Karst and Kozleski collaborated on this issue of Wider Horizons, and Karst will fully take over the winter issue. Before Kozleski left, she and Karst sat down to answer some rapid-fire questions about their approach to writing, work and Wider Horizons. Here’s what they had to say:
MOST INTERESTING PRESS PASS HANGING ON YOUR BULLETIN BOARD? TINA: 2012 World Women’s Curling Championship. LISA: White House Press Pass from Bill Clinton’s visit to
Pennsylvania in 1999.
FAVOURITE WH MAGAZINE COVER?
TINA: First week of September 2003 to start my
MOST CHERISHED ITEM ON YOUR DESK?
FIRST DAY YOU STEPPED ON LETHBRIDGE POLYTECHNIC’S CAMPUS?
TINA: I love Spring 2023 – Feast of Eden. LISA: The polar bear cover! (Winter 2016)
Communication Arts diploma. LISA: First week of September 2011 to interview for this job.
TINA: A framed photo of my kids. LISA: A little bronze statue of a newsboy my mother-in-law
TINA: I have to audio record interviews –
FIRST BOOK YOU REMEMBER READING AND LOVING?
HANDWRITTEN NOTES OR DICTATION?
my handwriting is terrible! LISA: I used to be hardwired for handwritten, but now am a dictation devotee! FAVOURITE MEMORY OF CAMPUS LIFE? TINA: Meeting my future husband and making life-long
friends. Tequila Tuesdays at The Barn were pretty fun, too! LISA: There are so many, but I still laugh about how when I scored a hat trick in lunchtime floor hockey and told my dad, he said it was the proudest I had ever made him. THE STORY YOU REPORTED THAT YOU WON’T EVER FORGET?
TINA: The CF-18 jet crash at the Lethbridge Airport
during an airshow practice run in July 2010.
LISA: I’ve got two: the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville on
Sept. 11, 2001, and the canonization of American saint Katharine Drexel in Rome in 2000.
IF YOU WERE FORCED TO PICK YOUR FAVOURITE STORY WRITTEN FOR WIDER HORIZONS, WHAT WOULD IT BE? TINA: I think Journey of the Iinii in the fall 2023 issue,
about how the polytechnic’s Winter Count Robe came to be, is the story that I’m most proud of. LISA: The one I probably loved most was the story of soon-to-be-grads John Manyok and Samuel Mathon, two Lost Boys of the Sudan, in the spring 2016 issue.
gave me, called “Extra! Extra!”
TINA: Anne of Green Gables. LISA: Anne of Green Gables. SOMETHING YOU’RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING UP/CAN NEVER REMEMBER? TINA: Proper spellings of enrol, enrolled, enrolment. LISA: Various Canadian Press style rules.
FAVOURITE WAY TO DE-STRESS AFTER DEADLINES? TINA: Becoming a puddle on my couch while watching
something mindless on TV.
LISA: Going out to a celebratory lunch with the amazing
designer of Wider Horizons, Dana Woodward. WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO MOST IN YOUR NEW ROLE?
TINA: Continuing to share stories about the awesome alumni, students and employees of Lethbridge Polytechnic while learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing. LISA: Getting to tell the stories of the amazing alumni who learned and grew in the place that shaped me so much, and carrying the lessons learned and connections created here with me.
Have a story idea for a future issue, or a great grad you want to celebrate? Tina would love to hear from you. Email her at WHMagazine@lethpolytech.ca.
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