some of the more unusual establishments or businesses in the

county? Do you know someone who has done something that thousands of people

only dream about? What about someone who does something that few people

know about? I want to see my e-mail inbox flooded with ideas of people

and places to check out. The only criteria is that they deal with local

people or places and that some other publication didn't recently do a

story on said person.

I can't promise

that I'll get to all of them, but I can promise that I will do my best.

So, give me a call or e-mail and let me know who the cool people are.

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