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Mountain Reflections May Not Return
Jul 30, 2010 -- 4:52amAfter nine years running last winter’s Mountain Reflections may have been the last under the Red Cross. Western Potomac Chapter of the American Red Cross Executive Director Bill Crawford explains. “Mountain Reflections is basically still a strong fund raiser in the community it’s just that our organizations volunteers have dwindled to the point we can not support it any more. Staff members need to be here working on Red Cross business instead of out there pounding stakes into the ground for the displays and that is what it has evolved into. That’s why we are looking for someone else to breathe new life into it.”Crawford says they are hoping to find a group or agency to transfer the event to. He says they have about 65 displays, wires, lights and signs that are used for the winter light display at Rocky Gap. He says they spend about 100-120 thousand dollars to put on the display. They bring in on average about 45 thousand dollars but those profits had dwindled over the years. Crawford says the Board of Directors made the decision not to hold Mountain Reflections in March. He says they had been working with an outside group in the hopes of trying to hold it this year but at another meeting last week the Board decided against a deal. So will there be a Mountain Reflections Display this year? Crawford says it’s a big question mark.
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