Happy New Year!

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Home in the Northland is looking forward to an amazing 2010! We have some exciting new things planned for our readers! Thank you so much for all of your support during 2009. We promise to make this year and our wonderful magazine even better!

Cheers!!

Tina Hathaway
Associate Publisher
Home in the Northland Magazine

Home in the Northland WIns Gold!

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We are proud to announce that Home in the Northland Magazine has been awarded the 2009 Gold MarCom Award for Consumer-based Magazines. The MarCom Awards are an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communication professionals. Thank you to all our readers and area supporters for helping us achieve this honor and for making Home in the Northland, the premiere magazine dedicated to living life in the Northland.

LaDeDA Fashion Bliss '09

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November 5th
La De Da Fashion Bliss '09
For more information, visit: www.ladeda-bliss.com
or call 816-505-5510

Girls Night Out, Presented by North Kansas City Hospital

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NKC Hospital Celebrates ‘Spirit of Women’
by Kellie Houx, Columnist, Copy Editor

North Kansas City Hospital is the only hospital in the metropolitan area that is part of the consortium known as Spirit of Women. In about 55 cities around the nation, women are moving toward the forefront of health care. Membership with this consortium is a realization that hospitals are moving to see women as “powerful healthcare consumers.”

North Kansas City Hospital, says Women’s Services Director Michele Malone, wants to continue to broaden the hospital’s scope of women’s healthcare services. “We want to be a center of excellence, but also provide that outreach programming that serves women intellectually, physically and spiritually. This means combining education with relaxing events such as the upcoming Girls’ Night Out.”

The Oct. 15 event, designed for women 21 and older, starts at the Shark Bar in the Power & Light District with heart-healthy wine and snacks. “There will be lots of health information targeted at women. It’s a happy and enjoyable setting where doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and dietitians can talk about issues like breast health, women’s heart care and bone health. The doctors, male and female, like this outreach component. They don’t just educate, but inspire. We understand women don’t have a lot of spare time, but we have to get the screenings we need.”

It is past time that women get the attention they deserve, Malone says. “Medical research has been focused on men and the healthcare models don’t fit women. Now the attention is being paid to women. There is broader knowledge on heart disease, the importance of understanding bone density, and how we can improve the overall health and longevity of women.”

There is also a newly opened, modern Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit and the only metro NICU that is designed with the family in mind. Other improvements include remodeling maternity rooms, adding a first-ever lactation store where women from anywhere in the metro can purchase breastfeeding supplies, the creation of a fatigue management program and a women’s imaging center that opened in August within the hospital. Malone says the center is a “physically beautiful space” that has more a feel of a spa. “The center loses the cold medical edge of women’s health care. It may even help take some of the anxiety away as women are scheduled for procedures like mammography or a breast MRI.”

Spirit of Women events will continue, Malone says. There will be a Day of Dance in February called “Dance Your Health Out.” The event will focus on women’s heart health. “We are a heart caring certified hospital. We are celebrating 20 years of performing open-heart surgery. If women don’t come out for much of the Spirit of Women programming, women’s heart health is a critical one to catch.”

Learn more about the event on Thursday, October 15 at spiritofwomen.com/spiritgirlsnightout

It's Time for Back to School.....

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It's amazing how time flies!!! For our children it's the summers that seem to pass with a blink of an eye and the school year that tends to drag on forever! For all of us grownups, well I can only speak for myself when I say, the older I get, the quicker the years click by!

For example, I just got back in town from attending my 20 year reunion in Urbandale, Iowa. That's right 20 years had passed since I had seen a lot of my classmates that I graduated High School with. At first, when I heard about this memorable occasion I wasn't sure if I wanted to go. But, after I thought about it, I decided what the heck, and I am so glad that I did! Life is a funny thing. No matter how much time goes by, somehow it's very easy to fall back into the emotions that you felt back in high school. Old friends can easily pick up right where they left off even if it was two decades ago. Needless to say, a great time was had by all.

The Northland is no stranger to good times and great memories! Check out the three beautiful women on the cover! Their dance studio has been an icon in the Northland for over 40 years! So many girls/women out there have been touched by this amazing dance school. As a matter of fact, at the last recital they had a bit of a reunion themselves. They asked the girls who were awarded the "Dancer of the Year" for the past 40 years, to come back and be honored on stage! It was amazing to see how many women have been touched by this school!

Please sit back and relax, kick your feet up, maybe even grab a glass of wine when you grab this issue of Home in the Northland. You are in for a treat! From our amazing cover girls to our beautiful home featured, plus the great food at Ginger Sue's! It's all done for you, our reader, so enjoy!

I'm looking forward to our next issue...like I always say, somehow they just keep getting better!

Cheers!

Tina

Be on the look out!!!!

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I just went through the final draft of the June/July issue of Home in the Northland before we send it off to the printer and I am grinning ear to ear. It looks so beautiful! I know you are really going to enjoy reading about the very interesting people we found who live in our great community.

Not to mention that the photographs of our beautiful cover girls are breathtaking. We found a wonderful farm up north where we shot the twins. I can't wait for you to see them! The girls are beautiful from the inside out! And, the house we shot is to great to even describe! It was so fun that we shot the upstairs for our home spread and the downstairs and pool area for our fashion spread! Amazing!!!!

I always look forward to hearing your feedback. When you get a copy of the June/July issue please shoot me an email and let me know what you think!

Thanks to those of you who have done exactly that!

Cheers!

Tina Hathaway

And the fun continues....

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We are deep into the next issue of "Home in the Northland" magazine, the June/July issue! I am so amazed at how I thought it couldn't get any better.... but it is looking even better then our first issue! That is so inspiring!

I want to say a big thank you to all of you who have called or emailed with such positive things to say about the publication and the changes we have made. It's so motivational to hear you thoughts and reactions! I am very touched!

Now, keep it up, keep spreading the word about how great the Northland is and how we are the magazine to showcase it! Also, please check out all the advertisers in the April/May issue! They have some great deals going on right now! Go to the digi-mag and click on their ad. It will take you right to their website!

Thanks for following us....Until next time....Go Northland!

Tina :)

The First Home in the Northland Magazine Is Done! We Did It!!!!

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It's amazing when you see the fruits of your labor pay off! I was at the press check last night for our launch issue of Home in the Northland and what I saw was incredible. As a northlander myself, I am so proud of this publication. Not only does it represent the beauty and sophistication of my friends and neighbors but it makes a statement to all of Kansas City. We are a warm friendly community with a ton to offer. I hope everyone in the city gets a chance to look our magazine and venture up north. The invitation is always there and we welcome everyone!

With that said, I'd like to give a huge thank you to all of the advertisers who joined our quest to give the northland a beautiful publication. Your confidence in our vision is so appreciated. And, speaking of appreciation, I got the nicest phone call today from Carol Meierotto. I love Carol and I have the utmost respect for her. She has an amazing store and a lot of wonderful people who work for her. She called me just to ask how everything was going and to tell me how happy she is about the redesign of the magazine. Carol is a strong believer in community and knows how much the northland needed a publication like ours. I really appreciated her vote of confidence, it made my day! Thank you Carol!

I am so lucky to have such great accounts like Meierotto's Fine Jewelery. I can honestly say that ALL of my accounts are really wonderful people!!! Over the years of being in the advertising industry I have meet a lot of great people and made a lot of great friends. I am truly blessed.

One quick note as I wrap things up. One of the exciting things we have changed with the new Home in the Northland Magazine is the way we distribute it. We have decided to pick 30 neighborhoods in the northland and door hang the magazine in a bag. This is an exciting change for us and we think this we benefit you the reader. I mean, I love getting free things delivered right to my door, don't you? We will continue to mail a portion of the issues but the bulk will be delivered right to your door for FREE!!!

To make sure you get a copy you can always subscribe for a small fee. Otherwise, all of our advertisers will have copies ready to hand out at there businesses.

The digital version of the magazine is already online so follow this link and check it out! http://www.homeinthenorthland.com/. One big plus about a digital magazine is that if you see an ad that you like and you want to visit that retailer's website all you have to do is click on their ad. If they do have a website you will be linked right to it! That is soooooo COOL!!!

Again, a big thank you to everyone who made this launch issue such a success! I am proud to be a northlander!

Tina :)