Our very special speaker this month is our own home grown Jeanette Trompeter!  Jeanette grew up on the central coast of California. She lived in the Monterey Bay area through high school, then went to college at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.   She spent her first few years in the broadcasting business there, working for a local radio station and KSBY-TV (NBC).   

She made her move to the midwest when she took a job at KCCI-TV (CBS) in Des Moines, Iowa and covered everything from tornados to the state fair and the presidential caucuses.  In March of 2005 she ventured north to the Twin Cities to take a job at WCCO-TV.  Jeanette has been honored with awards from the Associated Press, the Iowa and Minnesota Broadcasting Associations and received regional Emmy awards for her reporting and anchoring as well as two regional Edward R Murrow awards for her reporting.  She left Minneapolis and took a job at KSBY-TV in 2010, and in doing so, moved back home.  Jeanette anchors the evening and late night newscasts there and does a weekly segment called “Out And About” where she profiles all the treasures to be found on the Central Coast.