Help Wanted

by Toni Locke

The Metro is happy to report that the paper is entering the year 2003 in good financial standing, thanks to many loyal advertisers and a group of stalwart Friends and Money Honeys. Seven thousand people receive the paper monthly. Nearly 50 volunteers team up to create each issue. Our nonprofit status makes donations easier. We continue to report the activities of the Laurel, High Street, Maxwell Park, Dimond, Allendale, and Redwood Heights to safeguard and improve their neighborhoods. Our Web site is shaping up. The main library has a complete archive, 12 years of Metros.

But ... all this calls for regular transfusion of new blood. Your editor needs help with management detail now, and potential successors to come on board as trainees. A newly retired person with an interest in journalism (training not a prerequisite) would love the job. We need a reporter for the Laurel District. Writers are welcome on a regular or once-only basis to tell the many stories of life around us. Photography is vital to the paper, and more photographers on call would help. Many more distributors can help their Home Alert or block project by taking the Metro door to door.

A most heart-warming public service is open to you on the Metro. Interested? Then please call Toni at 530-8079, or e-mail tonil\@ix.netcom.com, and talk it over.