Trevon Meets a Mogul

Our own Trevon Milliard is working as a crack reporter for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and having so much fun that we may have to drag him back to school. Like other interns this summer, Trevon witnessed some of the newspaper industry's woes; the Chronicle recently announced a round of layoffs due to advertising losses. But he's also seen how exciting and interesting a reporter's life can be - as on the day he met his first media mogul.

Here's how he tells it:

"The first day on the job in May, I was doing a story about a Ted’s Montana Grill opening in town. It’s a restaurant chain co-founded by Ted Turner that has more than 50 restaurants in America specializing in bison meat. Ironically enough, this was the first Montana Grill in the state of Montana.

"I went to the restaurant just to catch a glimpse of the construction work being done and was being shown around by the proprietor when Ted Turner walked in. The restaurant owner was just as surprised as I was.

"He introduced me to Ted Turner, and I asked a few questions before he jetted.

"Since then, I’ve been the general assignment reporter here, doing everything from covering a rally of 50 super cars touring the US driven by the rich of the rich, like Paris Hilton.

"One of the drivers - a professional race car driver - took me for a heart-pounding ride on the road that winds up Lone Peak in a $250,000 super car called a Spyker Spyder built in Holland.

"Another day, I rode a horse named Jesse (I called him Jesse James) on the thin trail up the Spanish Mountains. First real horse ride for me, and we even crossed a few creeks that were deep and gushing from all the run-off this spring.

"Tomorrow is never even similar to today or yesterday, and I never spend an entire eight hours at my desk."