Subj : Square/Round Dance News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Oct 15 2021 05:22:08

  Update on the November, 2021 issue of The Modern Square:

  While the November, 2021 issue will NOT be released until Sunday, Oct.
17 (due to weather and other issues), I've decided that because of the
large size of this months e-Edition, instead of sending out a PDF of
the print file, I've made a SEPARATE FILE, with just the pictures
submitted.

  This separate file will be available via the ASSDF website ONLY, and
will NOT go out in an email blast. This will be the case from now on,
and be whether 1 or 100+ pictures are submitted. If no pictures are sent
in, then no file will be prepared or created for that particular month.

 To obtain the file, you will have to go to the page on the ASSDF website
with The Modern Square:

https://www.arkansassquaredance.com/the-modern-square

  and click on the desired link. The remainder of the e-Edition will
remain as it is...with links to the various websites, and the email
addresses, all clickable.

  As for the print edition, since we have restrictions on the number
of pages, depending on the amount of content submitted (ads, club
reports, etc.), some items may need to be cut. Right now, I only have
two club reports, and are expecting maybe two more.

  Basically, either the other clubs have no news to contribute, or no
one wants to send in a report. Either way, no one outside their club
will know what is going on. Three clubs are still dark (not dancing),
due to COVID-19 issues, so I'm not expecting anything from them.

  However, if what I get from the other 2 club reports doesn't bring
me to the needed page requirement, then items on the Special Events
Calendar in the print edition will have to be REMOVED...or it may be
REDUCED to a 2 to 3 month time frame only.

  I can't wait forever for folks to send stuff in, and I can't force
them to do so. I'm hoping in future months that I don't have to enact
a deadline extension...never mind the fact that the Postal Service is
now taking a minimum of 5 days to deliver First Class Mail.

  If I can get back to the FIRM DEADLINE of the 14th of the month,
before the month of issue, I would prefer that. Items that miss the
deadline will have to wait until the next issue...whether folks like
it or not. Or, they can get someone else to do their club report; or
they just won't have anything in the publication.

Daryl Stout, Editor, Webmaster, Circulation Chairman
Arkansas State Square Dance Federation
https://www.arkansassquaredance.com
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