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<DIV>Mardi Gras is not a bad thing. </DIV>
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<DIV>CJ's raises enough money on this night alone to keep The Humane Society of the Palouse in business. CJ's is the only bar that cares enough for it's youth to purchase safe transportation between Moscow and Pullman for those that do want to partake in the evening festivities. We are the largest contributor of funds to The Humane Society. </DIV>
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<DIV>Does anybody on this list know if any Mardi Gras funds were distributed in the last 2 years? Why does it take a year to do accounting when CJ's does it that evening? The charities need the money now. Not in a year. CJ's donates more money on this evening than all the other clubs in town combined. We do not agree with the book keeping methods and management the committee of Moscow Mardi Gras now keeps and has in the past. Therefore, we have decided to do our own benefit to insure the funds go, to where they are needed.</DIV>
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<DIV>The only bar in town that has not donated funds back into the community on this night is The Beach. Just to cheer you guys up, by The Beach hiring, "Girls Gone Wild" to appear and show, if the police are doing their job appropriately, under ABC statutes, his payment, The Beach, to Girls Gone Wild, constitutes employment and that is a direct violation and his liquor license/beer and wine license could be revoked permanently. All the other bars act responsibly. They all put out a great deal of effort to make this night a benefit of success to the community as a whole. </DIV>
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<DIV>CJ's would love for it to go back "to it's old ways" with donations, parades, floats, face painting, etc. Friendship Square should be open for a day of festivities for the kids. We are in a college town so the nightlife is inevitable. </DIV>
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<DIV>What have you done lately?</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:jeanlivingston@turbonet.com">Bruce and Jean Livingston</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 3/1/2007 9:43:11 AM</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:gussie443@hotmail.com">Ellen Roskovich</A>; <A href="mailto:jampot@adelphia.net">jampot@adelphia.net</A>; <A href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A>; <A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>As a relative newcomer to town, having only been here ten years, what was special and "better" about "the Mardi Gras of old"? Who organized it? What was done differently? And actually, what is it like now, not ever having gone out to it. My sense is that it is a night when live music is available all over town, and that does not seem like a bad thing, so why is it sometimes characterized as now being just a "drunk fest"?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This thought that "Mardi Gras is no longer as good as it once was" is a complaint/regret that I have heard more than a few times in the last five years, and I wonder how the "Mardi Gras of old" might be revived. It is a fond memory for numbers of people. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am on the Moscow Arts Commission, and though I have just stepped down as chair as of last month, an effort to revive Mardi Gras might find support on the Commission, particularly if other citizens wanted to participate and help. A vibrant Mardi </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Gras celebration that was more than a "drunk fest" (that seems to be the biggest part of the complaint on Mardi Gras of old's deterioration) might qualify as cultural tourism, something that we are on record as favoring and encouraging.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Any folks out there who can elaborate on the "way it was" and the good things that are missed?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Bruce Livingston</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras</DIV>
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<P><STRONG>Moscow always has Mardi Gras on the first Saturday in March. It's not much of an event anymore. . . maybe that's why no one can remember when it is. I haven't seen any posters around town with the exception of The Beach advertising the wet T-shirt contest on it's readerboard. Sad that a fun, annual family event has been allowed to deteriorate into no more than a drunken frenzy.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Dare I even mention that the Mardi Gras of old was REALLY good for business. Not just bar business. </STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Ellen Roskovich</STRONG><BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"g. crabtree" <jampot@adelphia.net></I><BR>To: <I>"Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>, "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras</I><BR>Date: <I>Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:02:24 -0800</I><BR>>Saturday, 03 March. Better shine up your party shoes.<BR>><BR>>g<BR>>----- Original Message -----<BR>>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><BR>>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 6:36 AM<BR>>Subject: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras<BR>><BR>><BR>> > Quick Question: For which weekend is the Moscow Mari-Gras scheduled?<BR>> > Anybody know?<BR>> ><BR>> > Tom Hansen<BR>> > Moscow, Idaho<BR>> ><BR>> > "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving<BR>> > safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in<BR>> > sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly<BR>> > used<BR>> > up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > =======================================================<BR>> > List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> > http://www.fsr.net<BR>> > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> > =======================================================<BR>> ><BR>><BR>><BR>>=======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> http://www.fsr.net<BR>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>>=======================================================<BR></FONT></DIV></DIV><BR clear=all>
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