[Snowtractor]

we discussed getting subsidized to show up to parades etc before. I have a couple of more points that I thought about. In Canada you have to pay to get our national acrobatic Snowbirds to perform at your show. Even a free show you are expected to provide food, a hotel room for every pilot, engineer, a vehicle for each person and a few other insundries, we've had them three times since I have been in Fort Smith and been involved each time. The last time they weren't happy with the rooms so they cut the show short and hightailed it Cold Lake to stay the night. Also you have to pay to have the musical ride show up too, we had them last year and that really cost the town a lot, 14k just to fill in potholes for 1/10th of a mile because the horses can't walk around them and they stayed in our arena, expensive to clean up. And we are already paying through taxes. That aside parades and events quite often make big money for the organisation and the merchants of said community. We just paid 10k to Tom Jackson to show up and open up the NWT games. So there is money there to subsidise participants, but I think you have to ask and maybe put forth a schedule of costs to back up your claim. A good organiser isn't going to run around and throw money at everyone if he/she can get it for free.
Sean