We are currently gearing up for our autumn Lifestyles of Sedona magazine.
This biannual magazine is one of our most popular and well-received news products that we publish in addition to our regular weekly newspapers; our monthly The Village View for our Village of Oak Creek readers; eight Visitors Guides a year for tourists looking for activities, restaurants and places to shop; our Sedona History special section; and numerous other tabs and special sections that come up every year.
Our biannual magazine Lifestyles of Sedona aims to show a cross-section of our community. While it would be impossible to showcase everyone in the city in a single edition, we hope our magazine captures a microcosm of life in our city.
Over the years feature stories in the edition have showcased working families, retirees, seniors, single parents, New Age practitioners, artists, U.S. Forest Service rangers and volunteers, painters, poets, business owners, entrepreneurs, frontline medical workers, police officers, firefighters, city staff, teachers and nonprofit leaders.
The magazine is a snapshot in time showing what it means to be a Sedona resident.
Do the due to the tumult and chaos of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting Sedona back in March, we postponed our spring addition to the fall. We’re now preparing for that autumn edition, which we will begin putting together in October.
One of the big stories we would like to add to this edition is, how has the COVID-19 pandemic, its response and aftermath affected you?
Are you a worker who was laid off? Were you furloughed and then rehired back? Were you laid off and still waiting to be rehired or brought back on limited hours? Were you fired simply because the business could not afford to keep you on staff? Are you still looking for work? How is, or was, life different when getting unemployment benefits? And what did you do when it ran out? Did you immediately start looking for work or did you hold off, hoping to be rehired?
What is it like to work in the service industry in a tourist town during a health pandemic? What’s different? What’s the same?
Are you a business owner? Did you have to decide whether to layoff staff or stay open with limited hours? Were you able to stay open while installing coronavirus mitigation or precautions for your customers? Did you get a government loan or grant and how did it help?
Did you have to close your business? Was it by choice or because the pandemic or restrictions made it financially impossible to survive?
Did you think that the pandemic would last this long?
How is your life different? How have you kept it the same? What accommodations have you made?
If you have any commentary on life during COVID-19, please email me at editor@larson newspapers.com, subject “Lifestyles of Sedona.” Tell us your thoughts, we’ll send you back some questions based on your comments and hopefully be able to tell a bit of your story in our upcoming edition.
We are also gearing up for our Sedona History special section. Janeen Trevillyan and her crew at the Sedona Heritage Museum are assembling the historical stories and our photojournalist David Jolkovski will be out around town trying to match historical photos with their modern angles for the Then & Now pages in the edition.
If you want to advertise in either of these popular special sections, please call 282-7795 ext 114 or email General Manager Kyle Larson at klarson@ larsonnewspapers.com.
Christopher Fox Graham
Managing Editor
