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Welcome - RICHMOND RIVER SUN
Community-run,
community-driven.
Welcome to our web site
Welcome to the Richmond
River Sun – a completely independent community
news sheet, home delivered to the towns of Broadwater, Coraki, Evans
Head, Woodburn and Casino! That’s more than 9000 copies of a (usually)
28-32 page publication – and we must be the only free tabloid paper
that has this reach in the Richmond Valley Council area.
I am not sure that anyone else in
Australia is doing what we are doing. A community group has started
its own newspaper – that has cherry-picked all the things about a
newspaper that are good – and abandoned all that are unsavoury.
Our aim is to provide a platform for the community to
express ideas and opinions about real issues that affect us all. We
also aim to promote local business through our advertising
sponsorship program. This helps pay for the production, delivery and
printing of our paper – the rest of the ‘workers’ are all
volunteers. Yes, volunteers. We believe in our communities
empowering themselves to communicate ideas, achievements, exchange
information, and having a forum to express themselves. This includes
providing an avenue for asking questions of politicians, local, state
and federal, about concerns we have.
We can be independent
because no-one owns us – or more correctly – everyone does. We are
auspiced by the Mid Richmond Neighbourhood Centre which kindly
provides us with insurances, handles all monies (which are audited
three-monthly) and has in place excellent administration processes to
make sure everything runs smoothly.
The Evans Head Living
Museum has been vital in our creation, and provides many services
in-kind. Yet both these organisations have an arms-length approach
to editorial.
We are totally inclusive, and contain all views and
opinions of this rich and passionate community area.
The Richmond River Sun has been alive
since August 2005, provided five inaugural issues in 2005, and we are
now produced monthly.
Our regular writers provide insights on
topics from gardening to pet care, computers to fishing, healthy
living and good eating, religion and education, and the inimitable
Dr Dom never fails to dazzle with his cutting wit and particular
wisdom relating to the more ethereal aspects of life.
But it has been our even-handed and
incisive research into political issues that has given us the most
feedback.
We are constantly evolving, and want to
represent the community. If you have ideas, put them forward. If you
are an advertiser, know that our most frequent feedback is “we read
this paper from cover to cover”; “we keep it in our house for weeks
reading it a bit at a time because we want to get right through
it.”
We don’t harass advertisers and
sponsors. We advertise for very low costs – all profits go
back towards the paper and getting it bigger, better, more
colourful. We have taken the big step of employing our own
sales person for the first time – Jody Guest – who can be contacted
as follows:
JODY GUEST - Ph 02 6683 2684
Mobile 0402 593 362
Email gjguest@bigpond.com
Feel free to be included, speak through
the paper, ask questions, and flaunt your talents. This is your
paper.
Maria Walsh
Editor
Maria@iprimus.com.au
6682
4334
0422827913
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