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Originally Posted by Gayle
The event is organised by the Rotary club, not the Council. I'm sure the next comments will be 'but the Council should be supporting or running the event' - well, to defend the Council, everybody says that about every single event or organisation (the Council should support Accrington Stanley, the Council should support the Carnival, the Council should support businesses going under)!!!! They simply can't support every single thing, plus, as I said, this is organised by the Rotary, I don't even know if they asked the Council for support.
The newspapers charge for a four page spread. This is expensive and from what I understand the Carnival committee didn't have the money this year.
I think money has been the issue with this year's carnival from day one. It takes a lot of fund raising and a lot of volunteers to put this event on and I'm sure they've done the best they can on the money they had. For companies like Ossy Mills and Express Gifts to put floats in costs money which they don't have - would you rather have them employ an extra person for six months or put a float in the Carnival?
It's a shame that the Carnival isn't what it used to be but we should be congratulating the Rotary for at least trying to keep it going.
There are two years before the next one.
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yes they should try and support everything they do in other towns the councils apathy in accy is nothing short of scandalous and one of the reasons accy is dying they are a disgrace tory and labour.was the local mp not there either
