We want to extend a growing online newspaper with a printed monthly news magazine for in-depth local news.
Hi. My name is Shelley Henderson.
I launched Orange County Breeze online in June 2011 to deliver news about the small inland communities of northwest Orange County, California.
Orange County Breeze enables members of those small communities to toot their horns more loudly.
It lengthens the reach of neighborhood news, allowing neighbors to meet neighbors and grow into friends.
It bangs a big drum for worthy causes…
…and whoops about worthy achievements.
Readers asked whether a print edition would follow.
After almost a year of hard work, I've been joined by Guy Cariglio.
Together, we are readying a print edition to build on the foundation of the online edition.
Both editions of Orange County Breeze will encourage discovery —finding out about people, events, organizations, products, services and businesses that readers otherwise will miss out on.
Guy and I tossed ideas for a print edition back and forth.
Some ideas cost too much. others needed too many people.
Finally, we found the Goldilocks solution.
Here's Guy's description:
“A monthly, 24-page large-format magazine, printed in color on high-bright paper. It will be delivered free to 30,000 homes and businesses in Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, College Park East, El Dorado Park Estates and Cypress — plus the Los Alamitos Joint Forces training Base.”
A print edition will deepen coverage of the people, places, and things that make living in our small communities great.
Guy wants to make sure that everyone realizes that the online version will still offer daily news as it happens.
Between the two of us, Guy and I have decades of experience in computer technology, writing, newspaper production and advertising sales. We want to take Orange County Breeze beyond the online edition’s 300-pixel-wide photos and 400-word articles.
Our monthly expenses for the online edition are low, low, low. Starting a print edition immediately opens a huge cash-flow gap.
As our advertising director, Guy keeps reminding me that we have to pay for producing and distributing the first print edition before we collect advertising fees.
A short-term bridge loan seems like the way to go. But finding credit is hard right now.
Kickstarter’s Community-based crowd-funding is exactly what we need to carry us across that funding gap.
We want to thank you — the readers, contributors and advertisers of Orange County Breeze — for your support.
With your continued support, and now also the support of the Kickstarter community, we look forward eagerly to banging drums, tooting horns and whooping about all the great things going on in our small communities in northwest Orange County, California.
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