Puget Sound Parent: editor's note nov 2005

Bringing Puget Sound Parent Home
Editor's Note

We’re excited to announce that beginning with this issue, Puget Sound Parent is again a homegrown, home-owned magazine.

Previous owner United Parenting Publications, a division of Trader Publishing Company, has decided to leave the parenting market in the Puget Sound area. Puget Sound Parent and its sister publication, Seattle’s Child, are now owned by Northwest Parent Media and continue to be published locally by Linda Watson. All of the same staff, with deep local roots, continue to bring you parenting news, events and advertising each month.

Publisher Linda Watson grew up in Spain, in Peru and in various places around the United States, coming to the Puget Sound area 10 years ago. She lives in a charming old house on Bainbridge Island. Publishing Puget Sound Parent and Seattle’s Child allows her to combine her respect and support for parents with her decades of experience with small businesses and with educational companies, including The Learning Company.

Puget Sound Parent advertising representative Robin Lucas lives in Edgewood with her husband, Mark, and daughters Madison, 8, and Morgan, 4.
Photo by Brandy Stone.

Web design by Intentional Publishing & Design

Advertising representative Robin Lucas has been the heart of Puget Sound Parent for the past six years, combining advertising sales with community outreach. Her family has lived and owned businesses in the south Sound area for three generations. She grew up in the Pierce County area and attended Bethel High School and Pacific Lutheran University. She and her husband, Mark, live in Edgewood with daughters, Madison, 8, and Morgan, 4. She is deeply involved in the community, serving as a board member of Success by Six, a project of United Way of Thurston County, and as judge for the Daffodil Festival.

Editor Wenda Reed grew up in south Seattle and earned a journalism degree from Washington State University. She began writing for Puget Sound Parent and Seattle’s Child in 1996 before becoming associate editor and then editor. She and her husband, Larry, live in Bothell and have a son Nathan, 23, and a daughter Colleen, 20. She has a deep love for children, getting her “little kid fix” by teaching a Sunday School class of 4- and 5-year-olds, and is passionate about helping parents do the best job they can.

June Craft, calendar and events editor, a native of Atlanta, moved to the Tacoma area in 1982 to work for the Fort Lewis public affairs office, eventually becoming editor of the post newspaper. It was there that she met her husband, Alan, a professional photographer and frequent contributor to Puget Sound Parent. She began working for Puget Sound Parent in 1996. After spending two years as editor of the magazine, she left and began home schooling her son, David. In 2000, she accepted the position of calendar editor, and she and her husband still home school David, now 13.

Advertising and operations manager Diana Lightner was born and raised in Western Washington, graduating from the Northwest School and the University of Washington and working for many years in the local advertising industry. She and her husband, Rick Brady, live in Seattle with their son Cash, born Aug. 6, 2005.

Carol Stripling, director of community relations, was born and raised in Seattle and is a communications graduate of the University of Washington. She had a long career in broadcasting, doing promotions and marketing for some of Western Washington’s top radio stations, before doing freelance public relations work with major Northwest companies and nonprofit organizations and serving as director of marketing for The Children’s Museum in Seattle. She started writing articles for Puget Sound Parent and Seattle’s Child in 2003 and currently organizes and markets events, including November’s Education & Enrichment Fair and the annual Tools for Parents lecture series.

Designer Garit Reuble grew up in Sumas, Washington, and studied fine art and graphic design at the Northwest College of Art in Poulsbo, graduating in 1999. He has been a designer with Puget Sound Parent and Seattle’s Child since 2000. He and his partner Brian live in Seattle with his two cats Cage and Tag.

We all look forward to bringing you the most comprehensive listing of local events and the best practical parenting information for the years to come.

Thank you for reading Puget Sound Parent.