Eva Antonel has
been a resident
of Essex County
for the past 43
years. She has
gone to school,
married, raised a
family, met
lifelong friends and made a living by
working with books and magazines
in this, her chosen city. When she is
not working with words, she is either
reading or writing them for pleasure.
Rolling out an issue of
The Hub takes an entire team
- writers, photographers,
editors. Here’s the team that
came together for the
November 2013 issue - we're
glad we got to connect with
them and hope their stories
and photos connect with you.
Paige
Vanderbeck is
entering her
second year in
the Tourism &
Travel program
at St. Clair
College, and
previously studied history, French
and humanities at Douglas College in
Vancouver. In her spare time she is an
avid cyclist, bad movie enthusiast
and record collector. She shares a
downtown appartment with a very
surly rabbit named Jimmy Hoppa.
Her adventures can be found on
Twitter at @PaigeVOnTheRoad.
Angelica
Haggert has two
BAs from the
University of
Windsor and is
beginning the
pursuit of a
diploma from St. Clair College. She
loves all things theatre, words, chips
& dip and giraffes. She’s spending
the summer as a camp director at a
local day camp.
Jolene Perron is
an 18-year-old
Amherstburg
resident who is
passionate
about writing
and
photography.
She studies
journalism at St. Clair College and
owns Perron Photography. In the
past, she has worked with The River
Town Times in Amherstburg and The
Converged Citizen at the Mediaplex.
Michael Haggert
is one of those
guys who
literally puts the
food on the
table for his wife
and daughters.
While he waits
for the city to
realize backyard chickens are a good
idea, he’s making his own pasta,
putting up jam from the backyard
berries or canning sauce from his
homegrown tomatoes.
Veronique Mandal is a nurse, actor, writer, playwright,
journalist and professor. She is presently head of the
MediaPlex at St. Clair College where she also teaches full time
in the Journalism and Media Convergence programs. She has
worked as a journalist for the CBC, BBC, TV Cogeco, the
Windsor Star, Manchester Co-op News and the National Post.
She has won more than two dozen provincial, national and
international awards for her work in broadcasting, newspapers and magazines,
including being named Journalist of the Year. Veronique has served on 14
boards of directors and is presently a member of the board of The Hospice.
Shelley Divnich
Haggert reads,
writes and
teaches in
Windsor, and has
been part of the
local & national
magazine
industry for 13 years. She has three
daughters, and is “Grandma” to a
hedgehog , a parakeet and a min
pin/poodle cross. She lives with her
husband, teenager and Thor, a dog
who’s afraid of thunder.
Adam D’Andrea was
born and raised in
Windsor. He has a
degree in history
and political science
from the University
of Windsor and is
currently taking
journalism at St. Clair College. He is
also an avid drummer, a pop culture
fanatic and knows far more about
The Simpsons than the average
person should.
Alex Antonel is a
LaSalle native
living in Toronto.
By day she
vegetates in a
cubicle,
proofreading
romance novels.
By night she
weaves through crowds at rock
shows, samples craft beers and
marks up erroneous ads on the
subway with her blue Sharpie.
Whether it’s
writing, acting,
singing or
dancing, Sean
Previl is
constantly on
the go. He has a
passion for
journalism, runs
SP Photography and writes for The
Converged Citizen. Sean is also the
editor-in-chief of Arbitrage
Magazine. He can be found on
Twitter @SeanPrevil or through
www.seanprevil.com.
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