Happy June 31st!

[XLFD]

Ludington has the best summers and some of the best beaches and this year our leaders gave us an extra summer day to enjoy.  June 31st, see the city calendar below:

The one drawback, they also gave us an extra Monday, for not only is June 31st a Monday, but so is July 1st, according to the next page.  Our crack research staff at the Ludington Torch has figured out that the day after Monday is Tuesday and so it has been determined that the two dates are one and the same, and that June 31st is superfluous and isn't found on your normal 2019 calendar (or any other year for that matter).

Where did our city leaders find this extra Monday?  Not surprisingly, they took it from a time of year which doesn't fall in the usual tourist season, Monday, September 30, 2019.  Notice its absence from the month of September, and realize that October 1st skips to Tuesday:

It's a week without a Monday!  This is a remarkable bit of brilliance from our city's marketing staff that we hope can be expanded next year.  Maybe they can take a week off of our winter months and put them somewhere between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day.  So instead of only having 100 days in our tourist season, we could have twenty-one or more days appear at the end of June, July and August and make our tourist dependent economy that much better.  

This will be much superior to their attempt to expand April to 31 days in 2017, which at best only got us a little more rain that year.

[Willy]

Another funny mistake by City leaders. It makes you wonder how they handle their bookkeeping. If they had been in charge of the calendar since the dawn of calendars I wonder what year this would be? Good find X.

[XLFD]

I hadn't even noticed the June 31st gaffe until the middle of the day yesterday after running into one of our friends of the Ludington Torch who had made some plans for the day thinking that it wasn't yet July.  The mistake he made was obvious: don't believe everything the City and their officials publish, it'll only mislead you.  

I do take credit for looking into the future and seeing September with only 29 days-- and this without it being a leap year.

[stump]

And the bad part of it is they  [ US  Taxpayers ] actually paid someone to print these calendars. 

[XLFD]

It's kind of like a guy I know who spent a small fortune on a fancy watch that wasn't likely to ever run again, without an additional expenditure of a small fortune.  It looks sharp, but as to being functional...

Have somebody other than the T&T squad proofread next year's offering.  

[XLFD]

As the citizens of Ludington worry about whether September 30th, 2019 will ever arrive at our shores, a new error was found on the city's official calendar that should be brought to everybody's attention.  

The calendar tells us that September 21, 2019 is the first day of fall (see the last pic in the article), but my other calendars and the pesky internet say that other northern hemisphere areas see the first day of fall on the 23rd.  Heather and Jen must really like the pumpkin spice season to usher it in a couple of days early.  I'm partial to spicy pumpkins myself.

One last anomaly about the calendar is that the first day of fall is placed on the calendar, but no other season's first day is in March, June or December.  I hope we can have some better proofreading next year.

[Freedom Seeker]

Just another example of sloppy work from a group of people who seem to think they are better and smarter than the citizens and that they deserve more pay raises. Probably too busy promoting "local drunk" functions.

[AQUAMAN]

Well, it's strange no one at city hall noticed this over 9 months ago, and told the printing company about it seeking either replacement calendars, or a full refund. But, I guess when you hire favored bidders for any jobs, you just go with whatever type of work you get. Kinda silly that this is still around to talk about now.

[Freedom Seeker]

Good point Aquaman, if it were a printer's error, we should have had a reprint. More likely it was local marketing staff in-house error who either didnt see the errors or just didn't want to admit them if they did know.

[shinblind]

I have known printers to intentionally make mistakes so that if someone was stealing their work it would be obvious. 

Then again with the current state of public education I would not put it past the present batch of proofreaders and editors to not know how many days are in a month.

[XLFD]

Pretty sure if we were able to pinpoint the parties responsible for making this calendar but failing to adequately proofread the final product, we would need look no further than Heather and Jen.  Jen is  known for her past work in graphic design, and would be given a lot of leeway, Heather would be supplying the information.  Last fall, they didn't have John Shay around to look it over and edit out the mistakes, so it turned out the way it did accordingly.

If you have had time to review the TIF Plan and other submitted grant applications, you would likely believe that Heather was doing more of the work on this in the way it turned out.

[Freedom Seeker]

I hear that city hall had an employee appreciation day sept. 26 and closed the city hall doors during that time? I guess the public wasn't invited. As a payer of their salaries, it would be nice to know who was appreciated and why.