November 2014
November, 2014
Conversations
The Flu Vaccine, Get it or don’t get it?
SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION
If you were born in the early 1950s, you were born into a world where approximately 50 million people suffered from… Read
City
UNTAMED FEAST – The business of wild mushrooms
GET YOUR WILD ON
Untamed Feast at a Glance Who they are: Michelle & Eric Whitehead Where they are: St. Albert, AB What they do: Harvest,… Read
Living
LET IT SNOW
Grab winter by the toque and make some memories
We know. Winter in Alberta is a long, long season. But, hey, it’s also all ours! If the thought of that makes… Read
Hot Chocolate
5 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR HOT CHOCOLATE HAPPIER
Winter nights were made for sipping. And only one thing cozies up a cold night faster than a mug of hot chocolate:… Read
FROM THE EDITOR
Welcome to T8N magazine. We’ve been waiting for you!
My name is Rob Lightfoot, and I’m the publisher and president of T8N Publishing Inc. Having lived in St. Albert all but six years of my life, I feel like our T8N postal code is a part of my identity. My wife moved to St.Albert, and we are thrilled to raise our two children here too. It says home to me. And a home is exactly what I hope this magazine will be. A home for ideas, a home for conversations, a place to invite people in—a place for you.
Asking questions, examining pop-culture and contributing to the community are things I’ve always done. It runs in the family. As a kid, I remember my parents volunteering in community organizations and sitting on boards and how my sister (now our copyeditor) actively challenged the status quo on social issues. There was also the time I (much less gallantly) thought it’d be funny to send the Superintendent of the Protestant School Board a letter suggesting they name the next school after me, as I was available to do press.
Since then, my career has included memorable jobs, such as starving as a young sales rep for the U of A’s radio station, working for the record company (yes, record company) that released Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise, planning tours as a booking agent for over 80 US touring acts (many of whom slept on my couch) and, eventually, becoming the sales manager and, subsequently, publisher for Vue Weekly and PostVue Publishing.
Most recently, and significantly, I left my job of nearly 16 years to take on the challenge of delivering you the publication you hold in your hands.
T8N magazine is the result of countless hours of hard work by our creative team. I wish to thank each of them, Carmen Hrynchuk, Brenda Lakeman and Bruce Keith for their tireless energy, amazing ideas and enthusiasm from day one. We are so proud of the results.
On behalf of us all, I sincerely hope you will enjoy what we’ve made and that it will feel like…home.
Welcome to T8N magazine!
Rob Lightfoot
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