In December 1999, Koren developed and designed the DISPATCH, an eight-page newsletter, for Crest Forest Fire Protection District in Southern California. The newsletter features department, district, and industry news along with fire family stories and a children's page.

Readers include district employees and their families, retired employees, community members, and officers of neighboring fire districts.

Koren served as editor, lead writer, photographer and designer through August 2002. The newsletter now continues under the direction of district media personnel.

A few words regarding the DISPATCH:

"Koren Wetmore has conceptualized, developed, written and published our fire department newsletter, the DISPATCH. It is done professionally, holds itself to issues that are of importance to the department, and is a significant communications tool for all levels within the department.

The initiative, imagination, skill, and dedication to the goals she has set for the newsletter are displayed throughout her product. She has created a publication that appeals to a wide audience: management, staff, professional firefighter, volunteer firefighter and their families.

Her instinctive ability to identify her target audience and write to it in such an entertaining and informative style is impressive; and in our case it is often a matter of writing on technical issues in a manner that the average layperson can understand and appreciate. She does this with a product that is visually appealing as well as informative.”