Windsor Star Stories
Interesting newspaper today. I am glad to see that they are following up on BLOGS that you have read first here dear reader.
You saw the one the other day about Brian Masse and Bill C-3 I am sure. Well the article was so infuriating that I sent a Letter to the Editor to the newspaper complaining about it. It will be interesting to see if they publish it. Vigilant fairness demands they do but if they do not, I'll post it here for you to read.
There was a nice story on the Library and John Campbell School. Now you know why Eddie and Michael Duben made the presentation that I described. Were they successful? Apparently not. "The Windsor Public Library board voted to reject a proposal that would put a branch in a new John Campbell school. The city had been asking the board to consider such a move."
Now if we can only find out how much money was wasted on the Library audit and learn the results, then that matter can be closed.
Finally, we got the Super Bowl numbers. But where was the Mayor bragging about them? You remember he boasted that we would get between $80-100 million.
My guess was not too bad was it? Of course, the Star merely swallowed what Mr. Orr said. He forgot to tell them that we are normally 50-60% occupied on a weekend as he said before. That would bring Super Bowl numbers down to $8-10 million. Still a nice number in my opinion but if we look at what the Mayor projected, it was a dismal failure being about 10% of what he said we would get.
In fact, the numbers are even more suspect now. The story stated that "the Detroit Host Committee, in conjunction with figures supplied by the NFL, showed the average guest spent $339 per day during their visit and the typical visitor stayed for 2.8 days, resulting in $9,265,209 in direct spending for accommodation alone in the Windsor area." That was multiplied by 2.2 "to arrive $20.3 million."
We know that is wrong since Orr said before that February room rates averaged $167 a night in February (probably the weekend of Super Bowl was a bit higher). So doing the math again, it works out for accommodations per guest to $167 X 2.8 days divided by 3.2 vistors per room or roughly $150 per visitor for rooms.
Actual spending would now be $150 X 27,331 visitors X 2.2 or just over $9 million. We have to cut that in half because we only look at "additional spending" and so we arrive at barely $5 million.
Sure we got the exposure as Sin City (and the Chief of Police has to find about $180,000 savings in his budget to pay for the policing costs or else he goes over budget as he said on John Fairley's Cogeco show) but was it all worth it in the end? You decide that one!
Watch how the Star tomorrow handles a border file story that may come out today. Now THAT should be interesting to see. And let's see if they allow a reporter the time to work on the Enwin story, one that is just crying out to be heard.
You saw the one the other day about Brian Masse and Bill C-3 I am sure. Well the article was so infuriating that I sent a Letter to the Editor to the newspaper complaining about it. It will be interesting to see if they publish it. Vigilant fairness demands they do but if they do not, I'll post it here for you to read.
There was a nice story on the Library and John Campbell School. Now you know why Eddie and Michael Duben made the presentation that I described. Were they successful? Apparently not. "The Windsor Public Library board voted to reject a proposal that would put a branch in a new John Campbell school. The city had been asking the board to consider such a move."
Now if we can only find out how much money was wasted on the Library audit and learn the results, then that matter can be closed.
Finally, we got the Super Bowl numbers. But where was the Mayor bragging about them? You remember he boasted that we would get between $80-100 million.
My guess was not too bad was it? Of course, the Star merely swallowed what Mr. Orr said. He forgot to tell them that we are normally 50-60% occupied on a weekend as he said before. That would bring Super Bowl numbers down to $8-10 million. Still a nice number in my opinion but if we look at what the Mayor projected, it was a dismal failure being about 10% of what he said we would get.
In fact, the numbers are even more suspect now. The story stated that "the Detroit Host Committee, in conjunction with figures supplied by the NFL, showed the average guest spent $339 per day during their visit and the typical visitor stayed for 2.8 days, resulting in $9,265,209 in direct spending for accommodation alone in the Windsor area." That was multiplied by 2.2 "to arrive $20.3 million."
We know that is wrong since Orr said before that February room rates averaged $167 a night in February (probably the weekend of Super Bowl was a bit higher). So doing the math again, it works out for accommodations per guest to $167 X 2.8 days divided by 3.2 vistors per room or roughly $150 per visitor for rooms.
Actual spending would now be $150 X 27,331 visitors X 2.2 or just over $9 million. We have to cut that in half because we only look at "additional spending" and so we arrive at barely $5 million.
Sure we got the exposure as Sin City (and the Chief of Police has to find about $180,000 savings in his budget to pay for the policing costs or else he goes over budget as he said on John Fairley's Cogeco show) but was it all worth it in the end? You decide that one!
Watch how the Star tomorrow handles a border file story that may come out today. Now THAT should be interesting to see. And let's see if they allow a reporter the time to work on the Enwin story, one that is just crying out to be heard.
posted by JoeBlog at 6:20 a.m.
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