o you remember your first concert?
The one where you stood in the queue
with your mates for hours, screaming
hysterically every few seconds just to release some of the built up excitement? Then as your music demi-god arrived on stage you lose your voice in the frenzy of singing, shouting, cheering and screaming?
This is our debut concert. A full on dress rehearsal gone opening night – and we’re an African wedding feast of excitement, nerves and trepidation!
In this our first ever issue, we set the tone, writing the promissory note for what is to follow: an ONLINE community-driven newspaper FOR the community BY the community. Our goal: to create a platform where ordinary citizens tell stories that are important to them, where you don’t need to string together perfect sentences filled with superior terms to explain why we need to listen, but where we listen to YOUR message. We’ll still do the editing to ensure we all hear your message loud and clear, but in essence we are giving back the power of the press to the people - YOU. This opens of course many opportunities for mistrust and misappropriation of information, for bias and utterly subjective reporting. Bias is part of our lives – ask any Sociologist and you’ll quickly realise an unbiased story is tremendously
hard to find. But this is the beauty of this COMMUNITY DRIVEN initiative. If you don’t agree with someone – write a counter argument or a letter, and let’s open the conversation!
A concert without refreshments is unthinkable – equally a newspaper without advertising! In the HELDERBERG NEWS everything is community based, including our adverts! You as an individual place your classifieds totally free of charge and we run it among the paying business adverts. Your newspaper, remember!
In between your stories and classifieds, we’ll place stories from the community – in this issue we report on the progress in uplifting and improving the conditions for the babies at the Kingdom Kids crèche, Sir Lowry’s Pass Village, and we discuss the plight of our fellow Helderbergers from Nomzamo and Lwandle.
You can look forward to regular features in upcoming issues, such as our regular Finance and Wealth Management Section, or the Events guide detailing what’s on and where! A huge part of this is to showcase LOCAL talent from the basin – in this issue we introduce the multi-talented Strand citizen, Joubert Stander! – and we include a restaurant review to help you pick the perfect dining-out experience for every eventuality! In our obsession with being community driven, we have also included a RESTAURANT OPINION poll where YOU have the platform to rate and share your experiences of the restaurants in our area! A few pages later you’ll find our POSITIVE LIVING section that may include such topics as NGOs and how to get involved, health and well-being, eating and exercise, healthy relationships and gardening, and many more! The aim is to evolve with what YOU as a community bring to the party!
Now, standing at the gates and hearing the crowds cheer behind you – let the concert begin!
Happy reading and sharing!
Isabel
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and improving the conditions for the babies at the Kingdom Kids crèche, Sir Lowry’s Pass Village, and we discuss the plight of our fellow Helderbergers from Nomzamo and Lwandle.
You can look forward to regular features in upcoming issues, such as our regular Finance and Wealth Management Section, or the Events guide detailing what’s on and where! A huge part of this is to showcase LOCAL talent from the basin – in this issue we introduce the
multi-talented Strand citizen, Joubert Stander! – and we include a restaurant review to help you pick the perfect dining-out experience for every eventuality! In our obsession with being community driven, we have also included a RESTAURANT OPINION poll where YOU have the platform to rate and share your experiences of the restaurants in our area! A few pages later you’ll find our POSITIVE LIVING section that may include such topics as NGOs and how to get involved, health and well-being, eating and exercise, healthy relationships and gardening, and many more! The aim is to evolve with what YOU as a community bring to the party!
Now, standing at the gates and hearing the crowds cheer behind you – let the concert begin!
Happy reading and sharing!
Welcome to our newest star
JULY 2014 - 03
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First NewsMag Launches in Helderberg
Meet our editor