You can't help those who don't want to be helped
After the Earth Hour fiasco and some of the comments left here (see stories below), I am thinking that maybe the Chamber and other groups are going too much overboard by trying to make events happen that maybe shouldn't since there is such apathy in the Village.
I go to most meetings in the village, to cover them for the Grapevine, and I see the same people over and over at every meeting. There are a handful who want to be involved and who feel the need to do good for everyone.
Perhaps some new blood should step in and if they don't then they can't complain that their businesses are not prospering, since they don't want to do anything to help it.
Many say they don't know about events, but I publish most events before, during and after. And I know you are reading this. Yes, you. :)
I hear the same old stories that people go to meetings and nothing gets done, but when you have the same handful of people doing things for the Village Council and the Chamber and the Bed Race and the Merchants and the BID and the PowWow, it really spreads them quite thin.
While they are all good intentioned and honestly want to get things done, they are only able to do so much. Aside from all these committees and groups, these people also work full time.
I found it so funny that one night Adam Weirich was sworn in as a Village Council member and the next morning at 9 am, I found him sitting next to me at the Bed Race meeting, and there were two other Village Council members at the Bed Race meeting. This explained it all to me at that very moment. A handful of people do all the work. The rest don't want to be bothered.
I go to most meetings in the village, to cover them for the Grapevine, and I see the same people over and over at every meeting. There are a handful who want to be involved and who feel the need to do good for everyone.
Perhaps some new blood should step in and if they don't then they can't complain that their businesses are not prospering, since they don't want to do anything to help it.
Many say they don't know about events, but I publish most events before, during and after. And I know you are reading this. Yes, you. :)
I hear the same old stories that people go to meetings and nothing gets done, but when you have the same handful of people doing things for the Village Council and the Chamber and the Bed Race and the Merchants and the BID and the PowWow, it really spreads them quite thin.
While they are all good intentioned and honestly want to get things done, they are only able to do so much. Aside from all these committees and groups, these people also work full time.
I found it so funny that one night Adam Weirich was sworn in as a Village Council member and the next morning at 9 am, I found him sitting next to me at the Bed Race meeting, and there were two other Village Council members at the Bed Race meeting. This explained it all to me at that very moment. A handful of people do all the work. The rest don't want to be bothered.
posted by Tom Falco at 10:30 AM
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You certainly do post about events, but it should not be left up to you, Grape, to inform a whole community, and invite a whole city to participate in Grove events. If we want to bring people to the grove, we need to get them informed of our local activities.
Just went to the Chamber website to see what information a tourist (including those who live in other parts of Miami) would learn. Four items, no calendar of events, BIC still at the top of the page. Went to cocowalk.net last week to see about their events -- had February events as a choice. When I plan a trip, I go to the town's chamber website to find out about special events during the time I'm there -- most towns have calenders through December with scheduled events listed. You do a fine job, Grapevine, getting info out -- you're my main source -- but PLENTY of people just read the newspaper or contact the Chamber. I think ONE source for businesses and event planners to get information out, and I think it should be the Chamber, is sufficient if it's capable of listing ongoing activities as well as weekly events. Sue and David and Richard and you all do a fine job with information for Grovites -- the issue is the general public who want to know what's going on and where.
We have a calendar of events, used by 100,000 a month.
The point of this article is the apathy in the Grove. Not that the public can't find things to do.
Every business in the Grove knew about Earth Hour. They just didn't want to be bothered.
Earth hour was an un-activity, drew no interest from all but a few, and provided little if any actual benefit to anyone or anything. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just stating the facts as I see and hear them. I know a lot of people in the grove (who are always out and about and looking for things to do) and a lot of business owners, and nobody I talked to really felt this idea.
Grape, not apathy, look @ stoic ethics & virtues, more to errors in judgment rather than in an emotion based issue. The Grape does an excellent job of informing about what going on in the Grove.
If you think apathy--- and that is not the root problem as to why the Grove appears to have lost its character and village community concept and no longer draws people to our business district because many do not participate it may just be no one has presented a new business model that "today" draws people who are willing to spend their monies here. An error in judgment, theirs collectively, but it is not apathy.
It seems like apathy because there are too many things and not enough people.
The short list is the Art Festival, the Gifford Stroll, the Mad Hatter, Goombay, Glenn Terry & Dave Villano's picnic, the Full Moon concerts and that's about enough, in my opinion.
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