Dear readers, It has been a joy and privilege to bring you the Village News each week for the past several years. So it is with a somewhat heavy heart that I say farewell. Although being editor has brought its fair share of trials, I choose to remember the outstanding benefits: the satisfaction of bringing news and views of La Jolla that inform and perhaps inspire; the opportunity to get to know members of the community through these pages, over the phone or at various events; the pleasure of working with so many talented writers, photographers and graphic artists; and the sense that the paper not only provides a platform for points of view but may sometimes help facilitate change for the better. Thank you to all the readers who have felt so passionately about various issues that you called or wrote to the paper, not only letters of praise but clarification and correction. I also would like to especially thank reporter Adriane Tillman for her diligence, hard work and can-do attitude, as well as the rest of the editorial department for their support and camaraderie. I know the Village News is in great hands and I hope it will prosper in 2010. I know I will often think of and remember my tenure here with happiness and the satisfaction of a job well done. Anne Terhune, former editor, La Jolla Village News