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APRIL 2017
The Perry Park Sentinel
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE SENTINEL...
In April, 2016, the Perry Park Sentinel ceased to be and distributed by hand into mailboxes throughout
a printed newsletter and became accessible only on Perry Park Ranch by those same volunteers. There
line. Printing and mailing costs had skyrocketed, was a lot of local gossip and no art. Local realtors
and we were having to raise advertising rates se- absorbed the costs of those first issues. Later, the
verely just to scrape by. It was clear that we could Sentinel sold advertising space, and used commercial
no longer let our advertisers absorb those rising printers to produce a 20-25-page
costs, so after much discussion local newspaper with expanded
and consultation with the Metro distribution throughout the Lark-
District Board, we borrowed spur area.
their website as a “new home”
for the Sentinel. Going on line, The Sentinel is still staffed en-
has given us a great deal of flex- tirely by volunteers with the ex-
ibility we didn’t have before. We ception of a professional typeset-
can use all the color and all the ter who designs and formats it.
pages we need. No more be- She’ll never get rich doing it, so
moaning the fact that a glorious her efforts are as much a labor of
photograph could only be print- love as those of us who volunteer
ed in black and white—or that a our time. Anyone may volunteer,
really good story wouldn’t make and a number of you do, simply
an issue because money dictated by submitting your photographs
the number of pages and words or articles or FYI items. We
we could use. Going online was no longer try to publish a staff
just another milestone in a long life. box—too many people involved in too many ways,
some once in a while, some every month. Just read
We’ve come a long way since April, 1977. That’s the bylines.
when the Sentinel was born.
Keep sending in material—and keep reading. It is
In April, 1977, a group of volunteers put out the a community effort—and has been for exactly forty
very first issue of the Perry Park Sentinel. It was years. Let’s keep it going.
typed—yes, on a typewriter—and mimeographed ~KDale
