Esperanto-USA

Dorothy Holland requested the following announcement:

Every year the Central Office collects reports from E-USA committee heads and commisioners, and publishes them in a booklet which is distributed at the Annual Convention.

This year the reports are available online.
See
Jarraportoj or go to "Board of Directors" and then "Jarraportoj ĉe la LK".

(I am writing this in English, because enthusiastic beginners may gets some ideas from this project.)

The project is called 'A Language Festival'. Here is a summary:
1. Find a large room to hold the festival
2. Invite some people to each make a 15-minute presentation about a language other than English. That is, one person will present French, another Russian, etc.
3. Invite the general public to attend and listen to these presentations about various languages.

Mi ĵus ricevis mesaĝon de Barry Friedman. Li skribis, ke oni aranĝis profesian basbalan sportludon en Israelo.
Mi citos:
"On the foul lines, puzzled broadcasters struggled with translating baseball lingo into Hebrew - and gave up.
'How do you say "home plate?"', asked one of the Channel 5 announcers, who called the game in the live broadcast. No one came up with an answer.
...(tranĉita)...

I sent a press release to my local newspaper about my trip to the UK in Florence, Italy. I must have done something right, because a reporter contacted me, interviewed me over the phone, and wrote a half-page article about Esperanto. The article was objective, mostly positive, and mentioned the ELNA website.

In my press release, I stressed the fact that I live in Portland [Maine] and that I was the representative from Maine to the World Esperanto Congress (by default, since no other resident of Maine would be going to the congress).

In my opinion, it is critical to give the press release a local slant. Newspapers are unabashedly parochial, probably because their readers are also.