2022 Fall Diamond Tab coming out Saturday

As I mentioned last week, August is full of Poteau Daily News promotions. The first is coming out at week’s end.

The 2022 Fall Diamond Tab will publish in Saturday’s edition, which will include team photographs of the local high school fast-pitch softball and fall baseball teams as well as season-preview stories.

Next week, our Aug. 25 edition will have half of PDN’s August promotions. Within the regular edition will be a singlepage salute to National Dog Day, which is Aug. 26. There will be a single page of some of the dog photographs that have either been submitted through PDN’s Facebook page post or through my e-mail address at editor@ poteaudailynews.com. All submissions need to ID the dog(s) in the photograph as well as any humans in those photographs.

Also in the Aug. 25 edition, PDN will publish our annual Reader’s Choice special section, in which the top two finishers in all the categories in which you the readership voted as best individual, business, etc … will be made known.

The last PDN promotion will publish in the Aug. 27 edition, the 2022 LeFlore County Gridiron Preview, featuring season-preview stories on the local high school football teams and their team photographs, will come out.

Both the 2022 Fall Diamond

Tab and the 2022 LeFlore County Gridiron Preview have been frantically worked on by Sports Editor Tom Firme, who has spent time at fast-pitch softball and fall baseball events as well as attending high school football teams’ media days. If he looks like he’s a zombie, now you all know why. Just kidding, Tom.

This is one of the aspects of being a sports editor I don’t miss when I returned to PDN March 6, 2020, as (news) editor. I truly don’t know if I could have handled the tasks Tom has been doing!

For the third straight week, I’ve got a sad note on which to end my column.

Early last week, we lost a true music icon in the passing of singer Olivia Newton-John as she lost her 30-year battle with breast cancer.

When I heard about her passing, I automatically went to visions of portions of the 1978 iconic musical “Grease,” in which she starred as “Sandy Olsson” and which helped make John Travolta a star.

R.I.P., Olivia NewtonJohn, a.k.a. “Sandy Olsson.”