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Inside the Santa Ynez Valley Magazine - Spring 2002

Spring 2002

^{Connie Cody

editor/publisher}^{connie@insidesyv.com}

I hope you enjoy the stories in our spring issue, as much as we enjoyed bringing them together.
Where else but the Valley could you find such an interesting mix of personalities&emdash;from the former president of CBS News turned cowboy, to the 16 year-old high school student creating art

so accomplished and beautiful that her first gallery show sold out almost immediately? Sometimes I'm asked what Inside will do when we run out of people to write about. I truly believe that can never happen. The inspirational beauty of the Santa Ynez Valley will always shape the thoughts, emotions and actions of those who live here, and certain types of people will always be attracted to this place. We can never run out of stories. - Connie Cody

Editorial
Editor/Publisher Constance Cody
Contributing Editor Brooke Comer

Contributing writers this issue:
K. Reka Badger pens a bi-monthly gardening column for the Santa Barbara News-Press and has been published in Santa Barbara Magazine and writes a wine column in the Santa Maria Sun. She and her husband, a woodworker, have lived in Los Alamos for fifteen years.

Christine Beebe is a freelance writer and editor of the Women's Environmental Watch Newsletter. She has served on the boards of The Family School, Direct Link for the Disabled, and W.E. Watch. A Valley resident for 12 years, she lives in Solvang with her husband and two teenage daughters.

Brooke Comer grew up in the Santa Ynez Valley. She has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, and Playboy. The author of The Secret Caribbean: Hideways of the Rich and Famous, she divides her time between the Santa Ynez Valley and New York.

Shelly Escalante Cone is city government reporter for the Santa Maria Times and has been local government reporter for the Lompoc Record and Valley Voice; she writes for the Santa Barbara News-Press and New Times.

Shirley Dettmann has written for the Capital Times and the Santa Barbara News-Press; she came to Santa Barbara 27 years ago from the east. She is an active volunteer and is currently on the board of the Arts Fund for Santa Barbara County.

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