Celebrating the New Look of The Newsy Neighbour!

The Newsy Neighbour Magazine

www.thenewsyneighbour.com

June Issue #116

Article Provided By: Kyle Penn

Exciting Things Lay Ahead

In just 10 issues, The Newsy Neighbour will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. That’s one decade of delivering quality community news, and supporting the thriving Albertan communities of Langdon, Strathmore, Chestermere, and many others. We couldn’t be prouder to be commemorating such an important milestone. More than that, we’re grateful to you, our readers, for sticking with us over all these years. We truly love working with the people and businesses that we get to engage with every month in putting together each issue, and wouldn’t be able to do what we do if it weren’t for the enthusiasm and excitement of our readers. Everybody who isn’t afraid to go out and take part in their communities – whether it be by attending events, managing or supporting small businesses, or just extending a friendly hand to a neighbour in need – always does what they can to contribute towards making sure the place they call “home” is constantly growing and changing for the better. We love seeing this continuous drive toward change and improvement, and feel that we wouldn’t be holding up our end of things as a community magazine if we didn’t do the same.

That’s why we’re so excited this month to be unveiling the brand-new look of The Newsy Neighbour! We’ve been inspired by the many businesses and individuals who are always working towards bettering the communities they’re a part of, so we put our heads together here at the magazine to come up with a few ways that we could do the same. One of the ideas we landed on was this re-brand.

Of course, we’re fully aware that slapping a new logo on the front of our magazine doesn’t have much of an impact on the community as a whole, but hear me out. In creating and re-designing the Newsy Neighbour logo, we’re re-iterating our commitment to our readership, local businesses, and the communities that we are a part of. Re-branding The Newsy Neighbour was no easy process – we wanted to come up with a design that would reflect our intentions of continued growth, without alienating the dedicated readers who have been with us these past 10 years. It’s a difficult balancing act, coming up with a design that speaks to our desire to stay fresh and innovative, while respecting where we’ve been and everyone who’s been along for the ride over the course of our 116-issue run. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished, and we want to make sure that the flavour of The Newsy Neighbour stays whole and intact, while still demonstrating our passion to expand and provide an exciting, unique perspective on the goings-on within our southern Alberta communities.

That’s what this re-brand means to us, at the end of the day. Sure, it’s a chance to make the magazine look a bit flashier and a tad more modern, but that’s almost beside the point. What we’re really, truly looking to do is demonstrate our drive and focus to continue putting out the best magazine that we know how, in order to help serve the community and foster its growth as effectively as we can. We said it once already at the top of this article, but it bears repeating: we love our community, we love The Newsy Neighbour, and we’re always going to continue to look for ways to do right by both.

Excited for the brand-new look of The Newsy Neighbour? Come celebrate it with us this month at the 3^rd Annual Get to Know Your Neighbour Festival, happening June 17^th, followed by Sessions in the Park – a free outdoor concert in Kinsmen Park! In addition to all of the other festivities that will be taking place (face painting, BBQ, refreshments, and more!), we’ll be taking the opportunity to officially unveil and celebrate our new look! Be sure to come out and join us.

Before we close out this article, we’d be remiss if we didn’t take one more moment to really drive home how grateful we are to be a part of such an incredible community of businesses and individuals. We can’t imagine anywhere out there being as welcoming and appreciative as the readership that we serve, and we really are indebted to all of you for supporting The Newsy Neighbour and allowing us to do what we do. Thanks for everything, and we hope you like the new look of The Newsy Neighbour – an altogether different magazine!