Senior Beacon Newspaper, February 2020

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Senior Beacon SB

5th

Eldest & Locally-Owned Senior Newspaper in Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 2020

Vol. 39:1

Established February 1982

457 Consecutive Months!

Committed To Southern Colorado Seniors For 39 Years And Counting!!

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HELLO EVERYONE AND welcome to the decade of the 2020s. You may remember me from the decades of the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s in which I wrote columns on a monthly basis for my pet project, Senior Beacon, for almost 35 years.

THOSE COLUMNS were personal sometimes, political almost always, funny occasionally and mostly controversial all the time. I hung up my ideas about three years ago but was asked to reminisce since Senior Beacon has now wandered into its 5th decade far behind myself JAMES R. GRASSO Former Chief Cook who has breathed & Bottle Washer air in 9 different decades and am a mere pup at 71 this month. To all who remember me fondly I thank thee for your continued support. For you who wished I was gone and never to be seen again I'll say this: I'm a lot more mellow since I stopped reading some 600 articles a month on the pop culture and our "esteemed?" leaders. So the memory lane trip begins: In 1982 I was approached

to take part in an experiment called "targeting markets." The particular market was Senior Citizens. I was 33 years old when approached and had a background in advertising sales and had a BA in Literature and thought I'd write 3 or 4 novels and see where I'd go from there. Little did I know that you can't eat typed words for sustenance so advertising sales it was. My first newspaper was 12 pages and we had perhaps 16 ads mostly very inexpensive and small. It took me a year to really get the grasp of what I had and when I figured out that I could make a living at this I never looked back. Besides the monthly paper I joined various boards concerning usually Seniors' issues. I developed a yearly Long Term Care Booklet that was very successful for more than 25 years. Senior Beacon and

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