Yes, this is the space where you would normally find an editorial – insightful, welcoming, witty – something to set the tone for the issue you are about to read. And yet, clearly, that’s not what you are finding today.

After several years of hard work, our Editor-in-Chief Dawne Brown has decided to hang up her pencil. Dawn gave a huge amount to the Broadside during her time as its editor. She changed its look, added greatly to its polish and range, and has left it more varied, informative and “professional” than she found it. She has without question made her mark on the publication. The Board of the SJFAC and the volunteers on the newsletter committee thank her most sincerely for all her efforts. We wish her all good things as she seeks to put her many talents to other, equally worthy, uses.

And so here we are, the Broadside volunteers, coming cap-in-hand to you, our readers. We need you. Or some of you. At least ONE of you. We need you to take up Dawn’s pencil. Do you genuinely care about the traditional arts in Newfoundland? Do you have a sharp eye and a love of language? Do you know a dangling participle if it hits you in the face? Or, more to the point, do you hit back when a dangling participle hits you in the face? Have you got a keen (some of us hope, quirky) sense of humour? Are you patient? Kind? Organized? Do you make cookies? (Okay, forget the cookies. I’ve that covered already.) Do you secretly want to correct signs where apostrophes have been used incorrectly? Or would you rather just go ahead and flay the miscreants who committed such sacrilege? Have you always been meaning to volunteer for the Folk Arts Council??

You may be the editor we are looking for. Yes, indeedy. You may be just the person we need.

When she is not baking cookies, Marnie Parsons is desperately seeking someone to edit the Broadside. Please, give the woman some relief. Offer to edit the newsletter.

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