Lewiston – Sharon Deveau-Handy will be the featured guest speaker of the Lewiston Auburn Rotary Club at the Ramada Inn, Lewiston on Thursday, September 8.  Her topic is “It’s Not Your Grandparents Evening News,” how technology has changed and is changing the news.

Sharon Deveau-Handy has covered the news in Lewiston-Auburn and southern Maine for nearly 40 years. A native of Bangor, she grew up in the Orono/Old Town area.  The reporting of Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who uncovered the Nixon Administration’s role in the Watergate break-in, led Deveau-Handy to pursue journalism as a career. She graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in journalism in 1978.  Her first job after graduation brought her to Lewiston and she liked Lewiston-Auburn so much she never left.  Over the course of 20 years at the Lewiston Sun-Journal, she worked her way up from a general assignment reporter to covering police, fire and business beats before moving to editorial duties. She has been the assignment editor at WMTW-TV, Channel 8, since 1998. The news team at WMTW has been recognized by the Maine Association of Broadcasters for its Election Night coverage and has won several regional Edward R. Murrow awards, most recently for their coverage of the blizzard in January 2015.She also won a Maine Association of Broadcasters award in the category of Public Affairs for an exclusive report in 2006 detailing tax liens that had been imposed on a candidate for governor. Deveau-Handy is also active in the community. She recently became chair of the Board of Directors for Literacy Volunteers Androscoggin and is president of the Lewiston High School Performing Arts Boosters.  She and her husband Jim Handy are parents of three adult children, all of whom live and work in the Lewiston-Auburn area.

FMI on other Rotary programs and events contact Program Chair, Monica Millhime, 753.9040 or email monica.millhime@maine.gov.