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KIT ATWELL
Publisher/CEO of Prescott Newspapers, Inc.
Executive Vice President, Western News&Info, Inc.

Kit has been in the newspaper business and with Western News & Info (parent company of Prescott Newspapers) for more than 30 years. Coming from employment with the government in Washington, D.C., she started with Western in 1972 in the Production Department of the Yuma Daily Sun, Yuma, Ariz., where she worked until being promoted to publisher of Western's Bullhead City, Ariz., newspaper - the Mohave Valley News - in 1987. In 1988, she was named publisher of the Kingman Daily Miner in Kingman, Ariz., and in 1999 publisher/CEO of Prescott Newspapers - publisher of The Daily Courier, Prescott Valley Tribune, Chino Valley Review, Big Bug News, Tri-City Business News, and Western's phone book company, Community Directory. She was promoted to Western News&Info, Inc., (WNI) executive vice president in June 2002.

Community Affairs and Organizations:

  • Former vice president of Arizona Newspapers Association
  • Past director Kingman Chamber of Commerce
  • Past director Kingman Town Hall Committee
  • Past chairman Kingman Leadership Committee
  • Past member Soroptimist International, Kingman
  • Past board member Mohave Education Festival committee
  • 1999-current - Frontier Rotary, Prescott
  • 2004 - President of the Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce
  • 2000-2003 - Prescott Valley Chamber Board Director
  • 2001-2002 - Served as a Prescott Downtown Partnership board member
  • 2001-2002 - Prescott Chamber Economic Development Committee member
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    KELLY SOLDWEDEL
    Associate Vice President of Western News&Info, Inc.
    Vice President of Desert Foothills Newspapers, Inc.
    General Manager of Prescott Newspapers, Inc.

    Kelly was born and raised in Yuma, Ariz., then moved on to Tucson for high school and college. After attending Catalina Foothills High School, she went to the University of Arizona and graduated in May 2003 with a bachelor's degree in fine arts with an emphasis in photography. Kelly then moved to Orange County, Calif., and used her photographic skills during an internship at the Bower's Museum in Santa Ana. While working there, she had some photographs published in the Los Angeles Times.

    Kelly came onboard with the family business to become the fourth generation to work for newspapers throughout the state of Arizona. She moved to Prescott and began working for Prescott Newspapers, Inc., in the Editorial Department. After four years of working with PNI, Kelly has experienced many facets of the operational side of the newspaper business and has now become Associate Vice President of Western News&Info, Inc., and General Manager of Prescott Newspapers, Inc. She also is Vice President of Desert Foothills Newspapers, Inc.


    HEIDI DAHMS FOSTER
    Editorial Manager, Non-Daily Publications

    Heidi began her career at Western News&Info, Inc., in January 1986 as a part-time employee in the Human Resources Department for The Daily Courier. She worked in the composing room and the circulation and accounting departments before taking on a reporter/photographer position at the Prescott Valley Tribune in 1989.

    She worked for 15 years at the Tribune, most of them as Managing Editor. She also is the founding editor of the Big Bug News, which covers the Big Bug Mesa area of Yavapai County. Under her leadership, both papers and their staffs earned numerous awards for community journalism, community service, writing and photography. Heidi also is an award-winning writer and photographer, at both the company and state level.

    After marrying husband Randy in 2003, she worked part-time as a writer/photographer for Western News&Info publications. She returned to Prescott Newspapers, Inc., as Editorial Manager of Non-Daily Publications in July 2007, overseeing the Prescott Valley Tribune, Chino Valley Review and Big Bug News.

    In her spare time she enjoys bird watching with her husband, photography, reading, gardening and training/showing the couple’s Australian Shepherds.


    SALINA SIALEGA
    Managing Editor of the Chino Valley Review

    Salina Sialega has been the managing editor of the Chino Valley Review since May 2000. She has worked for Prescott Newspapers, Inc., since 1997 in various capacities: first, as a clerk in the classifieds department, then as a reporter for The Daily Courier. She took a brief leave from working as managing editor of the Review in 2004 and returned to the position in May 2005.

    Sialega earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1980 and did both reporting and editing for the college newspaper, The Lumberjack. After graduation, she worked on the editorial staffs of several monthly magazines in Southern California.

    The Prescott chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart honored Sialega with a Purple Heart citation for her coverage of veterans issues, and she has earned other writing awards from the newspaper's parent company, Western News&Info, Inc., and the Arizona Newspapers Association.

    Sialega is proud to be the third generation of her family born in Arizona. She grew up in Globe and her parents moved to Prescott Valley in 1979. She has lived in the Prescott area since 1996 with her husband and four daughters.


    JOHN GRIMALDI
    Community Directory/PNI Marketing Director

    John has more than 25 years of newspaper experience. He started in the mail room and held such titles as district circulation manager, sales supervisor, circulation director, classified major accounts representative and marketing director with Newhouse Newspapers, Gannett, and the Times publications in Beaverton, Ore. He also has 20 years of experience with directory publications, starting with sales then sales manager consultant, trainer and now project director. At PNI, he also has worked as executive advertising director and marketing director.

    He has been a member of the international circulation managers association, Rotarian and a past member of the Elks Lodge.

    He and his wife of 41 years have a grown son and daughter and two grandsons.


    DICK LARSON
    Advertising Director

    Dick Larson is a 35-year veteran of the newspaper and newsprint publishing business. Twenty-seven of those years have been with Western News&Info, Inc., starting from advertising account representative, advancing into management and serving for 20 years as a WNI location publisher. Since 2006, Dick served as WNI advertising and promotions director. He worked with all WNI properties in areas that include sales training, marketing and product development and Internet advertising development. In 2009, he joined Prescott Newspapers, Inc., as advertising director overseeing all advertising operations for PNI. In 2009 he was president of the Arizona Newspaper Association. He continues to serve as past president on the Arizona Newspaper Association board of directors.

    Dick is a graduate of the University of Washington, Seattle, and was raised in the Northwest before moving to Arizona.


    TOM REGNIER
    Advertising Manager

     

     

     

     


    SEAN DEWITT
    Circulation Director

    Sean, circulation director for Prescott Newspapers, Inc., started working at the PNI print facility in the mail room in June 1997. In December of 1997 he transferred to the WNI New Media Department and worked as a computer hardware and software technician. In February 1998 he joined the composing and pagination department of PNI, and in October 1998 he moved to Kingman, Ariz., to begin working at the Kingman Daily Miner as a graphics designer and local computer tech. During this time there he also worked at the Central Printing Facility, servicing all computers and computer-to-plate equipment.

    In October 1999 he moved back to Prescott as a full-time software technician for New Media, providing technical service and training for all WNI locations. In November 2001 he became the Graphics Department supervisor for PNI, and in August 2004 he joined the Advertising Department as a sales representative for the Sun Shopper and PNI web advertising.

    In May 2005 he moved to Flagstaff to join the team at Northern Arizona Newspapers; while there he received a promotion to Operations Associate and worked at the Williams-Grand Canyon News, Navajo-Hopi Observer and the Winslow Mail and Reminder. As Operations Associate he managed the graphics, classified and circulation departments of the three locations. He also oversaw the Advertising Department of the Winslow Mail and Reminder.

    In January 2007 he returned to PNI to work as a PrePress Technician.


    JESSICA WALTHER
    Collections Manager

     

     

     

     


    JEANETTE YORK
    Personnel Manager

    Jeannette began her career at Prescott Newspapers, Inc., in 2005 as the human resources generalist and was promoted to personnel manager in 2010.

    She brings 13 years of experience in the field of human resources. Prior to PNI she was the human resources coordinator at the corporate location of The Dial Corporation in Scottsdale, where she served on the Professional Women's Forum and Cultural Contract Committee, and from Cable Systems International in Phoenix where she was the human resources administrator. Jeannette's career has focused on employee recruitment, retention, benefits, applicant tracking, I-9 and affirmative action compliance. She has a bachelor's degree is business management and a professional certificate in human resource management from the University of Phoenix. She is a member of the Society of Human Resources Management.


    JAMIE NELSON
    Business Manager

    Jamie has worked for Prescott Newspapers, Inc., since August 1992. Her newspaper experience includes classified advertising, outside sales for Today's Real Estate and the Chino Valley Review and classified manager. In August 2004 she received a promotion to advertising director at the Kingman Daily Miner, a sister publication, where she spent three years. Jamie transferred back to PNI in July 2007 as the financial director.

    Jamie was married in April 2009 to Jeff Nelson who works in sales for an insulation company. Jamie has a daughter, Kaitlyn; a grown son, Craig; and a granddaughter, Aubree. Her husband has a son, Colton. They live in Chino Valley with two of their children where they enjoy spending time outdoors, at the river, off-roading and having granddaughter Aubree at their house anytime they can.


    ABOUT THE CHINO VALLEY REVIEW

    Chino Valley is a community in the scenic high plains of northern Arizona, just under a mile high in elevation, surrounded by hills and mountains in most directions. The ancient Anasazi and Hohokam cultures originally inhabited this area and later the Native American tribes of the Yavapai and Apache. The white man first viewed the area when the Spanish conquistador explorers and their Catholic missionaries visited this part of North America in the 1500s.

    First settled in the 1870s after the Prescott mining area was established during the late 1860s, it was first known as Jerome Junction when a small settlement arose where mining rail lines met just east of the present town. By the turn of the century, many homestead families had located here. By the 1920s at least two family owned dairies served Prescott operating from Chino Valley, and much of the area was home to the Hassayampa alfalfa farms which installed many of the areas early roads.

    Today, Chino Valley is an incorporated town and home to more than 12,300 residents within the town limits, and thousands more in the surrounding outskirts. Although growing at an ever-increasing rate, residents consider Chino Valley's pristine environment and rural lifestyle the community's most important resource.


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