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BlueNote Information and Submission Dates for 2018

By Terry Mangum – Executive Editor

We hope you enjoyed the November/December issue of the BlueNote and hope that you had a happy and joy-
ous holiday season. I would like to personally thank everyone who contributed articles and Lodge activities dur-
ing 2017.

As we begin the new year of 2018, I would like to encourage everyone to submit articles of your Lodge’s ac-
tivities. We need your articles in order to continue to produce and publish the BlueNote as a beneficial and useful
publication.

I would again encourage each Lodge to form a committee to be responsible for writing Lodge articles for the
BlueNote. I feel certain each Lodge has individuals who would be willing to serve on a publication committee,
they just need to be asked. If you do not form a committee, at least identify someone to submit articles for your
Lodge. Do not be concerned if you feel that you are not a writer, because we are here to assist with your articles.
You write the article and send it to us and, if necessary, we will make it look publication worthy.

This is your publication so help us make it better by contributing articles, photographs, and suggestions for im-
provement. All Lodges have elections and other activities throughout the year which would be great material for
a BlueNote submission. When submitting photographs, please select one or two of your best and if possible send
the names of the individuals in the picture. Please begin now preparing for the March/April 2018 issue and let us
hear from you and your Lodge.

Please e-mail your articles and photos to my e-mail address TerryMangum@frontier.com by the due date.
Below are the Article Submission Due Dates for 2018. Please understand that you can always send your arti-
cles well before the due date for the upcoming issue of the BlueNote. Getting articles early keeps me from
being overrun with articles, which I must prepare for the Editor, at the last minute.

Article Submission Due Dates for 2018:
March/April issue: Due by February 16, 2018

May/June issue: Due by April 13, 2018
July/August issue: Due by June 15, 2018
September/October issue: Due by August 17, 2018
November/December issue: Due by October 19, 2018

As always, I am here to serve you and our membership. If I may be of assistance to you, or if you have any
questions or concerns, please contact me.

Plans for 2018

By James Shores – State 2nd Vice President

Brothers and Sisters, I cannot tell you how humbling it organization even better for the thousands of potential
is to be your 2nd Vice President. Each day brings a new members out there waiting for us to recruit them.
meaning to the fraternalism of this wonderful organiza- Brothers and Sisters, there are more than 500 agencies
tion and I can assure you the Executive Board is working in the State of North Carolina with over 25,000 officers.
hard to make this an even better organization for all We have only about 7000 members, including retired,
members. I hope each and every one of you had a won- affiliate and auxiliary in the NCFOP. We need to get out
derful and very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. there and recruit and get these officers into our organiza-

As we round into 2018, expect calls and emails from tion. If not they will be recruited by the “other” side,
me. I want to visit each and every one of my assigned which is happening faster than you can imagine. Let us
lodges so we can discuss our organization and where it make it our duty in 2018 to recruit as many members as
is as related to where you would like it to be. Then I can possible so we can get those 20 thousand plus potential
take these ideas back to the Executive Board so collec- members in the NCFOP!
tively across the state we can work together to make our If you need me, please feel free to contact me by

email, text or phone! See you all really soon!

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