[Vision2020] Mardi-Gras
Debbie Gray
graylex at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 1 20:01:31 PST 2007
First Book Latah County received funds from the Mardi
Gras Committee last year (and it was within a few
weeks) after we applied for a grant. If I recall, West
Park Elementary Parent Action Team also received funds
3 years ago (because we did a playground
project/fundraiser).
When I was in college, Moscow Mardi Gras was a big
thing. That was in the 80's, loved the parade. I have
some pictures somewhere of the lawyers/briefs plus
the 'Librarian Nation' group and then the Rugby team
wheeling around a mannequin in a shopping cart for
some reason. The paper sculptures were beautiful and
the parade seemed to last longer than the usual 8
minute Moscow parade. I didn't go to the Beaux Arts
ball but always heard good reviews. There used to be a
bus you could ride all around town to the different
bars (when there were lots more of them) and over to
Pullman. There were lots of live bands, too. I don't
remember the drunken girls flashing for beads and I
wasn't one of them, maybe that is a relatively new
Moscow thing??
Debbie Gray
--- CJ's Night Club <cjsnightclub at cableone.net> wrote:
> 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
> Date: 3/1/2007 9:43:11 AM
> To: Ellen Roskovich; 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
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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