Some people see change as a threat. Other people prefer to pretend that change doesn't exist. But those who adapt best see change as an opportunity to make things better.
Those of you who ever read Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese? will know this. The popular book tells the tale of two mice and two tiny men that live in a maze who are forced to deal with change when they discover their cheese has been moved. The allegory is meant to help people deal with inevitable change at work and in life.
Each of the characters deals with the change differently, but one of the characters, with time and experience, learns to navigate his way through the maze to successfully achieve his goals, sharing his experience by writing it down on the wall.
We tell you this now because the Innisfail Province will be adapting to some significant change in the coming months. This change comes as our paper will soon be printed on a brand-new state-of-the-art printing press at our parent company's head office in St. Albert. The new printing press, that can spit out up to 80,000 newspapers an hour, will be printing several community newspapers, including the Innisfail Province, and will also print the Edmonton Journal.
This change means staff at our paper will have to adapt to new deadlines. The change also means that we will sometimes have to fill much more space.
A large amount of change is sometimes difficult to adapt to, especially when it comes in a short period of time. However, this change is intended to make our product much better.
The new printing press is the size of a three-storey house. It replaces an old printing press that has parts over 20 years old. The technologically advanced printing press is less labour intensive and can meet the demand for more colour. The press's operator said it will be like going from the Stone Age to the space shuttle.
It will now be cheaper to increase our newspaper's size by eight pages at a time, rather than four pages at a time, which we are used to.
The added space will allow us to provide the reader with more news and sports content. The added space, combined with more colour, will also allow us to be more creative with our design, making the Innisfail Province a much more visually appealing product.
We hope to make this change as seamless as possible. This may prove to be difficult at first, but when we adapt, we are sure that our readers will find the Innisfail Province a much better newspaper. We will also be better prepared to handle inevitable change when it comes in the future.
