Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley

[Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>]

S. Hieber wrote:

> My point wasn't that the AGA issue isn't relevent -- if
> that's how some are reading it -- but that it's a reason
> likely to engender ill will. And that we had enough reasons
> without mentioning that one.

Ok, I get that. My apologies to Erik, but something about the way his 
last paragraph was worded sounded wrong:

> Vicki was a good friend to the AB Forums, but never a member of the
> AGA or involved in our area of the hobby at all.

The e-mail from Lana specifically said that she helped a lot of people 
with their planted aquariums. So evidently she was involved in our 
area of the hobby, she just wasn't part of our AGA-world.

It would seem fitting
> that AB would be the place where she is honored rather than a bunch of
> folks here who never really knew her to begin with.

While I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, if I was Lana I 
wouldn't care much for this wording. It seems a little to off-the-cuff.

> > I mean, isn't that a major driving force behind this
> > whole discussion? 
> > Why on earth would anyone ask us to do this when she had
> > no connection 
> > to AGA? Makes no sense.
>
>
> I thought it had more to do with what the person's done for
> the hobby. 

Ok, so maybe that was just me... :-)

> While, I don't think Vicki
> deserves special recognition by AGA, others might think she
> does and consider the Not-AGA reason as somewhat parochial

You keep using this word. What the heck does it mean?

It's hard to stand on a principle
> and have it support you if it's already been bent.

Yah, but we don't have to stand on other people's principles. We can 
have our own and stick by them.

Well. Since my prob is semantics and your prob is content, we seem to 
be at a Mexican standoff here. Fun!

--
Cheryl Rogers, Membership
Aquatic Gardeners Association
http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org

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