editorial

 

Looking Good, Dying By Inches

he Pride issue of Out in the Mountains looks really good. The content is fabulous, and

_ there’s lots of ads. We’re entertaining and informative, passionate, sometimes warm and
fuzzy. » T
But We’re dying by inches. By August, the paper you’re holding will be three inches

shorter. It’s equivalent to slashing the content by four pages — not the ads, just the articles.

Cutting the page size saves just over $300 a month.
We’re bleeding $1500 a month in red ink. We don’t know where the other $1200 a month

will come from.

3 We’re too small to get national advertising. Fundraising is flat. Grants are harder to come

by. Fewer Board volunteers means fewer grants get written.

By the end of this year, there will either be no more OITM, or it will return to being a

newsletter, a very pale shadow of the issue you’re looking at today.

Unless you help.
If you care whether 01 TM survives:
Write: a letter or an emai1'_(l volunteer to ...)

a check

a grant
Ask: your friends 7 ‘ +
your family

A . _ your company

your neighborhood businesses

to support your newspaper.

Then, next monthsask again whether they’ve bought subscriptions, written their (tax: , a

deductible) checks, invested in advertising. Ask yourself if you can spend some time on the
Board, raising funds, writing grants, finding the money to keep us going.

And if you don’t care whether 01 T M survives, tell us, so we can die with dignity. V

Euan Bear . a

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