August full of PDN promotions
The Poteau Daily News is full of promotions — four of them — in August.
Last week’s column, I made reference to Sports Editor Tom Firme’s two fall sports special tabloid sections — the 2022 Fall Diamond Tab featuring team photographs and season previews of the local high school fast-pitch softball and fall baseball teams, which will publish Aug. 20, and the 2022 LeFlore County Gridiron Preview featuring team photographs and season previews of the local high school football teams, which will publish Aug. 27.
A third promotion is truly one that stemmed from July when we published on several occasions our Reader’s Choice ballot for you all to vote for your favorite businesses and individuals. The votes have been tabulated, and the winners will be announced in a special tabloid section Aug. 25.
In that same regular edition, PDN is going to celebrate National Dog Day, which is the following day on Aug. 26. You all can send us photographs of your dog and his/her name to my e-mail address of editor@poteaudailynews.com or through our PDN Facebook’s post — which already had greater than 100 submissions. There will be a single-page collage of some of the submitted photographs in the Aug. 25 edition.
All of these special sections are looking for advertisement sponsorships. Just reach out to PDN Advertising Representative Tabitha Wilcox (twilcox@poteaudailynews.com) or call us at (918) 647-3188.
In my last column, it mentioned how it was a sad weekend the last weekend of July with the passing of both “Star Trek” original cast member Nichelle Nichols and basketball legend Bill Russell.
One week ago tonight, we lost baseball announcing icon Vin Scully at age 94. Scully was the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers announcer for 67 years as well as was NBC’s announcer for its national baseball coverage in the 1980s. He even called the 1981 NFC Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers, noted for
“The Catch” by late receiver Dwight Clark on the game-winning touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Montana that clinched the win — and began the 1980s 49ers’ dynasty. Scully also called several Professional Golf Association tournaments. A true legend who will be greatly missed.
For those of you who are “Magnum, P.I.” fans — the one with Tom Selleck, and not Jay Fernandez — were saddened Sunday night on the passing of the actor who played “T.C.” and flew the helicopter — Roger E. Mosley, who did not recover from the injuries sustained in a recent automobile accident.
R.I.P., Vin Scully and Roger E. Mosley.