Michelle Havist Weekly News GM

Michelle Havist is the new general manager of the La Conner Weekly News. Havist, who keeps the Sunrise Food Bank humming as its director, will bring her management and marketing skills down the hill to the Weekly News. As a volunteer for the Food Bank, she created a new website and brought them into the 21st-century digital world. The board recognized the gem they had and asked her to become its director when Susan Widdop retired in September. Havist was likewise recommended to the Weekly News by the Rev. Marcella Baker.

Havist is charged with making the Weekly News more visible in the communi...