7th grade class, using my book bag to smuggle them in. It became such a lucrative project that the school store began losing money. Shorty after the school budget began suffering, I was banned from such un-studently conduct by the assistant principle of Ashe Central Junior High in 1985.

I then turned my attention to other business dreams.

During my college days of studying electronics engineering, I could hardly wait to graduate so I could start a security camera business specializing in installing security systems. I noticed fast, once that endeavor began, how expensive it was for a business to advertise in traditional manners.

Then in 1999, "Voice 2000" was created, by me, and distributed at MerleFest in Wilkesboro that same year. I used to live along the path that 10,000 people strolled by that weekend. I set up a chair with an umbrella next to that walking route and handed out my first issue of Voice 2000, even in the rain. It was my attempt to design my own publication and at the same time advertise my security business. The article I published that year was an analytical report about the reports that all computer systems would fail at midnight Dec. 31, 1999. It presented facts from both sides of the argument and allowed the Reader to draw their own conclusion.

Now that 12 years has past, many of which I was scratching my head in confusion while interfacing with my publication software, my computer is still going strong. With Franchise Editions I will teach you how to run and operate your very own publication. As long as you have a computer and the drive & attitude it takes.

I will send you the weekly content (Rare Bible Illustrations, Harvard on the River Facts, Victoria's Facts, Photos & Fathom, Harold Kennedy Selection, etc...) and teach you how to design and make your very own ads, for your very own edition of

Chronicle-of-Victoria.com.