It's a summer full of milestones and celebration for The Oceana Echo. Last month, your trusty, local paper marked its second year serving our community, and next month will have delivered 1,500,000 issues!
Echo Publishing Inc. Vice President Amanda Dodge enthuses, “We are really excited about these accomplishments! We love what we do and are so thankful to serve our community.”
In honor of these achievements, the Echo staff is hosting a number of “Evening with the Echo” events in multiple locations where the papers are delivered every Friday.
Each “Evening with the Echo” will include a presentation about the Echo, a Q&A with Echo staff and an opportunity to give feedback, refreshments from a local establishment, a photo contest with live voting and an opportunity to support the Echo with a donation. “We would love to hear from our readers as we continue to raise funds to keep the Echo and Mirror coming free to almost 15,000 area homes each week,” Dodge said. "We are looking forward to the photo contest as well."
Rules for the photo contest are as follows: it is open to anyone, with one photo per person, and the photo must be of the community in which the “Evening with the Echo” event is held. Photos can be submitted via email to Brendan Samuels at brendan@oceanaecho.com or turned in the night of the event. The photos must not have appeared in any other publication, and the photographer must be present in-person at the event to sign a release for potential use in the Echo should their photo win the contest. Two photos from each community will be chosen and featured in the Echo (one for the live community vote that evening and one by Echo staff members). Winners will receive their photo featured in the Echo or Mirror.
These special community events will take place from now through October. This month's are:
July 17 - Thursday, 6-7 p.m. at Park Place in Pentwater
July 24 - Thursday, 6-7 p.m. at the Hart Community Center
July 29 - Tuesday, 6-7 p.m. at the Mears UMC
July 31 - Thursday, 6-7 p.m. at The Ladder in Shelby
Dates and locations for events in Walkerville, Hesperia, Ferry, New Era, Rothbury, Montague and Whitehall will be announced as they are confirmed.
If you enjoy reading the local news featured in the Echo and Mirror, be sure to attend an “Evening with the Echo” when it comes to your neighborhood, and support our nonprofit newspaper with your contribution towards this gift to our community.
