Richard
I was thinking the same thing as I read the article about Waynesville.
It is always people, people everywhere at this festival…and then we have the wonderful food…
I thought the City was thinking about doing Midd-Fest every other year.

Citizens, Middletonians, think about this:

On the one hand we have Waynesville, a small village of some 3,000 humble souls, which manages to draw upwards of 350,000 people to their annual fall event each October by featuring the lowly foodstuff SAUERKRAUT!  They manage to do it without a large influx of cash first confiscated from the taxpayers.

On the other hand we have Middletown, a city of nearly 50,000 run by a small circle of snobs, which tries to pooh-pooh its high cultural standing by showcasing its vast knowledge of the world with “Midfest” each October.  Even with $25,000 of seed money from the hardworking taxpayers each year, this event barely manages to draw 8% of the attendance (even using “Mort’s Method” of inflated attendance calculations) of lowly Waynesville’s Sauerkraut Festival.

The “Bash” constantly proves that rock ‘n’ roll outdraws the symphony;  Waynesville constantly proves that ‘kraut outdraws culture;  and these last few years prove that airshows outdraw art!

Why can’t Donham Plaza get it?  What don’t they understand?  Why do they keep wasting our money?  We must clean house at city hall and we must start November 8.

If we wait any longer it will be too late.  If we wait any longer it will be YOUR fault!

This is a problem that is much bigger than Mtown local employees.  The amount of money it is taking to plow thru the river bottom trees along 73 in order to lay black top for the wkend warriors is insane.

The City may have thought that the bike path was a great project to spend the Energy Grant on….however 30 days before the project was approved the Fire Chief came before the city council and requested funding to upgrade the fire houses. I’m sure that these buildings could have used this grant to reduce their utility bills and save a few dollars of tax payer’s money.

When the bike path has been completed public works will need to maintain it.  We have been told that Public Works doesn’t have the funds or the time to care for the parks or the cemetery. So it seems the bike path has only added addition expense to the City.

IT'S TIME TO GET FRUGEL!!