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Frankie
Leal - Publisher/Creative Director
Frankie is principal and creative director of Leal
Design & Advertising/Traffic Magazine. His studio
specializes in strategic concept-driven communications.
With a clientele that spans throughout the Central
Valley, Frankie and his firm will be exciting to
watch in the future. The Team already has new ideas
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Ryan
Watamura - Photographer
Gearing up for another busy year, Ryan has had little
time to enjoy the ski slopes. Doing a story on Sierra
Summit gave our senior photographer some quality
time in the fresh powder. Ryan would like to thank
John Kevorkian and Chris Cossey for sacrificing
their bodies on some of those monster jumps. Congrats
are also in order for Frankie and Celeste, who FINALLY
tied the knot January 21st! |
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Erik
Leal - Graphic Designer
For over five years Erik has been around graphics
but has been practicing design for about a year
and a half. Trying to step out of his brothers powering
shadow, Erik has many goals to meet and clients
to please. He currently designs for Traffic Magazine
which is a branch of LDA. His personal interests
include both composing music and photography. |
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Jenny
Graber-Peters - Editor
Jenny’s first love is her family. Jenny’s
husband Matt Peters was recently promoted by the
Selma Fire Department to the position of Engineer
and she is very proud of him! She and Matt have
been married for 7 years and have three adventurous
children: Emily – 6 3/4, Katelyn –
4 3/4, and Daniel – 19 months. Besides being
a busy wife and mother, Jenny has taught at Reedley
College in the Speech Communication Department
for the past 10 years. She is also the Co-Leader
of MUGS (Mothers Under Grace), a ministry that
offers fellowship, fun, and food to mothers of
preschoolers and younger, in a safe, Christian
environment. In her “free” time, Jenny
enjoys helping out in her children’s classrooms,
tutoring, hanging out with her friends and writing
for Traffic Magazine. Life is never quiet and
never dull; but Jenny wouldn’t have it any
other way! |
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Jolene
Polyack, Polyack Marketing • writer
Ms. Polyack has been in the marketing field for
over 20 years. She has worked within a variety
of industries, from multi-national corporations
to start-ups for both private sector businesses
and non-profit organizations. Her consultative
expertise is in marketing strategy development
and implementation. Ms. Polyack has applied her
marketing knowledge in the following areas; business-to-business,
retail, economic development, business incubators,
and entrepreneurial training.
She
has a monthly marketing column in the Fresno Business
Journal and has taught marketing at the University
of Phoenix’s Fresno, Bakersfield and On-line
campuses. She is past president of the Board of
Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fresno,
Madera and Kings Counties and served on the United
Way of Fresno County’s Board of Directors
as the Marketing Committee Chair. She is on the
founding Board of Directors for the Water Technology
Alliance, an international cluster of water technology
entities. |
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Jackie
Dale • writer
Jackie Dale was born and raised in the S.F. Bay
Area but has been a valley resident since 1981.
She has been married to Frank for nearly 15 years
and has 2 beautiful children, Frankie, 14 and
Dominique, 8.
Jackie
is a freelance writer who stays at home to care
of Frankie, who is disabled.
She
continues to pursue her lifelong passion for ballet
and is currently dancing at the Kingsburg Studio
of Ballet and Performing Arts. Jackie is a member
of the MUGS (Mothers Under Grace) steering team
at Reedley First Baptist Church where she writes
the newsletter twice a month. Jackie also enjoys
reading, crafts and riding motorcycles. |
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Medic
Matt • writer
Medic Matt, a.k.a. Matt Peters, has been a firefighter
for 11 years and a Paramedic for 5 years. Matt joined
the Selma Fire Department last year and was recently
promoted to Engineer. |
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