from covering bowling to ’shooting’ the pope

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for those of you who remember andre smith, our former high school sports writer who liked to do things like wrestle and shoot photos in his spare time:

he had the opportunity yeseterday to photograph the pope for the wilmington, del., newspaper. he told me he shot video, too. it’s in today’s 1 p.m. newscast. “it was something else!” he said.

women’s ‘issues’ focus on health

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next week (april 25), we’ll have our biggest rockford woman magazine yet — 84 pages.

you may notice two changes:

1. instead of being stapled together, the magazine is “perfect bound,” which means it has a spine.

2. we’ve added a spring health section, 16 pages, focused on how we women can look and feel good. we’ll also do the same in the fall. above is an alternate photo of verlinda hendricks we shot but did not use for the section’s cover.

meanwhile, we plan to do an upcoming cover story on elder care, since women often face overwhelming situations when they have to handle important life and health care decisions for their parents. i’ve gotten a bunch of feedback already from my advisory board, but if you have any suggestions on resources or angles, i’ll take them here….