In this week's edition of the newspaper many of you will find a questionaire inserted in our pages. I am writing today to urge you to take the few minutes it will require to fill out the survey and then simply fold it, tape it and drop in the mail. This is a survey of our readers' preferences, habbits and activities that will help us better know the interests of you, our readers. It is an anonymous survey and is being conducted for the Weekly by Verified Audit Circulation and is only inserted in a select number of papers.

As an incentive for you to take the time to answer all the questions there is an entry form attached where you can enter to win a grand prize of two

round-trip tickets on American Airlines or one of four $25 gift certificates from Longs Drug. The deadline for the survey to be mailed is February 18, 2000. Thanks in advance for taking the time to complete the questionaire.

--Bradley Zeve
Publisher, Coast Weekly

P.S. Oh yeah, and the postage is paid too!