Verify Your Stuff

How many people showed up at Naples last Saturday? Yeah that's what I thought, OK you can put your hands down.

Naples American Legion's Date is a prime example of a change that didn't make it to print. No fault of the publisher or the organizer. The publisher is told what to print and needs the info by a certain time or deadline in order to make the publication viable. It doesn't make sense to publish a book full of dates that have already happened.

The organizer is told they can hold the event at a certain place and date. they submit that to the publication, then weeks later are told they need to change the date or place. To late at the publishers to make the change. Word gets around but not to everybody and sure enough somebody shows up on the original date and gets pissed off at the wrong people.

Verifying the date, place and time is up to us. there are more resources out there that we can use to cross check the events we want to go to. If all else fails call the the contact number or visit the provided website when they have one available. Information is valuable and is a good tool that we all use, the problem is most of us still believe what we read and think that if it is written it is etched in stone. More like written in sand.

Verify your stuff, or not.