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Cecily is the publisher of our monthly newsmagazines and has many years of
community newspaper experience both as editor and publisher. She published the
first issue of Inside East Sacramento in
February 1996. Building on the success of her first publication, she began
publishing Inside The City in February 1998. Cecily has 15 years of sales and marketing experience
in the office design industry. Originally from Michigan and a graduate of the University
of Michigan, she has been a resident of Sacramento
since 1989. Cecily is actively involved in her East Sacramento
community. She and her husband, Jim Hastings, co-founded the McKinley Elvas
Neighborhood Alliance in 1992. She has served on the board of the 400 member
neighborhood association since its inception, and served as the association's
president from 1995-1996. She also helped raise over $28,000 through community
fund-raising projects for the construction of the McKinley Village playground
in McKinley Park in 1994. Cecily is also active in the East Sacramento Chamber
of Commerce, which she helped form in 1996. She chairs of a committee that
produces the annual Insider's Guide to East Sacramento. Cecily has won several awards for her business. In 1997 she received an award for outstanding journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. She and her husband also won the River City Small Business Chamber of Commerce Home-based Business of the Year Award in 1997. Inside Publications was awarded the prestigious Business of the Year Award in 2002 by the East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Cecily Hastings also won the Wise Woman Award by the National Association of Women Business Owners in 2002 as part of their Outstanding Woman Leaders award program.
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