Angela Mehnert Editor and Publisher
 Angie was an Army brat. She was born in Germany. Angie’s father was a decorated WWII soldier and a tank commander during the Battle of the Bulge where he lost two tanks and several crew members, and which immediately followed the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest that Ernest Hemingway compared to major World War I battles. German General von Gersdorff said the
Hurtgen Forest and the better known Battle of the Bulge were more horrific than anything he saw on the Russian Front.
In addition to living in Europe, Angie has lived in many states in the United States, from coast to coast, while her father also served in Korea and Vietnam. Together with her parents and her brother, in 1970 Angie moved to Arizona where she completed high school and earned a legal assistant certification.
Angie has served in various capacities as a legal assistant including with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and the State of Arizona. Angie has done work for Arizona school districts both as a volunteer in different capacities and as an employee working with learning disabled and gifted students.
Angie is a professional policy writer,
editor, and publisher. She worked as a Child Support Enforcement Officer for the State of Arizona where she engaged in everything from establishing paternity and court orders to collecting child support in difficult and complicated cases. Angie has attended many seminars and workshops and has been awarded certificates relating to facilitation, training, and auditing. She has worked as a specialist dealing with high level and other sensitive complaints filed with the Governor and with other State of Arizona elected officials and national elected officials representing Arizona. She presently works as a policy writer for a large government agency
where she interacts with workers and managers at all levels.
Privately, Angie is the owner and operator of a Glendale, Arizona based publishing and photography business, Red Wagon Publishing & Photography (RedWagonPub.com) and has served as
writer, editor, and publisher including for their most recent publication “Customer Advocacy”. When time permits, Angie conducts workshops and presentations on such topics as customer service, leadership and character development, employee motivation and retention, facilitation and other topics relating to functioning successfully in business and in government.
George Mehnert
Photo
Journalist, Photographer, Trainer and Coach
Photographer,
Writer; Weight Training, Strength,
Conditioning, Fitness, and Tennis
Coach,
and Motivational Speaker. 
George entered the U.S.
Army, where as a young man still in his teens he worked as an apprentice
criminal investigator in Europe under some of the best known CID
investigators in the Army. He investigated procurement fraud and other
crimes, and conducted physical security and crime prevention surveys. It
was as an investigator that he developed his investigative, research, and
analytical interests and skills that led him to earn a Bachelor of Science
degree in sociology where he studied statistics and research methods.
It was also in the Army
that George learned fundamental photography skills by apprenticing with a
master photographer for four years in Europe. Today, George is primarily a
photojournalist, photographic artist and environmental photographer.
Commercially, George specializes as an independent photojournalist, as a
fine art and corner art photographer, and in product photography primarily
photographing small products for catalogues, web sites, and other
advertising in a studio adjacent his home.
For more than a dozen
years George was an investigator in the Office of the Attorney General for
the State of Arizona where he investigated everything from financial crimes
and consumer fraud to organized crime and racketeering.
George was one of the
early cyber crimes investigators in the nation and executed fifty-five
search warrants for computer based evidence in one twenty-four month
period. He developed search warrant affidavit language for computer based
evidence that at one time was a model for many law enforcement agencies. In
addition to working as a writer and photographer, George has served as a
government agency executive, as a survey researcher, and as a consultant to
business and government.
George researches, writes,
and consults on a
variety of subjects including physical security, computer security, customer
service, leadership vs. management, disaster recovery; corporate, media, and
government investigations; and downsizing and streamlining businesses and government agencies.
George is also a fitness,
weight training and strength and speed coach, as well as a private and team tennis coach. George speaks to seniors
and other community groups and organizations on such varied topics as
diabetes and exercise. George is
currently working on books and monographs on a variety of topics.
Just about seven years ago
George began research regarding downsizing, streamlining, and efficiency
organizations,
and how these relate to customer service, quality, and profits in business
and in quality, effectiveness and efficiency in government. This research
has been followed by a manual entitled “Customer Advocacy,” that can be seen
and purchased at RedWagonPub.com.
George has volunteered as
a contributing writer on health and fitness and on other topics to various
publications. He has helped establish tennis and other programs in local
communities and at city wide levels and is presently writing a book on
cardio tennis. George has been a public service photographer for
organizations such as the Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association, Arizona
Special Olympics, Make a Wish Foundation, and Phoenix Children's Hospital
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