By Gina Channell Wilcox
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About this blog: I am President of Embarcadero Media's East Bay Division and the publisher of the Pleasanton Weekly, Dublin TriValley Views, San Ramon Express and Danville Express. As a 25-plus-year veteran of the media industry, I have experience...
(More)About this blog: I am President of Embarcadero Media's East Bay Division and the publisher of the Pleasanton Weekly, Dublin TriValley Views, San Ramon Express and Danville Express. As a 25-plus-year veteran of the media industry, I have experience in print, broadcast and digital media. In 2004, I left Illinois where I was Executive Editor / Associate Publisher of a group of 14 weekly newspapers and one daily belonging to what is now known as the Chicago Sun-Times Group, to move to Northern California to launch two newspapers and a radio station. To date I have launched eight weekly newspapers (one in Spanish), one daily newspaper, one monthly newspaper, one monthly news magazine, several news websites and an FM radio station. I joined Embarcadero Media in 2006 because of its focus on quality, community journalism and the entrepreneurial spirit of its staff and management team. I have a bachelor's degree in Communications and a master's degree in Business Administration and spend the little spare time I have teaching for University of Phoenix and with my three children, ages 25, 21 and 13.
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In the midst of the holiday busyness of baking, shopping, decorating and socializing, my mind often drifts back to some memories that make me smile, laugh or cringe. I see the "Elf on the Shelf" and remember hiding those elves in the Christmas tree, behind the bubble lights, of course. I cringe when I think about the Thanksgiving when the gathering of roughly 30 family members had to move two hours before dinner because of a septic tank issue.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving, Christmas or Hanukkah memory?
If so, please share it with our readers.
Tell us about your warmest, funniest or most touching holiday experience. Thanksgiving memories could include the cringe-worth time you left the giblets in the turkey, the the after-dinner football game that had the whole family cheering.
Do you have a very special Christmas or Hanukkah memory when your spouse or a parent came home from the armed forces unexpectedly? Did your little brother knock over the Christmas tree one year? Or do you have a special recipe to share?
Selected submissions will run in The Pleasanton Weekly Dec. 19; all submissions will run online at PleasantonWeekly.com and DanvilleSanRamon.com. We reserve the right to edit for space and clarity.
Send your memories to me by 9 a.m. Friday, Dec. 5, at gallen@embarcaderomediagroup.com. Include your name and hometown for publication and your contact information in case we need to reach you. We would love to have photos for possible use, too. If you send digital photos, they should be at least 300 dpi and people should be identified.
