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fireman121 · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:16 am Post subject:

Also why is the thread on the MNGCA event topic?
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Oneied Cooky · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:23 am Post subject:

fireman121 · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:38 am Post subject:

Seems like some one is afraid of the truth!
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fireman121 · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:38 am Post subject:

Seems like some one is afraid of the truth!
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sui generis · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:15 pm Post subject:

Seems like someone is so itching for something to find fault with that they can not understand that this is not an MnGCA sponsored trip. MnGCA in no way funds this. MnGCA in no way endorses it. MnGCA membership is in no way required to participate. This is an event openly advertised on GC.com. Anybody who registers with the even planners in MO can attend.

The MnGCA also does not "sponser" weeknight caching if I recall. These types of things go under the events topic because that is what the events topic is for. It can not be stated any simpler.
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fireman121 · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject:

All I did was point out the fact that it looks like your were taking up a collection or donations for the Minnesota cup, that all extra money should go into a fund marked for that reason.

If you plan on making this a yearly event, that there will be cost associated with the engraving each year, the money should be put aside for that reason instead of gas going down there.

When I read the post on this thread it stated that there were looking for donations for the Minnesota cup, and being a person not associated with the group going down there, it seemed that it was a general question put out to all of the members of the MNGCA and not just the few who are going. So that’s what raised the question about the money.

It seems that people here are afraid of the truth.
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Arcticabn · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject:

OK here's the simple truth.

The events forum is an open to the public forum. It is not a MnGCA only forum. If the organization was going to try and elicite donations from it's membership it would not be done in the open forums.

There are currently 8 individuals and two tentatives that are planning on going to the MOGA 2006 event hosted by SLAGA. Last year after winning for the 2nd year in a row those that attended discussed the concept of creating a perpetual cup similiar to the "Littie Brown Jug."

One of those participants took the lead on trying to find a suitable trophy that we termed the "Minnesota Cup". The thread that was started was focused on those individual who were going to participate this year.

If you look at the original post the word contribution was used and was focused to those that were planning on attending. Later he used the word donation. The word donation was not focused on the MnGCA membership but on those that were planning to attend the MOGA. Nowhere in any of the three pages of posts did Towlebooth or any other member of the MnGCA or otherwise ask for dontations from the organization at large. The comment was

fireman121 · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject:

Maybe this is something that should have been handled by PM's and e-mails, instead of putting this on a public fourm.
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celticwulf · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject:

Lyverbird · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject:

I'm glad they put their discussions here. Even though I can't go, I feel invited. That if I could go, I'd be welcome. If this were taken to pm, it would become a closed group. A click, that no one knows what they're doing. Some big secret, and if someone else wanted to go, well no it's their private little deal. So please don't critize their holding their discusions here. If your not interested, don't bother reading their posts. Ofcourse it's also easier to comuincate to a group here than in pms.
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