Guest guest Posted October 13, 1999 Report Share Posted October 13, 1999 Hi, Patty -- Go to: http://www.lpaonline.org/lpa.html Dan Kennedy Internet services coordinator Little People of America, Inc. http://www.lpaonline.org On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Patty Hauck wrote: > From: Patty Hauck <pjhauck311@...> > > Hi! I was going to schedule vacations days so I could > take my daughter to the National convention in June. > Could someone give me the dates again? > Thanks, > Patty > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2000 Report Share Posted July 9, 2000 Butch I'll give my opinion on that cost for fishing. But remember I live about an hour from the Oregon coast, fishing is a-plenty. There's no way my husband and I would pay that much to go fishing. Cause if he goes, so do I. (grin, remembering my last fishing trip and the shark I caught) Judi Wetzell- At 10:08 PM 7/9/00 -0400, Butch C Carlisle wrote: >Hi All > >Boy, did some of you miss a GOOD TIME. The Committee was GREAT. Meeting >old as well as new friends was wonderful and even the PEOPLE who said my >GRAMER ( BOB ) needed help was also ok. The EXPO had a lot of information >and was a great help. > >I'm hopping that everyone come to Toronto and we CAN SHOW YOU ALL A GOOD >TIME. I don't know what all the activities will be, but I know ALL OF YOU >will have a GOOD TIME. There were some people who ask me about FISHING. >I'm looking at 2 years, and it would be spring or fall. > >So LADIES and GERMS get your ROD AND REELS ready. I'm going to talk to >Len Sawisch about this and we will let everyone know. Oh by the way, KIDS >could and should be included in this. > >Would everyone be willing to PAY an fee of $100.00 to 150.00 if this >would happen? And if kids were involved an extra $50.00? This is not >including HOTEL OR MOTEL stay. > > >Butch >________________________________________________________________ >YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! >Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! >Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Free Conference Calling with Firetalk! >Click Here! >1/5480/11/_/77518/_/963195284/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2000 Report Share Posted July 10, 2000 We went to the MN thing as a family .. Our first time to interact with any lp's or LPA thing, other than of course our daughter. The trip started poorly with 2 tired adults and 3 kids in a too small car.. We were loaded down. After the initial " yelling " things cleared up and we found our way to the Radisson. Oldest son saying all along,'I don't want to go. Do I have to? I'm too tall " Youngest son, " But mom, what about my baseball games? " Daughter, " potty please ! " WOW!! and this was before we even got in the door.. To put it mildly it was quite overwhelming to walk in and see all the lp. Despite my best efforts, I found myself staring. I couldn't help it and I hope no one was offended.. We went thru registration and started to hang out, talking to anyone who was around. We went to the various meetings and began making friends. I met so many wonderful folks and learned so much. My 13 year old son danced every night. The younger kids swam and played. seemed like everyone looked out for each other. By Tuesday our oldest was asking if we could go to the next convention and experiencing great angst over an lp girl his age.. He wanted to dance with her but was afraid she wouldn't like him because he wasn't " short enough " . We met other parents who shared concerns and ideas. No one seemed to mind all our questions. I was encouraged to hear lps playing instuments (we were told Mira 's hands and fingers would not allow for that). The fashion show and talent show were fantastic. Mall of America and Camp Snoopy were a blast. We all made many new friends and are anxious to attend Nationals again. We did feel out of place at first but by the end of the week it was more a " family " type of feeling. The doctors were all we expected and more and we were quite relieved to find out we have a very healthy 5 yr. old achon! It was her first time to see any specialists to our knowledge. I look forward to continuing with LPA and building on the friendships that are started. It was a great week for us and the whole family is looking forward to Salt Lake City in 2002. I don't think Toronto will be possible :-(... I wish!! I can hardly wait to get my pictures back and show them off. I find myself telling everyone I talk to lately about the convention and was even doing some education focused towards a local peds doc Sunday. Average people in general are interested and do care.. Anyway... To those who were there, thanks for an unforgetable week!! Gigi B. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2001 Report Share Posted January 21, 2001 I heard that the California Regional was Changed from Redondo Beach to El Segundo near the LAX March 30-April 1.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2001 Report Share Posted January 21, 2001 Hi Everyone ! The District 12 Regional is March 30- April 1 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Rodondo Beach, CA. Rob Haines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2001 Report Share Posted January 21, 2001 Hi , I have heard it's in Redondo Beach. I don't know the dates. I also would like to know when and where it will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 9, 2001 Report Share Posted June 9, 2001 Reba, I would suggest going to the " first timer's " get together, attending several outings which people go in groups and also alone. Also, lots of times you will find people just sitting out in the lobby just observing. These people are also great to start up a conversation. You will find many people are in your shoes and if you observe carefully, you'll be able to pinpoint them. Just try and go to as many events as possible and I am sure you will find people who are there to meet other lps as well.. Just look a little harder. S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 1, 2001 Report Share Posted August 1, 2001 This year was only our second convention. The first was Atlanta GA and we were very disappointed with it. This year was much better!! Some of the things that we were disappointed with and/or think should be considered for the next convention: 1) parking - all conference info stated that hotel parking was $12 per day (I even called the hotel and asked if that included in and out privileges and they said yes)- that is what we budgeted ----- when we arrive we find that there are only about 6 parking spaces in the hotel garage for oversized vans and those spaces were taken, garage attendent says park across the street and tell the hotel and they will take care of it - hotel says they can't do anything about it - we go and pay the parking fees, take our receipt and go to our room, later we get to looking at the receipt we find a notice on the receipt that says we have to leave this in the vehicle window so we go down to put it in the window and guess what?? we have a $37 ticket on our van because we don't have this receipt in there!! we looked again at the signs everywhere and nowhere did it say that you had to do this, it was only printed on the receipt --this lot is $20 per day and we have to pay again every time we go in and out so we are already paying more than we had expected and now we even have a ticket to pay---- I approached someone with the conference committee and was basically brushed off w/ there's nothing we can do, thats not our problem ------ my complaint here is that it should have been noted in the conference materials that there was limited parking available in the hotel garage and that other parking was available at $XXX per day so that those of us driving would have been prepared. 2) The flowers ordered for the banquet - not good -- they were lovely roses but way to big for corsages (especially for LP) we couldn't even use the ones we bought because they were just too big and looked awful as corsages - more money down the drain - who did the flowers and is this 'really' what the conference committee was expecting????? 3) banquet pictures - we purchased 2 - one looked great and the other was snapped without telling us and looks awful - when we told the photographer (right then) he was like 'oh well' and would not take another -- more money wasted 4) banquet food/drinks - food was only so-so (not worth the money) and I know that things are different in another country but we were quiet surprised that there was no drink served with dinner. maybe it's a southern thing but here there is always water, iced tea and coffee served - there was water served at banquet and some tables had hot tea (with milk and honey - yuck) but our table did not even have the hot tea and coffee was only served after the meal. --- for the price we should have at least received something to drink besides water with the meal. 5) rude people - there was one very rude man on a scooter - I heard several people mention him - one night after one of the evening events when everything was crowded anyway I watched and he almost ran over two baby strollers trying to get ahead of everyone to get to the elevator - yelling - " get out of the way of the cart " one old man that worked at the hotel who told a group of LP that the elevators were not for them - they were to use the escalators and stairs (these were LP who were NOT on scooters) 6) elevators - awful! too slow! but packing in was a 'fun' way to say hi to others 7) tour - we went on the city tour which was ok - but we did not leave when we were scheduled and had a very long wait (about an hour) before we got to board the bus - it caused us to miss some of the other things we had planned for that day - everyone seemed very patient but it was still an unreasonable amount of time to wait. 8) oh one more thing - there was no directions (none that i could find) that told us how to get to the hotel once we got to Toronto. The driving is horrible in downtown Toronto and we spent the better part of the day 'touring' the city trying to find the hotel and ended up missing one of the events we had paid for - more lost money I know that sounds like lots of complaints and I don't mean to sound so negative. Overall, the conference was great! Most people were very nice. The hotel staff did a great job of accomodating LP. The beds slept great. Workshops were very informative and fun. Just wish there was more time so we could have went to more of them. Enjoyed the expo. Saw old friends we haven't seen since 92. Met some new friends. Thanks to everyone who made this year's convention a better experience for us. another suggestion: it would be great if we could get a directory of all the LP along with their email addys etc it is hard to keep up with all those little slips of paper with names and numbers that you end up collecting all week. could we print something like that from the database - possibly sell them to those who are interested? Reba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 1, 2001 Report Share Posted August 1, 2001 yes these were minor irritations - nothing major ----- i never said these things were major problems ----- i do not understand your tone in your response to me --- this time was much better than the first convention ------ with the first for one thing we just did not know what to expect ---- anyway i did not mean to imply that there was some huge failure on the part of the conference committee but apparently that is how you took it so I am sorry it sounded that way. we are a family that struggles with finances and we do not have the luxury of being able to lose a few dollars here and there - we tried to plan and budget our trip to enable us to do some of the things that were available --- the parking was the biggest issue and only for that reason - the extra cost involved -- $50+ is a lot to us. I think the whole purpose or intent of my post was misconstrued. Please forgive me - it certainly was NOT intended as a flame to anyone. reba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2001 Report Share Posted August 2, 2001 LPA Members, At the suggestion of one of the members, I brought up the idea of an LPA Roster or directory before the Board of Directors and Executive Committee in Toronto. They shot the idea down. Therefore, if enough of you really want a directory, you need to contact your District Director, and tell them to support this idea. Margulies Senior Vice President, LPA svplpa@... ======================================================== .. . . another suggestion: it would be great if we could get a directory of all the LP along with their email addys etc it is hard to keep up with all those little slips of paper with names and numbers that you end up collecting all week. could we print something like that from the database - possibly sell them to those who are interested? Reba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2001 Report Share Posted August 3, 2001 good idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 28, 2002 Report Share Posted June 28, 2002 Why would you even say something like this.....As far as I know and I have been a member since 1967....we have not had any problems. I know that you may have met well but you don't have to say something like this. This is a way that starts people to be scared....We have to live today and hope for the future. I will be at the convention and I know we will all have a good time. Harrell District 3 North Carolina > > Friends, > > I just wanted to say to all of those who are attending the Convention to have a blast as we say here in Kentucky. Remember to travel in a group setting. Some would see the LPA convention as a way to hurt, rob or God forbid murder. I'm sure those in charge have made the right connections to insure saftey. So enjoy, and take pictures for I can't attend this year. Again, have a blast. > > > > Mr. Sam A. Gassert > > > > --------------------------------- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 Actually, and Van Etten explained to me last summer that when LPA attained nonprofit status, it became advisable to use the term " conference " rather than " convention " in order to emphasize the gathering's educational mission. You'd think it wouldn't matter, but apparently it does. Dan >I know this is super early but bordom has set in. First is it a >convention or conference? heehee Second is when will the packets go >out? I only ask because I want to make sure I have the correct days >for the reservation. I don't want to leave early when there is >something fun the day after. Also last question is will the >convention website be updated at all? > Nice to think of the warm times of summer when it is snowless but >in the 20's here > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 26, 2003 Report Share Posted January 26, 2003 >Sounds like we better go ahead and have that convention. >I suggest Florida, screw the geographic middle of all our locations. >I need warmth. North Carolina is just too cold now.>> Hey Joe...if you can wait till July....OK can provide you with 100+ degree weather! Is that hot enough for ya? <BG> Ask me about my new MSM lotion for aches/pains! http://www.scentsappeal.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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