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From: Public NewsService Web Site <wvns@publicnewsservice.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Subject: January Story Call and Brainstorming
To: pjgrunt@gmail.com

Happy New Year!!

I'm busy putting together the editorial calendar and this is a busy month, with Congress back to work, legislative sessions getting underway, the transition at the White House, and the economic situation are all stories that provide easy set up for stories. President-elect Obama is meeting with Congressional leaders today about his vision for an economic stimulus package, and what means to the states. If anyone is interested in jumping on that story idea, I'm standing by and would love to send it to stations!

Reaction to state budget addresses always play well with radio stations, and if you're interested in participating in a re-ax piece, let me know.

And to get the creative juices flowing on story "pegs" below is my list of nationally and locally-known observances, and even some lesser-known crazy ones.

January Observances
Book Blitz Month
Birth Defense Month
Cervical Cancer Screening Month
Cervical Cancer Screening Month
Family Fit Lifestyle Month
Financial Wellness Month
Get Organized Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
Oatmeal Month

Weekly observances
Women's Self Empowerment Week, 5-11
Elvis Pressley Week, 8-11
International Consumer Electronics Show, 8-11
Cuckoo Dancing Week, 11-17
Kid Film Week, 12-25
National No Tillage Week, 14-17
Sundance Film Festival, 15-25
Healthy Weight Week, 18-24
No Name Calling Week, 21-25
National Take Back Your Time Week, 26-30
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week, 24-31

Daily Observances
Twelfth Night/Epiphany, 6
Three Kinds Day, 6
Harlem Globetrotter's Day, 7
I'm Not Going to Take it Anymore Day, 7
International Programmers' Day, 7
National English Toffee Day, 8
Midwife's Day, 8
National Joy Germ Day, 8
Show and Tell Day at Work, 8
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day, 10
Positively Penguins Day, 10
United Nations Day, 10
National Clean Off Your Desk Day, 12
Organize Your Home Day, 12
Humanitarian Day, 15
Appreciate a Dragon Day, 16
Nothing day, 16
Kid Inventors' Day, 17
Winnie the Pooh Day, 18
World Religion Day, 18
Martin Luther King Day, 19
Inauguration Day, 20
National Hugging Day, 21
Answer Your Cats Questions Day, 22

Deborah Courson Smith
Public News Service/ West Virginia News Service
800-317-6708
888-692-8362

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