This March marks the sixth full year that the cambriaca has been published online. What started as an experiment in community-led journalism took flight and became the cambriaca that you see today. After six years what we have accomplished—and when I say we—I mean the over fifty volunteers for organizations in this community who willingly wrote articles about their public events, fund-raisers, achievements, and service to this community—it is time for the cambriaca to end.
I must recognize a few of the individuals who have been with the paper from the beginning–the Cambria Editorial Board members who were willing to take a chance and support the idea of a news source for Cambria even before it took shape: Kitty Connolly, Consuelo Macedo, Tom Cochran, Mark Berry, and Stephen Beck, I bow to you.
I wish to thank writers who were with the cambriaca from the beginning and were steady contributors over the years: Sue Robinson for Cambria Rotary; Iggy Fedoroff for the Famous Jazz Series; Consuelo Macedo for Cambria Historical Society, Native Daughters of the Golden West, and Santa Rosa Parish; Kitty Conolly for Friends of Fiscalini Ranch Preserve; Dawn Elner and Wendy Wright for HART; Karen Argano, Wayne Attoe, and Kathleen McCullom for Greenspace; and Mark Berry who consistently and enthusiastically reported for Cambria Tennis Club and First Baptist Church. Christine Heinrichs came late to the game, but her help and wisdom were a great addition to the cambriaca for which I am grateful.
Thank you to Matthew McElhenie, Fire Chief Burkey, Haley Dodson, and NCAC Chair Christina Galloway for using the cambriaca as means to communicate important information to the community.
Thanks go to Dick Clark for his direct and welcome advice as well as the Cambria Community Council for the early grants received that helped the cambriaca to continue. Thank you to Juli Amodei for her patience as I learned the ropes of online publishing and for doing an excellent job in designing the pages for the cambriaca.
What I have learned from this community in the past six years about the individuals and organizations that make this town buzz with excitement and commitment to building and maintaining Cambria’s identity as being one of the best places to live has been nothing short of amazing. I am better person for getting to know all of you.
I wish to thank the readers and those who made donations monthly quarterly, yearly, or as the spirit moved you. Your donations helped to keep the cambriaca afloat and is no small contribution. All donations large and small were deeply appreciated and never taken for granted.
I hope to see you all soon somewhere in the village!
~Kris Fox
