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The following links contain a few of the articles, newsletters and magazines I have produced and covers of some of the books I've published. In the case of magazines and newsletters, I not only wrote them but designed and desktop-published them. In some samples, to reduce download time, not all pages are included. 

Brochures, posters, plaques, other projects
Faith Missions Brochure 2019
Cinema Series poster samples/2014
Historic Folsom Preservation League membership flier/2014
Friends of the Folsom Library membership brochure
Tribute to Georgia Murray/2006 (the Folsom Library building is named after the activist who worked into her 90s to get it built)
Church profile for recruiting new rector (2013)
Get Moving: magazine section on senior fitness/2012

Three real estate story-fliers (combo stories/pr for agents/2012)
Two interpretive bridge plaques (of six total, with artist Kristine Bybee)/2001
"Public Champions for Business" for Mayor Steve Miklos (this application won for Steve the first-ever award in this competition; I wrote eight winning contest entries for the city of Folsom -- and no losing ones)
Membership brochure/ACSS 2008 (writing only)
Passing employee probation brochure/ACSS 2009 (writing only)

Published articles
Truss Bridge Wins Award; History of Bridge (Folsom Life) c. 2004
El Dorado County Quilt Trail/Style magazine/2020
​History of Folsom's Rainbow Bridge/Around Here magazine/2021
Soilborn Farms/Style magazine/2019
Folsom Community Service Day/Style Magazine/2017
​RainbowGirls/Style magazine/2018
El Dorado County couple builds school in South Sudan/Around Here/Summer 2020
11 Must-See Museums in the Foothills/Style magazine/January 2021
​Edible Enemies: story on food allergies/Style magazine/Nov. 2013
Folsom South of 50 project/Folsom Chamber magazine/2014
Dealing With Divorce/Feb. 2014/Style magazine
Mary Helen's Story/from the 2017 Reflections memoir book I published
The Crazy Election of '78/from the 2017 Reflections memoir book
7 Steps to Ease School Transitions (Style Aug. 2014, page 24-25)
6 Tips to Help Kids Cope (Style magazine 3/14, page 35)
Intel campus comes to library (in Legos) (online Style magazine story)
Center for Violence-Free Relationships (online copy of magazine story, 2013)
Get Moving: Senior Fitness (2012, Around Here magazine)
Talk to Me (online version of magazine article): children who have speech difficulties.
El Dorado Hills Health Fair/2013
Shane's Village (an online copy of the magazine article): a family's journey with a son who has cancer.
El Dorado Women's Fund (copy of Around Here article, 2012)
Nature's Keepers (Friends of Lakes Folsom and Natoma, Style 2013)
Five ways to de-stress the holidays (Style 12/12)
Training College Students for the 21st Century (an innovative program matching training with area jobs at Folsom Lake CC, Style 2012)
Supporters starting new initiative to curb construction (Around Here, 2012)
Article on Mary Muse for special women's section (Village Life/Feb. 2013) 
Me-One Foundation (an organization that sponsors cancer camps, Style 2013
Folsom Library Friends flyers, sampling
Friends of the Folsom Library newsletter

Samples of press releases etc.
Symphony opens 12th season with "Masterpieces"
Sports Night at the Symphony (2014)
Symphony Family Concert (2015)
Why the Folsom Symphony supports youth programs (white paper/2014)
Orthodontists' new website/2014
Ben Franklin visits Folsom/2013
Symphony performance/2011 press release
Symphony March 2013 release: 'Our Magnificent Horns'
Clarinetist 'coming home' to Folsom Symphony/2013
Dental office: New services/2013

City of Folsom newsletters 
(I founded the city of Folsom newsletter and produced it for 11 years. According to five surveys, it was the city's most popular information source. I wrote, designed, desktop-published it and handling printing/distribution.)
History of fire service, bridge construction: 11/07
South of 50/new bridge: 8/07
Building downturn? Not here; bridge falsework: 12/07 & 1/08
Gentle animal training at Folsom Zoo: 2/06
Asbestos found in Folsom: 9/04 (Elliott Homes found this article so helpful they ordered copies of this newsletter to inform prospective homeowners about the asbestos find on their land.)
Folsom poised to become business node: 2002

Articles (older collection)
El Dorado County film industry/story and sidebar/Serrano Spring 2007
Hospital fitness centers rehabilitate/Sacramento Business Journal 1996
Shroud of Turin/Neighbors-Bee 1984 
Veterans' first-person memories/Mt. Democrat 2002
Earthquakes: Bridge column 1998 
When is a river a lake? Two bridge columns 1998 
History of Japanese in Placer County/Neighbors 1982 
Rainbow Bridge-Lincoln Highway/Telegraph 

Magazines (not all pages are included))
State's underwater archaeologist/ACSS 08
Inside Folsom Prison/ACSS 10
Alaska: Call of the Wild/McClatchy 1987
After the fall of the Berlin Wall/McClatchy 1990

First-person articles
One style I have developed is the edited first-person narrative; these are not verbatim transcripts – they are first-person stories I crafted from transcripts of my interviews)
Vietnam retrospective, first person/McClatchy 1989
First-person Dan Walters/Pete Dexter (edited transcript)/McClatchy 1987)
Veterans' first-person memories/Mt. Democrat/Folsom Life 2002