2020: Time to Meet Your Newspaper Staff
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Salado VVillageillage VVoiceoice VOL. XLII, NUMBER 36 THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 254/947-5321 SALADOviLLAGEVOICE.COM 50¢ 2020: Time to meet your newspaper staff The Salado Village Voice eight-page tabloid to a full- newspaper was founded by size broadsheet newspaper the late Dayton Kelly with with four sections. the first edition on February “We have grown with the 17, 1979. community and are a reflec- The newspaper has seen tion of it,” he said. four decades of service to In those years, the news- the Village of Salado. paper has won several For three of those awards from the Texas Com- decades, Tim and Marilyn munity Newspaper Associa- Fleischer have been at the tion, where Salado Village helm of the Salado Village Voice competed against Voice. newspapers from San Anto- Salado Village Voice nio, Dallas, Houston, Austin newspaper has always been a and around the state. family affair, since its found- Tim has won several ing by Dayton Kelly in 1979. TCNA awards: advertis- After Dayton’s death, his ing design (third in state for sons Dennis and Bill oper- large ad format and third in ated the newspaper until the state for advertising series); Fleischer family purchased editorial work (first in state The Salado Village Voice newspaper staff Editor-in-Chief Tim Fleischer, Managing Editor Marilyn Fleischer, Composi- the newspaper in 1988. for editorial writing, third tion Stephanie Hood, Archivist Shelby Kabler and Sports Photographer Royce Wiggin. With the arrival of 2020, the Salado Village Voice is in state for editorial writ- Salado Village Voice newspaper celebrates 41 years of service to the community of Salado. (PHOTO BY KEN REYNOLDS) locally owned and operated. ing, third in state for column “We are vested in Salado writing) and second in state ness decisions and I make asked her friends to con- of his junior year in high as a superintendent for the and invested in Salado,” says for community service (for editorial decisions,” he said. tribute to the Salado Family school. Bell County Youth Fair, publisher and editor-in-chief articles during the incorpo- The Fleischers are voer- Relief Fund, raising more His responsibilities coordinating judges and Tim Fleischer. ration election). ing their third generation of than $1,000. include photography checking in entries. As we begin 2019, Salado In 2019, he and Royce Salado kids. “We are recog- In addition to her work to and reporting, classified She enjoys spending time Village Voice staffers would Wiggin won a Texas Press nizing the last names of the establish the Family Relief advertising, placing and with her granddaughters like to re-introduce them- Association award for Fea- kids of those kids we cov- Fund, Marilyn has also been rotating ads on pages, Roselynn Rogers and Sarah selves to the community ture Photography in 2019. ered in the late 80s and early Art Fair chairperson for directing phone calls in Trujillo. “It is nice to have they serve. Fleischer has been named 90s,” Tim said. “Not very multiple years, and served the office, proof reading, them close enough to spoil. Salado Village Voice to the Texas Association of many newspapermen can three years as a Chamber of typesetting and a myriad of I grew up with my cousins has a staff of four full time School Boards Media Honor say that they are covering Commerce Director. other duties. nearby and it is nice to and one part time, including Roll several times during multi-generations of fami- She served two three-year This year, Royce has see that kind of family publishers Tim and Marilyn his tenure at the helm of the lies in a community.” terms on the Salado Civic been the staff sports connection continuing.” Fleischer. newspaper, including the “A community newspa- Center board of directors. photographer, traveling to Shelby Kabler Other staffers are Stepha- 2019 Honor Roll. Media are per should be both a cheer- She was on the founding games on Tuesdays and Shelby Kabler nie Hood, advertising com- recommended and nomi- leader and a conscience for board of the Salado Commu- Fridays to shoot football, While not a resident of position and Royce Wiggin, nated for the Honor Roll by the town it serves,” he adds. nity Foundation. volleyball, basketball, cross Salado, has Saladoan office assistant and Shelby local school boards for their “We celebrate our successes She has also won awards country, soccer and in the grandparent, Philip Kabler, Kabler, archivist. coverage of schools. whenever we can.” from the TCNA. She has spring, track, baseball and whom she used to visit as a In addition to individual He has also served the “Because we live here, twice been honored. She softball. child. Her mother recently awards by staff members, community in a variety of pay taxes here and serve won second place for Best He is the son of Tim and lives in Salado, while her Salado Village Voice has capacities, including four in our community, we feel Feature Photo and second Marilyn Fleischer, owners siblings attend Salado been honored by the commu- different terms on the board a responsibility to holding place for Community Ser- of the newspaper, and is glad schools. Shelby graduated nity and state. The newspa- of directors of the Salado local officials accountable vice for her work with the to finally get paid for all from Temple High School per was the first-ever Busi- Chamber of Commerce and for their actions,” he adds. Salado Family Relief Fund. the hours he spends at the in 2013; she joined the ness of the Year, awarded in six years on the board of “This is not always an easy The Fleischers helped newspaper office. newspaper in 2018 after January 2003 by the Salado directors of the Institute for thing to do, but we owe it to establish what became He attends Temple an assortment of jobs and Chamber of Commerce. Humanities at Salado. to the taxpayers, businesses known as the Public Arts College while working full recently 2 years at Scott For more than 25 years, He was president of the and residents to do this.” League of Salado and the time at the newspaper. & White as an Insurance Salado Village Voice has Salado Chamber of Com- “The one thing I try not to Salado Ambassador Pro- Stephanie Hood Verification Specialist. published Salado: A Jewel in merce in 1998 and treasurer do is to tell my readers what gram. Stephanie is a hometown Shelby also pursues her the Crown of Texas, a quar- for two years of the Institute to think,” he adds. “This is The Fleischers’ children girl at heart and a third passion as an illustrator terly magazine. for Humanities at Salado. why we have not officially -- Royce Wiggin and Jenny generation graduate who is attending conventions, and The newspaper also Fleischer was Chairman endorsed or opposed a can- Potter, both graduates of raising a fourth generation continues to do so alongside maintains an active website of the Salado Chamber of didate for school board Salado High School -- have of Eagles. her work at the newspaper. at www.saladovillagevoice. Commerce in 2015. or board of aldermen. We grown up in the eye of the “I am a country kid, I was She enjoys creating content com and has electronic edi- He served a term on try to present, in as fair a community. Royce gradu- ‘raised here’ as they say. The and perfecting her trade tions of the newspaper avail- the inaugural board of the manner as I know how, as ated in 2007, beginning history of Salado and Bell as well as dabbling in able for subscribers. Salado Community Founda- much information as pos- in second grade in Salado county is intertwined with programming in her free The newspaper joined the tion. sible for the residents and schools. Jenny began her the history of my family. time. Shelby has been Texas Press Association in He was also on the first voters to make up their own school career as a kinder- With that comes a certain archiving the 40+ years 2010. board that established the minds. This is why we have gartner at Thomas Arnold respect for the old buildings, of Salado Village Voice Tim Fleischer Mentoring program in presented the questions and Elementary School and farms and the old timers newspaper archives. Tim Fleischer has been a Salado. answers forums over a series graduated in 2009. who built the community we newspaperman since he was Tim is a Mason and twice of weeks leading up to local Marilyn welcomed her now call Salado.” 16, working for both week- Past Master of the Salado elections.” ninth grandchild to the “The creek was the lies and daily newspapers. Masonic Lodge #296. He Marilyn Fleischer world in 2015. Beren Crow favorite swimming hole “I got the Devil’s Ink at an served as District Deputy Marilyn got the Devil’s Baggett was born on August when I was a kid and not just early age and haven’t been Grand Master for Masonic Ink in her blood after meet- 26, 2015. for Salado,” she said. “The able to get rid of it,” he said District #48 in 2011-12 and ing Tim 31 years ago. Great-grandparents to tree lined banks were the of his 35 years in the news- is the current Secretary for She is managing editor Nate Potter, they are eagerly perfect place to find a cool paper industry. the Salado Lodge. He is and advertising manager of looking forward to the retreat from the sun. You For 30 years, he has been the Lodge Flag Committee Salado Village Voice.