Re: Don't blame Anamosa
Oh really? Then perhaps you can explain why we were required to fill out WPC
membership forms and pay a fee to compete. While you're at it, explain why the
DesPlaines site is listed as a WPC site on page 156 of Don Langevin's "Giant
Pumpkins 2". Last year Chris Pesche made the decision to break away from the WPC.
I now understand why.
LGOURD@aol.com wrote:
> Gregory,
>
> The Des Plaines, IL site was NOT part of the WPC last year and the WPC was
> not responsible for anything to do with the event. If you paid a membership
> fee to the WPC, then you really got burnt. I don't recall any grower or
> organizer contacting me to ask if they were an official site. Never saw any
> of that membership money. It wouldn't be the first time a site has said they
> were part of the WPC. The Topsfield Fair was still doing that until 1996,
> some 8 years after they were kicked out and who knows, for promotional
> reasons they may still be doing it! I mean, really if you were doing it for
> 8 years what would stop you now! So you see the GPC under Wiberg has
> problems. The New England site at Topsfield hired a huge PR Firm to promote
> its event. They actually left out the fact it was a WPC event for years.
> And broke many of the rules agreed to in the site agreement. Good luck with
> Wiberg & Topsfield. If the event there is not about money then I'll eat the
> winning pumpkin.
>
> Ray Waterman
>
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