EDITORIAL: A thank-you to our partners (10/29/06)

EDITORIAL

A thank-you to our partners

As this anniversary month for The Ukrainian Weekly winds down, it is only fitting to conclude with a thank-you to our partners during the course of this newspaper's 73 years of service to our community.

Without these partners, The Weekly simply would not be, well, The Weekly.

First off, we must acknowledge all those who served as editors through the more than seven decades that The Weekly has been published, beginning with the pioneering Stephen Shumeyko. The list of the paper's top editors is relatively short (Shumeyko's successors were: Helen Perozak Smindak, Walter Prybyla, Walter Dushnyck, R.L. Chomiak, Zenon Snylyk, Ihor Dlaboha and the current editor-in-chief), but the list of assistant editors, associate editors, editorial assistants and student interns is considerably longer. Add to that those who worked as layout people and typesetters, and those who worked in the print shop, and you have quite a list! All of them played an important role in getting this paper into the hands of its readers. And all of them deserve a huge thank-you.

Since The Weekly's inception, free-lance writers and community activists have been major contributors to its content. And that is why we continue to encourage community members to submit articles, photographs and other information to our paper. (One of our in-house advertisements reads "Want to see your name in print?" in an attempt to get readers to send in info from their "corner of the diaspora.") So, we hereby extend thanks to all our past, present and future collaborators. They work hard to share the news from their communities with the community at large, and their dedication benefits us all.

Our subscribers also deserve thanks. Without them, of course, there would be no Weekly. Many of these loyal readers have been with The Weekly for decades. We appreciate their support in the form of paid subscriptions and their input in the form of letters to the editor, e-mails, phone calls, etc. Please keep them coming.

Not to be forgotten are our benefactors - those folks whose names appear in monthly reports on donations made directly to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund, as well as those whose donations via the Ukrainian National Foundation also help us publish this paper. Frankly, we don't know where we'd be without them since subscription prices do not come close to covering the costs of producing this newspaper. Thus far this year they have contributed a total of $20,256 to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. We are genuinely grateful for their largesse.

A word of thanks goes to those institutions, organizations, businesses and individuals who support this paper and its mission with their advertising dollars. They support us and, by extension, our community. And that's why we urge our readers to, in turn, support them. That is indeed the best way to say thanks to this group of our partners.

Finally, there is one major partner without whom there would be no such thing as The Ukrainian Weekly. That is our publisher, the Ukrainian National Association. This fraternal benefit insurance company has played a key role in our community life since its founding in 1894, spearheading and sponsoring countless community projects and endeavors as diverse as the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, the Taras Shevchenko monument in Washington and the Famine-Genocide curriculum for secondary schools. Thus, The Ukrainian Weekly - and our sister publication, the Ukrainian-language newspaper Svoboda - are yet another example of the UNA's fraternal care for its members and the Ukrainian community.

So, as we conclude our 73rd anniversary month, we at The Ukrainian Weekly know that we have excellent partners within our hromada - partners we know we can count on. Thank you all!

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