TWO COMMUNITY RECEPTIONS will be held this week in Sequim and Forks for Terry Ward, new publisher of the Peninsula Daily News, Sequim Gazette, Forks Forum and Olympic Peninsula Homes-Land, and for the publications’ retiring publisher and editor, John Brewer.
The public is invited to both receptions.
The first will be held at the Sequim Gazette, 147 W. Washington St. in downtown Sequim, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The second reception in Forks will be held at the Rainforest Arts Center, 35 N. Forks Ave., from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served.
More than 200 people attended a reception for Ward and Brewer last week at the Elks Naval Lodge in downtown Port Angeles.
Ward, 43, took the helm Sept. 8 and is working with Brewer through Oct. 9.
Brewer, who will turn 68 next month, is retiring after 50 years in journalism.
He has been PDN publisher and editor since January 1998 and in charge since 2013 of the other three publications.
Ward is the former CEO of KPC Media Group Inc., overseeing daily and weekly newspapers and online publications in northeastern Indiana.
Before joining KPC in 2012, he was director of sales and digital media for GateHouse Media’s Community Newspaper Division, working with 142 publications in 11 states.
He and his wife, Quinn, have three young children.
Seeking rental home
The new publisher and his family are looking for a three- or four-bedroom house to rent in the Port Angeles or Sequim area.
To contact Ward, phone 360-452-2345, ext. 1150, or email tward@peninsuladailynews.com.
The PDN, the two weekly newspapers in Sequim and Forks, and Homes-Land have been owned since 2011 by Sound Publishing Inc., the largest publisher of community newspapers in the state and a division of Black Press Group Ltd. of Victoria and Surrey, B.C.
