Voices now full color, free of charge

Today’s Valley Voice is the most colorful Valley Voice yet.

Starting today, find stories, features and photographs about neighborhood newsmakers in full color on every page.

Saturday’s Valley Voice will be full color throughout, too, and will continue to be available free of charge on newsracks and in bright red newspaper boxes throughout the neighborhoods it serves. Spokesman-Review subscribers will still get their Valley Voices delivered to their doorsteps.

Today also marks the debut of the West Plains Voice, a community newspaper serving neighborhoods in Cheney, Medical Lake, Airway Heights and Fairchild Air Force Base, also available free of charge on newsstands. Find news from all of the Voices online at www.spokesmanreview.com./voices, www.spokesmanreview.com/handle and www.spokesmanreview.com/prairie.

This summer the S-R plans to launch Web sites for each Voice. Like the print edition, these pages will be chock-full of neighborhood, sports and school news. These Web sites will also be interactive, giving readers the chance to be reporters by posting their own neighborhood news stories directly online through our Citizen Journal initiative. Stay tuned.

We hope you like the change to full color in the Valley Voice. We’re also trying to get more community news into the sections. If you’ve got news about events happening in your neighborhood, here’s how you can get it reported in your Voice:

News/business stories: Contact Voices editor Tad Brooks or deputy editor Jeff Jordan at voice@spokesman.com, or call 927-2164, or write to the attention of Voices editor, 13208 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99216. Reach staff writer John Craig at 459-5429 or by e-mail at johnc@spokesman.com.

School news/church news: Reach staff writer Nina Culver at 927-2158 or by e-mail at ninac@spokesman.com.

School achievements: Submit items to editorial assistant Rainey Coffin at 459-5434 or by e-mail at raineyc@spokesman.com.

Citizen Journal: E-mail news stories, feature stories and photos to Voices editor Tad Brooks at voice@spokesman.com. Please try to limit submissions to 500 words or less. Be sure to include your name, phone number and e-mail address so we can verify authenticity. Items will appear either in print or online at www.spokesmanreview.com/ voices.

Calendar items, public meeting announcements: E-mail items to voice@spokesman.com. For questions, call staff writer Nina Culver at 927-2158.

Letters to the editor/High Fives: Send letters of up to 250 words signed by the author with full name, address and daytime telephone number to Letters to the editor, Valley Voice, 13208 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99216. Or e-mail to voice@spokesman.com. Send High Five nominations to the same address. For more information, call 927-2164.

Team photos: All sports, all ages. Voices editor Tad Brooks, 13208 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99216. Or send a .jpg e-mail file of at least 200dpi to voice@spokesman.com. For more information, call 927-2164.

Photographs: Submit photos for consideration the same as for team photos.

Advertising: Reach account executives Dennis Matsuda at 927-2153, Will Simons at 927-2163 or Wanda Schuh at 297-2160.

Classifieds: Call 456-SELL.

To subscribe: Call 1-800-338-8801.