Fence For Food 2005
It is events like this one that help me cope with commuting from a cheaper county, to and from the single wide, down the long dirt road in the aging Saturn. That is the level of rewarding we are talking about here.
Here's the set up. At the end of our Fall UNCG CALL class we hold a mock tournament where these beginners plus our regular class beginners can get together and experience something very close to an actual tournament. They check in, they sign waivers, they "pay". A Tournament could be anywhere between $15.00 and $35.00, for this event, the "fee" is a non-parishable food donation.
The happiest of accidents was that the News and Record just a few days before did an article on our Olympic Armorer Kathy Walters, in doing so they mentioned that something to do would be to go check out our little tournament to see fencing for themselves.
And come they did! I have no idea if the article said spectators were to bring canned food, or if as one very large group they just all opted to pitch in, either way, my car is loaded so full of fencing gear we can barely commute due to the displacement in the equipment van caused by all of those boxes of canned food!
This is truly a great town! I am going to have to get a high paying hobby one day that will allow me live in it. It can't interfeer with any of my rewarding work like at the university or with fencing, but unlike those two it must be able to pay the bills. Maybe I should finish one of the several books I have started on...
