Our story matters

A few weeks ago I wrote that words matter, referring to verbal words, and this week, as we observe National Newspaper Week I am going to discuss other words that matter — printed words in newspapers.

This year’s theme is Tell Our Stories, meaning for us newspaper folk to tell why we got into this business and for me the theme says it all. That’s why I do this — to tell our stories.

I started in Thermopolis at the Independent Record while a senior in a career class. Students were placed with businesses in areas where they had a potential career interest.

Initially, I thought I wanted to go into...