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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>How much more negative publicity can the U-I and Lloyd Mues
generate before the U-I administration gets a clue. And we wonder why
student enrollment and everything else at the U-I is spiraling downward. The
last sentence says it all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>B. J. Swanson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:3.75pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>RV
Life on Wheels Conference takes its business elsewhere<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:3.75pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Annual conference will take place at
Lewis-Clark State College instead of UI <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:3.75pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>By
Hadley Rush, Daily News staff writer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt;font-color:gray'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Saturday, March 8, 2008 - Page Updated at 12:00:00 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An event
that has annually brought an estimated 400 people and $500,000 to Moscow for
the past 13 years will take place in Lewiston this summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The RV Life
on Wheels Conference is scheduled for July 6-11 on the Lewis-Clark State
College campus. The event previously took place at the University of Idaho, but
organizers opted to seek a new location because of a contractual discrepancy
with the UI, according to a LCSC news release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Moscow
Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Darrell Keim said local businesses
looked to the event for an economic boost during a slow time of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"That
is unfortunate," Keim said. "I know it's been a big" economic
boost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lloyd Mues,
UI vice president for finance and administration, said the conference simply
didn't renew its contract with UI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"We
would love to keep Life on Wheels in the Moscow-Pullman area, and at the same
time we do have to follow certain protocols when it comes to contract
arrangements," he said. "As public stewards we can't allow an
operation to occur on UI property without a contract. This year we just didn't
have a contract."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mues said
there was no fallout between UI and Life on Wheels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"There
was no debate, there was no arguing over anything, it just boiled down to we
have to get it on paper and it didn't happen," he said. "We look
forward to the potential of having them back again next year, but we'll
see."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gaylord
Maxwell, founder and director of the Life on Wheels conferences, stated in a
news release sent to the Daily News on Friday that the event was founded at the
UI as a joint venture between himself and the university's now-defunct
community enrichment program in 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In addition
to the UI, four other college campuses around the United States host the event
each year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This year,
the conference in Lewiston will offer more than 100 seminars to RV travelers
from across the nation, many of which will be presented by authors of RV books
and magazines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Courses
include RV cooking ideas, how to work from the road while traveling, prime RV
travel locations, how to park an RV and how to properly repair and maintain
one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Maxwell stated
that he's disheartened the conference won't be in Moscow this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Moscow
has been my 'hometown' for many years ... the attendees at our conferences have
enjoyed the friendly reception merchants have given them and they've
appreciated the barbecue the chamber of commerce provided every year," he
stated. "And I and the staff of Life on Wheels have enjoyed and
appreciated the wonderful assistance we have received from many of the UI
staff. It is with regret that we must leave."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Keim said
local grocery stores, restaurants, hotels and even hardware stores will suffer
a loss now that the conference will be in Lewiston. Any time an event as
significant as Life on Wheels stops coming to a town there's bound to be
decreased economic activity, he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Especially
tourists (who) come with money to spend," Keim said. "I don't know
about you, but when I go on a vacation I bring money (planning to) spend it
there."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Keim said he
hopes the event's relocation won't have a detrimental effect on local
businesses, although he said that's a likely outcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"It
could have a fairly substantial impact."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>LCSC
President Dene Thomas said the campus and Lewiston community are looking
forward to the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"I am
very excited about the RV Life on Wheels coming to Lewis-Clark State
College," Thomas said. "We will be able to highlight our wonderful
college with its beautiful campus."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thomas said
Lewiston will benefit greatly from the flood of vacationers who will be
traveling to the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"The RV
people will substantially benefit the local economy with purchases of
everything from gas and food to souvenirs and memorabilia," she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thomas said
the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers make an ideal setting for
travelers to "stop, rest, and learn about the area."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"I
plan to greet each and every one personally and welcome them to the
valley," Thomas said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>--------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:3.75pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hadley
Rush</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> can be reached
at (208) 882-5561, ext. 239, or by e-mail at hrush@dnews.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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