MRS.CLAUS, SANTA CLAUS, CHARLOTTE GINS (SITTING ON LAP) AND GRACIE GINS (STANDING NEAR SANTA)
For 20 years, Jan Kotcamp has volunteered as editor for The Whiskey Creek News! You may know Jan (along with her husband Roland) as your neighbors, or as members of the Whiskey Creek Country Club, or more recently as Mr. and Mrs. Claus in our Holiday Golf Cart Parade!
In 2005, Jan was reading in The Whiskey Creek News that the paper was looking for a co-editor. She decided to answer the ad and became the co-editor for two years until the former editor, Debbie Lamach, passed along the full-time editing position to Jan for the next 18 years! Jan says, “Looking back, one of the highlights of the job was when I decided to start a column called ‘Military Memories.’ For my first article I asked my neighbor, Bob Kennedy, if I could interview him since I knew he had served in WWII. When the article appeared, Bob received a phone call from a fellow airman, who was living in Whiskey Creek, asking Bob if he was the same airman that served with him in the war. It turned out that yes, he was and the two reunited and were able to exchange stories for several years! Bob and Mike lived only a few streets apart and never knew until the article appeared in The Whiskey Creek News! Through the years ‘Military Memories’ has told many wonderful stories of the men and women that lived in Whiskey Creek.”
Some of Jan’s favorite articles she wrote/still writes are:
*High School Happenings … Fort Myers High School and Canterbury High School
*Cook’s Corner
*Whiskey Creek Country Club News
*Meet Your Neighbor
*Library Calendar
*Poet’s Column
*Real Estate (Bob Oxnard) started a few years after I started at the paper
*Also started: Crossword Puzzle, Sudoku, Word Scramble and fill-ins such as Giggle, Lexophiles, Funny Signs, Did You Know?
On behalf of your neighbors and the Whiskey Creek Civic Association, thank you Jan for your dedication to our community! The Whiskey Creek News has become a staple piece in keeping our community connected, informed, and involved.
Moving forward, we are thrilled to announce Jan has passed the torch to our new editor, Amy Kitzmiller Pappas! Thank you, Amy!
