From the Publisher:
September 2009 SOKY Happenings
The September issue of SOKY Happenings is our 28th issue and is one of our biggest ever. With more than 45 contributing writers and many new sponsors added, this issue marks a turning point in our business, which is exciting. A special thanks to our new and renewing sponsors for making September one of our best months ever.
SOKY Happenings began a little over 2 years ago as a 36-page events guide, and it has grown to 76 pages, which include articles about interests, people and even hobbies. The SOKY Frugal Wine Snob, Garden Hoe, Bridal Guide and health matters articles have been warmly received and widely read. We are able to continue to diversify with article like the monthly “Guess Who,” which challenges the readers to guess who Rachel Adams Walston has interviewed. Readers have a month to guess who it is, and the person featured is revealed the following month.
The SOKY Snapshot Scavenger Hunt winner is also announced in September. We had the most entries ever, and it seems more popular this year. The SOKY Snapshot Scavenger Hunt is a contest in which we publish several close-up photos from a specific area and readers try to identify the places where the pictures were taken. This year, the photos were taken by Daisy Baxter, and they were taken in Circus Square park as well as Fountain Square Park in Bowling Green. Readers submitted their answers, and all correct entries were eligible to win by random drawing. The prize was a $100 gift card to Mariah’s Restaurant and Buckhead Café as well as $100 in cash from SOKY Happenings. The answers and winners are on page 45. Congratulations to Steve and Donna Corbitt.
We would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s hunt! We especially enjoyed the notes with kind words about the hunt and SOKY Happenings.
The cover was painted by Debbie Reid. (www.drportraits.com) She and her husband Ray, are principals of Kentucky Downs Horse Track in Franklin, Kentucky. We felt this cover was appropriate because of the huge live horse racing events schedule for September 19th through the 28th. There is an article about the events on pages 18 and 19. Thank you, Debbie, for allowing us to use this beautiful watercolor on the cover of SOKY Happenings.
SOKY Happenings is proud to be a reliable source of events information and an entertaining magazine for the whole community. The free guide is only possible through the sponsoring advertisers found in the magazine and online. We would like to encourage you to patronize their businesses and let them know that you saw them in SOKY Happenings.
We are also happy to announce that we are expanding our distribution in Glasgow Kentucky! We have received several requests from the community to make SOKY Happenings more widely available in the city. A complete list will be published on the website when it is available.
Once again, I would like to personally thank our sponsors, writers, readers, and our entire community! This has been an amazing and humbling experience. When I started this, I had no idea that the outpouring of love, support and encouragement would be so great. I appreciate all of you and thank you sincerely!
- David Francis
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