{"id":1485,"date":"2017-03-19T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2017-11-29T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:28:29","slug":"crawling-on-the-green-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/03\/crawling-on-the-green-carpet\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawling on the Green Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Warning: If you don’t like the color green, leave this post immediately!<\/em>
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\nA virtual sea of green descended upon Caroline Street on Saturday afternoon and evening, March 18, as hundreds gathered and pub crawled for a great cause. LepreCON – to benefit The American Cancer Society. afforded a second chance to enjoy the “wearin’ o’ the green” one more time before retiring that color to your closet for another year, and in its inaugural iteration made such a powerful statement that it is no stretch to say that this event will be a signature signpost on the March calendar for years to come!<\/p>\n

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\nQ?: What’s better than a creative event run by Lizzie?
\nA: A creative event run by TWO Lizzies!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nQ?: What is more perfect than Jameson?
\nA: Only the people that work for Jameson and sample it, like Meghan and Brittani!<\/em><\/p>\n

Making a great event is not unlike baking a great cake: You start with the finest ingredients. Folks, LepreCON had all these ingredients on display:
\n– A great concept<\/strong>: Who doesn’t want a second St. Pats Day? Hair of the Dog, ladies and gents…
\n– A very worthy beneficiary:<\/strong> The American Cancer Society (visit Their Website<\/a>) and the work it does has touched millions of families. Their commitment to not rest until this scourge is eradicated is long-standing and steadfast;
\n– A great deal, and a great deal of fun:<\/strong> For 20 green-backs, you got a wristband, which entitled you to great drink specials on Jameson, Absolut Lime and Bud Light. You also get a key – one key would unlock a red, white of blue “pot o’ gold” with $500 inside. The keys would be used at the last pub crawl location (see below);
\n– Location, Location, Location (x2): <\/strong>It is a long-established fact that leprechauns love Caroline Street – look how many were there the day before! And this pub crawl just happened to hit the six most popular leprechaun haunts on Caroline, as determined by an exclusive survey by the Planet Arthur research team. This “six-pack” included:
\n Caroline Street Pub
\n Spa City Tap & Barrel
\n Saratoga City Tavern
\n Gaffney’s
\n Desperate Annie’s
\n The Reserve<\/strong><\/em>
\nConveniently, they formed a “U” shape around the lower half of Caroline’s first block – forming a tight “U” shape around the lower half of the top block of Caroline. This is because, our crack research team concluded, leprechauns don’t mind crawling – but they are not stupid! Why over-exert yourself and cut into valuable drinking time?
\n– People –<\/strong> Obviously a key ingredient. Lots of them. Facebook event pages are notoriously unreliable, particularly with paid events. Many people are ‘interested’ in everything; still others say they are ‘going’ and don’t show for one reason or another… not on this day! 227 people said they were going, and more than that seemed to be there, meaning many of the 479 interested plus extra peeps who added on to assorted entourages last minute – numbers don’t lie, and this event had big ones… and they kept coming! People were showing up at venues along the crawl all afternoon and evening – gleefully parting with a Jackson, and often giving more! <\/p>\n

Many of these people posed for me on my mobile “green carpet” with glee. All, of course, were highly attractive in their “wearin’ o’ the green” sequel get-ups, it says here. You, of course, are free to disagree. If so, beware – lest a leprechaun sneak up and bop you upside the head with a shillelagh for your rudeness…
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\n(Above) Poor Steven Brundage (“America’s Got Talent” semi-finalist) could only muster five pageant winners to accompany him this afternoon.
\n(Below) Brittani felt so bad for him that she insisted he take home a pair of Jameson sunglasses and a t-shirt as consolation prizes<\/em>
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\n(Note: This photo of Meghan’s leggings was taken with her permission. Put that Shillelagh away, Leprechaun!)<\/em>
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\n(Above)”Hey, wait- we gotta stop and take a pic!”
\n(Below) “Fine, but I’m not stopping singing!”<\/em>
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When the crawlers finally reached their last stop – The Reserve, at 7:30 pm, all attendees had a chance to see if their key was the lucky one.
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In the end, it turned out that a Mr. Travis Jackson held the winning key. Congrats, Travis!
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\nTravis won $500, and a bundle of balloons… nice going!<\/p>\n

But on this wonderful afternoon and evening, Travis was not the biggest winner.
\nIt was you, and me.
\nFor Ms. Lizzie Hunter told me this morning that thanks to everyone’s generosity – a whopping $6,055 was raised. For a first-time event, that’s more than a bit o’ magic right there!
\nWhich sets up the big reveal…<\/p>\n

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\nI began by telling you about winning recipes for events.
\nAnd now, at the risk of sounding like The Chairman on Iron Chef, I have to let you all in on a secret ingredient I found out about, and confirmed today.
\nThe secret ingredient is…
\nMs. Lizzie Hunter of The American Cancer Society.
\nFor she is a leprechaun herself. <\/p>\n

Like most leprechauns, Lizzie is too shy to say it so I will:
\nI get to cover many events, and every one that Lizzie is involved with – from Red, White and Blue, to Dead of the Dead Crawl to LepreCON on Saturday – EVERY ONE – she makes golden. Yes, it’s a team effort – but someone has to hold the megaphone, sweat the details, make it happen. And that person is you, Lizzie.<\/p>\n

They pay me the big bucks here on Planet Arthur to swing the big bat and have an opinion, so here it is:
\nSecret no more! Lizzie you are worth your weight in gold.
\nScratch that- you are worth MY weight in gold!<\/p>\n

There, I said it and I’m glad. And I am sure everyone who knows you and your fine work, including The American Cancer Society, feels that way too.
\n(If not, Beware! That shillelagh, remember…)
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\nArthur Gonick
\nMarch 19, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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