layout of a sunset taken by staff photographer Mike Valeri. When the story of Valeri's photograph hit the national news wire services, the newspaper was deluged with calls and letters from around the country and beyond. Newspaper staff have received hundreds of written requests for reprints of what everyone simply calls "the angel picture." Proceeds from the $25 reprints are donated to the newspaper's charity, the Neediest Families Fund.
Valeri has been interviewed by local and national television, newspapers, and radio regarding the picture. He believes the photo "stands for something good". The newspaper's computer systems administrator Vance Gorke has received many e-mail messages from people who have seen the photo on the newspaper's World Wide Web site: "One man from Rhode Island said his father had died, and he saw the angel as a sign that reaffirmed his faith," Gorke said. "People have said: 'You know, this was just what I needed right
now.'"
(Source: Standard Times, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA) 1998
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