PDN’s ‘Little League Salute’ beginning Tuesday
The Poteau Daily News will begin its 2022 “Little League Salute” in Tuesday’s edition.
You noticed I said “will begin.”
As I have made mention on numerous times in this column, for the last 14-plus months, we are under page limitations, so it means a lot of times it will take more than one edition to fully get something into PDN.
Case in point, last holiday season, it took several editions to get all the “How to Cook a Turkey” letters and “Letters to Santa” all published due to the space constraints we’re under these days.
Sports Editor Tom Firme will be no different with the 2022 Little League Salute. He likely will need multiple editions in order to get the number of team photographs published.
I mention this so that you, the readers, will know that when you may not see the team photograph of your son or daughter that rest assured it will be published.
What does not get published on Tuesday will get published on Thursday, and what doesn’t “make the cut” for Thursday will be published in a later edition, and so forth.
I’m sorry it has to be this way, but that’s the hand of cards we at PDN have been dealt. We try to do the best we can under the circumstances. • • •
PDN received its first “Reader’s Choice” ballot. The first one published in Tuesday’s edition, and the next one will publish in Thursday’s edition. Then, there will be three more times the ballot will be published.
You can turn in your ballot in person at our office at 804 North Broadway Avenue, by mailing them to P.O. Box 1237, Poteau, OK 74953 or by faxing them to (918) 647-8198.
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Last weekend was a bittersweet one for me as I had to return my soon-tobe 96-year-old mom back home to Enid after she was here with me for two weeks.
We got to do a lot of things, such as last Saturday going to the Fort Gibson Historic Site, the U.S.S. Batfish Museum and The Castle in Muskogee — although The Castle did not have its renaissance people/memorabilia out as the 2022 Renaissance Festival ended in early June. I do hope I can take her there when the “goodies” are out for viewing.
Thursday afternoon, I took her through Talimena State Park, the Bigfoot Museum in Talihina and some of the surrounding countryside — including taking her through Lenox for the first time in about 40 years after my mom, late dad, family friends and myself came through there in the mid 1980s. My mom’s maiden name is Lenox.
Hopefully, she’ll be back to celebrate Thanksgiving with me in November.
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With us in July now, you know what that means. Fall high school and college football and high school fast-pitch softball, baseball and cross country are on the horizon. Some are already counting down the days until football begins. Imagine that happening in Oklahoma, right?
Sports Editor Tom Firme will end his vacation time on Wednesday, but he’ll have to start gearing up to not only cover these fall sports, but get ready for the fall special sections — the Fall Diamond Tab and the LeFlore County Gridiron Preview — that will publish in August.
This is one aspect of turning to the news side from sports. I do not miss is all that these special sections and the job it takes to make them happen.
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Seeley is the editor of The Poteau Daily News. He can be reached by telephone at (918) 647-3188, Ext. 30 or by e-mail at editor@poteaudailynews.com.