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Olivia Evans and her horse Fifty-Fifty Chance in the show arena at a West Coast Reining Horse Association Affiliate Show at the Brookside Equestrian Park in Elk Grove.

[Pat Smith]

YOU GO GIRL! I'm so thrilled to see all of your great accomplishments whether in print or on the t.v.!
YOU ARE AWESOME! XOX

[Zoe Kastl]

Good work, Olivia and all of the Village that helped you succeed so well! It's an inspiring story and you've got an inspiring team around you. Excellent all around and I wish you and all those involved the very best. I'll be rooting for you this Thanksgiving weekend.
All the Best...Zoe

[Dirk]

I guess it helps get publicity when your mom works at the paper.

I'll bet there are a lot of people who are fundraising for one cause or another that would love to have that kind of press.

I wonder how many requests for coverage from actual non profit groups the newspaper has turned down recently.

[basic]

Best of Luck!

[nice]

Dirk wrote:

I guess it helps get publicity when your mom works at the paper.
I'll bet there are a lot of people who are fundraising for one cause or another that would love to have that kind of press.
I wonder how many requests for coverage from actual non profit groups the newspaper has turned down recently.

True but its not the kids fault... they need to clean house and let her mom run the place it would be great! The paper needs to be run by people who love the town or at least raised in the county. Not the rude people they have now. pick and toss the articles they want to put in! This town is about the small stories and each person living in it.

[crazy ole people]

Dirk wrote:

I guess it helps get publicity when your mom works at the paper.
I'll bet there are a lot of people who are fundraising for one cause or another that would love to have that kind of press.
I wonder how many requests for coverage from actual non profit groups the newspaper has turned down recently.

How, way to be a di*k! Typical Oroville comment. Apparently the old saying of if you have nothing nice to say, keep it to yourself doesnt apply here.

[Dirk]

I didn't say anything wrong. Are you saying that this trip would have been given the same coverage if her mother wasn't who she is? I think it's great that her parents don't have to support their daughter on this trip because mom can just write an article in the paper to point out the fundraising that's going on. Don't you think that other, non profit, groups would love the same opportunity? this kid is getting press coverage of "her financial needs" solely because of her mother. It doesn't diminish her accomplishment at all. I just asked a question.

[yep]

You're absolutely right. She has written way too many stories bout her daughter and got them printed. At least four or five. And if Gottesman ran the newspaper, you would have ore articles written by favoritism, rather than journalistic principles. Of course her friends are for it as they would get more publicity about their kids and their businesses.

[Dirk]

That's exactly the point I was trying to make. Thanks for saying it better.

[Yaaahoooo]

Hooray for Olivia! You do Oroville proud!

Pay no attention to jealous, pathetic jerks like "Dirk" and "yep". You earned your shot, they earn nothing mor than a thumb nosing Bronx cheer.

[oroville kid]

Do you have something interestin to tell about your accomplishments as a teenager? Lets hear it ,or please shut up. Mom is proud of her they
have all worked hard for this.Let them enjoy it.

[LWright]

Various jobs come with various perks, no shame in using them.
Wish the girl all the best, come back healthy.
I am seeking to get an event written up in the Register, just like the Equestrian LOVERide story.
Only my event is for bicycles, and as far as I know, no reporter or columnist for the Mercury rides bicycles.
So the story may or may not run.
As always, who you know can be better than what you know.
That's life!

[Dirk]

I am not trying to detract from her accomplishments. I am pointing out that the fact that her mother and father would rather have other people pay for the trip than pay for it themselves is probably not worthy of a front page story.

Last Saturday there was a fundraiser in Biggs for a young woman who was paralyzed in a recent car accident. I'll bet the people who put on that event would have loved some press coverage to let people know what they were doing. But they weren't related to someone that works at the newspaper, so they were S-O-L.

[crazy ole people]

yep wrote:

You're absolutely right. She has written way too many stories bout her daughter and got them printed. At least four or five. And if Gottesman ran the newspaper, you would have ore articles written by favoritism, rather than journalistic principles. Of course her friends are for it as they would get more publicity about their kids and their businesses.

Common, really journalistic principles? Its the OMR, that wont happen.

[LWright]

Come on, really?
The story in question was an "Oroville's Own" human interest piece!
A different thing completely from the old biased reporting that took place when covering the "ORAC" stories.

[Patrick]

Olivia, congratulations on your accomplishment, it was alot of work and you were able to overcome alot to get there. D*ck, you should be ashamed of yourself for taking the stance your are taking without any knowledge. What she accomplished is like qualifying for the Olympics on a smaller scale.

[Dirk]

I am not detracting from her accomplishment. I am saying that there are others, either equally accomplished, or even more in need, who don't have access to the kind of press coverage that this got. I don't think her mother should get to use the newspaper to get people to pay just because she doesn't want to. Her mother and father have jobs, and there are better things that could be done with their money, only they are not aware of it because those people don't have a mom that writes for the newspaper.