The End of the Road for The HWY 95ᴱᴴ Events Calendar

Today marks the start of the last days of The 95EH Events Calendar :(

In other words: yesterday I stuck to my decision to stop paying the subscription for the calendar program I was using over the last many years to help keep The 95EH Events Calendar updated with dang near every Kimberley & Cranbrook area event happening—AND SO—going forward from here, that means no more local area events are going to get added to The 95EH Events Calendar and it will be left to slowly die on the digital vine.

Here is this news as rendered by artificial intelligence.

However, there is a decent amount of local area events that had already been loaded into The 95EH Events Calendar before I handed myself my letter of resignation, and since those events can still be viewed in the much more limited version of the calendar that will still exist over at MOUN.TOWN/EVENTS for the next little while, I figured that rather than doing one last “The Weekly Eh?!” newsletter this Monday (April 29th) I would instead do a “The Monthly Eh?!” for what’s happening in May… but I will wait until May 1st to send out that (possibly final) newsletter.

So, for today, I just wanted to make a more official announcement that this is officially the end of the road for the ol’ HWY 95ᴱᴴ community events calendar that I’ve been attempting to run for the last 7-ish years (as well as the ‘every Monday’ rundown that I’ve been putting together, in one form or another, for almost the same amount of time).

I’d like to say THANK YOU to all of the people who supported the human work that went into trying to keep an independent one-person events calendar for both Kimberley AND Cranbrook going over the years ** ESPECIALLY ** those who kindly supported the work via signing up for ‘Mutually Beneficial Employment’ (shoutout: Kimberley Public Library, Kimberley Chamber of Commerce, Mountain Grass Glass, The Hourglass, and Huckleberry Books) and the handful of individuals who signed up for paid versions of the weekly newsletter or who made donations to the site over the years (or those who signed up for a 95EH Profile Page back in the pandemic days) — AND — I’d also like to thank those who offered the free kind of support that involved publicly shouting out what 95EH was attempting to make happen to their own networks (or just acknowledging 95EH’s existence online whenever the algorithms allowed a post onto your feeds).

It all meant a lot, BUT, as I’m sure everyone trying to get by in a colonial/imperial late-stage capitalist world knows all too well, one can only keep working on stuff that earns much less than their always-rising living costs for so long (even when attempting to live thriftily), AND, unfortunately, I do not seem to have the right mix of elements to turn a functionally viable local project into a financially viable local project — and I believe the time has long come for me to take the keys out and walk away.

As for ‘the 95eh idea’ as a whole (ie. the events calendar was always more of an example of how people can use the internet smartly to make things happen locally, even without any official support or connections, instead of me ever being passionate about promoting events specifically), I think I am just going to take some time off from the local socials (and the socials in general) and see if a different way of approaching ‘the 95eh idea’ can reveal itself once I am no longer expending so much headspace/energy on a prolonged ‘spinning my wheels in one place’ situation.

After all, I also stopped running my music blog earlier this year (after stopping music submissions a couple of years prior), so I think the time has officially come for me to hit the brakes on ALL my internetting & blahg’n of the last decade+ and try to figure out if I’ve hit a dead end with all this stuff or if it’s just another fork in the road.

Cheers 🍻

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Jeremy / HI54LOFI