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BOUNCING BACK
from page 8
"We knew we could only stay in
the ballroom for two days," said
Neill.
So while most of the staff worked
to get the paper out, others were
searching desperately for a new tern-
porary location. They found it in the
JARC office building on
Northwestern Highway in
Farmington Hills. By Wednesday, the
move to the temporary offices had
been- accomplished.
"We got the paper out a day late,"
said Sklar. "And it wasn't a small
paper. It was 116 pages, our normal
size for that time of year."
When the paper went to the print-
er, the staff uncorked champagne.
"We were all working on adrena-
line," said Neill. "Getting the paper
out under those circumstances was an
unbelievable accomplishment."
More Challenges
But getting out the Feb. 1 issue was
only the first hurdle. There was still
much to do to get back to business as
usual. The fire had destroyed every
department except for editorial,
which suffered severe water and
smoke damage. Inrecon, a Dearborn
company, was salvaging what they
could of those damaged editorial files.
Getting new phone lines operational
was a special challenge for the news-
paper and Ameritech, since there
were different switching stations for
the old office and the new. Following
anintense planning meeting five days
after the fire, 16 new lines were
brought into the temporary office.
Over the next few weeks, a new
server was purchased and installed,
along with new PCs and Macintosh
computers for the staff. Baseview, an
Ann Arbor company, began rebuild-
ing the classified and circulation files,
and SDS installed new accounts
receivable software. A new data center
was designed and created.
Things are close to normal at the
newspaper's temporary offices, but
the recovery from the disastrous fire
shows what can be accomplished with
smart planning, dedicated people,
good suppliers, and an enormous
amount of hard work.
"I hope it was just a once-in-a-life-
time experience," said Day. ❑