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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.


    BEN HANSEN
    Executive Editor

    Ben, executive editor of Prescott Newspapers, Inc., is in charge of The Daily Courier, Prescott Valley Tribune, Chino Valley Review, Big Bug News and Tri-City Business News, and the web versions of those publications.

    He began his journalism career in 1963 as an office boy and darkroom technician at his hometown newspaper, The Independent Record, in Helena, Mont.

    He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Montana where he was the outstanding male graduate in journalism in 1968. He earned a master's degree in business administration from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, in August 2000. He also has earned a certificate in firearms engraving from Yavapai College.

    He worked at newspapers in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Utah and Texas before taking his current position in the fall of 1997. He and his wife, Barbara, who works in human resources for WNI, have two grown sons, Joshua, who is a deputy constable in Montgomery County on the northwest edge of Houston, Texas; and Tyler, who is attending the University of Houston and works in the restaurant business.


    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 20 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 17 years of experience with directory publications, starting with sales then sales manager consultant, trainer and now project 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 39 years have a grown son and daughter and two grandsons.


    JOHN K. LINDSEY
    Advertising Director/Executive Sales Trainer

    After teaching high school for five years, John started his newspaper career in 1974 as a salesman at the Arizona Republic. He was promoted to Sales Manager in 1979 and later was appointed Director of Training and Development for The Republic. Lindsey was hired as Marketing Director for Independent Newspapers in 1984 and named Publisher of The Scottsdale Independent in 1986. He formed Lindsey & Associates in 1987 and has taught sales and management workshops for newspapers throughout the United States, Canada and U.S Territories. He has also conducted workshops for 35 State Newspaper Associations, for American Press Institute, and for Newspaper Association of America. In addition to his workshops for newspapers, Lindsey conducts advertising and marketing seminars for retail businesses on behalf of newspapers. Some of Lindsey’s newspapers clients include: The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, the Detroit Free Press, The Hartford Courant, Tucson Newspapers, Inc., and the Houston Chronicle. Over the years, Lindsey has conducted many sales and management workshops for Western News&Info, Inc. and joined the organization as Group Marketing Director in October of 2005.


    DICK LARSON
    Executive Advertising Director

    Dick Larson is a thirty-three-year veteran of the newspaper and newsprint publishing business. Twenty-six of those years have been with Western Newspapers starting from advertising account representative, advancing into management and 20 years as a WNI location publisher. In his current position, Dick works with all WNI properties in areas that include sales training, marketing and product development. He is a graduate of the University of Washington, Seattle and was raised in the Northwest before moving to Arizona. Dick currently serves on the Arizona Newspaper Association board of directors and chairs the marketing committee.


    STEVE FRISTOE
    Circulation Director

    Steve has 32 years of newspaper experience. He began his circulation career in 1977 as a district manager at the Wichita Eagle Beacon in Wichita, Kan. He went on to work at the St. Petersburg Times in Clearwater, Fla., as a zone circulation manager; the Alton Telegraph in Alton, Ill., as a circulation director; Hartman Newspapers in Rosenberg, Texas, as vice president of circulation; and American Circulation Innovations, as national expansion manager.

    Steve moved to Prescott in July 2009 to join PNI. He and his wife, Diana, have two grown children who reside in Florida.


    BARBARA HANSEN
    Personnel Director

    Barbara is the personnel director of Prescott Newspapers, Inc. She has been employed by Western News&Info, Inc. since 1998. She joined the staff of PNI as personnel director in February 1998. She has held positions with companies in accounting and management, including Nintendo of America for six years as a merchandising district manager. Prior to joining PNI, Barbara was program administrator for the Ben Rogers/Lamar University/Beaumont Independent School District “I Have a Dream” Program.

    She was a member of the Oregon and Utah Jaycee Women. She served as the president of the Utah Jaycee Women and as regional vice president for the United States Jaycee Women. A resident of Beaumont, Texas, for 15 years, Barbara was on a number of community organizations’ boards of directors. Since moving to Prescott she has served as the president of the Bradshaw Mountain High School Band Boosters and volunteered as a chaperone for the Prescott High School Music Department. She also served two years on the Prescott Chamber of Commerce Membership committee.

    Barbara is the mother of Tyler and Joshua, who is married to Kristy and father to Rhys. She is married to Ben Hansen, executive editor of Prescott Newspapers, Inc.


    JAMIE NELSON
    Financial Director

    Jamie rejoined Prescott Newspapers in July 2007 as financial director. She started her newspaper career with PNI in 1992 and worked in various departments. In August 2004 she received a promotion to advertising director at the Kingman Daily Miner, a sister publication. Her newspaper experience includes classified advertising, outside sales for the Chino Valley Review and Today's Real Estate, classified manager, and advertising director.

    Jamie graduated high school with honors from Scottsdale Christian Academy in Phoenix. She lives in Prescott Valley with her son, Craig, and daughter, Kaitlyn.


    DARRELL WALLACE
    Business Manager

    Darrell, living in Orange County, Calif., all of his life relocated in August 2007 to Dewey, Ariz. Having attended both Santa Ana College (1984-86) and the University of Phoenix (1995), he progressed to the position of controller in Huntington Beach, Calif., working in payroll processing. Shortly thereafter he worked as a controller in a manufacturing facility that made prison furniture in Santa Ana, Calif. (1999-2001).

    While working in a full-time capacity Darrell maintained self-employment for several years and finally selling a tax preparation business in 2000. From 2002 to 2006, he partnered in and operated a business in real estate and insurance services, stepping out of that position to pursue other ventures.

    Sincerely, Darrell is happy with his move to Arizona and enjoys reading, movies, church, cooking and hiking.


    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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