Remember community news in The Palm Beach Post about the City of Lake Worth?

Over the next few weeks and months will go back and look for community news in The Palm Beach Post about the City of Lake Worth from years past. The Post has changed quite a bit and so has our City; some years back the City's paper of record had the luxury of writing a lot of community news but no longer; mostly due to buyouts that reporters such as Lona O'Connor and Willie Howard took advantage of. That's how our City ended up with an intern last year. . .we'll leave it at that.

Many of you are familiar with the Cottages of Lake Worth. The organization has been incredibly successful and just received a major REAP grant. Lona O'Connor wrote an article about the Cottages group back in November of 2013. How much impact did the article have? It's hard to tell but the publicity certainly helped.

Here is the article Lona O'Connor wrote and following is a short excerpt:

     The city’s cottages, painted in whimsical pastels and draped by a canopy of trees, are not only its gems but also may be a way to draw positive attention to Lake Worth.
     A small group of residents, led by Roger Hendrix, is working on a plan to catalog, publicize and organize tours of the cottages.
     “The idea came to me in 2009 when I moved here from Tennessee,” said Hendrix, who still retains his Volunteer State accent. “I wanted to feature one of our best assets."

Below is a photograph by Gary Coronado that accompanied the article:

Following is the caption that accompanied the photo by Gary Coronado: Janice Vedernjack (left), secretary, Teresa Miller, vice president, and Roger Hendrix, president, are leaders of Cottages of Lake Worth, a group trying to preserve and promote the city’s smaller, informal historic homes near the water. They’re visting one of them — the home of Janice Snearer, a 1931 cottage on North Lakeside Drive in Lake Worth.

Community news can have a long-lasting and positive impact on a city. In the last few years much effort has been put into improving our neighborhoods and rebuilding the City's image, much of that work done by volunteers; most of those efforts you'll never read about in the City's paper of record which claims the "REAL NEWS STARTS HERE".