PFLAG OMAHA - Community News Archive: February 2004

Wednesday, March 3rd
6:00 - 9:00 pm

Nebraska AIDS Project
139 S. 40th St.

RSVP by Monday, March 1st
Contact: Laura Green
552.9260 x139
LauraG@nap.org

HIV 101 Basic Training is for individuals wanting to become NAP volunteers or anyone interested in learning the basic facts about HIV/AIDS. There is no charge for this training.

After five years of publishing Omaha PFLAG’s monthly newsletter,
Penny Mannel will step down this summer when she plans to move to Colorado.

Penny has done a wonderful job. She has been a conscientious and
dedicated newsletter publisher. She is committed to the idea that our PFLAG
chapter needs to stay in touch with its members through a newsletter.

Publishing the newsletter “makes me feel like I’m doing my part,”
Penny said in a newsletter profile article last year. She works as a
real estate agent and is the mother of two daughters and a gay son.

Now we need someone to take over her volunteer task. Penny wants to
leave the newsletter in good hands and will work with her replacement for
a couple of months.

The job, Penny says, takes five or six hours a month. It requires some
computer skills. Penny uses MicroSoft Publisher desktop publishing
program. There are other programs that also would work such as
QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker or InDesign, Corel Ventura and
Appleworks/Clarisworks.

As a retired newspaper reporter and current Omaha PFLAG president, I do
much of the writing. Other locally written articles occasionally are
submitted for publication. I recommend which national articles we reprint
in the newsletter. Most of those articles come from the Fenceberry
electronic news service.

Thus the newsletter publishing task, as presently constituted, involves
making a final selection of articles for publication, writing short
headlines and positioning and fitting articles into page layouts.

If you think you might be interested, please call me at 333-7064 to
discuss this further.

Bob Dorr, Omaha PFLAG president