New Echo editor starts September 9
The Creemore Echo is excited to welcome Kristi Green as the newspaper’s new editor on Monday, September 9.
Kristi has spent the past seven years in the care of the nurses at the College of Nurses of Ontario, working as managing editor of The Standard, the College’s trade magazine, as well as writing and editing other projects intended to help nurses practise safely. Previous to that, she worked in the research department at Maclean’s magazine, a position for which she had to call Shania Twain’s high school math teacher to find out what she ate at the reunion (salad) and Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s friends to hear their favourite memories of him after he died. During Kristi’s time at Maclean’s, the Toronto artist Mendelson Joe painted her portrait, entitled “Fact-Checker,” for his Working Women series.
A Toronto native, Kristi and her freelance photographer husband Andrej Kopac have been looking for a change of lifestyle and a move out of the city. When she was made aware of the job opportunity at the Echo by a friend who lives in the area, she jumped at it. “My family (Andrej, six-year-old son Kaspar, three-year-old daughter Annik plus a mostly husky hybrid named Moe) and I are so excited to move to Creemore, be surrounded by its beauty and learn what lies beneath the ‘big heart’ for which it’s named,” said Kristi in an email exchange this week.
Kristi Green with her daughter Annik.
“I’m from the city but I enjoy local news the best,” she said of her interest in the Echo. “What makes communities click? How does a newspaper serve not only to capture the spirit of a place, but also to nurture it?”
Kristi enjoys making things not only with words, but also with her hands. This has led to some “modest” illustration publications and art exhibits. But more than anything, she’s a word person – as a child, she says, one of her favourite toys was a rainbow-coloured set of alphabet letters. That early fascination has served her well, as she’s worked as an editor, writer, researcher, proof-reader and translator. Now, she’s looking forward to telling Creemore’s stories.
“I’m a curious type who enjoys stories of all kinds,” she says, “from newspapers, books, paintings, songs, communities and the mouths of the people who live in them.”
The Echo team is really excited to welcome Kristi aboard. We spent a long time looking for the right person to fill the role of editor, and we believe we’ve found her.
Kristi’s first day on the job will be Monday, September 9, and we encourage everyone to stop in to the office and say hello. For a more formal introduction, visit the Creemore Echo office between 1 and 4 pm on Friday, September 13. Enjoy some cake and coffee, say goodbye to outgoing editor Brad Holden and welcome Kristi Green to the community!
