Our employees have done an outstanding job of producing good, quality community newspapers in St. Clair County for many years. However, the Journals have not been able to secure enough St. Clair market share of advertising revenue.

It's being utilized for a whole bunch of different things. Now we're definitely into just trying to be a community place.

One of the reasons I came back is because it's a high-quality facility. The hospital, employees and staff are very high-quality, and I'm proud to be a part.

We need all that mixture of paper (junk mail, catalogs and newspapers) to recycle quality newsprint.

This is the real story. This has always been about our community, our employees, and the loyal customers that have been so good to us over the past 20 years.

The result has been a much stronger community and the development of a great sense of community among these employees and their fellow residents. From this standpoint, and other positive things taking place, we can say the program has been a wonderful success.