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Originally Posted by Fyrzowt I have been reading this thread with interest. I have been an A.S. owner for about 5 years and until recently didn't know what WBCCI was. I have slowly been learning tidbits here and there, then tonight I stumbled across this thread. I can see that I will have no further interest in joining that organization. Not that the organization wouldn't have it's pluses. But based on the attitude reflected in the written response, and the reasons given for denying the application, I will not at this time send them my money nor invest any of my time with them. If the choice is camping or a business meeting/get-together attended by the likes of this fellow, I'll camp. Is he representative of most of the WBCCI group?
I suggest you:
1. Appeal if this is truly what you want.
2. Start your own "AIR" group. (Have I seen that before?)
3. Just go camping, but let us all know where and when!  |
I too am dissapointed in the reply from the Region 11 VP. A better response would have been to probe for further information, rather than flatly rejecting the idea (assuming that immediate approval was not possible). The points made in several of the above responses point directly at why this change is needed, so I won't repeat them here.
I just want to point out that you really shouldn't make your decision based up the response of one individual in what would be a different region (11) from yours (Region 12). And even if you would be in Region 11, leaders are temporary and opinions differ. Some folks are more progressive than others. I sense that there are some leaders within the club that understand that change is necessary in order for the club to survive. It may not come a quickly as we like, but it will come. It is new ideas like this new unit one that must be addressed, and if they have even a little merit, allowed to proceed as an experiment, if nothing more. I would hope that this topic will immediately get the attention of the International (as opposed to Regional) club leadership, which I think it will because this has already been posted over on the WBCCI forums as well in the Member Suggestion Box sub-forum:
http://www.wbcci.org/Forum/viewmessa...m=14&Topic=206
Let us not all throw up our hands in disgust and leave (or not join) the club the first tme one of our ideas is not immedataley adopted. Change takes time (and maybe a couple of tries).