The mothers and fathers, grandparents and other interested people come to the parade also to see these youth marching. The reason given for this rule was to speed up the parade, but we think it is too bad you chose to probably eliminate 800 youth of Grand Island from participating. You also stated that you did not have any complaints from any of the bands. Just seems like perhaps something else could have been done to accomplish what you wanted to do and not to eliminate groups of youth. Everybody is always talking about helping the youth of Grand Island, but this really seems like a negative approach to our scouting organizations.
Numbers are more impressive in a large group than just having several small groups.
People can get a better picture of how many are really in the scouting program. The money assessed each group could help the scouting program in a more profitable way, but it's minor probably considering what it accomplished by eliminating them from the parade altogether as a large group. Harvest of Harmony Coordinator Jan Schmidt said Friday that area band directors have complained in past years about large scouting groups. Without embarrassment or apology, he has thus far successfully tramped through a quagmire of scandals from Whitewater to selling of the Lincoln bedroom, to say nothing of his zipper troubles. The sum total seems to have dulled the nation's sense of revulsion against corruption, immorality and the abuse of power.