Editorial Policies for What’s Happening at Quail Creek
(30 September 2009; 7 July 2010)

What's Happening at Quail Creek is an alerting service. It notifies residents about new events and changes to ongoing Quail Creek (QC) events and procedures. It also provides periodic reminders about those events and changes. It is not a bulletin board with notices about all current activities. The QC web site is that bulletin board. What's Happening at Quail Creek contains a link to the QC web site.

What's Happening at Quail Creek contains announcements about events in, or news about, QC facilities. What's Happening at Quail Creek is not obligated to publish announcements on behalf of religious, political, fraternal, or any other group governed by entities outside of QC. Announcements from governmental entities, community assistance programs, or charitable organizations may be published if, in the opinion of the QC Communications Committee, they have the potential to broadly affect QC residents. Unless noted below, other announcements and links are not published in What's Happening at Quail Creek.

Special events conducted by businesses and held in QC facilities or sponsored by the QC Country Club, or any other POA group, are also announced. Special events are events that occur only once or on an irregular schedule.

Concert or lecture series sponsored by the QC Country Club, or any other POA group, are announced as a series with the details on the QC web site. Short reminders about the series may appear in What's Happening at Quail Creek prior to individual parts of the series.

Each of QC’s many clubs and activities can have a page on the QC web site in which all of their events and classes are announced. Special events sponsored by clubs and activities are announced in What's Happening at Quail Creek. Occasional (e.g., seasonal) summaries of groups of ongoing activities may be announced in lieu of announcements of each individual activity. Updates to club pages are published as one-line notices.

Information about ongoing services provided to the QC community by businesses using QC facilities are found in the Facilities pages on the QC web site. Periodic reminders about those web pages (but not about the specific businesses) are announced in What's Happening at Quail Creek. Information about other commercial activity can reach the QC community in classified advertisements. See the policy for classifieds on the QC web site.

Information about community and governmental services can be found in the Community and Governmental Services pages on the QC web site. Periodic reminders about those web pages (but not about the specific services) are announced in What's Happening at Quail Creek.

During election years, as a public service, presentations in QC facilities by declared candidates for office or speakers who address ballot issues will be announced in a feature called "Election 20xx." Notices of such presentations will appear in a lead announcement in What's Happening. As appropriate, these notices will include the speaker's name, party, office or ballot issue, date, time, and place. Such notices will be published in lieu of regular announcements or reminders.

To offset the cost of the QC web site and publication of What's Happening, the daily email bulletin will contain brief announcements of paid classified ads. All such ad summaries will appear at the bottom of What's Happening in a separate "Classified ads" section; each day one summary will be featured at the top of What's Happening. Each summary will be linked to the full ad on the web site.

These policies may be modified by the QC Communications Committee, in consultation with appropriate members of the QC POA Board, at any time in its sole discretion.