<div>Thanks to everyone for making our first experience with pattern competition so pleasant. A great contest and great people.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mark Atwood <<a href="mailto:atwoodm@paragon-inc.com">atwoodm@paragon-inc.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">We owe much of the damage free weekend to Frankie for making some firm decisions as contest director. A Big Big thanks to him for making the call both Saturday and Sunday with storms approaching to shut the contest down with sufficient time to pack up airplanes and get things safely put away with little time to spare. Saturday especially had gale force winds come through that in hind sight, would have done significant damage to a lot of equipment . As it was in some cases it took 2 or 3 people to hold planes down while they were disassembled and put away.<br>
<br>To understand why his "call" was so important, you have to understand that when he called the contest for the day on Saturday, we were in the middle of a round with relatively clear skies and a steady, but flyable wind. It would have been easy to try and ignore the radar warnings and try and get a few more flights in. Had he waited until the winds arrived...it would have been WAY too late. <br>
<br>Anyhow, Thanks to ALL of the Chicago crowd for throwing an awesome, very well run event. I believe that Micky and Frankie were the official CD's of the event, but I could be mistaken as all of the local guys work hard to make this event fun. So thanks Frankie, Mickey, Doc, Mike M, Bobby, Robbie, Dave and John Snow, and any others that I might have missed. A Special Thanks to Bill & Joann Gregg for their hospitality in throwing a great Saturday night party!!!!<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On 6/29/08 9:09 PM, "Bill Ahrens" <<a href="http://ahrensw@charter.net" target="_blank">ahrensw@charter.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div></div></span></font>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><font size="2"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><b>From:</b> <a href="http://nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a> [<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Kane<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> Frank Del Giudice; Eugene M. Villa<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="http://nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [NSRCA-discussion] Hoffman Estates contest<br>
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