For those of you who have an interest in such things, the Xcon comic book convention will be held this weekend at Springmaid Resort. If comics are your thing, come out and support the convention so they’ll keep doing them! I will be there tomorrow afternoon. I hope to see some of y’all there!
In my previous post sent from ConvergeSouth, I talked about my desire to add an aspect of hyper-local blogging to this site. I’ve decided to experiment with this by covering the upcoming special election for the mayor of Conway. Sadly, our longtime mayor Greg Martin died in office last month. Since I myself am a citizen of Conway that needs to understand why I might want to vote for one candidate over another, I figure this is a perfect place to start. I’ve never done this before, I am not a trained (or even untrained) journalist, so this will be a work in progress.
I’ll wait until after the general election on November 4th to really kick this in. People have more than enough to think about over the next eight days, but in that interim period I will do my best to give anyone interested in this election enough information to make their decision. I’ll post announcements about any campaign events by any of the four candidates that I find out about, etc.
As a reminder, anyone in the Grand Strand Blogroll can get an account to post here just by asking. If people would like to do hyper-local coverage of other parts of the Grand Strand, I’d love to see it. Do you want to cover the Myrtle Beach city council meetings about the bike rallies? How about the Surfside meetings about the smoking ban? If you have an issue or election that you want to adopt as your own, let’s have at it netizens of the Grand Strand.
On my personal blog, I posted about this but I thought I’d put it here too.
Tomorrow night on the Samantha Brown Great Weekends program on the Travel Channel they will be featuring Myrtle Beach. The episode airs tomorrow, July 10th at 10:30 PM EDT. The Travel Channel is 111 on Time Warner Cable, and 58 on HTC cable. I’ve got my fingers crossed about how well our area comes off.
With the CREATE Conference only a few months away its time to start to unveil some of the marketing materials behind it all. The first being the CREATE logo! Team members over at 803 Labs (new website slowly in the works) knocked it out for you to enjoy!
Once some of the details become clear we will have banner ads, cubes, logos, icons etc. for all of you to help get the words out. Stayed Tuned For More!
Hoping that this foray into the blogosphere will have a greater reception than from conventional media.
This is a shout-out:
SICK STOOGES will be playing the kickoff party for WAVE 104’s fifth annual MARATHON FOR MEALS to benefit Helping Hands and the Community Kitchen.
WYAVs Scott Mann (Work Release Program, Scott Mann’s Headshop, Blues Hangover) needs your help in order to top previous years’ numbers for canned goods and non-perishable items donated to benefit the hungry in our community as cold weather sets in. “The Mann” vows to remain on-site until a trailer is filled with these items.
Join us for the kickoff on Saturday, November 10th at NOON – at Broadway At The Beach – on the lawn outside the Visitor’s Center – and don’t forget your canned goods! Let’s show that people on the Grand Strand care about the hungry!
The sooner we fill that trailer, the sooner Scott can go home!
For more information, go to www.wave104.net.
I set up my video recorder to tape Myrtle Beach TV and just watched an episode tonight. Just to prove what an ultimately small town this is, in the first 90 seconds I heard the names of two commentors to this blog, Chris and Roger Yale. I found the show pretty fun and am looking forward to future episodes. You can view all the episodes to date via their website so you can always catch up if you like.