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Send your story tips for local people, events
By JONATHAN WILLIAMS
COAST WEEKEND EDITOR
T
he best story ideas are often ones that
someone tells you about. A recent
example of this is a story on Lia Dit-
ton, a rower who recently took her rowboat
from the Mouth of the Columbia River to
San Francisco. She is training to make the
arduous trek across the Pacifi c Ocean to
Japan next spring. This story, reported by
The Astorian’s Lucy Kleiner, came from a
tip by one of my friend’s dad who said Dit-
ton was docked in the Hammond Marina.
Ditton’s arrival near San Francisco was
also covered in the Bay area’s newspaper,
the San Francisco Chronicle, and made the
front page of its Saturday paper on Sept.
28.
Coast Weekend is looking for exciting
tales of local artists, musicians, writers and
makers doing interesting things in our com-
munity, too.
Much of Coast Weekend’s coverage
centers on what is happening each week,
but one of our goals for the coming months
involves putting an increased spotlight on
local people.
These stories can take many forms.
They can be Q&As, profi les or full
features.
Coast Weekend wants to cover people
locals don’t know about yet but should as
well as people who have called our coast
home for years but haven’t had a chance to
be featured.
Possible story ideas could include local
musicians who play in restaurants, gallery
owners and artists, musicians who play in
local ensembles, writers with new works
and others who are part of our vibrant artis-
tic and cultural community.
Coast Weekend hopes to highlight a
local each week starting at the end of
October.
Please send story ideas for consider-
ation to jwilliams@dailyastorian.com and
explain what makes the person interesting
as well as any new projects or events they
are doing.
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