HERE WE GO! HANG ON FOR THE RIDE!
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:27 pm
Welcome to our world, The Lakewood Observer.
Tonight with the tireless effort of Dan Ott, Rami Daud, and DL Meckes, we launch the website that we believe can take Lakewood into the next decade and beyond; helping all of us understand our city better while working together. If you have doubts, just look at the list of names of people who have helped to launch this website/paper. If that is not diversity and a list of who’s who in Lakewood, then I don’t know what is!
No longer are we dependent on news from outside sources; we launch our hometown news tonight! Hold on to your hats, this is going to be one wild, fun ride!
Phase One - The Observation Deck, implemented by DL Meckes and 4design. Filled with (at present) over one hundred Lakewoodites who care about our city. This is the area that fuels the stories and allows us to continue to discuss long after the paper has wrapped some fish.
Phase Two - The website, designed and built by Dan Ott & Rami Daud, where news, facts, podcasts, photo galleries and calendars rule the roost. Read the news FRESH daily. Watch the paper form week after week. This area will include longer versions of the stories we run in the paper, and enlarged photo, sound and podcast galleries. Mark this page - it changes hourly!
Phase Three - The printed paper, first available on June 27, 2005. Be there or be square! Our goal is in sight and we are looking to go long and deep into the history of Lakewood.
I would like to thank the following people for their work, support, kind words, directions, pep talks, code, beta testing, and for being there.
The following 4+more have been working on this site/paper for 8 months!
Ken Warren
DL Meckes
Steve Davis
Steve Calhoun
Dan Ott
Rami Davd
Production Wizards
Bill Davis and Jan Davis
Advisors/Editors/Contributors/Mentors
Dan Slife
Jeff Endress
Gordon Brumm
Heidi Hilty
Lynn/Don Farris
Suzanne Metleko
Mark and Jil Timieski
Mary Anne Crampton
Chuck Greanoff
Bill Grulich
Stan Austin
Bryan Wroten
Jeremiah Hull
Tom Powell-Bullock
Thomas D. Corrigan
Melissa Garrett
Stephen Gross
Tara Zeigler
Mike Deneen
Matthew Charboneau
Bob Buckeye
Han Liou
Charley Newcomer
Teresa Newcomer
Kevin Galvin
Leslie M. Basalla
Vincent O'Keefe
Beckett Warren
Vince Frantz
Julia A. Wiltse
Kristen Barker
Timothy E. Kanak
Bob Togliatti
Luis Gutierrez
Steve Hoffert
Paul Nickels
Gayle Elizabeth Pickel
John Guscott
Gary Rossen
Mark Crnolatas
Turo Dexter
Jackie Avus
Kevin Butler
Catherine Butler
Grace O'Malley
Ruth Sholtis-Furyes
Paul Tepley
John Viglianco
Ann Driscoll
Terry Bell
Tom Shaughnessy
Ruthie Koenigsmark
Stosh Burgess
Bac Nguyen
Colleen Wing
Shellie Sedlak
Frank A. Mills
Tara Wendell
Mary Ross Coleman
Mary Hagan
Denny Wendell
Scott MacGregor
Stan Walsh
Jan Henderson
Chris Kelley
Michele Billow
Cathy Frantz
Steven Ollay
Joe McClain
Primus Chuks Igboaka
Fran Kennedy
Adam Gercak
Holly C. Whisman
Mark Latvala
Dr. Larry Keller
And Especially
Mayor Thomas J. George
Ryan Patrick Demro
Mary Louise Madigan
For trusting the process.
Thank you all, now let's cover some news and write some stories!
Jim O'Bryan
Tonight with the tireless effort of Dan Ott, Rami Daud, and DL Meckes, we launch the website that we believe can take Lakewood into the next decade and beyond; helping all of us understand our city better while working together. If you have doubts, just look at the list of names of people who have helped to launch this website/paper. If that is not diversity and a list of who’s who in Lakewood, then I don’t know what is!
No longer are we dependent on news from outside sources; we launch our hometown news tonight! Hold on to your hats, this is going to be one wild, fun ride!
Phase One - The Observation Deck, implemented by DL Meckes and 4design. Filled with (at present) over one hundred Lakewoodites who care about our city. This is the area that fuels the stories and allows us to continue to discuss long after the paper has wrapped some fish.
Phase Two - The website, designed and built by Dan Ott & Rami Daud, where news, facts, podcasts, photo galleries and calendars rule the roost. Read the news FRESH daily. Watch the paper form week after week. This area will include longer versions of the stories we run in the paper, and enlarged photo, sound and podcast galleries. Mark this page - it changes hourly!
Phase Three - The printed paper, first available on June 27, 2005. Be there or be square! Our goal is in sight and we are looking to go long and deep into the history of Lakewood.
I would like to thank the following people for their work, support, kind words, directions, pep talks, code, beta testing, and for being there.
The following 4+more have been working on this site/paper for 8 months!
Ken Warren
DL Meckes
Steve Davis
Steve Calhoun
Dan Ott
Rami Davd
Production Wizards
Bill Davis and Jan Davis
Advisors/Editors/Contributors/Mentors
Dan Slife
Jeff Endress
Gordon Brumm
Heidi Hilty
Lynn/Don Farris
Suzanne Metleko
Mark and Jil Timieski
Mary Anne Crampton
Chuck Greanoff
Bill Grulich
Stan Austin
Bryan Wroten
Jeremiah Hull
Tom Powell-Bullock
Thomas D. Corrigan
Melissa Garrett
Stephen Gross
Tara Zeigler
Mike Deneen
Matthew Charboneau
Bob Buckeye
Han Liou
Charley Newcomer
Teresa Newcomer
Kevin Galvin
Leslie M. Basalla
Vincent O'Keefe
Beckett Warren
Vince Frantz
Julia A. Wiltse
Kristen Barker
Timothy E. Kanak
Bob Togliatti
Luis Gutierrez
Steve Hoffert
Paul Nickels
Gayle Elizabeth Pickel
John Guscott
Gary Rossen
Mark Crnolatas
Turo Dexter
Jackie Avus
Kevin Butler
Catherine Butler
Grace O'Malley
Ruth Sholtis-Furyes
Paul Tepley
John Viglianco
Ann Driscoll
Terry Bell
Tom Shaughnessy
Ruthie Koenigsmark
Stosh Burgess
Bac Nguyen
Colleen Wing
Shellie Sedlak
Frank A. Mills
Tara Wendell
Mary Ross Coleman
Mary Hagan
Denny Wendell
Scott MacGregor
Stan Walsh
Jan Henderson
Chris Kelley
Michele Billow
Cathy Frantz
Steven Ollay
Joe McClain
Primus Chuks Igboaka
Fran Kennedy
Adam Gercak
Holly C. Whisman
Mark Latvala
Dr. Larry Keller
And Especially
Mayor Thomas J. George
Ryan Patrick Demro
Mary Louise Madigan
For trusting the process.
Thank you all, now let's cover some news and write some stories!
Jim O'Bryan