This afternoon, Sat. 5/1, I got a call from the reporter
from our local Channel 17 WTVO, she asked if I was planning
on going out to WC, she'd send a photographer to do an on
camera interview at the "Grand Opening" of the campground. Well, of course I agreed and took another member Marlene with me. I knew that there probably wasn't going to be any "grand opening," but
we were glad to go out and get some documentation and pictures
to prove it.
We arrived and noticed the gate closed and locked as usual.
A maintenance man was painting a sign for the "Snack Shop." We followed the horseshoe drive back out to the main road and sat alongside the road and waited for the WTVO car to arrive. When the videographer came we drove back down to the locked gate and Marlene walked over to talk to the maintenance man, who was still busy painting. She asked him if it was okay to go down and see what was going on down there, because she hadn't been down there since '98 and wanted to see the campground. He told her he knew nothing about a "grand opening" today,
no one told him about it, in fact he had just finished some
electrical work because he heard there was a flood or something
and some work had to be done.
He said nothing had changed since she was down there, he thew some paint on some buildings and mowed the grass and that was about it. She asked if we could just walk down and take a look, he said he wasn't supposed to let anyone down there, especially no camera crews and Marlene told him we'd just walk down and he said he'd better make a call before he'd let us go down there.
He called "Ron" (Ulakovich). We listened to his conversation and after he hung up he told us we couldn't go down the hill. He mentioned that "Ron" was
not too far from here and he'd probably be around here in
a couple of hours, but we couldn't go down into the campground.
So we went back out to the main road, parked and did an on
camera interview from there.
Needless to say, no grand opening celebration, no one other than the maintenance man was there.