Monday's Internet Edition, October 06, 2008.
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| THE Copperas Cove Leader--Press will sport a new look when the paper goes semi-weekly in July. |
The Leader-Press will also introduce a redesigned newspaper.
“We had planned on going back to a semi-weekly newspaper in April, but the war in Iraq forced us to push things back,” said Publisher Larry Hauk. The July 1 start date, ironically, is exactly 10 years to the day when the Leader-Press went from twice a week to weekly.
The newspaper will be published Tuesday and Friday morning and will be home-delivered in the early afternoon. “The plan is to have the paper waiting there when folks get home from work,” said Hauk.
“We have been asked numerous times if we were going to return to publishing twice a week,” he continued. “This will allow us to keep the news and sports fresh for our readers and allow our advertisers the freedom to reach their customers within a day or two of planned sales or special events.”
As for the makeover, the Leader-Press staff was also looking for a way to promote Copperas Cove in the banner of the newspaper, and finally settled upon a new design that did just that. “Our previous flags had the words Copperas Cove set off to one side or below Leader-Press,” said Hauk. “This gives us the ability to put Copperas Cove first above all else.”
In addition, the Leader-Press has made several staff changes in recent months, including naming Associate Publisher Joyce Hauk advertising director.
Joyce Hauk replaces Dennis James, who accepted a position with the Killeen Daily Herald.
Hauk has worked in most every form of media, from her days in the communications department at Laredo Junior College working with Judith Zaffirini, now a state senator, to radio and TV.
While at KTEM-KPLE radio in Temple, Hauk’s newscast was twice named best in the state of Texas by the Associated Press. The first was in 1992 for the station’s coverage of the Luby’s massacre in Killeen in which 22 people were shot and killed by George Hennard, who later turned the gun on himself. The second was in 1994 for the coverage of the death of school crossing guard who has struck by a car and killed on duty.
Hauk has been involved in community newspapers since 1997 when she and Larry Hauk moved to Mason to run the Mason County News. The couple moved to Cameron later that year to run the Cameron Herald, and moved to Copperas Cove in 2001.
The Leader-Press has also re-hired Lorna Mahan as account executive. Lorna Terry was an account executive with the Leader-Press from 1982 to 1987. “I’m excited to be back,” said Mahan, who left the Copperas Cove area when her husband was stationed in Germany. “It’s good to see so many of the businesses that were around 20 years ago still thriving in this community.”
Mahan and her son, Sinjin Andrukates, live in Kempner.
Charles Clark is the Leader-Press’ new advertising composition director, coming over from the Harker Heights Evening Star. Clark moved to the area when his wife Christina was stationed at Fort Hood. The couple has a seven-month-old son, Charles Clark III.
Finally, Lana Kasten is the new business manager for the Leader-Press. Kasten previously was administrative assistant at the Copperas Cove Fire Department. She and husband Tad, who just completed a 21-year Army career, moved to Cove from Fort Campbell in Kentucky. The pair has two children, Jennifer Bovee, 17, and Josh Kasten, 11.