June 20, 2024 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello Fremont, this is Andrew.
This is a little bonus episode.
We've got some news for you, ifyou don't already know it the
owners of the Tri-City Voicenewspaper, bill and Sharon
Marshak, are going to retire.
They have owned and run andproduced that little paper for
over 20 years and they're goingto stop.
(00:23):
They're going to take a break.
They are going to go home andhang out with their dog instead
of, you know, running the onlynewspaper in Fremont seven days
a week while hanging out withtheir dog in the office.
In addition to being the editorfor this podcast, I have written
(00:43):
articles for the Tri-City Voiceand I think my name is still on
the masthead.
And, of course, one time Iasked Bill if I could make a
podcast for the Tri-City Voice.
He said yes and he let me do ituntil the pandemic shut it all
down.
So I wish them well and I wishthem a happy retirement.
(01:05):
The Tri-City Voice, the paperitself, is not going to be shut
down.
According to someone who knows,it's going to be operated by a
different company and, from whatI can tell, the offices of the
Tri-City Voice here in Fremontare going to stay here in
Fremont.
(01:25):
I think that's important.
I used to work for the Argus.
Back when the Argus was theArgus and before the Bay Area
News Group that owns what theyturned into the East Bay Times,
moved the offices out of Fremont, over the hill and a ways away.
(01:46):
I think it's important that theTri-City Voices office is, you
know, for as far as I can tell,going to stay in Fremont,
because when you're not in thecity that you report on, you
don't do a very good jobreporting on it.
It's not really possible to dothat and you certainly don't
report on it as often.
We here at the Fremont podcastwe're certainly not journalists
(02:10):
with a capital J, but we didtalk to people who were here and
we tried to do little storiesevery once in a while about
things that were going on.
And if we were successful atall it's because we all live
here.
We are here in the communitytelling stories about the
community to an audience made upalmost exclusively of the
(02:33):
community here in Fremont.
When a news organization isbased elsewhere, you're going to
get less coverage.
And I said, we here at thepodcast don't do journalism with
a capital J and you could arguethat the Tri-City Voice doesn't
have the biggest capital J inthe journalism department.
(02:54):
In fact, bill Marshak told methat the newspaper is
essentially a community bulletinboard.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And that's what we try to do.
So in a sense we're just like abig community bulletin board.
You know, everybody gets a sayin this thing.
Now, obviously I've gotrestraints in the time that we
can put print and how manyplaces we can distribute to that
(03:28):
sort of thing, but we try to beopen as much as we can to
whatever's happening in thecommunity, in all these
communities.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And I think there is great value in having that.
The Tri-City Voice does do alot of reporting but on the
weeks when it doesn't do a lotof heavy lifting reporting, it's
still really good to have acommunity bulletin board in the
community.
We here at the Fremont Podcasthave actually interviewed Bill
and Sharon Marshak and, as sortof a retirement send-off, I
(04:00):
wanted to play a clip for youfrom that episode teach you in
high school.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
She had an espresso maker at home and she had an
espresso maker at work and shelived on espresso running back
and forth over the hill becauseit was long hours and trying to
figure out what to do and I knewnothing about production.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I didn't even know what a printer looked like a
press.
I kept looking to see where thepress was.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Bill, did you have a job in printing or publishing or
anything?
No, what were you doing?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I was in financial services at the time, okay, so I
worked pretty close to home,okay, and I had clientele.
Absolutely no thought of goinginto newspapers or publishing or
anything of that nature, andnone of my background really
lent itself toward that at allso it was all happenstance.
(04:57):
I'm always curious about areasthat I live in, and since my job
really entailed driving aroundand seeing people and a lot of
different folks in financialservices, I had no problem going
(05:18):
around the area and just takinga look.
But I wasn't into this businessat the time, I was just curious
about it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They said nothing happens in Fremont.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, the common wisdom you know was nothing
happens here.
Yeah, of course.
If you ask any kid anywhere inthe world what their town is
like, probably 99% of the timethey'll tell you nothing happens
here Right Exactly.
That's the common response.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But we got that from more than just kids here, and so
I just found it hard to believe, because we came from Aptos,
which is a very small area, andthere was a lot happening and I
thought, well, gee, this area ismuch larger and it's just
impossible for nothing to behappening here.
(06:09):
It's just a matter of findingout what it is.
We had a printer where we'dprint the pages out to take a
look at it and I'd lay them outon the floor to look at all the
pages, and my cat would walk onall of them.
She just decided that I waslaying them out for her, and I'd
(06:30):
rather be jumping around on topof them too.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So, it was really a home business, if there ever was
one and so you were designingthese out of your house, out of
your house.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You didn't necessarily have an office or
anything.
Oh no, we had no office.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh my goodness that was our first one, that is.
So you were telling me thestory earlier that you were
printing these out and trying tohand them out for free to
people Is that right?
And you said this is the firstone what's happening.
It has a picture of Mission SanJose on the front and you were
saying that it was beingmisunderstood for being a real
estate catalog and people justdidn't want it because they
(07:04):
couldn't afford to buy a house.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We had a hard time convincing them that it was
about Fremont.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We did it all.
We pretty much.
You know I wrote the articles.
Most of them we had some peoplewho helped us.
We went out and soldadvertising.
We sold advertising before weeven had the magazine.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
We had to sell it for about a month before it was
created.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Right, you had to find a way to fund it.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I guess, yeah, you had to convince people that it
was going to exist give somehomage to all the different
folks that are here, whetherthey're newcomers or they've
been here for years and years.
You've got to recognize theirexistence and you have to tell
people, other people, they arenot just a monolith Like you.
(07:57):
Look at some of the communitieshere and if you're not part of
that community, you might think,oh, they're all the same, these
are all you know.
If they're from Pakistan,they're this way.
If they're from India, they'rethis way.
If they're from you know, someother area of Africa, they're
this way.
That's not really true.
You know, it's like saying I'mfrom the United States, so
(08:18):
therefore this is the way I act.
If you're from the UnitedStates, you know that each state
can be different.
Each locale can be different.
It's the same thing for theother communities and other
countries.
So we tried to expose that tothe general population so they
understood that all these peopleare here, they're real people.
(08:42):
they come from differentdifferent backgrounds yeah yeah,
and here's what they do andhere's why they do it, and they
may look a little different.
They may look a littledifferent, they may dress a
little different, but they'repeople just like you are.
Wow, and that was the idea.
The idea was to bring ourcommunity together to feel as a
(09:04):
cohesive unit, and I have to saythat, through all the problems
that we've had nationally andinternationally, and even
regionally, this area has beenrelatively calm and I think it's
because people do understand.
They see on a regular basispeople that may have different
(09:28):
customs than they do, and we'vegrown accustomed to that.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
We've helped them to come together too, to go to the
events, to hear their storiesand to fight their battles with
them.
We fought for parks, we foughtfor religious continuity and we
tell their stories and help themto tell their stories and to
(09:51):
celebrate who they are, so thatthey're not afraid of each other
anymore.
They've come together a lot,wow.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
There's a lot more to that interview and if you'd
like to hear the rest of it,check out Episode 5 of the
Fremont Podcast.
We just released Episode 122,so Episode 5 was a long time ago
.
If you'd like the Fremontpodcast to continue to make
(10:19):
episodes, let us know.
Easiest way, I guess, is to logon to Instagram, but we've got
contact information all over theinternet.
If you'd like us to keep going,make more episodes, talk to
more people, find little storieshere and there, let us know.
I mean, as this tribute is atestament to, we're not going to
(10:46):
be the only game in town.
Tri-city Voice newspaper isgoing to keep going, but if
you'd like us to keep makingepisodes, let us know that
that's true.
But if you'd like us to keepmaking episodes, let us know
that that's true.
Bill Sharon, genuinely thankyou for all the opportunities
you've given me.
No-transcript.
Hello Fremont, this is Andrew.
This is a little bonus episode.
We've got some news for you, ifyou don't already know it the
owners of the Tri-City Voicenewspaper, bill and Sharon
Marshak, are going to retire.
They have owned and run andproduced that little paper for
over 20 years and they're goingto stop.
(00:23):
They're going to take a break.
They are going to go home andhang out with their dog instead
of, you know, running the onlynewspaper in Fremont seven days
a week while hanging out withtheir dog in the office.
In addition to being the editorfor this podcast, I have written
(00:43):
articles for the Tri-City Voiceand I think my name is still on
the masthead.
And, of course, one time Iasked Bill if I could make a
podcast for the Tri-City Voice.
He said yes and he let me do ituntil the pandemic shut it all
down.
So I wish them well and I wishthem a happy retirement.
(01:05):
The Tri-City Voice, the paperitself, is not going to be shut
down.
According to someone who knows,it's going to be operated by a
different company and, from whatI can tell, the offices of the
Tri-City Voice here in Fremontare going to stay here in
Fremont.
(01:25):
I think that's important.
I used to work for the Argus.
Back when the Argus was theArgus and before the Bay Area
News Group that owns what theyturned into the East Bay Times,
moved the offices out of Fremont, over the hill and a ways away.
(01:46):
I think it's important that theTri-City Voices office is, you
know, for as far as I can tell,going to stay in Fremont,
because when you're not in thecity that you report on, you
don't do a very good jobreporting on it.
It's not really possible to dothat and you certainly don't
report on it as often.
We here at the Fremont podcastwe're certainly not journalists
(02:10):
with a capital J, but we didtalk to people who were here and
we tried to do little storiesevery once in a while about
things that were going on.
And if we were successful atall it's because we all live
here.
We are here in the communitytelling stories about the
community to an audience made upalmost exclusively of the
(02:33):
community here in Fremont.
When a news organization isbased elsewhere, you're going to
get less coverage.
And I said, we here at thepodcast don't do journalism with
a capital J and you could arguethat the Tri-City Voice doesn't
have the biggest capital J inthe journalism department.
(02:54):
In fact, bill Marshak told methat the newspaper is
essentially a community bulletinboard.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And that's what we try to do.
So in a sense we're just like abig community bulletin board.
You know, everybody gets a sayin this thing.
Now, obviously I've gotrestraints in the time that we
can put print and how manyplaces we can distribute to that
(03:28):
sort of thing, but we try to beopen as much as we can to
whatever's happening in thecommunity, in all these
communities.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And I think there is great value in having that.
The Tri-City Voice does do alot of reporting but on the
weeks when it doesn't do a lotof heavy lifting reporting, it's
still really good to have acommunity bulletin board in the
community.
We here at the Fremont Podcasthave actually interviewed Bill
and Sharon Marshak and, as sortof a retirement send-off, I
(04:00):
wanted to play a clip for youfrom that episode teach you in
high school.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
She had an espresso maker at home and she had an
espresso maker at work and shelived on espresso running back
and forth over the hill becauseit was long hours and trying to
figure out what to do and I knewnothing about production.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I didn't even know what a printer looked like a
press.
I kept looking to see where thepress was.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Bill, did you have a job in printing or publishing or
anything?
No, what were you doing?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I was in financial services at the time, okay, so I
worked pretty close to home,okay, and I had clientele.
Absolutely no thought of goinginto newspapers or publishing or
anything of that nature, andnone of my background really
lent itself toward that at allso it was all happenstance.
(04:57):
I'm always curious about areasthat I live in, and since my job
really entailed driving aroundand seeing people and a lot of
different folks in financialservices, I had no problem going
(05:18):
around the area and just takinga look.
But I wasn't into this businessat the time, I was just curious
about it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They said nothing happens in Fremont.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, the common wisdom you know was nothing
happens here.
Yeah, of course.
If you ask any kid anywhere inthe world what their town is
like, probably 99% of the timethey'll tell you nothing happens
here Right Exactly.
That's the common response.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But we got that from more than just kids here, and so
I just found it hard to believe, because we came from Aptos,
which is a very small area, andthere was a lot happening and I
thought, well, gee, this area ismuch larger and it's just
impossible for nothing to behappening here.
(06:09):
It's just a matter of findingout what it is.
We had a printer where we'dprint the pages out to take a
look at it and I'd lay them outon the floor to look at all the
pages, and my cat would walk onall of them.
She just decided that I waslaying them out for her, and I'd
(06:30):
rather be jumping around on topof them too.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So, it was really a home business, if there ever was
one and so you were designingthese out of your house, out of
your house.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You didn't necessarily have an office or
anything.
Oh no, we had no office.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh my goodness that was our first one, that is.
So you were telling me thestory earlier that you were
printing these out and trying tohand them out for free to
people Is that right?
And you said this is the firstone what's happening.
It has a picture of Mission SanJose on the front and you were
saying that it was beingmisunderstood for being a real
estate catalog and people justdidn't want it because they
(07:04):
couldn't afford to buy a house.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We had a hard time convincing them that it was
about Fremont.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We did it all.
We pretty much.
You know I wrote the articles.
Most of them we had some peoplewho helped us.
We went out and soldadvertising.
We sold advertising before weeven had the magazine.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
We had to sell it for about a month before it was
created.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Right, you had to find a way to fund it.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I guess, yeah, you had to convince people that it
was going to exist give somehomage to all the different
folks that are here, whetherthey're newcomers or they've
been here for years and years.
You've got to recognize theirexistence and you have to tell
people, other people, they arenot just a monolith Like you.
(07:57):
Look at some of the communitieshere and if you're not part of
that community, you might think,oh, they're all the same, these
are all you know.
If they're from Pakistan,they're this way.
If they're from India, they'rethis way.
If they're from you know, someother area of Africa, they're
this way.
That's not really true.
You know, it's like saying I'mfrom the United States, so
(08:18):
therefore this is the way I act.
If you're from the UnitedStates, you know that each state
can be different.
Each locale can be different.
It's the same thing for theother communities and other
countries.
So we tried to expose that tothe general population so they
understood that all these peopleare here, they're real people.
(08:42):
they come from differentdifferent backgrounds yeah yeah,
and here's what they do andhere's why they do it, and they
may look a little different.
They may look a littledifferent, they may dress a
little different, but they'repeople just like you are.
Wow, and that was the idea.
The idea was to bring ourcommunity together to feel as a
(09:04):
cohesive unit, and I have to saythat, through all the problems
that we've had nationally andinternationally, and even
regionally, this area has beenrelatively calm and I think it's
because people do understand.
They see on a regular basispeople that may have different
(09:28):
customs than they do, and we'vegrown accustomed to that.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
We've helped them to come together too, to go to the
events, to hear their storiesand to fight their battles with
them.
We fought for parks, we foughtfor religious continuity and we
tell their stories and help themto tell their stories and to
(09:51):
celebrate who they are, so thatthey're not afraid of each other
anymore.
They've come together a lot,wow.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
There's a lot more to that interview and if you'd
like to hear the rest of it,check out Episode 5 of the
Fremont Podcast.
We just released Episode 122,so Episode 5 was a long time ago
.
If you'd like the Fremontpodcast to continue to make
(10:19):
episodes, let us know.
Easiest way, I guess, is to logon to Instagram, but we've got
contact information all over theinternet.
If you'd like us to keep going,make more episodes, talk to
more people, find little storieshere and there, let us know.
I mean, as this tribute is atestament to, we're not going to
(10:46):
be the only game in town.
Tri-city Voice newspaper isgoing to keep going, but if
you'd like us to keep makingepisodes, let us know that
that's true.
But if you'd like us to keepmaking episodes, let us know
that that's true.
Bill Sharon, genuinely thankyou for all the opportunities
you've given me.
No-transcript.
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