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DUMPING THE DEPOT
DUMPING THE DEPOT
The Grove First recently learned that
Home Depot had become one of the
sponsors for the 2006 Coconut Grove Arts
Festival, donating $25,000 worth of
"in-kind" kitchen equipment for the
Festival in return for the use of Home
Depot's name as a sponsor.
The Grove First requested that the
Arts Festival Committee reconsider this
"in-kind" sponsorship in light of the
vigorous opposition by the overwhelming
majority of Coconut Grove's residents to
Home Depot's attempt to place an
industrial warehouse in their village.
Monty Trainer, president of the Coconut
Grove Arts Festival, immediately
contacted The Grove First to advise that
he had been completely unaware of Home
Depot's involvement as a result of the
sponsorships not being arranged through
the Arts Festival, but through the
services of an outside agency.
Monty immediately instructed the
outside agency to inform Home Depot that
they are not a welcomed sponsor of the
Coconut Grove Arts Festival and that
their logo should be removed at once
from all advertising, banners, displays,
television and radio ads that are
currently on display.
The Festival’s actions were prompt
and responsive and in complete support
of The Grove First's opposition to the
Home Depot's attempt to place a
commercial warehouse in our village. For
that, we are truly grateful. We can't
thank Monty Trainer and the Coconut
Grove Arts Festival enough for their
promptness in understanding that neither
Coconut Grove, nor its celebrated Arts
Festival, should ever be the place for
and industrial warehouse big box.
The Arts Festival listened to the
community. We cannot ask anything more
from them than what they have promptly
provided. Kudos to Monty and the Arts
Festival Committee.
Marc
David Sarnoff,
The
Grove First
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