[quote=&quot;admin&quot;:2mjij0sc][quote=&quot;Doug_424&quot;:2mjij0sc]So Chris, are you trying to tell us that in the time since you started as editor that you only got one letter about Sherry's firing? I find that hard, if not impossible to believe.[/quote:2mjij0sc]

Doug,

First, sorry about the slow reply. We've had many storms come through, and with the lights blinking, I have left the computer off for a couple of days.

After re-reading my post, I need to clarify. When I mention that we had gotten a couple of letters that were bad, this included letters about Sherry's termination. A couple requested not to be printed, one was passed to us by another person, not the original author, and a couple were close to unreadable (some of the members are older, with shaky handwriting). On a subject as sensitive as this, I want to be sure we have our ducks all in a row. The latest one we got is the first one I feel that we can print, but by no means the first one we have received. 

I don't want to see the magazine turn to nothing but ads, that's why we are looking into solutions. The first one would be adding more pages, but we aren't going to do this without finding out what it costs first.
And you probably think like I and many others do, "We have seen this advertiser before." But I talked to a gentleman from Wisconsin on Friday who wants to join. He had never heard of the HPOCA, and a friend showed him a copy of the magazine, and he said one of the things he was most impressed with was the auction and show ads. The point is that some people want the ads as much as the articles.

As Andy is fond of saying, Rome wasn't built in a day.[/quote:2mjij0sc]

Sorry...I have to add this..."As Andy is fond of saying, Rome wasn't built in a day." &gt;Neither was the Titanic