I'm sure the folks around here will have enough discipline to excercise the requested restraint... but just in case, I'm posting my idea anyway.
If you do make it only a single thread, you might consider naming it "$tory Hour Updates" and requesting that only story hour authors post to it. This has 3 advantages:
+ People won't have to read the thread when no actual update has happened.
+ The username on the browse column will tell you at a glance who has updated latest.
+ You can always find the thread on the first page by sorting on thread name.
. . . . . . . -- Eric