Parker Pioneer

The Parker Pioneer is published every Wednesday by River City Newspapers, LLC, 1001 12th St., P.O. Box 3365
Parker, Arizona 85344. Phone: (928) 669-2275
Fax: (928) 669-9624

John Gutekunst

John Gutekunst has been the News Editor of the Parker Pioneer since January 2006. He had been Acting News Editor for several months before this. He’s been a reporter for the Parker Pioneer for eight years, and he’s been with the paper full time since August 2002. John is a 1982 graduate of Ohio University’s School of Journalism in Athens. Ohio. He first moved to Arizona in 1983. He’s lived in Parker since 1992. John has worked a variety of jobs, including cashier, copy machine operator, and inventory counter. For 10 years, he was a school custodian in Parker. He has gotten to know the community, and he has applied his other experiences to his reporting work at the Pioneer. In addition to reporting and editing, John draws the cartoons which appear on the Pioneer’s editorial page. Calling himself an “equal opporunity offender,” he regularly needles political figures of all stripes.

Kelly Parks

Kelly Parks is production manager for River City Newspapers, overseeing ad graphics work and the flow of print products, including the daily newspaper, Today's News-Herald. Kelly brings more than 20 years of graphic arts experience to the position. She came to Lake Havasu City with husband, Randy, about four years ago and became creative director of a local lifestyle magazine. Most of her career was spent in Oregon, where she was operations director for a commercial printing and marketing company.

Jim Abdon

Jim Abdon is circulation manager of River City Newspapers. Originally from California, he signed on with the newspapers in the early 1990s and headed the newspapers' distribution since the formation of the existing company in 1995.