Cancellation and Closing Notifications
Stay in touch with OLOL regarding building and event notifications during inclement weather.
First alerts will go out through our app and text notification. Then postings will go up on our website home page and Facebook. Lastly, the local TV stations will be contacted. This order is based on the speed and ease (fastest to slowest) of disseminating the information.
Cancellation and Closing Notifications: Parish App
The parish app push notifications is the first method we use to alert people.
Just search “Our Lady of Lourdes” through your Android or Apple app store or go to our app instructional page to download our app.
We will send the notification out through the “General” group setting, which is a default setting after you have downloaded the app. Easy peasy.
Cancellation and Closing Notifications: Text Notifications
Through remind.com, OLOL can also alert you by text.
To sign-up, text 81010 to @cancela. If it replies “Service Access Denied,” your service provider probably doesn’t like texting to short number codes. Then try texting @cancela to (715) 690-1800.
If texting is not your thing, don’t worry; you can receive these alerts by email, too. Just send an email to cancela@mail.remind.com, and you will get an email with the same message that went out via text.
If you have signed-up in previous years, there is no need to sign-up again; you are still on our list.
Cancellation and Closing Notifications: Website and Social Media
Once these alerts have gone out, our next steps are to post alerts to the Internet through our website and Facebook.
Alerts can be found near the top of the home page of our website.
Be sure to pin our Facebook page to your feeds or go directly to our page to make sure you don’t miss the announcement.
Cancellation and Closing Notifications: Television
We submit cancellation notices to all four major stations: 4, 6, 12, and 58. Please note that our ability to state what has been cancelled is limited to the choices they provide us. Also, as many people are trying to enter closings at the same time to the TV outlets, the stations may not be able to refresh their closing information crawls as quickly as we might like.
Remember that closings for OLOL on TV are up for a few seconds before they move on with other closings. This is why we encourage you to look to our other means of communication to get this info. If you do not have access to these notices, please connect with someone who does.
Above all, use common sense. If the roads are dangerous, don’t go out.
Cancellation and Closing Notifications: Cancelling Mass
Since we rely on priests to travel to say Mass here, there is a possibility Mass could be cancelled due to heavy snow. Notifications for a cancelled Mass will go out no fewer than four hours before the liturgy begins or the night before for an early morning service.
As veterans of Wisconsin winters, we know snow storms can be heavier in some areas and lighter in others. Use common sense when deciding whether or not to travel even if Mass is not cancelled.