No sooner had I posted my check list blog on what we can all begin working on to improve our Estes Park and before I could start my daily routine of life my town buzz-o-meter went off. In fact the alarm went to Defcon 5.
For the uninitiated this last weekend is very significant to all the shop owners in Estes Park. It is the weekend of the annual Denver Merchandise Mart Gift, Jewelry & Resort Show. This is where masses of manufacturers assemble to sell their wears to gift shop owners. The gifts many of the shops downtown sell are purchased at gift shows like the one at the mart this weekend. Picking up popular and profitable lines of merchandise is serious competition amongst shop owners.
This weekend Susan Blackhurst Town CVB (a town department) employee was busy purchasing lines of merchandise at the Denver Merchandise Mart Gift, Jewelry & Resort Show for the Towns very own gift shop located in your own visitors center. That would be Susan Blackhurst town employee wife of town trustee candidate Eric Blackhurst, acting as purchasing agent for the town CVB.
Isn’t the purpose of the visitor’s center to direct visitors to the businesses that sell the gifts?
By golly I bet the visitor center/gift shop has adequate parking space.
Here’s to you stakeholders, your sales tax dollars at work,,, bend over.
The town is spending sales tax dollars to purchase gift lines for resale to tourists, in direct competition with every business in Estes Park.
Are they out of their ~#^*& %@ minds.
Okay that’s it - if you do not get it by now Estes Park - you will never get it.
Town Hall is a snake pit and you keep eating up the lies.
