Happy Holidays and All The Best for 2025 from the team at The Breezes
December 2024 Issue
Letter from the Editor
By Brenda Duke
We’re reaching the end of another year and looking forward to new adventures in 2025. As a reminder, our print schedule will now run from February to December so no paper in January. If you missed sending in something important, let us know and we’ll get it up on social media. It’s time to renew your advertising contracts. There will be some small changes to our advertising prices to reflect our increased publication fees, but we will still offer discounts for multiple ads and some negotiation on large advertising space.
Our on-line store to purchase merchandise will be up and running by December 15th and you can choose from several branded products for your friends and family and support The Breezes too.
Going forward in 2025, we will be...
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