Okay then, here's the original call to action and invitation that we all received in the closing glow of the recent Winter Olympics:
VANOC passes the Torch DUMOC
DUMOC (more affectionately known as the DUM Organizing Committee) is announcing that the next DUM gathering will take place in the Greater Kitchener Waterloo area, on the long weekend of July 30, 31 and August 1, 2011. The first five members of DUMOC, brains befuddled by beverages, best buddies and unbelievable banqueting while celebrating Mel Rotman’s 65th, somehow thought it would be fun to organize a gathering to similarly mark Dumont Press Graphix’s 40th year.
New Left hippie veterans Jane Harding, Doug Epps, Murray Noll, Steve Izma and Mike Canivet have put their names forward and what remains of their brains together in a preliminary effort to make this fantasy a reality. We welcome both local and non-local fellow travelers and organizers to help out. We will be looking for federal, provincial and municipal funding to build our venues but may have to resort to private hedge funds or grants from socialist Venezuela, given the present financial climate.
Our event will be totally inclusive – no Para-event for us. We welcome the infirm and the previously firm, the mentally competent and those who just can’t remember but think they might still be. Please spread the word by whatever means you wish and to whomever you wish. Let us know what you think about the time and proposed location. We are willing to organize the weekend if there is sufficient interest.
LET US KNOW!
So there we have it... The torch has been figuratively lit. Perhaps in following this Olympic model we'll have to build our own torch, something cobbled together out of the abandoned Bic lighters hiding out at the back of the kitchen drawers of all those former smokers in the group. It could be quite the Torch Relay, wending it's way from the fabled hills of Batoche, across the prairies and the muskeg of Northern Ontario, pausing perhaps briefly in Bruce Mines of pay homage to those great reunions of the '80s and '90s, before it thrusts southward into the heart of Upper Canada and across the back roads of Waterloo County, arriving triumphantly at a local farmers market for provisions and munchies, then out to wherever this legendary gathering might be taking place. Whew!...
Own the Podium - VANOC
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