Re: RC: 5 Reasons Why I Can't Go To Reno

[Teddy Lancaster <teddy@runningbear.com>]

I takes time to build a good anything..including a convention.  Poor advertising
it the chief cause of poor attendance.  I have been at EVERY AERC Convention for
the last 15 years.  It sure has grown and improved, but there is still need for
more improvement.

Teddy

BMcCrary27@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 02/02/2000 8:53:17 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> Howard4567@aol.com writes:
>
> << In closing, is there any way we can have it down South next year, or maybe
> in
>  the near future?  I mean I just joined this year and I know it's been held
> in
>  Reno for the last two years or so, but don't we move it around at all?  >>
>
> I enjoyed your list of 5 reasons for not attending the convention, and I
> realize much of this is in good humor.  However, being of serious mind, I
> have to tell you that AERC has twice scheduled the convention in the general
> area of "the south".  Once it was in Atlanta, during which this fair city
> also hosted a "once in a century" blizzard.  I looked out of the hotel doors
> and saw snow blowing horizontally across the yard.  I thought "how exciting,
> it's snowing" and then realized we WEREN'T in Reno at that moment and that
> certainly a blizzard is a little out of place for the deep south.  Everything
> was closed down, as the city doesn't ordinarily maintain snow removal
> equipment.  This forced ALL convention attendees to eat at the one and only
> restaurant in the hotel.  The food wasn't great and the restaurant was badly
> undermanned, completely incapable of handling the numbers.  Things were
> better in Louisville, KY, but in both cases, AERC lost great amounts of
> money.  It is much more costly to send the AERC office and staff "abroad",
> shipping supplies by whatever means, than it is to load everything into one
> van and drive 100 miles to Reno.  I'm not sure what the future holds for
> having the convention "back east" again, but I think we on the BOD recognize
> that fact that doing so imposes a financial burden on the AERC treasury.
>
> Barbara
>
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