{"id":32156,"date":"2013-05-03T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T07:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=32156"},"modified":"2020-09-21T18:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:59:59","slug":"milestone-for-country-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/05\/03\/milestone-for-country-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone For Country Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32157\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/countryfocus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32157\" title=\"Country Focus\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/countryfocus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/countryfocus.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/countryfocus-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Country Focus news magazine through the years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>May 3, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>southburnett.com.au<\/strong> congratulates Nanango&#8217;s Ross and Sandy Towell on the milestone achievement of this week publishing the 200th edition of Country Focus news magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Country Focus was &#8220;born&#8221; in Nanango on March 4, 2005, to Peter and Christy Stephens from Country Print and Design.<\/p>\n<p>Ross and Sandy Towell bought the newspaper in April 2007<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two hundred editions! I had never dared to dream that our small community paper, started eight years ago would be going so strong, still gaining in popularity and being requested by communities across the South Burnett and further,&#8221; Ross said this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Country Focus now has a distribution of 9700 copies and goes as far as Ireland and to our troops in Afghanistan as well as a growing network of subscribers across Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course none of this would be possible without the support of our advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We constantly ask our readers to support these local businesses \u2013 \u201cKeep It Local and the Locals Will Keep Going\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ross said Country Focus would be moving into new premises at Nanango in the near future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29986\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130412spirit3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29986 \" title=\"20130412 Spirit of the Burnett\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130412spirit3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130412spirit3.jpg 290w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130412spirit3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130412spirit3-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy and Ross Towell ... celebrating the 200th edition of Country Focus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Some Milestones:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2005<\/strong> &#8211; Country Focus was started by Peter &amp; Christy Stephens<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007<\/strong> \u2013 Country Focus was bought by Ross &amp; Sandy Towell<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; Went full colour and moved to high speed printing by Beaudesert Times<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; Increased to 40 pages and 9700 copies per fortnight<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong> &#8211; Printing taken over by Qld Rural Press (Fairfax Media)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013<\/strong> &#8211; Country Focus moved into its own premises<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB. \u00a0Highlights from southburnett.com.au&#8217;s Daily Calendar can be seen fortnightly in Country Focus<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>southburnett.com.au congratulates Nanango&#8217;s Ross and Sandy Towell on the milestone achievement of this week publishing the 200th edition of Country Focus news magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":32157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[30],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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