[Vision2020] Mardi-Gras

Thu Mar 1 11:50:47 PST 2007

Now I understand why Mardi-Gras is rarely, if ever, discussed on the Viz.
While everybody else waxes over old, fond memories, CJ's continues to play
the "Waah!  Why is everybody always picking on me" card.

I, for one, would love to see the old times return.  I might even be tempted
to get out the old suit that I wore for the . . .

"1995 Mardi-Gras"

http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Mardi_gras_1995.jpg

But, I am afraid it may have shrunk since then.  I may have to go to
Creighton's, where I got this suit, and get another one.  Creighton's
probably doesn't sell Mardi-Gras outfits any more.    Heck, Creighton's
isn't selling much of anything any more.  It's a shame, isn't it?

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

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From: CJ's Night Club [mailto:cjsnightclub at cableone.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:59 AM
To: Ellen Roskovich; jampot at adelphia.net; thansen at moscow.com;
vision2020 at moscow.com; Bruce and Jean Livingston
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras

Mardi Gras is not a bad thing. 

CJ's raises enough money on this night alone to keep The Humane Society of
the Palouse in business. CJ's is the only bar that cares enough for it's
youth to purchase safe transportation between Moscow and Pullman for those
that do want to partake in the evening festivities. We are the largest
contributor of funds to The Humane Society. 

Does anybody on this list know if any Mardi Gras funds were distributed in
the last 2 years? Why does it take a year to do accounting when CJ's does it
that evening? The charities need the money now. Not in a year. CJ's donates
more money on this evening than all the other clubs in town combined. We do
not agree with the book keeping methods and management the committee of
Moscow Mardi Gras now keeps and has in the past. Therefore, we have decided
to do our own benefit to insure the funds go, to where they are needed.

The only bar in town that has not donated funds back into the community on
this night is The Beach. Just to cheer you guys up, by The Beach hiring,
"Girls Gone Wild" to appear and show, if the police are doing their job
appropriately, under ABC statutes, his payment, The Beach, to Girls Gone
Wild, constitutes employment and that is a direct violation and his liquor
license/beer and wine license could be revoked permanently. All the other
bars act responsibly. They all put out a great deal of effort to make this
night a benefit of success to the community as a whole. 

CJ's would love for it to go back "to it's old ways" with donations,
parades, floats, face painting, etc. Friendship Square should be open for a
day of festivities for the kids. We are in a college town so the nightlife
is inevitable. 

What have you done lately?

CJ's

-------Original Message-------

From: Bruce and Jean Livingston <mailto:jeanlivingston at turbonet.com> 

Date: 3/1/2007 9:43:11 AM

To: Ellen Roskovich <mailto:gussie443 at hotmail.com> ; jampot at adelphia.net;
thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com

Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras

As a relative newcomer to town, having only been here ten years, what was
special and "better" about "the Mardi Gras of old"?  Who organized it?  What
was done differently?  And actually, what is it like now, not ever having
gone out to it.  My sense is that it is a night when live music is available
all over town, and that does not seem like a bad thing, so why is it
sometimes characterized as now being just a "drunk fest"?

This thought that "Mardi Gras is no longer as good as it once was" is a
complaint/regret that I have heard more than a few times in the last five
years, and I wonder how the "Mardi Gras of old" might be revived.  It is a
fond memory for numbers of people.  

I am on the Moscow Arts Commission, and though I have just stepped down as
chair as of last month, an effort to revive Mardi Gras might find support on
the Commission, particularly if other citizens wanted to participate and
help.  A vibrant Mardi 

Gras celebration that was more than a "drunk fest" (that seems to be the
biggest part of the complaint on Mardi Gras of old's deterioration) might
qualify as cultural tourism, something that we are on record as favoring and
encouraging.

Any folks out there who can elaborate on the "way it was" and the good
things that are missed?

Bruce Livingston

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Ellen Roskovich <mailto:gussie443 at hotmail.com>  

To: jampot at adelphia.net ; thansen at moscow.com ; vision2020 at moscow.com 

Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:27 AM

Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras

Moscow always has Mardi Gras on the first Saturday in March.  It's not much
of an event anymore. . . maybe that's why no one can remember when it is.  I
haven't seen any posters around town with the exception of The Beach
advertising the wet T-shirt contest on it's readerboard.  Sad that a fun,
annual family event has been allowed to deteriorate into no more than a
drunken frenzy.

Dare I even mention that the Mardi Gras of old was REALLY good for business.
Not just bar business.  

Ellen Roskovich

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From:  "g. crabtree" <jampot at adelphia.net>
To:  "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>, "Vision 2020"
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject:  Re: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras
Date:  Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:02:24 -0800
>Saturday, 03 March. Better shine up your party shoes.
>
>g
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 6:36 AM
>Subject: [Vision2020] Mardi-Gras
>
>
> > Quick Question:  For which weekend is the Moscow Mari-Gras scheduled?
> > Anybody know?
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving
> > safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
> > sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly
> > used
> > up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"
> >
> >
> >
> >
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