Emily's updates

A few things to report.

I talked to the sole copy editor at the Onion and left her some info about ACES. She's going to pass it along to the local editor, so hopefully we'll get a few people from there to attend. The distribution manager was not in the office at the time, so I also left her a note to contact me about getting 300 papers delivered to the Hilton on Wednesday/Thursday. I'll let you know how that goes. I'll also press for some swag for the auction.

Also, for the auction, I've gotten word back from the Flat Earth and Surly breweries that they're willing to donate beer. Whoo hoo! Have yet to hear from Summit, but I guess they have less motivation to get their name out. From the Pioneer Press, I have secured 2 yoga mats, 2 laptop bags, 2 backpacks, a fleece vest and a hoodie, and 2 silver water bottles. I also have about 100 pens for the goodie bags; that's all I could get out of our marketing department at this point.

I sent out a plea for volunteers tonight, so I'll let Jim Thomsen know how many PP people are interested. Hey, as we speak, there are two e-mails saying people are down with helping :-)