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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron Force wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>“I also heard that the UI let it expire because most of the profits went to the organizer and the UI lost money on the deal.”<br><br><br><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hmmm . . . I don’t think so. Below is a repost from something BJ Swanson first posted to the Viz 2+ years ago. And, yes Warren, it looks like Lloyd Mues was in the thick of things with its demise at the UI – thanks for the nudge that got me to look further.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Note to Donovan & Reggie: please note the original post -- and my ability to easily find it to repost -- wouldn’t be possible if this forum was on Facebook </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>SL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>B. J. Swanson<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'v2020'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Life on Wheels, Dead at the U-I<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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 <a href="mailto:hrush@dnews.com">hrush@dnews.com</a>.<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></div></body></html>