Vote for $50K grant for Arizona Trail

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#1

Please vote every DAY through May 31 – by internet and/or text – for the Arizona Trail to win a $50,000 grant to build 5 miles of connector trail in the Saguaro National Park between Hope and Manning Camp.

Go the the Arizona Trail web page – www.aztrail.org – for details and a link to vote.

Your votes are important to keep the Arizona Trail project in the running for the $50K grant. The New Orleans Park project is gaining votes and folks voting and could easily surge ahead. Your help is appreciated.

Thanks

Fred G

#2

Redwood Creek Wines is clearly a proponent of Darwinism. We vote for our favorite cause, while trying not to get too sentimental about the potential fate of these other worthwhile causes. It’s just unfortunate that Redwood’s contest policies don’t address the pangs of guilt the company is passing along to public to which it’s advertising itself. Winner-take-all can be cruel, man.

Anyway, yes, go forth, vote, and remember: You must be of legal drinking age to vote for the Arizona Trail.

blisterfree

#3

With one week to go, the New Orleans Park project is the new leader for the $50,000 grant. You can vote everyday.

Turtle Walking

#4

Has anyone else noticed? The online voting system is fraud-prone - you can enter a nonexistent email address and erroneous contact info and still have your vote counted. In other words, anyone can vote as many times per day as they like. Ergo, the Arizona Trail could win the contest legitimately, or the Friends of New Orleans City Park could win illegitimately - or vice versa - and we’d never know. Only the contest sponsor could determine this by verifying and then throwing out bogus votes. If they do not, then the only honorable thing for the sponsor to do would be to split the $50k equally among the finalists.

blisterfree

#5

I like the proportional split idea! Everyone, including RWC, would be a winner after it’s all over.

hikediva

#6

Just got an email from Redwood Creek, congratulating New Orleans Park as the winner of the Greater Outdoors Project.

Drat…

AZMikeJan

#7

I wonder which is more opaque - a glass of Sonoma Valley vintage red or Redwood Creek’s backroom ballot counting procedures since the end of (fraud-ridden) voting?

(Answer: Will never know, won’t be buying any.)

Sincere congrats to the city kids who’ll benefit from the new park, though. Maybe some of them will grow up to love and protect the great outdoors.

blisterfree