TAHLEQUAH —
Although most area residents are still busy planning for their Christmas holidays, the Daily Press is – out of necessity – looking ahead to one of our three biggest yearly projects. It’s our annual Fact Book, and it will be coming out the last Sunday in January.
The Fact Book includes comprehensive lists about our elected officials, emergency response information, demographic data, public boards and their meeting dates and times, area educational institutions, and American Indian tribes. Most of this information can be collected by our news staff, but churches and organizations are more complicated. But it’s virtually impossible to get in touch with a representative from every one of these two groups – especially since we have more than 130 organizations, and about the same number of churches, in Cherokee County.
That’s where you, our readers, come in. Many of you are members of churches or clubs, or are involved with charitable organizations. And since some of you may be off work for the holidays, we thought this might be a good time to issue a call for help. We want to get this right because, after all, if we have the wrong pastor listed, or the wrong club president, or even the wrong meeting times for a club, people tend to get irritated, and the Fact Book has less value for readers. In the past, many people have kept it around as a handy reference throughout the year, and we’d like to see that trend continue.
If your club president or pastor or their contact information has changed since January 2012, or if you have changed meeting dates, times and places, we’d like to hear from you. Even if you think it might be the same as what we listed last year, you can still send us your information.
In the case of churches, we’re looking for the name, address and phone number of the church, and email and website if applicable; the pastor’s name and phone; and the service/worship times. In the case of clubs and organizations, we’d like the name of the president or other contact person, and a phone number and email address; website, if applicable; and the location, dates and times of meetings (for instance: “meets first Thursday of the month, 10 a.m., at the NSU UC”).
Please email your information to Managing Editor Kim Poindexter at kpoindexter@cnhi.com. We’ll need it by close of business Wednesday, Jan. 16, so we may begin designing this extensive supplement in time to make our print deadline. If you simply want to check on your entry from last year before you email us, call (918) 456-8833 and as for Associate Digital Editor Kolby Paxton at ext. 20. If you leave a message and haven’t heard back from Kolby in a day or two, call back, because he’s doing double-duty in composing right now.
And by the way, if you’re involved with one of our local public boards or fire departments and feel we may have overlooked something, give Josh Newton a call.
Thanks for helping us make our Fact Book a success. It only takes a few minutes of your time to help us get it right!
Editorials
Time to send us your facts!
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Phone record debacle an insult to press
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot.
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Punishing the animal dumpers
Animal dumping is not a problem unique to Cherokee County, but anyone who’s been keeping up with current events for the past decade or so will acknowledge it’s especially prevalent here.
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Openness on AG the right course
It takes courage to admit to a serious mistake or a personal lapse, especially when the nature of the situation may call for a public mea culpa.
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Legislative action not encouraging
It’s outrageous to advance the argument that it’s “fair” for Chesapeake Oil to wind up with a negative tax bill – lower than the average Oklahoman paid last year. Yet that’s precisely the message some of that company’s protectors in the state Legislature are trying to convey.
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Cast your ballot for ‘At Its Best’
May has arrived, and that means folks will be relishing their upcoming trips over the Memorial Day weekend to Lake Tenkiller and the Illinois River. Before that, families with 12th-graders in their households will be making plans to watch their children make the monumental transition that graduation brings.
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Corporations shouldn’t have ‘people’ status
Since the Supreme Court made its fateful 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, most Americans have come to agree with the cynical statement that “corporations aren’t people.” And most Americans – except that tiny fraction who wield all the power – would approve of a constitutional amendment to make it tougher to buy a congressman.
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Anti-texting bill still needs look
A bill that would have banned texting while driving was shot down for the third and presumably final time this legislative session, and we can’t say we’re surprised.
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Red Fern a great family fun event
By the time many of you read this, you’ll already be just hours away from milling around, or kicking back in your lawn chairs, at Norris Park. Some of you might already be downtown before your paper arrives.
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Progress set to print Sunday
Sporadic readers will want to pick up a copy of the Sunday, April 21 Daily Press. It will contain the first “wave” of our annual Progress edition.
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Faking ‘evidence’ hurts their case
Sometimes activists, in their determined attempts to advance cherished causes, can do more harm than good. That’s what could be happening in the case of the pit bulldog killed with an arrow by a local high school student.
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