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标题：NEW PROJECT BEGINS WITH THE NEW YEAR
作者：Peggy Kuhr Managing editor/content
期刊名称：Spokesman Review, The (Spokane)
出版年度：1998
卷号：Dec 28, 1998
出版社：Cowles Publishing Co.

NEW PROJECT BEGINS WITH THE NEW YEAR

Peggy Kuhr Managing editor/content

As this year ends, so does our project called "Creative '98."

We started last January with one goal: to focus every Monday - and a few other days as well - on some of the most creative people in our region.

We were looking for people who are exceptional in the way they live their lives, passionate and energetic. With help from you, our readers, we found many more than we could ever include. We received more than 350 suggestions for profiles. Thank you for all the ideas. Today, Margo Long will be the 93rd person we've written about. In addition to Monday stories, we put together two special weekend packages: In September, we wrote about 11 teachers; in November, 15 people who do arts and crafts. Along the way, the youngest person was Parker Jones, a 7-year-old artist who already had done blueprints of his future home. The oldest was Jim Shaw, 81 at the time we wrote about the miniature farmhouse he and his wife, Vera, built to show the family where he had grown up. We learned from your nominees - and from every story we wrote - that it's not hard to find creativity here at home. It's just hard to appreciate it if people don't know about it. And so, the project ends. But the newspaper's emphasis on creativity continues. We've designed a yearlong project for 1999. Watch for the "Monday Special" starting Jan. 4.