Awards?

[dl meckes]

Usually when somebody gives you an award, they're letting you know it's time to move on.

[Jim O'Bryan]

Start putting out press releases to "Proudly announce". Do it a couple of times then go spend your money on groups that are actually functioning ethically.

Sharon

I am not so sure, great business model. Do nothing, give yourself awards, collect big
paycheck for stealing intellectual property, get a bunch of sheep to buy into peer pressure
and lack of vision.

But I could say that about many groups in Lakewood.

Look we have two groups staging the same artwalk at the same time and both selling
space! This is what Lakewood does I am learning.

ZERO loyalty

ZERO honesty

ZERO Accountability

ZERO Future for the rest of us.

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[sharon kinsella]

LIA is not charging anything Jimmy.

In addition, no one in LIA pulls a salary and we have almost all donated resources. Most printing, office space and plain old hard working board.

LIA is accountable to the merchants of Lakewood who participate, to the artists that participate and are doing nothing but trying to draw more business to Madison Ave. and the merchants.

That is wrong because?

[Jim O'Bryan]

LIA is not charging anything Jimmy.

sharon

I didn't know that.


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[Valerie Molinski]

It seems like there has been a lot of misinformation and back pedalling around these here parts as of late.

[Jim O'Bryan]

It seems like there has been a lot of misinformation and back pedalling around these here parts as of late.

Val

I had assumed that logos on cards and programs indicated sponsorship had been paid in one form or another. Either cash, time, effort, donations of services whatever.

Sharon Kinsella called and said that none of that happened with the
one she is working with.

If it is back pedaling, then so be it.

When I am wrong I prefer to admit it and move on.

What I was finding amazing is that this co-opting of other people's work has
taken a whole new level of insanity. Now people are co-opting the work of
others before the event even happens!

Today in the Sun Papers we had one group taking credit for MAMA's hard efforts to
make Madison better and more enjoyable. This is from a group that always found
Madison "not worth much effort." MAMA's heart and soul is into reshapping Madison
into the prime retail district it was.

As with these artwalks, how interesting it might have been had they spilt them up.
Creating two events instead of one. The one group has been doing artwalks on Madison
for three years now. To lay another one over the top of those volunteers efforts seem
pretty small and petty to me.

Still I guess we should rejoice that everyone is fighting over Madison Ave, when three
years ago no one even cared.

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[sharon kinsella]

Thanks Jimmy, it takes a big man to apologize and you are big and you are a man!

[Jim O'Bryan]

Thanks Jimmy, it takes a big man to apologize and you are big and you are a man!

Sharon

As always thanks for the words, the conversation, the lessons, and the knowledge.

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