The 2004 convention season is under way, and we are going to the "Walk With God" District convention at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium June 18-20,2004
Now, we had a letter read out that said:
1) DO NOT CONTACT the Auditorium. http://www.city.kitchener.on.ca/aud/contact_us.htm
2) The food vendors would be "disruptive and expensive" if allowed to open.
3) The Auditorium would "forbid any food, even for those with special dietary needs" if allowed to open.
4) Do not go to restaurants, basically during convention hours. (Pre-session, or lunch.) You have to go to a grocery store and buy your bread and meat, cut the bun yourself, put the meat on it, and wrap it yourself. Jehovah's Witnesses are hereby BANNED from a hot lunch or breakfast!
Bending the rules, elders have said that if you want to go to a fast food place, then conceal the food before bringing it in. For example, "pour your Tim Horton coffee into a thermos". "Pack you Big Mac in a brown paper bag"
The real reason that Watchtower doesn't want the vendors open:
They don't want the competition for the available funds.
If Jehovah's Witnesses are forced to bring their lunch, then there's only one place to put their money.
IN THE CONTRIBUTION BOX.
The presence of vendors would cut deeply into their "take" as fixed available funds would find their way into the vendors tills instead od Watchtower's coffers.
Proof for outsiders: Go to the convention early and watch the hundreds upon hundreds of CONTRIBUTION BOX (es) magically appear just before the throngs come in, then disappear after the sessions start. The boxes, now empty, magically re-appear in still larger numbers just before lunchtime only to disappear as sessions resume post lunch. They re-emerge, again empty, just as the sessions finalize to drain off the funds of those who pass by.
THE SCIENCE OF MONEY.
I believe Watchtower LIED. Do the "vendors" insist that if they are open, JWs cannot bring in ANY food.
Let's have the truth.
Contact "The AUD"
Mailing Address
Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex
400 East Avenue
Kitchener, Ontario
N2H 1Z6
| Staff Contacts | ||
| Administration Office | ||
| Kim Kugler | Manager | (519) 741-2544 |
| Sue Orlik | Administrative Assistant | (519) 741-2664 |
| Bob Stevenson | Supervisor, Building Operations | (519) 741-2546 |
| Jeff Coulter | Supervisor, Event Operations | (519) 741-2617 |
| Ann Evoy | Facility Booking Coordinator | (519) 741-2545 |
| Kay Lee | Information Clerk | (519) 741-2699 |
General Info Number: (519) 741-2699
Box Office: (519) 745-0303 or 1-800-265-6368
E-mail: [email protected]