After the event, people went home and couldn’t stop talking about it. Darren couldn’t either. But where others talked, Darren started thinking.
He called CB.
The conversation was direct: this had to become an annual event. There was nothing else like it in the region. But if it was going to happen again, Darren felt it needed to be done differently – properly structured, properly organized, with the right people involved and the right attention paid to every detail that made an event like this possible.
CB and Cheryl listened. They agreed. And a partnership was formed.
The third piece of the founding triangle was Denny Hale – who had also attended the Lake Garnett Grand Prix Revisited and, like everyone else that day, could not wipe the smile off his face. He had already expressed a desire to be involved in making this a real event. Denny was a man who brought quiet reliability to everything he touched.
Together – CB and Cheryl, Denny, and Darren – they became the executive committee that would spend the rest of 2013 and the early weeks of 2014 asking the hardest questions: Could this actually be done? Who would they need? How would they protect everyone involved? And how do you build something from nothing when nobody is getting paid?
Part 3 coming soon . . . .
