I love great quotes. The headline above paraphrases Mark Twains telegram from London to the press in the United States after they prematurely reported his obituary.
I know a post was made on social media, but we think that was a little premature as it was made as we were working to get the March edition finalized.
As I do not like to mince words: due to rising costs for both printing and bulk mailing, along with diminished support from local businesses advertising with us, this has put a strain on our small volunteer organization.
In February the Postal Service withdrew from our account double the price we have been paying for postage without any advance notice to us. Also they informed us this was going to be the normal price from now on. As of this writing we still don’t have the answers of what is going on with the Postal Service. Go Figure!
At first we knew with this dramatic unexplainable price increase, there was no way we could continue to publish the Ferguson Neighborhood News.
Recently we found a new printer that has provided us with some reasonable printing and mailing options to at least print a March edition. We will be implementing some other changes we hope will help shore up our future.
We now want to turn to the community for your help.
First we need a large response from everyone to let us know if you read the Ferguson Neighborhood News each month. Simply send a text to Gary Nadeau at 314-249-6323 or email asroc873@charter.net with a yes or no answer. Your comments are welcome too.
Next we also could use a few more local residents and or business owners who are willing to join our organization and help with some of the behind the scenes work in producing this paper each month. Please reach out to Gary.
Even if we do not print, we will be posting the electronic copy on the Ferguson City Walk website. All past copies are posted including some archives of the Ferguson Times.
The city walk website was down for a few months as there were server upgrades. It is now back on line thanks to Blue Tapp. https://fergusonsmallbusinessdistrict.com/.
I want to thank each of our contributors and advertisers for their faithful support of the paper for the past two plus years. Although I have only met a few of you, I feel we have developed a good working relationship and hopefully produced something that was appreciated by the community.
This paper has been provided to each household free of charge by the work of volunteers. We have striven to present the good side of Ferguson and not dwell on what we are all subjected to in main stream and social media.
You will not find a Tic Toc challenge in our pages. What we challenge you to is support your community paper.
Without a community paper to wrap fish in, cover the bottom of the birdcage, or use it for paper mache, we really are not a community.
Papa Deau
