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Originally Posted by Bruce Day
We always have an open invitation for Parker members to join us for dinner at Pheasant Fest and to come by and talk. PF is Feb 19-21, this year in Kansas City. It's been in MSP, Omaha, Des Moines , Milwaukee, Madison. We have 7 people working the exhibit and have a great turn out of maybe 10 members come by and a couple have dinner with us.
We have had events west of the Mississippi for years but with little to no interest. Some years ago we listened to Texans talking about how the PGCA never came to Texas so we did and had maybe 10 people turn out and others who beat the drum and lived less than 50 miles away not show.
So with all that history , it's not even worth having any concern about it whatsoever.
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What Bruce said - (can I get an 'AMEN'!) Reminds me of the very first Greenwich CT show where Bill Murphy and I paid for a table and 'declared' it a PGCA display, show-and-tell, and ask questions opportunity for Parker owners to come by. When we requested member support before the show to sit the table to spell us for bathroom breaks, time to cruise the show, eat lunch, etc. we got zip; zilch, nada by way of response. After the 4th or 5th member came by to 'visit' after the show opened, we decided to put out a sign-up sheet for purposes of recording who 'visited'. As I recall, we had 31 members sign up, the vast majority of whom lived within 50 miles or less of the show. Like the line from the Eagles' song, we "had to each our lunch all by ourselves."
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