Yay for summer interns!!

Another production day has passed at The Southern Berks News.

“Production Day” is journalism jargon for the process of putting the paper together-formatting pictures, editing, and laying out the paper.

This week I decided to spotlight Exeter Township yet again.

Our new intern, Ben Dalton, talked to the Concerned Citizens of Exeter Township and a township supervisor about a fund to restore trees cut down for the Exeter Commons project. Citizens are concerned the money won’t be spent on the environment. Township officials are offended that people don’t trust them and are in the process of deciding how the money given to them by the Exeter Commons developers for the trees will be spent.

Ben also did a great job on writing about two church anniversaries. One church celebrated its 215th anniversary and another celebrated its 10th anniversary. Ben snapped a great picture of a child competing in a pie eating contest.

Mark Eddinger is another college student interning at Berks-Mont’s Boyertown office. Mark has also been doing a phenomenal job for us. We are definitely going to miss both of the interns when they go back to school in August.

I’m probably going to be tackling the economy/gas price issue in the near future. If you would like to share how you’re coping with gas prices, send me an e-mail htassmer@berksmontnews.com or call 610-367-6041 ext 225. You can also write a letter to the editor and send it to Heather Tassmer, 124 N. Chestnut Street, P.O. Box 565 Boyertown, Pa. 19512.

I hope everyone has a great and safe holiday for July 4th. I’m headed back to Lancaster County for mine and am looking forward to a cookout.

For some reason, Ben's awesome photo won't load:( so I'm headed out.