Groundwaters

A Plea for Help…

January 9, 2009 on 4:29 am | In This 'n That | No Comments

Happy New Year All!

2009 has started out really well for Groundwaters. The beautiful January issue is printed and distributed and is disappearing out of the racks and off the shelves faster than normal. We’ve also added a couple of distribution sites this issue. It can also be found in the Junction City Library and Books on Main Street in Cottage Grove. I will also be leaving some at the Cottage Grove Library this weekend.

Good news! In our never-ending quest for financial stability for the magazine, we are joining with ART, Inc. of Veneta, a non-profit theater group, which has agreed to be our fiscal sponsor. This arrangement will allow the magazine project of Groundwaters Publishing, LLC to apply for and hopefully, receive, grants that will be administered under ART, Inc.’s 503(c)3 non-profit status. We are very grateful to the group for giving us their support and providing an umbrella that will open up to us a new avenue of funding. Depending on how successful we are in obtaining grants, we hope to increase our free distribution and possibly institute school outreach programs and/or incentives and possible help to fledgling writers, young and old alike. We have not looked that far down the road, but whatever we decide to do, you can be assured that Groundwaters magazine, itself, will remain a wholesome showcase of the talented writers of our area for the enjoyment of our ever-expanding family of readers.

We would now like to ask you for your help. As we begin applying for grants, we need to compile letters of support from our contributors, readers, supporters and organizations. We will then include them with appropriate grant applications to show the granting agencies that we are touching lives in a positive way within our community. We’d like to invite any of you who are willing to write a letter of support to do so. Include your reasons for reading it each quarter, what you like most about it, who your favorite writers and artists are, what features are your favorites, how important it is to you to see it continue, etc.

If we all work together and gain success in this effort, we can help to stabilize the deep roots that Judy Hays-Eberts set down in the soil of West Lane County almost five years ago.

Send your letters to: Groundwaters, P.O. Box 50, Lorane, OR 97451 or send them by email to us at contact@groundwaters.org.

Thank you all, and again, Happy New Year! May 2009 be a year of contentment and increasing prosperity for each one of you.