Breeze:
Great job Sheldon. As always, thanks for the support!
Darin Schindler Ventura Chief of Police
Mr. Editor:
Please no awards for city until they fix roads…… worse now than ever… Nice to see you are a Trojan, I am class of 56……. and your comments on Community Colleges is right on.
Robert Lombardi
Robert: Even better some community colleges are going to offer bachelor degrees.
Breeze:
I have been reading all the accolades and patting on the back that has occurred since the X Games have come and gone. Perhaps there is much to this fanfare. Perhaps there is a missing element that hasn’t been addressed. Working as a vendor (not a restaurant) in downtown I’m questioning this success. From a small store vendor stand point the Games seemed to have a very negative impact. There wasn’t a huge up tick in shoppers during the regular daytime hours in fact, numbers dropped, considerably.
What might have caused this? Perhaps because daytime hours coincided with X Game activities and no one ventured up to downtown until afer regular business hours ended?
Perhaps the woes threats and worries about traffic and parking were deterrent to those who weren’t interested in the event?
Perhaps the X Game vendor outreach was only given to restaurants and excluded the other vendor stores?
I do not purport that I speak for all vendors but the word that spreads like small town gossip was how their X Game experience wasn’t a “rousing success”.
Thought for future: if you want vendor inclusion how about do just that, afford ALL vendors a presence at the event (County Fair included). Perhaps a pop tent set up in a designated Downtown Vendor area. Info, coupons, samples on the ready.
Success should be summed up by all, not just the top tier.
George Smith
“The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you and you don’t have to listen.”
~ Jessica Ennis
