My name is Corey Atkinson and the first thing I wanted to do when I moved here was get lost.
Longtime residents here will scoff. "How can one get lost in a community of 11,000 people?"
It's possible. I went to three different grocery stores trying to find a couple of specific items in each, not only trying to find the things, but also trying to find a way to get from Point A to Point B. With the construction on King Street, you can see the issue that I faced right away. In the coming weeks, I'm going to go on hours-long walks and not know where I am. It's going to be tremendous.
But it's not just the streets and stores in which I wanted to get lost. I want to get lost in work. And this is where you come in.
I want to get lost in you Estevan. I want to hear about your judoka, your racers, your hockey players and your lacrosse player. I want to watch your baseball, be on the sidelines for your football and be there when your golfers come in from shooting six under par.
In short, I want to be your conduit to telling your stories to the people of the area. Make me busy by constantly contacting me about your stuff.
I have extensive experience writing and editing sports and beyond over the past 20 years, from the early days in the Carillon at the University of Regina to the present time of working in a layout department and stressing over clever headlines for wire feature stories.
If your'e wondering, "Everybody Yurts" for a feature on vacationing in yurts is my personal favourite. You can see why we had to be laid off and had our positions move to the east coast.
It's been at times a long strange trip from the U of R to Yorkton to Moose Jaw to Fort McMurray back to Moose Jaw and back to basics here in Estevan. Like full-time steady employment in the oil patch, newspaper jobs are like gold. An actual newspaper job in an actual newspaper? When I started in university, I thought newspapers would be around forever. In 2017, the opportunity seems rarer and rarer.
So let's keep me busy and help me stay lost in work.
