Learning the ropes
Linderman fourth graders take trip to Valley Journal office to learn about newspaper business
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RONAN — Before launching their own newspaper a group of Linderman fourth-grade students decided to take a trip down to the Valley Journal office to get some last-minute advice.
The nineteen students in Bonnie Perry’s class got in a bus Tuesday afternoon to travel to Ronan to learn the nuts-and-bolts of the business.
They were taken on about an hour-long tour by owner and advertising manager Boone Goddard. They learned everything about the business from delivery, graphics, sales to editorial content.
The students were quick studies. After watching several of his classmates be asked their age during a interview, 9-year-old Leslie Butler was curious, why the final classmate wasn’t asked the same question.
“Don’t you want to know her age,” Butler asked me, after I finished getting information from Tileeya Decoteau, who spent most the field trip taking pictures of her classmates.
The students still haven’t come up with a name for their paper, but the Perry Journal was the most popular suggestion.
After they were done learning about the paper, the students enjoyed a healthy snack of Twinkies and punch before they had get back to work to make sure they met their first deadline.
