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'No' to letter wanting CM for basefield Frosted Flakes campaign

Over the past few weeks, several readers have asked for CM support for the campaign to win a new baseball field renovation for Adair County High School. The following letter is one of these. Our opposition has been private, thus far, but after a few emails urging help, we're printing one, and because of time resources, printing a reply which we hope makes our position clear: -ED WAGGENER.

To ColumbiaMagazine.com

The ACHS baseball field has been selected as a finalist for a contest in which the 30 fields that recieve the most online votes will receive a renovations courtesy of Kelloggs.

I heard about this via a forwarded email and have been spreading it through social networking sites and such. It seems lots of folks *especially right there in Adair County* do not even know about it!

How can we promote this??? the contest ends on May 31 and "our field" is currently ranked 55th so we need to move up 25 spots *very attainable*.

I think with the support of your site, the newspapers and the local radio stations, we can do this and it would really benefit the community! Please let me know if/how I can help.

s/Shaun Gooden

Thanks: We respect your motives for supporting the campaign. We hope you'll appreciate our reasons for not participating. From the outset, we've made our position clear. We think the campaign is well intentioned, but a bad one for Adair Countians. We respect your right to conduct the campaign, but, on-balance, our idea is that it is not in the overall interest of Adair Countians to become involved.

Our answer is "No." We can't, in good conscience, encourage participation in the campaign.
  • We think it is a bad return on invested time, even if Adair County should win, and that doesn't appear highly likely at this time.
  • We think the campaign sends a a terrible message on nutrition.
ColumbiaMagazine.com is very supportive of Adair County baseball, and would encourage gifts to the program, but on this one, we don't want to be involved. -ED WAGGENER




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