The past year at The Insider has been full of fun, excitement, cookies, endless opportunities to make fun of City Manager Tom Aspell and so much more. One thing it wasn’t full of was surprises.
Yes, that’s right. We weren’t surprised by much this past year, thanks to psychic Dawn Whiting. A year ago today, Dawn laid the tarot cards out and gave The Insider a reading to let us know what would be in store for us in the upcoming year. Because we were prepared for anything thrown our way, we had more time to do productive things, like increasing the number of high fives given to one another per hour, creating the best paper airplane ever and perfect our hula-hooping.
We opted to forgo a psychic reading for this birthday and instead take a look back at last year’s reading. We thought it would be fun to reflect and see how accurate Dawn’s reading was. We weren’t at all surprised (obviously) to discover that many of Dawn’s predictions did come true.
Here’s the breakdown for you, readers, followed by the scoop on what really happened here at The Insider.
What Dawn said: There would be some major (but positive) revamps in our future. This could mean that someone from the paper’s inception might be moving on and “new energy” would be coming in.
True: Our beloved publisher Danielle Kronk physically moved on from The Insider by packing up and leaving our cubicle to work more closely with the advertising department. Now she’s roughly 10 steps away from us instead of just three.
We were able to move on from our loss because shortly after Meg Heckman became our editorial consultant and we were pumped to have some “new energy” on our team.
What Dawn said: Sophia Johnson and Ella Fabozzi would finally get their interview with Gov. John Lynch after a little more persistence.
True: In our July 21 issue Sophia and Ella got their chance to ask the gov’ner such burning questions as “What type of animal would you be and why?” and “What is your favorite midnight snack?”
What Dawn said: People really enjoy the work they are doing at The Insider and are passionate about it.
Soooo true: Like duh, we love being Insiders. What other job would let us hang out all day at White Park to hand out lemonade, take us to new heights while hang gliding and pay us to take a brewery tour? The answer: none.
What Dawn said: Former publisher Mark Travis would not come crawling back and grovel for his old position.
True: Mark is still livin’ it up as publisher of the Valley News. Whatever. More cookies for us.
What Dawn said: The Insider would become available in other towns.
False or true depending on how you look at it: Although we have not yet achieved world domination and regular issues of The Insider only go to Concord residents, we did produce three special publications this past year (Market Days, The Insider’s Guide to Concord and The Insider’s Guide to New Hampshire which were available to all Monitor subscribers, regardless of the town they live in. That’s one more special issue than the year before, which only had two!
What Dawn said: Editor Katie MacKenzie would not get engaged anytime soon unless she stopped being so controlling.
False: You’ll be happy to know that Katie is not only as controlling as ever, but she did get engaged and was married on July 4. To be fair to Dawn, she did warn us that the tarot cards may not come up with a clear or correct answer because we were supposed to be asking about The Insider – not Katie.
So as you can see, Dawn was pretty right on. We’d like to say thank you to Dawn, but she probably already knows how thankful we are, along with the winning lottery numbers.
