2018 September COLONY Magazine

Something Worth Reading
ATASCADERO — SANTA MARGARITA — CRESTON
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PUBLISHER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Nicholas Mattson
publisher@colonymagazine.com
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Hayley Mattson
EDITOR
Luke Phillips
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Denise McLean, Mode
Communications
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Travis Ruppe
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Aaron Seedorf
ART PRODUCTION
Sue Dill
WINE EDITOR
Mira Honeycutt
WRITER
Melissa Chavez
WRITER
Heather Young
COLUMNIST
Sarah Pope
COLUMNIST
Simone Smith
COLUMNIST
Barbie Butz
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Let us keep our faces to the sunshine
and we will not see the shadows.
— E.G. Lewis
Happy birthday to us! Yep, we are
officially 12 months into our
ownership of PASO Magazine
and we are thrilled about where we are
going. With the launch of COLONY
Magazine for Atascadero and Santa
Margarita, we are proving that print is
alive and well, and we love being a part of
making a community like ours stronger.
For many years — after picking it up
as a quote misattributed to Benjamin
Franklin — I have kept the motto “Do
something worth writing, or write something
worth reading.”
As a member of our local media, it is a pleasure to live in a community
that continues to produce things worth writing about, so we can fulfill
our part in writing something worth reading.
Thank you all for being a part of this early journey. Now three months
into a new life as COLONY Magazine, we could not be more proud of
the team and the community that has come together to make it all work!
We took over PASO for the October 2017 issue, went glossy in
December, made a splash in January with a polar bear dip cover and our
inaugural Taste of PASO restaurant issue (watch out for our second annual!
It will be even bigger). We added a couple of columnists to give our
young parents some ideas about activities and outings with the kids, with
Tonya Strickland of Two In Tow and Sarah Pope with Pope X 3.
As a member of the community, we’ve partnered with the Chamber
of Commerce, Paso Robles Event Center and California Mid-State Fair,
and continued to support our Downtown Paso Robles Main Street Association.
We also continued our focus on our local nonprofit organizations,
including Boys & Girls Club, Committee for Atascadero Public Schools,
Colony Days, Printery Foundation, and other events throughout the
year. We have a great community to partner with and we look forward to
doing that for all our community organizations.
My wife and I serve on multiple boards as directors and volunteers and
we know how much work goes into providing services to those in need,
or producing community-centered events that make our community
great. Some might want to Make America Great Again, and that sound
wonderful, but around here, we have a long history of working together
for a great community, and we just want to do what we can to Keep
North SLO County Great … and make it even better.
We are moving into our second year with a full head of steam and a
few more great things we are excited to release as a service to our community.
We are destined to become a community favorite, and appreciate
everyone’s encouragement as we introduced COLONY Magazine with
the hope to improve the community and present our community to
visitors, and the support that our local businesses and advertisers deserve
for supporting such a great community asset.
Please enjoy this issue of COLONY Magazine.
Nicholas Mattson
805-391-4566
nic@colonymagazine.com
If thou wouldest win Immortality
of Name, either do things worth
the writing, or write things
worth the reading.
For advertising inquiries and rates, story ideas and submission of photos,
letters, press releases, etc., email publisher@COLONYmagazine.com.
— Thomas Fuller, 1727
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