6 Comments

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   Erin on June 24, 2010 at 5:36 am

   Hello,

   The pictures really aren’t very clear at all… is there any way you could provide true-to-size pictures? Or at least something a little closer? Thanks!

   warmly~

   Erin

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   Jared on June 24, 2010 at 8:51 am

   Erin, when you go to the voting page, you can see the nelarged, clear images. Thanks TJ

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   Beth on July 12, 2010 at 2:24 pm

   TJ- I am Amelia’s mom, the winner of the Charles City contest. I am very upset with the lack of communication concerning this contest. We were not even aware of this voting until this past Saturday (July 10th) and you are already concluding the voting tonight at 5. The way this was done is completely unfair. You would think the host town’s ragbrai committees would have been notified at least. Since we just found out about this, I want to thank you all in Des Moines for breaking my little girl’s heart since she clearly stood no chance because of your lack of communication which made this a very unfair contest. For such a big deal as RAGBRAI, I am truely shocked, and also furious that my e-mails to various committee members in Des Moines went unanswered in dealing with this matter. Ragbrai has definately put a sour taste in my mouth. In the future I would hope that you either do it fair and right or forget the entire thing. As far as the other 5 contestants, I hope you had a better experience in this than we did. Because of the way this contest was held, the only fair thing to do would be to award EACH host town’s winner $350. It would be a small price to pay for the upset that it has caused here anyway.

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   Crystal on July 12, 2010 at 7:12 pm

   We were never notified of when the contest began either. It wasn’t until a week after it had already started that we heard about it from someone who saw it in our local paper. I agree that communication was poor. It was mostly through my family and us sending out emails to everyone we knew, that got my son most of his votes.

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   Beth on July 14, 2010 at 1:36 pm

   Crystal- Thank you for your input. It calms me a little to know that others weren’t notified either. But still, after my initial post and the e-mails that I sent, they finally responded long enough to let me know how busy the committee is. AWWW…… Too bad! If you can’t hold and properly conduct something as simple as a kids art contest- with only 6 total projects mind you — don’t even do it, because the dissapointment is HUGE for kids at any age, especially when they know they don’t have a fair shot.

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