From the Publishers
Paradise NEWS Volume 27 Number 4 • April 2021
Hello Friends! Welcome to the April 2021 issue of Paradise NEWS. Thank YOU for your support! We are thrilled to be celebrating another month together, and a year of pandemic survival, thanks to YOU!
PUBLISHERS Peter Roos | Marketing & Sales sales@paradisenewsfl.com Renee Roos | Creative Director info@paradisenewsfl.com
By “YOU” we mean the readers who enthusiastically wait for each copy to show up in their mailbox, and those who pick up Paradise NEWS from one of the 550 racks and stacks in the area. “YOU” also includes our loyal advertisers, both new and longstanding, our account executives, our researchers, writers, editors, photographers, proofreader, printers, mail service, distribution people and each of the location owners that welcome Paradise NEWS to be distributed in their businesses.
EDITORIAL Nanette Wiser - Executive Editor wiser86@gmail.com Steve Traiman - Feature Editor traimancreativecopy@gmail.com ART & PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Janet Nummi
For over 26 years Paradise NEWS has added value to the lives of the privileged few lucky enough to live in this special corner of the world, like a sturdy cotton string tying together a quarter century of human experience. That string stretches from these printed pages to the limitless world of www.ParadiseNEWSfl.com where anyone can read Paradise NEWS online, and a repository five years or more worth of articles from past issues and a great deal more.
ADVERTISING REPS Gigi Grimshaw Linda Motzenbecker CONTRIBUTING COLUMNISTS Arts & Leisure | Events - Zelda Traiano Art News - Caron Schwartz CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Dr. Dennis Merritt Jones | Sarah Lyons Michael Moses Jr. Ryan Baker, MD | Dr. Scot Trefz, DVM Tom Broderson, ESQ Veronica Champion
While we discuss the challenges facing our planet, we try not to dwell on negatives so prevalent in more frequent media outlets. We prefer to focus on what good people are doing to overcome these challenges. Catch up on events, news and entertainment in social media, on our website, in our Thursday eblast or in the print magazine. We circulate an online newsletter with our top suggestions for enjoying the weekend and late breaking tidbits that we may not have known about when the magazine last went to press. You can subscribe for free online. Exploring www.ParadiseNEWSfl.com, you can access five years of back issues. Feature stories are capsulized by year and a wealth of local history, pet health, eco, travel, food and cooking columns, recipes and much more are discoverable. While the magazine typically debuts online on the first of each month, it takes about a week before copies begin to appear in racks and stacks throughout the area. It takes another week for the post office to get it to 25,000 mailboxes. The content is designed to be pertinent at least until the next issue arrives in the mail, so regular print readers miss nothing, even when the issue arrives around the 15th. Feel free to reach out to us on social media. We are here for you, with you, because of you. Together let’s keep the wonders of the natural world in sight and mind on our journey.
PHOTO BY FLOURISH - VALERIE BOGLE
If the magazine just “appeared in the mail” for the first time this month, it was probably just a tease, an introductory sample. We are introducing Paradise NEWS to a new group of locals each month. If you like it and want to keep it coming, a subscription is only $30/year for 10 issues mailed to your home, store or office. You can send your mailing address along with any form of payment to P.N. Sub., P.O. Box 66385, St Pete Beach, FL 33736 or email info@paradisenewsfl.com for a credit card subscription form. And to Everybody, Thanks for Everything!
Peter & Renee Roos
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APRIL 2021 | ParadiseNewsFL.com
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Janet Nummi | @AMGvisual Visit St. Pete-Clearwater | Visit Florida SUBMISSIONS - WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS Paradise News welcomes submissions. 727.363.6888 • info@paradisenewsfl.com DEADLINES - Advertising • Classified • Editorial 12th of the month, one month prior to print PRINT CIRCULATION Mailings audited by U.S. Postal Service Fall/Winter/Spring; (Monthly) Oct - May . 36,000+ Summer;(Bi-monthly) .J une/July & Aug/Sept 30,000+ DISTRIBUTION - Mailed on “Island Time” Downtown St. Petersburg, St. Pete Beach, Pass-a-Grille
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