Editorial: The news comes first

Chris Davis, Head Cheese, Pincher Creek Voice

I've been helming this Voice endeavor for over two months now, in a period which saw us go from about 3 visitors a day accessing archived material, to as many as 1,060 pageviews a day. Every week more of you are reading and looking at the pictures.
Thank you.  Without you this is nothing.


On day one of the reboot, there was one.
Me.
Then Toni Lucas, my beloved better half, immediately upon having opportunity to do so leaped right in, and has been working like a mad trooper on this with me.

Then the columnists and journalists started to come on board.

Sheri Monk, thank you.  Thanks for bringing your passion for truth, your passion for writing, and your unique "not from around here" point of view.  I look forward to Sheri's pieces every week.  She knows how to grab a story when it's happening right now too.   We're looking for someone to sponsor Sheri's writing so that we can more fully employ her talents.

Phil Burpee.  Wow.  I've had readers ask if they could just have direct line to Phil, to learn more and to counter his arguments.  What he writes is learned, and he certainly doesn't sheer away from controversy.

This week we introduced a new voice, to us, Joe Cunningham.  Joe's a renaissance man.  Fishing, hiking, cuisine, music, literature, and more to be discovered every week.  He married a libranian, lucky dog.   Joe also runs smalltime Music Productions in Pincher Creek, engineering and producing music and albums by various musical talents from around Canada.  I'm the least famous of them, by a long shot.
If you like to write, or have something to say, we have room at the voice for more community commentators.  We're fairly open minded and less restrictive than most local presses, because freedom comes before commerce with this publication.  If you have something to say, why not say it your way?
We won't knowingly print libel, lies, foul language, etc.  

Blatant shout out to the Pincher Creek Co-op, Hal Murdoch at Pincher Creek Ford, Collar Tire and Mechanical, and definitely not least, The Pincher Creek and District Historical Society.   Without fine community-minded customers like you this endeavor would be unsustainable.

Many of you know this is an offshoot of Comodisc productions.
Como was the last little town I got to fall in love with, in south western Quebec.
That business is being rebranded Pincher Creek Web.  I like it here, I'm staying.

Stats:  We passed 20,000 pageviews a while back.  Our average pageviews a day seems to be 400, give or take. I will be posting stat screenshots and number crunching when I have the time.  The news comes first.