Vanessa Bacon-Hall
Editor
IS IT ever easy to say goodbye? I don’t think so and sadly this is what this column is all about as I say farewell to my role as editor of the Coolum and North Shore Advertiser.
After six years, four of which as editor I have been offered another role which felt like the right thing to do for my career and my bank account – working as a freelancer for the past ten years hasn’t exactly been the best paying job, though it has been nice to set my own hours and work from home.
I have loved my time working at the Advertiser and being a Coolum resident and “local” it has not been hard to represent this great community. I have loved getting to know the many community groups and people who make up our region. Coolum has always been a special place to me from first coming to the beach for swims in the late 80s and living in Longbeach Ave as a poor uni student in the 90s – and then to writing about my ‘home’ for the past six years – it really has been great. I hope I have represented what this community stands for well – it wasn’t always easy with some big items on the table, but I think I did my best to be objective and to represent everyone equally.
Whilst this might be “goodbye” from me at the Advertiser I will still be around in Coolum – this is my home and I’m not going anywhere. I hope all the great people I have come to know so well will continue to say hi and will also continue to support the Advertiser.
Coolum really is the best place, and it has been an honour to write and collate the stories which have shaped this community over the past four years.