Re: GPC does not promote this sport

Amen Brock!!! signed, cindi glasier

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> From: Vickie  Brock <brocfarm@pacific.net>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: GPC does not promote this sport
> Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 8:58 AM
> 
> 
> Joe, I am having a hard time following your point other than you are
really
> into promoting this sport......I am not so sure you have to do anything
to
> promote it its like you say one big pumpkin can do a community
> wonders....but its the big pumpkin  that does  more promotion than any
> organization......people see them for the first time and flip....it
really
> is the growers that do all the promotion they give uncle george some
> seed....and hes hooked ...he passes it on to his buddies they all pool
$50
> for there own private neighborhood contest.....on and on and the sport is
> growing as fast as the vines do......As far as the plaques, ribbons and
> purse those have always been up to the individual sites.to lure the big
one
> to there site..but the GPC....hands out their own plaques if you go to a
> weigh -in  that is also one of their sites.......Chris Andersen has
> one!..Says its nice!.......If your having a race you all have to start at
> the gun and have  to have a common finish line..to be fair....if these
> dates are lousy for your climate you have to do what ever it takes to
make
> it work to play with the GPC dates...and having a site near by is
> nice......right now we don't have one in Ca....I know its frustrating
> living in an area that is not conducive to growing these
> Giants......Ca...growers were at the point where we felt we never had a
> chance because of the extreme heat .that it could'nt be done..then
Andersen
> went the extra mile and waalaa..........so your right Joe the GPC might
not
> fit your needs .......but whats the point on harping on the fact they
don't
> feel promotion is necessary....maybe its not . to them....the members I
> have met seem like a fine group of people!! It just seems like the same
> thing over and over the head of the SPGA trashing the GPC.....and I just
> don't see the point......brock
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >I can appreciate your position Pumkinguy. It doesn't leave the GPC with
> >much of a function outside of that small area of the country that has a
> >chance at some of it's prize money. The rules have been established for
> >sometime now, even before the GPC. I am not sure what incentive a group
> >growing in an area that for the most part leaves them no chance of
> >partaking in prize money, would have to become a GPC site. If their $500
> >a year site fee was helping to promote the sport it might make sense to
> >become a member, sharing this common purpose but the GPC is not
> >interested in promotion of the sport. Then what would that site get for
> >it's $500. I don't know of a thing. They would even have to buy their
> >own ribbons and plaques to give out as prizes. They might do better
> >keeping the $500 and placing it towards the success of there independent
> >weighoff. I think it is easier for those in your part of the country to
> >take your position. It works well - up there. But it's a small circle
> >and it becomes more and more obvious as the sport becomes more popular.
> >For me it's not about money, its about the love of the sport and wanting
> >others to partake in what you love so much. It's a great and good sport,
> >one that the GPC should be interested in spreading into all areas of the
> >country where growing "that great" pumpkin hasn't been experienced. I
> >have seen what a positive effect just one giant pumpkin can have on a
> >community. We need that.
>
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
mmm
> 
> Joe, I am having a hard time following your point other than you are
really
> into promoting this sport......I am not so sure you have to do anything
to
> promote it its like you say one big pumpkin can do a community
> wonders....but its the big pumpkin  that does  more promotion than any
> organization......people see them for the first time and flip....it
really
> is the growers that do all the promotion they give uncle george some
> seed....and hes hooked ...he passes it on to his buddies they all pool
$50
> for there own private neighborhood contest.....on and on and the sport is
> growing as fast as the vines do......As far as the plaques, ribbons and
> purse those have always been up to the individual sites.to lure the big
one
> to there site..but the GPC....hands out their own plaques if you go to
> weigh -in  that is also one of their sites.......Chris Andersen has
> one!..Says its nice!.......If your having a race you all have to start at
> the gun and have  to have a common finish line..to be fair....if these
> dates are lousy for your climate you have to do what ever it takes to
make
> it work to play with the GPC dates...and having a site near by is
> nice......right now we don't have one in Ca....I know its frustrating
> living in an area that is not conducive to growing these
> Giants......Ca...growers were at the point where we felt we never had a
> chance because of the extreme heat .that it could'nt be done..then
Andersen
> went the extra mile and waalaa..........so your right Joe the GPC might
not
> fit your needs .......but whats the point on harping on the fact they
don't
> feel promotion is necessary....maybe its not . to them....the members I
> have met seem like a fine group of people!! It just seems like the same
> thing over and over the head of the SPGA trashing the GPC.....and I just
> don't see the point......brock
> 
> 
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