I just wanted to add a few additional comments to this past weekends BCDNB event. While I was there for only the Saturday it was evident that this show and it's organization were exceptional. The organizers obviously put a huge amount of effort into this event in an attempt to make it a success and to have it grow.
In many ways it was a great success. They have a perfect venue located on the grounds of the Bonar Law Commons, a beautiful historic site located on the Richibucto River. On the day of the car show there was live entertainment from a wonderful local band who really knew how to liven up the venue. There was also a food venue serving hamburgers/hotdogs, an enclosed but well situated beer venue located very close to the river and to our cars, several other covered seating/picnic areas, a well informed interpretive center for the Bonar Law Commons as well as a number of restored historic buildings in situe and finally organizers who cared and interacted with the participants ensuring everyone was being looked after. It does not get much better then this, adding of course the weather was beautiful as well.....almost too much so and thus the reason the beer venue seen so much activity!
In addition to this wonderful venue and superlative organization we also as a club did extremely well in the awards arena! John B's already pointed out in his report the details of the awards including FABAC winning the award for the Club with most participants. I am, as well as we should all be very proud of our overall participation in this event. After all it is a New Brunswick show and as such, it is a car event I feel we ought to be very supportive of. Unfortunately increased club participation was not the case overall case this year and in fact the participant numbers for this years event were down..... considerably. It's hard to believe with all the wonderful things going for it that the numbers would actually decrease.
I and others who participated in this years event feel strongly that we as a club have to further demonstrate our support for this event. Otherwise I'd be concerned it could suffer as a result of future ongoing low participation levels. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions as to how we as a club can help support this great event then let's hear about it. I intend to make this an agenda item for future discussions so please forward any idea to me or to the group as a whole.
One of the other positive aspects of this event was the wonderful friendliness amongst the participants. While the overall numbers were down, the friendliness factor in my estimation was a high. Everyone seemed to be interacting with one another and not just sitting around acting as guard posts for their cars. It was nice to meet old friends and make new acquaintances. In addition John B asked me to mention that some of the participants upon hearing of Sherry A's birthday helped her celebrate it on Sunday. What a great thing to do and further evidence that this is a great group of people to be associated and to have fun with!
Also, we had some of our Saint John contingent participate as well with the Warrens and Greens participating with their great looking LBCs. Ralph Holyoke and Dave Farrah from Saint John also showed up in Ralph's Audi Quattro. It was great seeing them all again.
All in all this was good time and a great event that can only improve with your participation.
Thanks,
Gary A
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