Calendar Notice

If you know of an event coming up, send it to us as soon as possible and it will be placed in the calendar to run as often as possible between now and the date of your event.

This is especially important if the event is one that you would like for us to attend and cover for the paper because our staff gets stretched like a big ol' rubber band trying to get around the county to cover special events.

And before we go any further, let me say this: we may be many things but mind readers/psychics we are not.

If you know of an event that we should be aware of, please do not assume that we know about it. Just this week someone called to ask why we were not at a particular event. Well, it’s simple ... we weren't there because nobody bothered to call and tell us about it.

We cannot attend an event we don't know about, and on that same note, our small staff often sets its schedule so that we can be at as many events as possible, and if someone waits until the last minute to call us, we may or may not be able to drop everything and travel halfway across the county to be at a meeting that is about to start just at the moment that the person decided to tell us about it.

Just give us as much advance notice as possible because this will help us more than you know.

You can email your announcements to choctawsun@millry.net, fax them to 251-843-3233, bring them by in person, mail them by U.S. Mail to P.O. Box 269, Gilbertown, AL 36908, or take them by our friend Ron Mason's Southern Oaks Land and Realty / The Mason office on Ala. 17 north in Butler and leave them in the drop box by his front door.

We again remind our readers to please keep in mind a few simple rules for submitting your announcements for the calendar.

#1 -- Make sure that all information is clear and concise.

#2 -- Include a short description of the event, the date and time (including the day of the week), location, and any other vital information such as guest speaker, etc. If listing a phone number for people to call for additional information, please list ONE number only.

#3 -- If emailing, please, please, please, don't send your announcement typed in "all caps" (all capital letters). Our typesetting software will not properly convert this formatting which means that it has to be manually re-keyed ... which means that if we are extremely busy, the announcement may be delayed.

#4 -- Remember, "for-profit" events and those that are NOT open to the general public do not qualify for a free listing in the calendar. Political events that endorse/favor an individual candidate likewise do not quality (such as fundraisers, etc.)

We love to publicize your events in the calendar, and by following these simple rules you can help us to get your announcements published in a timely manner.