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The Grove First Thanks the Support of
the Coconut Grove Arts Festival in their
Decision to Reject Home Depot's Offer of
Sponsorship
THE GROVE FIRST
3000
Shipping Avenue, Coconut Grove, Florida
33133
305-441-5966
For
immediate release:
The Grove First Thanks the Support of
the Coconut Grove Arts Festival in their
Decision to Reject Home Depot's Offer of
Sponsorship
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’s use
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
and its celebrated Arts Festival, should
ever be the place for an 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.
Yours very truly,
Marc David Sarnoff
The Grove First (Say No to Home Depot)
305-441-5966
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