*03/06/15 PETER VAN ALLEN, EDITOR MAINEBIZ

Our program this week will be presented by Peter Van Allen, Editor of MaineBiz.

We are fortunate to get Peter on dry ground, as he reports to spending 200 days a year on the water, either in a rowing shell, kayak, sailboat, surfboard, or stand-up paddle boat. When he’s not paddling around, he has spent the past 25 years writing and editing newspapers and magazines. Prior to joining Mainebiz in May 2014, Peter was with the Philadelphia Business Journal 15 years. Previous to that, he was both editor and reporter for such publications as Vanguard, American Banker, the (Gary, Ind.) Post Tribune, the (Camden, NJ) Courier Post, as well as reporting and writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer and the NY Times.  No surprise, he has also contributed to Rower’s Digest, Rowing News, and Liquid Salt. Peter graduated in 1988 from Goddard College, with a BA in Non-fiction writing. Upon moving to Maine, Peter and his family took up residence in Yarmouth. Says Peter,  "For the past decade, my family and I have been lucky enough to spend our vacations in Midcoast Maine. My younger daughter summed up our love of Maine this way: 'It was one week of vacation and 51 weeks of waiting.'"   For our sake, we hope he can deal with the snow and ice.