Over the last couple of months I heard about some pretty good events going on in Fort Wayne AFTER THEY ARE OVER! In my circle of friends (yes I have more then my dog) we have discussed the issue of someone missing an event. Most of these friends take at least one of the daily papers, watch the crazy local news, and are on the Internet daily. So it is not like we live in an isolated, sheltered world.
With all this talk about revitalizing downtown Fort Wayne got me thinking. So Sunday night I started the goggle search of events happening in Fort Wayne. Well, if I wanted to search at least a dozen or so sites which in turn then led me off to other sites or that required me to go to a third site, I could learn of some of the events going on in Fort Wayne. Wow, what a pain in the rear! One has to wonder what the people living outside Fort Wayne do if they are interested in seeing "what is happening" in all Fort Wayne?
Think of the hundreds of the out of visitors who are setting away the nights in their hotel rooms because they have no clue what may be going on in Fort Wayne. They lay down on their bed to only doze off, while watching TV. Then return home and tell others there is nothing going on in Fort Wayne. No one should be shocked or surprised!
Can it be fixed? Yes, and very quickly if we want to! Then again, we would need to pull together as a community, over a group of people concerned only about their little part of the world.
If we cannot get the basics down of promoting all of Fort Wayne how will we ever succeed as a city? Either we become an inclusive community or we will fail because we are an exclusive community. If we seek to be a diverse community then we need to promote are entire community to ourselves and the world around us.
To reach the goal cannot be driven by individual profit or individual glory, but of making Fort Wayne a better place!
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Dan Carmody has a nice website going for downtown events but it would be nice if there was a consolidated site where you could find any and all events. Perhaps there is and I just don't know about it...
"Can it be fixed? Yes, and very quickly if we want to!"
So what is your proposed solution?
It's always frustrating to get home from work, read the morning paper that you didn't have time to read in the morning, then be informed that some event that you would have liked to attend just ended. I've seen this frequently in our local papers, and I always wonder if they (the papers) were to blame, or if the people who orgazined the event just waited till the last minute to contct the paper.
The first forum for candidates for local office was, I believe, on Oct 3rd at a church on Cook Rd. The JG did not announce this before it took place. The NS announced it the day before. It's frustrating when the basic information you need to be involved is either absent or buried in the middle of so much crap (I refer here to both papers) that most people miss it.
I'm not sure what is needed, but something definitly is needed. As you pointed out, the information can usually be found, but how much time can/will the average person invest to find it?
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