Helen Arase, Managing editor / by Helen Arase

I am now the managing editor (and multimedia reporter) of the Alhambra Source.

I’ve been working myself to death, but it’s a good experience to be alone and literally have to do everything yourself.

Of course I have support from the other two non-journalists on staff and the co-founders, but the gravity of my success/failure is the publication’s success/failure is a new one for me.

We also moved mid-pandemic. That was interesting.

I’ve managed to photograph a couple of things too:

Michoacana Pedir De Boca is an ice cream and paletas (popsicle) business that just opened:

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The San Gabriel Mission caught fire in the early morning so I ran over in the afternoon:

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ZinDrew Chili still needs to be published but they’re a husband-wife team making chili oil:

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More stories and photos to come.