A Little Perspective

Here are some facts about the production of the NSNA newsletter that may help members and others to have a bit of perspective. During the years that Tim Baker edited the newsletter, it grew from several pages to up to 12 each edition. It is published 12 months a year. Every month, the newsletter is provided to all NSNA members (at last count, about 500?) and every other month, it is delivered to all households in North Shore (about 3,000?)in order to serve the neighborhood and increase association membership. Tim spent a minimum of 20 hours a week selling advertising to take care of the costs of publishing and mailing; getting volunteers to contribute articles; planning the layout; and coordinating the printing, mailing and various other tasks.
Someone pointed out that this is a volunteer organization, and NSNA accomplishments are the result of dedicated volunteerism. But recruiting and sustaining volunteers for every effort is difficult. Often, much work and responsibility has fallen on the shoulders of a small group of people repeatedly. So, a mumber of alternatives will be explored by the Board to try to insure that a good quality, informative newsletter continues--they'll be discussed at the Aug. Board meeting and we will act as quickly as possible.
In the interim, let's thank Carl for his work under difficult circumstances and those volunteers who are contributing articles for the Aug. newsletter. Thanks!

An Oversight...

Also, Thanks very much to Frank Hay for handling advertising for the newsletter!

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For those of you who may not know, Tim Baker moved out of North Shore
into the boundaries of the North Downtown Neighborhood Association. He was kind enough to
do several issues of our newsletter after he moved and offered assistance to John Mitrovka who graciously agreed to serve as editor as Tim moved on. John resigned as editor in June.

The board had already begun exploring ways to make the compilation and distribution of the newsletter easier before John's resignation and that process continues. As Susan has pointed out, this has been a totally volunteer effort and it is really much too time consuming for one individual to sustain.

And......

.....And to Mr. Mitrovka who took newsletter to 12 pages monthly and gained respect for the publication by submitting and winiing NEWSLETTER OF THE YEAR by the city of Saint Pete!