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Glen wrote "Its a 5 day event where you leave
the pumpkin or squash on display, along with other vegetable displays,farm
animals,etc. A real agricultural type event where all big max,prizewinners, and
atlantic giants of any color are treated the same...as squash. "
Glen that sounds just like the
Circleville event, that's why I will ALWAYS go there. But there is no entry
fee to go to the weighoff, you have to live in a 20 mile radius.
Some don't like that & I respect their opinion, but I think this keeps the
integrety of the show intact.
Now on to the squash issue,
Nic is right lets pool our money & start
a prize package for squash. Now I know at first the amounts would be
small.
But open it up worldwide & yearlong (ex)
Jan 1st--Dec 31st
Because as we all know there are weighoffs
all over the world all during the year.
There would have to be a squash club every
one belongs to with for example $20 to join with that money going towards prize
money in the early years. Later trying to find sponsers.
They would have to be weighed at a est.
weighoff site where ever you live. And the results recorded. At the end of the
year, all data collected & prizes passed out.
Now this is no disrespect to the GPC , just a
alternative to squashers. Both can run independently with no
problem.
How many farmers out there have shown cattle
at shows & collected prizes & also showed hogs & collected prizes.
This is no different than that.
Well I'm sure this is going to start
something I might regret but I'm just trying to throw out ideas to the
problem....Paul
----- Original Message -----
From:
L*@aol.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 9:27
PM
Subject: Re: Amagansett Long Island
Weighoff Results
In a message dated
10/8/2001 8:41:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, s*@yahoo.com writes:
Glenn -yo G ? didn't see you're name there-
isn't this
where you take your fruit ?
what happened ? I hope you didn't loose
everything
to the SVB this year. don't wish that on
anyone... even if they like green !!! :)
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No
Gordon. Amagansett is NOT where I take my fruit. Last year I went to Altoona
and had a great time.This year, I took my fruit to The Long Island Fair again.
The Long Island Fair is my local event and the one my family would
prefer I go to. Its a 5 day event where you leave the pumpkin or squash on
display, along with other vegetable displays,farm animals,etc. A real
agricultural type event where all big max,prizewinners, and atlantic giants of
any color are treated the same...as squash.You would be proud of my bright
orange fruit in the squash contest.It won the contest but since the biggest is
used in the "guess the weight" raffle, I won't know what it weighs until
Tuesday when the event is over.The second place fruit was 523lbs so at least I
know its over 523lbs, not bad when you consider the problems I had this
year.The Long Island fair is always on the Columbus day weekend so in years
when the GPC is a Saturday during this weekend I have to chose between the !
LIF and Altoona/Amagansett. This is my fourth year in a row (all the time Ive
been growing,btw) with at least on bright orange squash.
I
went to Amagansett in 1998 and 1999. In 1999 the weighoff director didn't even
want to weigh my two squash and squmpkin.(My pumpkin (bright shiney orange)
won second at 550lbs behind Scotts '99 monster.) Only when I made a bit of a
stink did he quickly slap the 565*,568*, and 463* on the scales after the
weighoff crowds had half left. You would think a guy trying to promote an
event,and who charges 15 dollars to enter, would happily exhibit and weigh the
fruit I brought since there were only 8 entries if you don't count mine, and
mine were 2nd,third,fourth and 7th largest at the event.Heck, the two squash
were larger than the second place pumpkin ! No, I haven't been back as a
contestant since.
I did, however, go there this year to see the
action and root Scott on. His fruit was a monster..absolutely huge and then it
weighed heavy to boot ! A monster at 817lbs...he deserves alot of credit and
he gets it from here in Massapequa, make no mistake about that. He did alot of
work to his soil this year and grew the 817 from his own seed. He grew the
heaviest fruit for the third straight year....awesome. The problem I have,
which no doubt is why you brought this up, is that the officials accepted the
fruit as a GPC pumpkin when it was obviously a GPC squash....especially since
I had a real hard time just getting mine weighed for GPC inclusion in the
squash catagory in 1999. Its a classic "if its big, then its a pumpkin"
situation. I was there, and it wasn't fair to the guy with the 710lber that
took second. It was a GPC SQUASH at a GPC CONTEST that was ruled a
pumpkin because IT WAS BIG .Nothing new. It was a totally awesome fruit and
Scott should be prou! d. Amagansett and the GPC should be
ashamed.....................G
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