THE WEEK'S NEWS IN BRIEF - Freedom Intranet

Special edition continued...
anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center.
Two Freedom associates, Mary Beth Wenger and
Ken Screven, both Channel 6 News reporters,
covered stories close to the heart of those in these
communities.
While Wenger reported on Port Authority of New
York employee, Pablo Ortiz, who died when the
north tower collapsed on him as he ushered
dozens of others to safety, Screven was on-site at
the state Capitol, reporting on the 43 who also died
that day at the same place.
Neighboring associates at WLNE in Providence,
R.I., paid a special tribute by sending lead anchor
Wendy Cicchetti and photographer Tara Baxter to
cover the memorial at ground zero. This piece ran
throughout the day on Sept. 11 and featured Rhode
Island firefighters and police officers who traveled
to New York to honor their fallen brothers and
sisters.
In addition WLNE’s ABC6 Noon Newscast and 6
p.m. News aired an interview with the family of
Lynn Goodchild, who was on United Flight 175.
Goodchild’s mother said during the interview, “You
wake up in the morning and she's the first thing you
think about, and the last thing you think about at
night and everything in between and some days
are worse than others.”
The Monitor honors the day
with special advertising
Freedom associates in the
marketing department at The
Monitor in McAllen, Texas,
designed and published a
special advertisement to
remember 9-11.
The advertisement ran in the
newspaper last Thursday.
The Sun reports on how its community is coping
two years after the tragedy
The Sun in Yuma, Ariz., ran a story to gauge how
locals have coped two years after the tragic event.
The front page headline read “9.11.01 Two years
later America still feels the pain." One local, Maggie
Gilchrist, a senior travel consultant for Tour West
Travel, said in the article, “I think people are more
logical than we give them credit for and have more
faith than we give them credit for. Most people have
just said they are not going to live their lives being
afraid. They just have gone on with their day-to-day
living."
The Sun also held a blood drive in the building on
September 10.
Freedom New Mexico newspapers covered
formal 9-11 remembrances
At Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) senior
Hiram Perry said 9-11 inspired him to seek a career
in counseling.
“The day of 9-11 changed my life,” said Perry,
sporting blue jeans and a cowboy hat. “I just shed a
tear and realized what it is to be a patriot. I’m a little
old to join the (military) but I sure would have gone if
they would have taken me.”
Freedom New
Mexico newspapers
covered formal 9-
11 remembrances
at Eastern New
Mexico University
and Cannon Air
Force Base.
Community info page on emergency
preparedness at the Appeal-Democrat
The Appeal-Democrat , in Marysville, Calif., put
together an emergency preparedness page for
readers listing emergency numbers and how to
contact agencies that offer assistance in the case of
a disaster. The newspaper also featured "Reader
Remembers" on the opinion page.