In Our Valley...

People often ask me if I ever dreamed this magazine would get so big. Well, yes. I dreamed and hoped and prayed it would right from the very beginning. There have always been so many things I have wanted to tell you about. Over the past nine years we have expanded that coverage to go from Morgan Hill to Salinas and Los Banos to the coast. Out & About has become both the local and the tourist resource guide. You can find us everywhere, chambers of commerce, visitors bureaus, doctors offices, restaurants, car washes, movie theatres, wineries, hotels and many more locations. People traveling through pick it up and later let us know how much fun they had while visiting or how terrific dinner was at that little restaurant they found in our magazine. Families new to the area are able to integrate into the community right away because they used the information they found in Out & About. Established local groups say they have noticed a real increase in attendance at their events. It’s working.
This month we are jam packed with info that will help you. It’s hot and you want to get wet? We’ve got it. Your garden is overflowing and you want to donate the surplus? Got that too. We’ve got cycling and running events, camping info and a huge community calendar filled with fun, lots of it for free. We have a full page of local theatre listings and auditions. We even have a list of what immunizations your kids need before school starts. And, for the older group, some really fun classes you can take at Gavilan College.
Little by little, Out & About has taken it’s place in the community as the premier resource guide for fun and entertainment as well as the place they look first for useful, local information. Thanks to all our readers who make it such a hot item every month and to all the advertisers who make it possible to print and deliver it to you. It’s only going to get better!

Sylvia Wallace Myvold