Local guide making plans to expand
By Mary Shuler
I merald Contributor
Wh.it s lliiiipriinift. Ihigrnr s lire .irl and en
trrtainment guide. is on Ms win to heituning
mori’ of .1 general newspaper
Ur want In !»' tli pact's t'vrrt week said
I an 1.1 Mi helvev. editor of tin- i urrrntlv :!(i page
guide "U'r |iist don't know how long that w ill
take
Whitt s /fu/i/iming began in a ( (inverted m.i
rage in September 1?IH2 as a font page ( alrndai
of loi al i»t11<■ rt.11nmi-nt events
U r had no real fnrniturv our drsks were
door tops Ur didn’t have i apital. just swrat hi
hot Hut wr wrrr in tom h with vs hat the < iimnui
nils w.intrd and nrrdrd. and wr wrrr patirnt
vrrv patirnt And it paid off Mi hrlvr\ said
I lir paprr is expianding its (.overage of loi al is
sm s in addition to the wrrklv i alrndar of aits
and rutrrtaimnrnl hook and movie reviews
In that end. thr\ liavr a new visual look and
some additions to the staff that w til help them hr
a more fulls developed newspaper," said Da
vid lohnson. lontributing editor to It h.it s //,i;i
liming
lohnson was hired to help expand and bring a
professional four h fo the weekly paper
"We wanted .1 more newspaper look Mr fsel
ve\ said I nr instance they felt that the (roster
style rovers wore gorgeous, but weren't reflect
mg thi- news jiart |ol the paper)
lining in lour li w ith the t mmmiinU is still the
goal of the paper
''local (overage is important because that's
where people ran rlo something to alter I the
si ene. Mr hels e\ said
Articles covering environmental issues, drift
netting anti the Am lent forest brought a lot of
feed bar k to the paper anil the number of stories
on these issues was ini reused in response John
soil said
(ohnson believes that one ol the roles of
U'bet s Happouilig is to "pick up the slark tor
I hr Rrffistrr-C hurt!
lie said the It'bat's //up/iermi.g investigation of
Kohr Industries' bar kgrounii was a serve e to the
r omnmnilv not provirled by the tluih (>aper
flies dropped the ball and sve didn't |ohn
son said lie also said he believed It /let s //up
prning's on going coverage ol the proposed
I’ankow development tor downtown Hugene
"helped arouse publir ojimion
A paper like It bat 's Happrmng serves a pur
post' in the community, said Tom laques. assis
taut managing editor tor Thr Register (iuard
i hev i over things we don't or i an t or don't
i boose to." he said "I snt* no great conflict
Weekh publications are springing up in tile
larger towns .ill over the country. )aques said,
because the daily papers don't have the space tor
i overing alternative issues in-depth
We see ourselves in the same mold as other
alternative weeklies throughout the country.”
\1< kelvev said "it's been called Advocacv four
nalisni We do have a voice and we're proud of
it We re not totally objei live, blit we are factual
and act urate
"The (iuard is for all people What's Happen
m,g zeroes in on a more spet ific audience They
take a different angle a more analytical angle
than we would " laques said
"People have tried to label 11s that hippie
rag ' Mi kelvev said "Hut from the beginning
all kinds ol different people have read us We
know from the feed back Seniors, poor people,
wealths people working people and profession
al people
No community is monolithic There are lots
ot voices It is the nature of democrat v I think
it's healthy ' Mt kelvev said
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