The Waco Citizen has been published in Waco since Oct. 1946. The Waco Citizen always promotes Waco and as a result the city and county have grown to a population exceeding 200,000 and a major city in Texas. Waco is ideally located deep in the Heart of Texas on Interstate 35, 100 miles South of Dallas and 100 miles North of the state capital, Austin. Waco is becoming more and more an industrial city and a regional shopping center. We are an official, legal newspaper for McLennan County and State of Texas and most of the surrounding cities around Waco. We carry general news about the community.

  Bill Foster received his 50 year pin from the Texas Press Association some years ago. He studied photography and advertising in Baylor in the 50's. He is married to Ellen Campbell Foster, and has two girls, Jennifer Martin and Cheryl Foster. His first wife Camelia, was the editor of the Citizen and became a household name around Waco before she passed away in May, 1990.

   Bill is the History Committee Chairman for the First United Methodist Church, which celebrated its 150th birthday the same time as Waco did in the year 2000. He is a member of the Waco Hotel/Motel Association. Also past president of the Beverly Hills Lions and served for over 10 years as the district's PR chairman. He is presently president on the board of Brookview neighborhood association where his office is located now. He holds the trade mark for Miss Waco Pageant with the state of Texas and for over 25 years staged a Miss Waco contest. At one time he did considerable promotions tied in with newspapers, radio and TV. Such promotions are the RV, Boat & Sports Show, Gun Show and Auctions, Arts and Crafts Shows and various other events.

   In previous years The Waco Citizen worked with the Autorama and Miss Autorama contest.Foster has been written up in Who's Who in the South and Southwest. At one time he operated a centralized printing plant, printing over 21 different publications. His father, W. S. (Bill) Foster, was an attorney and journalist. He came to Waco in 1917 to attend Baylor and was editor of the Citizen before Camelia. During the war years 1940-45 he owned five newspapers across Texas, while serving in the Texas Legislature. He became a lawyer in 1935. He was 84 when he passed away. His wife Vera, passed away in 1985. They had four children.