Kats’ Korner

I would like to welcome everyone to Kat Country Hub. I hope everyone enjoys the paper as much as I do.

I would like everyone to know that I welcome any news. If you have something for the paper, please email me at katcountryhub@gmail.com, or call me at 402-687-9577. If I am not in the office, please leave a message and I will get right back to you. I check my emails all day, so I will respond as soon as I receive it.

Denise Gilliland
Editor/Chief
Kat Country Hub

I would also like to tell you a little bit about myself. Many of you already know who I am. But, for those that don’t, my name is Denise Gilliland. I worked at the Oakland Independent in Oakland, NE for almost nine years. I was also the editor of the Lyons Mirror-Sun.

I am married to Jeff Gilliland. We have two children, Justin and Whitney, and two grandchildren, Grayce and Grayhm.

I am a recent graduate of Northeast Community College with a degree in journalism. With the encouragement from my husband, I decided to go out on my own. It is a risk, but what fun is life if you don’t take risks?

I hope to succeed. I don’t set out to do something and fail. Someone told me to fail is to never try. I guess that means I am already succeeding.

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I have had people ask me how I came up with the name of the paper. Once Jeff and I decided to take this adventure, there were many decisions to make. More than I ever realized.

We began tossing around names. I wrote all of them down. Some were pretty comical and never would have been chosen. Others were pretty good, but not quite good enough. I wanted something unique.

Since I am covering Lyons, Decatur, Bancroft and Rosalie, we started looking at names that would reflect the schools. Lyons-Decatur Northeast Cougars and Bancroft-Rosalie Panthers. That is where cat came from, but I changed the spelling. The rest of the name came again by tossing names around.

As for calling this column Kats’ Korner, that came from a Facebook friend. I created a Facebook page for the paper, Kat Country Hub. I then asked for suggestions on naming my column. There were many good ideas. Kats’ Korner was the winner.

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I will be visiting many areas in the near future. If there is something you would like me to attend, please let me know. I want to be aware of everything possible!

I will be updating the paper online every day. Also, the paper will be free always. As soon as I know something, or have attended something, the story will be online that day. I want people to know the news when it happens!

I am also interested in any pictures you may have for me. Feel free to email them or stop in my office, I am at the old library in Lyons. I can take pictures off of your camera card.

Please join the Facebook page too! I will be updating my posts there daily too.

Welcome again! Thank you for reading!

Thought for the day: Success is trying, failure is to dream and never try.

Have a great day!