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99% of the time you should post your event to the North Shore Community Calendar. This calendar is open to the public and can be used for pretty much any (legal) event occurring in Cook County. Events posted to this calendar also show up on the Boreal home page the day of the event.

If you can offer someone a ride to Duluth to get to a medical appointment, such as radiation, post it to the Medical Rides Available calendar.

The North Shore Arts calendar is used by the Playhouse, Art Colony, and other artist organizations to post their events. Events posted to this calendar appear in the list of events on the North Shore Community Calendar, but don't appear on the Boreal home page.

The other calendars are generally dedicated to and maintained by special groups such as the schools and Senior Center.

To post an event, go to the calendar you want to post your message to and click the yellow Add Event button. You will be taken to a web page with a yellow online form. Simply fill out the form, including the date and time of the event, click the Submit Event button at the bottom.

Once you've submitted your event it will be reviewed by the organization who operates the calendar, and on approval will appear on the calendar. This approval process prevents spammers from posting spurious events on the calendars - it's very rare for an event submitted by a Boreal member to not be approved!

One of the limitations of the calendar of events is that it won't allow you to go back and change or delete a posting. If you find a mistake on one of your events, please contact the Boreal office (387-9471 or support@boreal.org) and we will be happy to update your event for you.

Be sure to post it to the North Shore Community calendar. Events posted to this calendar automatically appear on the home page the day of the event.  Events posted to other calendars won't appear on the home page.

Please try to post your event before the day of the event.  Because the events must be reviewed before being displayed on the calendar, items posted on the day of the event may not be approved and displayed until the event is over.  Boreal makes every attempt to be timely in approving messages sent to the Community Calendar, but there is sometimes a delay, especially on events posted outside of business hours.