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The Free Press has served Elkford, Fernie, Sparwood and the South Country since 1898 and continues to be the Elk Valley's main source of community news. The Free Press won gold in the 2010 BC and Yukon Community Newspaper Association awards for general excellence. The paper is published every Thursday and focuses on happenings in the Elk Valley or involving Elk Valley residents. The Free Press started in 1898 when newspaperman G.G. Henderson shipped a printing plant across Canada to the boomtown of Fernie. With no station or freight depot, his effects and the press were unceremoniously dumped in two feet of snow. Over the years the editorial team has covered fires, floods and documented the diversification of the area's economy and community from a mining and forestry valley to a world-renowned tourism hub with a strong resource base.

Your Community News Team

Dave Hamilton Publisher
Dave Hamilton
250-278-6877
     
Angela Treharne Editor
Angela Treharne
250-423-4666 		Angela Treharne has been editor at The Free Press for a year following three years as a reporter. Originally from England, she trained as a journalist and worked for two years at a weekly newspaper in London before coming to Fernie to pursue her career somewhere where the air is a little cleaner.
     
Office Manager
Jacquie Zutter
250-423-4666
     
Andrea Horton Advertising
Andrea Horton
250 423 4666
     
Administration
Val Purdy
250 423 4666
     
Creative
Kaitlyn Haarstad 		Kaitlyn has worked at the paper since July, 2011. She has lived in The Elk Valley her whole life. From grade 6-10 she worked on the Jaffray yearbook, and she went to the University of Lethbridge after graduating from Fernie Secondary, and she was a New Media Art Student there.
     
Jenna Jensen Black Rock News
Jenna Jensen
250-425-4475
     
Production Manager
Bonny McLardy
250-423-4666