[Vision2020] Trinity Fest Questions

Tue Aug 1 20:44:58 PDT 2006

True, but they generally don't have their private parties in the middle of a 
commercially significant block of downtown.

As for the six-point star on the Trinity Fest banner, I don't think it's a 
Star of David or a hexagram; I was thinking more in terms of Barney Fife and 
his sheriff's badge.  But perhaps I'm just cranky.  I must admit that I have 
no idea why a toucan and why the similarity to the Starbucks logo, but I 
never pretended to be a sophisticate.  Even now I'm drinking a glass of 
cheap Gewurtztraminer and wearing -- gasp -- socks with my Birkenstocks.

So Trinity Fest, which appears to have nothing to do with Father, Son, and 
Holy Spirit, will come and go, and I might meander over to East City Park 
and hang out with those who think that perhaps Christ Church is not the best 
representation of the Godhead, maybe scarfing a Hebrew National and tossing 
a Frisbee while lamenting the absence of a corporate (by which I mean "of 
the Body") Gospel witness on the Palouse.

What's really important is not what purports to be celebrated by Trinity 
Fest, which appears at first glance to be St. Bridgid's-meets-Bacchanalia, 
but the real presence of God and the incredible lovingkindness he's shown me 
and those around me.  There's not a festival that exalts ministry to the 
poor, sick, marginalized and suffering, but I'm thinking there's a reward 
coming that makes cotton candy and a jumping castle, not to mention 
Confederate scholarship, pale by comparison.  I hope to be found heading in 
that direction, Hebrew National and cheap beer in hand.

keely

From: "Ellen Roskovich" <gussie443 at hotmail.com>
To: privatejf32 at hotmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Trinity Fest Questions
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:14:51 -0700

I think the beer and wine issue was discussed last year and I'm fairly sure 
the State regs are the same.  They will be required to get a licensed 
restaurant to cater the affair.  They'll have to get a catering permit from 
the City and that requires having adequate insurance and trained staff who 
are the only ones allowed to pour the alcohol.  You can't serve yourself.  
Therefore, it is just like being in a restaurant.  The trained staff will 
determine who has had enough and cut them off if need be.  The restaurant 
will not want to run the risk of losing their license or getting a stiff 
fine. Most drinking groups know to choose a designated driver at the 
beginning of the party.  As far as the kids go. . . well, I guess they'll be 
running around just like some parents allow them to do in most pizza 
parlors.

It's really no big deal. . . people have their private parties catered by 
restaurants all the time.

Ellen A. Roskovich

From:  "J Ford" <privatejf32 at hotmail.com>
To:  vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject:  [Vision2020] Trinity Fest Questions
Date:  Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:46:45 -0700
 >Hey, what's up with the PRIVATELY owned banner downtown, that is
 >hung from PUBLIC posts, advertising the Trinity Fest?
 >
 >And why, of all things, is a toucan being used as a symbol for this
 >"event"?  This is MOSCOW, IDAHO for pity's sake.  All the fuss about
 >potatoes not being used on the quarter and these guys use a TROPICAL
 >bird to be their mascot?!
 >
 >The timing of the street repair couldn't have been better.  Think
 >Dougie'll get that put on hold during the week of Trinity Fest?
 >
 >And are real, honest to education historians
going to be allowed to
 >attend the "conferences" and be allowed to check the sources of the
 >rewritten history that Dougie's bunch will be presenting?  Or is the
 >rest of academia supposed to just suck it up and say "OK" to
 >Lillback's, Wilkins' and Dougie's version?
 >
 >Hey, didn't Dougie get a Philosophy Degree?  What makes him the
 >historian of the week?  Part of Wilkins' profile reads: "J. Steven
 >Wilkins lives a quiet and peaceable life in Monroe, Louisiana,
 >....was born in Mobile, Alabama, where he received an abysmal
 >education in the government schools (and has yet fully to recover,
 >in spite of the noble efforts of the professors of Reformed
 >Theological Seminary and Doug Wilson’s prayers)"  If his education
 >was so "abysmal" what makes him any kind of
authority on history?
 >Or do they just not teach history in Alabama schools so he had to go
 >and write it himself?  Mayhap THAT explains the "Slavery" book?!!
 >And if Dougie's prayers don't work - geez, what will?!  Oh, oh -
 >this guy went to a seminary?  Isn't that a place of sinful inequity,
 >according to Dougie?  I mean he spent some time talking about how
 >sinful and useless they are - ah!  Mayhap that is the cause of
 >Dougie's prayers for Wilkins?
 >
 >Peter Lillback has written a book that is apparently "a well known
 >cure for insomnia" so THAT should be an encouragement to attend his
 >"lecture" on history.  Just make sure you bring your blankie and
 >pillow and try not to slobber too much during your
nap.
 >
 >And what was decided by the City as to where the children are going
 >to be allowed to play while beer/wine is being sold to their
 >parents?  WHO is selling the beer/wine?  WHO will be monitoring if
 >someone gets a bit too much to drink as well as determining what is
 >too much?  And WHO is going to be the designated driver?
 >
 >
 >
 >J  :]
 >
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