Flyer, Park City (Utah) Community Events for September 2022

 

 

 

This flyer is from Park City Utah, and was placed at the library.

 

With the decline of metropolitan newspapers, special city sections with calendars ("One more blow against community media: Washington Post drops Thursday "county" news special sections," ), community newspapers ("DC's community newspaper weekly, the Northwest Current, goes out of business," 2018), the cessation of printing of alternative weeklies ("Staff And Locals React To End Of Washington City Paper Print Edition," DCist) although fortunately not in Salt Lake City, it becomes that much harder to find out about community events.

 

In the old days, when I'd travel I would pick up community newspapers and alternative weeklies and weekend sections in local newspapers to find other things to do, along with visitor centers (there should be community calendars posted there too), etc.  We found cool things like a concert at a church in Germantown in Philadelphia, and riding ferries for free when they were first introduced in Queens, New York, etc.

-- "Community cleanups (and other activities) as community building and civic engagement activities," 2011

 

Bulletin board, Lamplighter Coffee Roasters, Richmond

 

The libraries have bulletin boards for flyers, and coffee shops, grocery stores, etc.  

 

Community Notice Board, Merseytravel, Queens Square Bus Station, Liverpool

 

I've argued there need to be bulletin boards/kiosks in commercial districts and at transit stations.

 

-- "http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2018/08/why-not-post-outdoor-community.html," 2018

I guess we need to go back to kiosks and telephone poles.  But in communities where most people get around by car, that isn't a particularly good method.

Yard signs definitely need to be added to the mix.

The City of Salt Lake uses yard signs, banners at parks, and for some issues, like budget hearings flyers, to get the word out, along with postings on NextDoor and Reddit, Twitter feeds, etc.

 

 Lately I've been thinking about more formal community information kiosks in public buildings, definitely libraries and city hall, and wrt schools, in the foyers of schools, or outside.

A now closed small branch of the Salt Lake County Library located in the City of South Salt Lake posted official notices for that city, as well as for the County Library board.  I don't know if they've brought that practice yet to the new Granite Library branch which has replaced it, although the Mayor of City of South Salt Lake sets up drop in information/meeting sessions there ("New Granite Library, Salt Lake County Public Library System")..

(I just realized that they blew it when designing this library by not including a coffee shop.)

 

It could be modeled on the transit information kiosks that Arlington County does, but I'm thinking a multi-sided kiosk.

 

 Another idea is community organization/volunteer fairs.