There was a follow-up meeting last week for the Great Grove Bed Race committee and we all went over the past weekend's events, we discussed the good and the bad and will make some changes for next year.
The great part is that everyone seems to want to be a part of it now, so next year's event will be bigger and better and there will be more sponsorship and more events. It may possibly stretch through the whole weekend.
For now, the Bed Race has brought the Grove back to the fun-loving, funky place that we were. It was a major success in everyone's eyes (not just the committee's). Businesses did phenomenally well over the weekend and everyone had a ball.
While many questioned whether to continue the Pajama Pub Crawl, that actually was very well organized and it sold out, it may have brought in more money to the Alonzo Mourning Charities than the Bed Race itself.
We're proud to say that there was a questionnaire when people signed in and one question was, "Where did you hear about the Pub Crawl?" 40% responded that they read it here on the Grapevine, another 40% read it on Facebook and the remaining 20% saw it in various other media or heard it from someone.
Many of the committee members will meet on Wednesdays, like we did for the Bed Race and Fourth of July, before that, but this will be for the upcoming Mad Hatter Festival in November. But as new ideas and plans come out pertaining to the Bed Race, we'll post that here.
By the way, there were about 10,000 people there, according to many estimates, the Herald reported 1000, they were wrong.
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