Dale, It's a small thing to give in return for making the CR community possible. Running a list (I run one as well) is a huge amount of work, and the fact that the discourse on this list hasn't devolved into flame-wars and bickering despite the many strongly held opinions of individual members (myself included) is a testament to your skills.
I've been on the list for a relatively short time (just over 2 years), but during that time I've learned more than I could have imagined, met some amazing people (some of them even in person <grin>), made friends, swapped, sold, bought, read stories, seen pictures, and reminisced, all for the price of an email.
I'll say it again, the trip is a small thing to contribute to in return for what I've gotten, and you deserve it.
Mille Gazie,
Galen Pewtherer San Francisco, CA, USA
On 3/5/07, oroboyz@aol.com <oroboyz@aol.com> wrote:
> I'm agog!
>
> Wow, this is amazingly, flabbergastingly nice!
>
> It is also a bit embarrassing! Geez!
>
> I really thank you all for such a gesture... Thanks a million times over.
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hetchinspete1@yahoo.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 9:50 PM
> Subject: [CR]to the list: Dales Milan Trip/ Now L'Eroica 2007
>
> As the list found out a week ago a project was started by myself to give a gift
> to Dale Brown for all his efforts in organizing Cirque du Cyclisme the past nine
> years plus this his final year, & to raise funds to send Dale and his wife on a
> trip to Milan, but this has changed and now plans are to book tickets for Dale
> to attend "L'Eroica 2007".
>
> My time these days is stretched very thin with running of my new restaurant,
> so I've had asked both Mike Schmidt and Guy Apple to help with the project. Mike
> was to help me email members to raise funds & for Guy to hold funds in an
> account he has set up solely for this purpose. Since it was outed to the list in
> entirety, we've decided to open the contribtions to the entire list.
>
> It was not the intention to only include some members, but in trying to keep
> this offlist originally, only members who post to the list were emailed, as
> posts to the list are our only way of finding members email addresses.
>
> Our goal is to raise $3500 to fund this trip. To date $2445 has been raised
> with $1605 on account and another $840 has been promised by various CR Members.
> If you would like to contribute please contact Guy Apple by email at:
> cinelliguy@earthlink.net
> Guy will take funds for this project by check, money order or Paypal. To donate
> by Paypal use the email address as indicated above, or to send a check please
> mail to Guy at his address below my sign off.
>
> Best regards,
> Peter Naiman
> Glendale, WI
>
> Guy Apple
> 993 Glenbar Avenue
> Sunnyvale CA 94087
>
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