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Contributed by: Michael Hoffman on 9/5/2007

Nancy Lukunich proves the adage.

She attended Tuesday's YourHub.com seminar in Simi Valley after participating in a youth council meeting at nearby city hall.

She's active in the Ventura County Bar Association's Court Docent program and with the Simi Valley Hospital Foundation. On top of that, she's participating in a Simi Valley coalition designed to help young people and the community.

What's the saying that her life proves? If you want to get something done, ask a busy person to do it.

Lukunich was among the 15 already busy people who spent an hour learning about one of the newest movements in civic life in the nation: citizen journalism. That's the effort at the heart of YourHub.com, the website and print publications sponsored by the Ventura County Star.

The people who were there represented business, education, non-profit groups and themselves.

Several members of parent-teacher groups from area schools were there. They included Susan Hubbard, Simi Covenant Preschool; Edith Wells, Abraham Lincoln Elementary; Marta De los Rios, Royal High School; Jeff Goldberg, Katherine Elementary School; Julie Johnson, Garden Grove Elementary School; and Lisa Barron, Vista Elementary School.

Certified public accountant Kathy Habring was there with her husband Louis. Don Anderson attended to see how he could promote his Little Dragons Hapkido business. Laura and Blake Bachman want to build their Hoot & Heart flower business.

Representing the non-profit world were Sandi Lane of the Moorpark Family Resource Center; Jim Carper, who mentioned connections to both the Simi Valley Family YMCA and St. Peter Claver Church; and Candace Gray, a member of the Simi Valley Coalition for Youth and Community.

The thing they all have in common is the desire to get out the message about something in their community. Citizen journalism will help them do that. It takes time to write a story or to prepare an event notice. Getting good photographs to go along with them takes a bit more effort.

But the payoff is getting the message about something that is close to one's heart out to a broader community.

And the common thread that drives Nancy Lukunich and her fellow YourHubbers isn't just that they are busy. The common thread is the reason that they are busy. They are committed and care enough to try to make a positive difference in their community. Citizen journalism gives them one more tool in that effort.

[Click here for a list of upcoming YourHub.com seminars.]

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