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 2002 City of Sparks Project Impact Newspaper Project
A Special "Thank You"...
"Be Ready News" Team |  "Project Impact News" Team | Distribution | Questions

City of Sparks Emergency Management Team:
Shaun Carey, City Manager
Steve Driscoll, Assistant City Manager
Randy Mellinger, Assistant City Manager
Lee Leighton, Chief, Sparks Fire Department
John Dotson, Chief, Sparks Police Department
Wayne Seidel, Public Works Director
Steve Driscoll, Emergency Management Coordinator

Sparks Project Impact Newspaper Editorial Board
Ben Hutchins, Project Impact Steering Committee Chairman
Dee Beaugez, Project Impact Coordinator & Safe Schools Committee Chair
     & Visual Imagry, Inc.
Judy Henderson, Project Impact Safe Schools Committee Assistant Chair
Vickee Greer, Project Impact Steering Committee member, Project Impact Safe Schools
      Committee Co-Chairman & First Impressions Plus
Gudrun Ongman, Mind Castle Books (author of "The Sleep Ponies")
Kim Mock, Project Impact Steering Committee member & News Channel 8 KOLO-TV
Linda Wicksten, Project Impact  Safe Schools Committee member
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"Be Ready News"
The Project Impact youth newspaper, Be Ready News, has been designed in cooperation with members from the Disaster Preparedness Steering Committee, the Special Needs
Steering Committee, and other state and federal agencies. These agencies and businesses include the following: FEMA, City of Sparks, Sierra Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross, University of Nevada-Reno Seismology Department, City of Sparks Fire Department, City of Sparks Police Department, Washoe County School District, Nevada Humane Society, Sierra County Office of Education, Sierra County Health and Human Services, First Impressions Plus, KOLO News Channel 8, News Talk 780AM, 101.3 FM Renegade Radio and Visual Imagry, Inc.
Newspapers distributed


Contributions by: Linda Gardner Brodsky, Deputy District Attorney, Washoe County; Dave Wiley, Deputy Chief of the Downieville Fire Department, CA; Vickee Greer, Public Health Educator - Sierra County Health & Human Services; John McCann, Jr., Curriculum Coordinator, Sierra County Office of Education; Sparks Fire Department; and Sparks Police Department & SWAT Team

Professional Information/Research: Federal Emergency Management Agency; Sierra County Office of Education; American National Red Cross; Diana dePolo, University of Nevada, Reno - Seismology Department; Humane Society of the United States; and John Douglas, author and former FBI Investigative Profiler

Newspaper Production Team:

Ben Hutchins
City of Sparks
Project Impact Steering Committee Chair

Gil Folk
Washoe County School District 
WCSD Coordinator

Jessika Dee Savage
Graphic Design Intern

Dee Beaugez
Visual Imagry, Inc.
Newspaper Project
Coordination & Design		 John McCann, Jr.
Sierra County Office of Education
Curriculum Coordinator		 Diana Savage
&
Jake Simons
Copy Editor Interns
Vickee Greer
First Impressions Plus
Writer, Editor & Photography		 Judy Henderson
Mitigation Editor
Carol Gillies
Ditto Design
Pre-Press
Patti Lowry Parrish
Cover Design & Illustrations		 Linda Wicksten
Copy Editor		 Sparks Tribune
Pre-Press & Printing

Washoe County School District
Distribution

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"Project Impact News"
The Project Impact News has been designed in cooperation with members from the Project Impact Disaster Preparedness Steering Committee, the Special Needs Steering Committee, and other state and federal agencies. These agencies and businesses include FEMA, the City of Sparks, Sierra Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross, the University of Nevada Seismology Department, the City of Sparks Fire Department, the City of Sparks Police Department & Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team, the Washoe County School District, Sierra County Office of Education, Sierra County Health & Human Services, Nevada Humane Society, KOLO News Channel 8, News Talk 780 KOH, Renegade Radio 101.3 FM, First Impressions Plus and Visual Imagry, Inc.
Newspapers distributed
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Contributions by: Linda Gardner Brodsky, Deputy District Attorney, Washoe County; Dave Wiley, Deputy Chief of the Downieville California Fire Department; Vickee Greer, Public Health Educator, Sierra County Health & Human Services; John McCann, Jr., Curriculum Coordinator, Sierra County Office of Education; City of Sparks Fire Department; and City of Sparks Police Department & SWAT Team

Professional Information: Federal Emergency Management Agency; Sierra County Office of Education; American National Red Cross; Diana dePolo, University of Nevada, Reno - Seismology Department; Humane Society of the United States; and John Douglas, author and former FBI Investigative Profiler

Newspaper Production Team

Ben Hutchins
City of Sparks
Project Impact Steering Committee Chair

Gil Folk
Washoe County School District 
WCSD Coordinator


Jessika Dee Savage
Graphic Design Intern

Dee Beaugez
Visual Imagry, Inc.
Newspaper Project
Coordination & Design		 John McCann, Jr.
Sierra County Office of Education
Curriculum Coordinator		 Diana Savage
&
Jake Simons
Copy Editor Interns
Vickee Greer
First Impressions Plus
Writer, Editor & Photography
Judy Henderson
Mitigation Editor
Carol Gillies
Ditto Design
Pre-Press
Patti Lowry Parrish
Cover Design & Illustrations		 Linda Wicksten
Copy Editor		 Sparks Tribune
Pre-Press & Printing

Washoe County School District
Distribution

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  • Questions
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    The curriculum guide for the "Project Impact News" was written by John McCann, Jr., Curriculum Coordinator,  Sierra County Office of Education.  If you have questions, please email John at jmccann@sierra-coe.k12.ca.us. 

    If you have any comments, please e-mail Dee Beaugez, Chairman of the City of Sparks Project Impact Safe Schools Committee.  She is also the coordinator of the Project Impact Newspaper project.    

    You can also contact the City of Sparks Project Impact Steering Committee Chairman Ben Hutchins at bhutchins@ci.sparks.nv.us    .

    Please contact Gil Folk at the Washoe County School District with any questions.
    (GFOLK@washoe.k12.nv.us)
    f you have any comments, please e-mail Dee Beaugez, Chairman of the City of Sparks Project Impact Safe Schools Committee.  She is also the coordinator of the Project Impact Newspaper project.     

    You can also contact the City of Sparks Project Impact Steering Committee Chairman Ben Hutchins at bhutchins@ci.sparks.nv.us.

    Please contact Gil Folk  at the Washoe County School District with any questions.
    (GFOLK@washoe.k12.nv.us)
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Distribution of 71,000 newspapers
66,000 newspapers will be distributed in Washoe County, as follows:

  • One newspaper to every child in the Washoe County School District (K-12)
  • All students attending Manogue High School
  • All charter schools in Washoe County
  • Some private schools in Washoe County
  • All City of Sparks employees
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5,000 additional newspapers will be distributed as follows:

  • Nevada Humane Society
  • Schools in Sierra County (K-12)
  • Trindel Insurance Company
  • Sierra County Health and Human Services
  • Sierra County Sheriff's Department
  • Town of Truckee Animal Control
  • Sierra County Office of Emergency Services
  • Sierra County Office of Education
  • Sierra County Drug/Alcohol Program
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